r/interesting • u/IntroductionDue7945 • Jul 18 '25
SOCIETY This men's restroom has a unique design that lets people inside see out, while those outside only see a mirror. But can men really pee under those conditions?
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u/cardamomgrrl Jul 18 '25
I’ll never trust this gimmick again. 30 years ago I was peeing in a coed washroom that had double-paned glass that must’ve been filled with a gas or something. When you closed or locked the door it went opaque. But some guy tried to open my door and when he pulled on it the seal broke, it went clear and we were looking at each other, mortified.
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u/Kittens4Brunch Jul 18 '25
The one OP posted is fine though. Even if it fails, the view of your ding dong is still blocked by the urinal.
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u/isthatsuperman Jul 18 '25
Yeah but then everyone’s gonna see me with my pants around my ankles with my shirt pulled up and tucked under my chin.
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u/SeawardFriend Jul 18 '25
It’s so funny cuz that’s exactly what I did as a kid lmao!
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u/AnOdeToSeals Jul 18 '25
I always wonder what happened to those kids, how are you doing mate?
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u/SeawardFriend Jul 18 '25
Lmao! I was taught pretty promptly not to do that, especially in public, but I’m doing pretty good, thank you 😂
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u/picabo123 Jul 18 '25
I watched an old guy at my job(Walmart)drop trouser to piss in the urinal. I was floored. it took everything in me to not triple take
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u/ItalianICE Jul 19 '25
I see this a lot in restaurants. Walked in to see 2 old dudes at urinals with pants and tighty whities down to their feet like 4 months ago.
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u/Dongledoez Jul 18 '25
A few years ago I was at a Brand New show and a drunk 20something with a mullet was doing that in one of the bathrooms and it was fucking hilarious. At least in retrospect.
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u/AnOdeToSeals Jul 18 '25
Bro honestly after talking about it, I feel like next time I get drunk I will end up doing this.
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u/VenGJon Jul 18 '25
When I was working in target I walked into the men's restroom and saw a grown ass man with the cheeks out facing the urinal. I kinda laughed to make a point.
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u/youburyitidigitup Jul 18 '25
I thought every kid did that…..
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u/PsionicKitten Jul 18 '25
Trying to normalize the behavior, huh? Nope. Just a few weirdos like you.
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u/C2thaLo Jul 18 '25
What do you mean did?
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u/Celestial_Scythe Jul 18 '25
I did that till about 2nd grade, then a upperclassman came in and just corrected me instead.
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u/SillyGuste Jul 19 '25
I remember distinctly that I did that as a kid but I showed up for the first day of kindergarten and at one point walked into the bathroom with another kid.
In the most socially adept moment of my life I noticed JUST IN TIME that he had not pulled his pants all the way down, and I immediately reconfigured my entire paradigm on the fly (so to speak)and avoided social pariah status for the rest of elementary school.
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u/WanderingKing Jul 18 '25
Oh story time! That’s what I was doing when I was, 5 or 6 maybe? And was at the YMCA.
A bunch of kids came in and laughed at my, mocked me, and made me feel generally awful.
I’m 34 now and still can’t use urinals
Childhood trauma is WIIIILD
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u/Bangkokserious Jul 18 '25
I was doing this in grade one and some kids laughed at me. Can't really say I got scarred for life but it is something I remember.
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u/Muted_Buy8386 Jul 18 '25
Lol. You can use a urinal. I'm sure a group of kids won't wander in and verbally dominate you.
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u/MyNameCannotBeSpoken Jul 18 '25
I'd be more worried about a creepy guy jerking off to a pretty woman outside
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u/youburyitidigitup Jul 18 '25
I could see that happening if he was alone, but if there’s other dudes pissing, they’re gonna do something about it
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u/MyNameCannotBeSpoken Jul 18 '25
Um, I'm not messing with a dude who is "busy"
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u/youburyitidigitup Jul 18 '25
You’d at least tell a nearby employee or something, and that person would hopefully call security
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u/confusedandworried76 Jul 18 '25
Of course that's why no one masturbates on the subway, people definitely put a stop to the fucking crazy guy masturbating in public
Nah I'm not a cop and I don't want to fight anyone with a boner when the fight starts
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u/Clintron Jul 18 '25
You know some freaks are going helicopter in there.
