| ▲ | stavros 11 hours ago |
| Was it made of glass? I've stayed in a hotel where the toilet door was made of glass, and had big gaps. I was staying with an acquaintance, so things were really awkward. It didn't help that the shower was right in front of this frosted glass, so the person's entire silhouette was very visible when showering. Another time, in Amsterdam, I stayed at an AirBnB where the toilet was on the balcony, and had a glass door (non-frosted) in the kitchen. Yep, if you needed to go, and someone was cooking, or was a neighbour, they were looking right at you. |
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| ▲ | noufalibrahim 2 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| I've seen this. Sometimes, they have curtains. I don't really understand what the point is though. It's definitely not price. I would imagine that it's costlier to add a window to a wall than just to brick it. I thought it was to allow one to watch the TV while taking a shower or a bath. It's the most reasonable thing I could come up with. |
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| ▲ | grugagag 11 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Review and vote with your wallet and your feet |
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| ▲ | venturecruelty 9 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | This strategy is so successful, it brought down Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Philip Morris, Frito-Lay, PepsiCo, Coca-Cola, Monsanto, and Boeing. | | |
| ▲ | Aloisius 8 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | People voting with their wallet are why Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Philip Morris, Frito-Lay, PepsiCo, Coca-Cola, Monsanto and Boeing are still in business. And people voting with their wallet have led to literally hundreds of thousands of companies going out of business. So yeah, it is successful. | | |
| ▲ | 4gotunameagain 3 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | You might need to read up on the concept of a monopoly. | | | |
| ▲ | dymk 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Ah yes, people voted with their wallets, some people just have much larger wallets than others. |
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| ▲ | bryan_w 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | Is it possible that people just think differently than you? Or is everyone else wrong? | | |
| ▲ | Eisenstein 3 hours ago | parent [-] | | Or perhaps the individual's dollar is not really that effective. It's like plastic recycling -- it is a way to make the consumer feel like it is their job to fix things that they really have no responsibility for or control over. |
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| ▲ | the_af 8 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | I think Boeings bring themselves down on their own. ba-dum-tish! | | |
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| ▲ | stavros 10 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | I did indeed. |
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| ▲ | thaumasiotes 10 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| In Hyperion, the character Martin Silenus is rich enough that he lives in a novelty palace where all the rooms are connected by teleporters. As a joke, the bathroom is a wallless raft on an ocean world. Outside of the realm of science fiction, my sister followed a TV show for a while that was basically a set of advertisements for a modular home company. One episode featured the installation of a small home on a remote British island; the shower was a pipe outside the house itself. |
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| ▲ | Loughla 10 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | We installed an outdoor shower at our house. There's nothing as nice as a cold shower outdoors on a really hot day. It feels so luxurious that I can pretend I'm a rich person instead of lower- to mid-middle class. We live way out in the boonies, so that helps. | | | |
| ▲ | fph an hour ago | parent | prev [-] | | I wasn't expecting to read a Hyperion reference in this thread, such a great book. (And if you haven't read the book you can guess what could possibly go wrong with this setup.) |
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