this post was submitted on 20 Jan 2024
323 points (97.4% liked)

Data Is Beautiful

8548 readers
1 users here now

A place to share and discuss data visualizations. #dataviz

founded 4 years ago
MODERATORS
 

Answering the age old question...

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] LinkOpensChest_wav@lemmy.dbzer0.com 32 points 2 years ago (3 children)

My fellow Americans, please try it. It's much more peaceful in there, and you avoid the chatty kathies at the urinals. They don't try to speak to you(1) when you're in a stall.

(1) usually

[–] ThePantser@lemmy.world 14 points 2 years ago

Well Kathy needs to get out of the men's room then, she can wait until I'm done peeing to have a chat.

[–] RootBeerGuy@discuss.tchncs.de 10 points 2 years ago (2 children)

You forgot that in the US all stalls seem to have these awkward 2 cm gaps. There is not much privacy to be had there.

[–] renard_roux@beehaw.org 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] Bronco1676@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

+ 3/4 french fry

No, but it's usually enough to deter the chatterers

[–] Stoney_Logica1@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Chatting at the urinal is verboten in the US. It's an unwritten rule. You'll be the village pariah if you try.

[–] PumaStoleMyBluff@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

Unless you're at a dive bar, in which case it's apparently mandatory.

[–] model_tar_gz@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

My boss chatted me about a project at the urinal during our quarterly onsite a few months back. Wtf dude. Can you really not wait til we get back to the conference room‽

[–] trafficnab@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

It's only maybe acceptable in the rare instance that you walk into the restroom together with a friend mid-conversation

[–] LinkOpensChest_wav@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

There are certain repeat offenders at my workplace

[–] wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

Tell them you're trying something new for the new year: that your body faces those you talk to. If they start up a conversation while at the urinal, just rotate your body to face them. Because it's important to focus your full attention when conversing. They'll stop after the first time.