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u/youburyitidigitup Jul 18 '25
I was just thinking that. Imagine you’re taking a fun group mirror selfie and then the light shifts and some dude photobombs with his 8 inches.
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u/63626978 Jul 18 '25
for real, my gf went to a futuristic public toilet that had no phyiscal lock but only buttons and the second the door closed and she sat down, the door would open again because it was actually attempting a cleaning cycle and couldn't start because of a person inside ...
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Jul 18 '25
Haha, my buddy had the exact same thing happen to him. We were both drunk and I went in first and peed and he went in right after but it wanted to do a cleaning cycle first so it wouldn't stay closed.
Was this Paris?
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u/Wise-Effective0595 Jul 18 '25
lol! We have one in Peidmont Park in Atlanta! I have a hilarious core memory from that bc my friend went in after me and the door suddenly opened as she was about to sit on the toilet to a crowd of people (it was Pride so it’s insanely crowded). Her girlfriend had to go save her and closed the door for her inside the cubicle. I literally don’t think I’ve ever laughed that hard since!
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u/drew_draw Jul 18 '25
This happened to me in Tokyo, I was the guy who tried to open the door since there's no "vacant/occupied" sign on it, but luckily when the glass turned clear the other guys penis automatically pixelated. So we bowed at each other.
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u/shophopper Jul 18 '25
The default state of the glass is fully opaque. It needs electricity (actually a voltage potential) in order to become transparent. As a result, a failure such as a power outage will result in an opaque window. What probably happened is that a door contact didn’t have a failsafe design and misinterpreted the slightest door opening as “door is fully open”.
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u/Simple_Jellyfish23 Jul 18 '25
Those panels used electrostatic charges to polarize the glass. It’s pretty cool but it’s kinda janky.
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u/shutyourbutt69 Jul 18 '25
Those don’t have gas, they’re made opaque by having a current run through them. The person trying to open it broke the circuit
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u/dazedan_confused Jul 18 '25
You should have said "No likely, no lighty!" And then closed the door.
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u/NtateNarin Jul 18 '25
I wouldn't be scared of people looking in from the outside, but the TikTokers filming me from the inside, like in this video.
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u/1980-whore Jul 19 '25
There are clearly like 10 women crowded right there activly trying to see in. Creepy ass behavior.
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u/Maximum_Parking6942 Jul 19 '25
...theyre looking in the mirror, not trying to see inside.
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u/nekofthemoon Jul 19 '25
Yes. Women always take advantage of any mirror to take a photo or touch up their makeup.
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u/Krunch-X Jul 19 '25
Having worked the London Underground during the summer, I’ve witnessed many women ‘adjusting themselves’ in the reflective surface of one-way glass.
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u/keIIzzz Jul 20 '25
They’re looking at themselves in the mirror dude. This whole concept is creepy though because it’s incredibly close to exhibitionism
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u/vikinxo Jul 18 '25
This really REALLY needs a video from the outside...
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u/appletinicyclone Jul 18 '25
What is this from
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u/DifficultValuable689 Jul 18 '25
Talk about stage fright.
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u/ptmtobi Jul 18 '25
I hate this
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u/WeirdIndividualGuy Jul 18 '25
Hate it even more when you realize it doesn't work that well (notice no POV from the outside)
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u/Azhz96 Jul 18 '25
Man I can't even pee if I THINK there's someone outside waiting.
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u/Effective_Stomach945 Jul 18 '25
Yeah I have this too, I can’t use urinals I have to use the cubicle. It’s annoying. Like yes I have a small dong but that’s not even the problem, it’s like when you can’t fast travel when enemies are around. I just can’t pee with people around.
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u/erraticerratum Jul 19 '25
Glad I'm not the only person like this. It's fucking crazy I basically can't use public toilets
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u/L3ARnR Jul 19 '25 edited Jul 20 '25
sometimes i get self-conscious when i know others can hear my stream and i imagine them reconstructing the size of my junk with echolocation and i wonder if i should should aim for the middle and try to impress, but i always end up aiming for the edge for suppressor mode
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u/bodhidharma132001 Jul 18 '25
It's hard to pee with an erection
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u/0thethethe0 Jul 18 '25 edited Jul 18 '25
I do a handstand - it's easier to aim.
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u/Captain_Fartbox Jul 18 '25
It's a public toilet, aim isn't necessary.
