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On first visit, I’d secretly try to check where the urinals are. In second visit, I would do that process again because who the fuck is meant to remember what that circles want to express??
Number of testicles
Number of boobs.
Number of X chromosomes?
Number of holes beneath the waist.
Ok so the pilodonal sinus count too? Cause then they need to increase the amount of circles lol
TIHI. New fear unlocked.
One. One is the answer, so we’re all fucked. Unless you’re including cavities. (Isn’t topography fun?)
What is the strict topological definition of a hole?

Google says: A hole in a mathematical object is a topological structure which prevents the object from being continuously shrunk to a point

Which is as clear as dirt. My understanding of it is to take every point on an object and make it as minimally convex when compared to its neighbors (ie, try to make a sphere) and the holes are the spaces inside of the object where the object isn’t (fuck that’s also unclear). Like a mug is topologically the same as a donut.

Anyways, both the urethra and vagina are just concave spaces (divots) whereas the anus is a hole that connects to the face holes (mouth, nostrils, tear ducts). Assuming you define a hole as anything greater than 60 microns. Any smaller than that and the human body is basically Swiss cheese.

anus is a hole that connects to the face holes

Human is donut. Got it

Maybe it’s points of contact?

Two feet for the urinal.

Two feet and a seat for the toilet?

Points for creativity, that’s for sure
spoken as someone who never used an urinal while drunk and so resting your head on the wall to steady up
One of the student pubs I used to go to during uni had padding on the wall for this exact purpose 😁
That’s probably it. I was going to go with a view from the floor looking up.

There is another…

I laughed and it made the sound “rofl”
it looks like youre already in a bathroom

I feel like one is a set of boobs. The other is a man, fully erect as seen from the front at a direct angle (business end pointed towards your mouth as you approach the door).

Places with gendered bathrooms should stick to icons that make sense. The place can do something cutesy too, but have a real bathroom sign.

If some circles on a door prevent you from opening one and peeking inside to check for urinals, you should never have left your house to begin with.
Who peeks into bathrooms? Found the alpha😤🐺
Just shit in the sink to establish dominance
2 circles is if you need to #2, 3 of you need to take a #3.

1+2=3

There’s no place for a number 1. If you’re not going to shit, then you’re not allowed to pee either.

The place for number 1 is to the right.
No no no, you just piss in the sink instead
Better to piss in the sink, than to sink in the piss

I gotta go, I gotta take a number three.
That’s a piss and a shit and a wank in a tree

youtu.be/sLLQFLXz6VE

The Northern Boys - Party Time

YouTube

classic

a man of culture

Is it possible to #2 and not #1? I don’t think my plumbing works that way.

Actually now that I think about it, back in highschool one of my friends took a shit in someone’s vegetable crisper and I don’t recall him pissing all over the place when he did. So it must be possible.

It’s technically possible for everyone, barring some specific quirk or injury, but men generally find it easier to only shit. I looked it up a while ago and the research was American, so I do wonder if it’s because American men tend to pee standing up and they therefore have a bigger mental barrier between #1 and #2.

I’d like to see the study repeated with men who sit to pee or women who stand (it’s possible and not inherently more difficult than for men, but clothing and culture make it a lot less common than the other way around), because I suspect that the mental barrier is the key here.

I suspect there’s a difference because of other culture-related urination urges. I grew up doing a lot of swimming in lakes, and I was never really discouraged from peeing in the lake, as long as I wasn’t right next to someone (probably pretty gross for some people, but I honestly can’t bring myself to find it very gross). That’s my main experience with rapid, immersive temperature changes, and I still feel an almost overwhelming urge to pee when getting into or out of the shower or any body of water. I can pee immediately before getting into the shower, but that doesn’t make a difference. Infants have the temperature response too, which is why you need to be careful changing a diaper in the cold, lest you get peed on. It can be trained out of you though: a friend of mine grew up swimming competitively and had a lot of experience jumping into and out of pools, where she was discouraged from peeing (thankfully). She no longer feels any temperature related urge to pee that she notices.

Honestly, this is a much more thoughtful and thorough response than I was expecting.
That’s entirely fair, I think my medication kicked in partway through that comment, lol.
You don’t do a #3, a #3 is when your kid does a massive high pressure shit, it squirts up out the back of the nappy and into their clothes. Just hope it doesn’t happen indoors, or in the car or really anywhere.
Had that happen in a restaurant. I was at the opposite end of the packed restaurant from the restrooms. I got a lot knowing nods from a lot of folks as I walked through holding the very smelly child at arms length due to the amount of soilage at play
#3 is puke.

I was going off of this:

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no worries. i was going off the original: janitors in the los angeles unified school district in like the 1960s, radio reporting bathroom incidents without making kids giggle. #4 was blood.
Haha nice. I do know of #3 you referred to. I just like that song, and think their #3 is hilarious.
It’s a test to determine your gender, you just walk into whichever one you’re naturally compelled to and then when you get out you find out your gender. If you don’t want to go into either then you’re either nonbinary or agender

What if one is taken but you really need to go?

Guess I’m whatever three circles is!

That’s what the sink you can see outside the door is for
So this is basically the equivalent of the sorting hat from Harry Potter.
Is this the ritual I heard in old sagas called “Gender Reveal”
There’s a bar on the beach town near me that uses “lobsters” and “crabs” as it’s bathroom door identifiers.
Does everyone eventually end up using the crabs bathroom?
I mean it’s sylvan lake so. Yeah probably.
My immediate assumption is that lobsters are for dudes, but I’m not sure why. I guess because they look taller and less curvy?
Everybody knows that women transmit crabs, and guys are grabby like a lobster. /s
Do you know which one is which yet?

Crabs is women lobsters is men. I don’t know why. I saw a stand up bit that was similar to that and often wondered if they got it from there or if it’s like a franchise thing. The bartender said he had no idea.

The crab had a skirt on and the lobster had a suit and bow tie on. So that tipped you off I guess haha

Left is for if you have to do a #2 right is for #3s obviously
I can’t read these runes. Life sense, roll for initiative.
2 circles for #2, 3 for #3. You piss in the sink.

Two circles: Toilet and sink.

Three Circles: Toilet, sink, and urinal.

If this is it, I never would have in a million years guessed it
Maybe this is a lesson and it doesn’t matter what bathrooms we use?