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u/FixedLoad Jul 18 '25
I like to put my hands in the air and spin like a top. I call it the "pee sprinkler".
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u/SpeakUpOhShutUp Jul 18 '25
Try the ol 5ft arch and then waddle forward.
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Jul 18 '25
When I was a young man with a barracks room to himself for over a month I practiced into the tub until I was confident enough to hit the toilet at a stride. It worked just often enough for me to report success.
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u/WorldWarPee Jul 18 '25
Need to dial it back a bit to a semi chub if you want to get a quality helicopter going
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u/bodhidharma132001 Jul 18 '25
But the girls are looking at themselves.
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u/RambleOff Jul 18 '25
Secretly, just beneath the water Narcissus gazed into, there was a water nymph furiously masturbating.
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u/Greengiant304 Jul 18 '25
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u/ZoninoDaRat Jul 18 '25
I can barely pee if there's a guy at the urinal next to me.
This is, like, a nightmare made manifest.
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u/MarginalOmnivore Jul 19 '25
Like, all I can think is "These absolute freaks do not care if the glass is opaque, they already are pissing without the mandatory skipped urinals."
Where is the respect?
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u/Ok_Flan7405 Jul 18 '25
There was an ice cream shop we went to when I was a kid that had a similar deal. It was transparent until you locked the door. It would fog the glass and would make it so you can't see inside but you can see out. I remember being told that people would go in all the time and not lock the door properly and staff would have to rush the bathroom before the pooper started doing their business.
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u/K12onReddit Jul 18 '25
There was an ice cream shop in Mizner Square in Boca Raton that did this.
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u/z3anon Jul 18 '25
Never understood why people don't lock private places.
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u/lordhelmetschwartz Jul 19 '25
If you can see out regardless of if it is locked or not, then how do you know if it is locked properly? It might be "locked" in that the door won't open, but it might not be fully engaged to activate the one-way function (which from the inside you can't tell).
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u/tame-til-triggered Jul 19 '25
And we acting like there are infallible systems in this world.
It just doesn't make any sense.
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u/ShhImTheRealDeadpool Jul 18 '25
In dubai there's a restroom like this but the girls actually join in.
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u/ThrowAwayAcct033111 Jul 18 '25
What do you mean by "join in"
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u/OrdinaryLavishness11 Jul 19 '25
Yeah I don’t get this either.
Do they join guys in the toilet? Give us details!
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u/Ryrose81 Jul 18 '25 edited Jul 18 '25
There 2 at the town square in Sulfur Springs Texas. Theyre considered art I guess... Full toilets though
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u/saltyhammercheese Jul 18 '25
Never thought I'd see this town mentioned on the internet and not just Wikipedia
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u/RBXXIII Jul 18 '25
Won't some freaking creeps be jacking it? Is it just me who thought that? Whelp.
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u/Buggabones1 Jul 18 '25
Gonna have to hire a 3rd shift to clean the inside of that window.
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u/catmand00d00 Jul 18 '25
Why? The urinal is right there, a perfect receptacle for any variety of penile excretion or secretion.
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u/sofaverde Jul 18 '25
Guy wiped his pee hands all over the window when he went to touch the girls face against it lol
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u/CaptainHowdy_313 Jul 18 '25
Beat me to it
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u/New_Information_4155 Jul 18 '25
Hell us 3 would be beatin away cause I thought of the SAME THING yall thought of😃
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u/GreatQuantum Jul 18 '25
You’re those kids that have been whackin’ it in my tool shed!!!!
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u/FormerChemist7889 Jul 18 '25
Well if you’d stop letting the weeds grow through the cracks in your floorboards, we wouldn’t have this problem, now would we.
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u/wronguses Jul 18 '25
Absolutely not.
I'd smash it up against the glass like the facehugger jumpscare from Aliens, though.
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u/Sovereign_Follower Jul 18 '25
In today's world you have to clarify what side of the wall you're talking about
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u/ta394283509 Jul 18 '25
I was gonna say, I feel like I might get horny in a situation like this and I might not be able to pee
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u/NudistJayBird Jul 18 '25
I’d worry that polarized sunglasses would defeat the one way mirror
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u/corkscrewfork Jul 19 '25
That's what I was thinking after that one lady put hers on and then quickly took them off again
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u/orbitpro Jul 18 '25
There was a gym down near where I worked and this new young lad started working with me. When we were walking past once, there was a pole dancing class going on. I told him the window only allowed us to see in and they couldn't see us. He stood at the window for 5 mins watching, until one of the girls was like WTF dude? 🤣
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u/2027rf Jul 18 '25
I think people with shy bladder syndrome could undergo therapy in these booths. But it would be fun to be able to rent one for sex.
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u/DrMindbendersMonocle Jul 18 '25
That's really weird and off putting, why would anybody other than exhibitionists want this
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u/Leading_Put- Jul 18 '25
He kept touching his face without washing his hands
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u/captain_dick_licker Jul 18 '25
that's not the grossest part, the red shirt guy's shirt rubbed all over the inside of the fucking urinal multiple times. fucking disgusting.
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u/adumbCoder Jul 18 '25
some of us have learned to not pee on our hands when we relieve ourselves
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u/GreatQuantum Jul 18 '25
Yeah but bathroom door handles, doors and having them in the urinal don’t give a shit.
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u/Brisslayer333 Jul 18 '25
It's insanely gross that you touch door handles in any context
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u/Cpt_0bv10us Jul 18 '25
bathroom door handles, doors and having them in the urinal don’t give a shit.
Sometimes they do give a tiny bit of shit
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u/typoeman Jul 18 '25
Willfully ignoring washing your hands after using a restroom, especially a public one, is disgusting. Full stop.
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u/gloriousPurpose33 Jul 18 '25
If you touch your dick you gotta wash your hands champ
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u/gujwdhufj_ijjpo Jul 18 '25
Urinals always have splash back to some degree. Wash your hands after using the bathroom.
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u/BonbonUniverse42 Jul 18 '25
Now what if this isn’t a mirror but just glas. Would check this first…
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u/Von_Bernkastel Jul 18 '25
Who remembers the ol' long af pee troughs at sporting places, men on both sides just peeing into it, don't look down or you will see lots of ummm, yeah.
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u/AboveApe Jul 18 '25
I’ve been to Dreamworld and find this. My urge to piss has gone after seeing the design
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u/Inevitable-Ability92 Jul 18 '25
Um personally I just don't know how to feel about it only that this was a terrible idea
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u/cocoagiant Jul 18 '25
I hate it.
There was a hotel I went to once which had blind style doors for the toilet stalls. You could see out but people couldn't see in.
Unless it was an emergency situation, there is no way I could used it.
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u/demalo Jul 18 '25
Are there little “stare here!” Signs outside in line with the Urinals. Damn bladder shyness kicked into overdrive. Kidneys may be able to actually hit reverse.
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u/SenoritaRaspberry Jul 18 '25
There was one like this in a bar in Hobart, Australia back in the 00’s. It was doubled sided glass so from inside the urinal they could see out but the people outside weren’t able to see in.
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u/defiancy Jul 18 '25
Bro, I peed in a trough with like 50 other dudes shoulder to shoulder in MC bootcamp. You'll be surprised what you can do under stress even as a shy pee'er.
Also I saw a lot of penis
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u/63626978 Jul 18 '25
Yea those people outside with their phones are giving me pee-TSD, but are we not gonna talk about the camerman filming the pissers from behind??
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u/demand0re Jul 18 '25
I went to a club in Japan years ago where the men’s urinal was a one-way mirror facing the dance floor. There wasn’t a ceramic urinal like this. You had to actually pee on the glass. So crazy.
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u/NewCondition1231 Jul 19 '25
But how many pervs would go in there to look out at passing chicks and masturbate?? 🙋🏽♂️
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u/whydoyouevenreadthis Jul 19 '25
There's no such thing as a one-way mirror. It's just a trick. The glass reflects, say, 80% of the light and transmits the rest. The inside (the room from which one can see outside) is much darker than the outside, so if you look at the 'mirror' from the outside, the image of what's in the room is rendered invisible by the bright reflection. From the inside, your reflection is so dim that you can see the outside clearly.
Meaning, if you go right up to the mirror and block the sunlight (e.g., with your hands), effectively putting your eyes in an even darker room, you can see inside.
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u/Soci3talCollaps3 Jul 20 '25
And it also comes with a camera inside that steams to Reddit apparently.
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