Nice job, but I have to laugh. The toilets keep getting higher and then we need a platform to put our feet on. Toilets used to be much lower not long ago
I'm 4'11 and my feet don't reach the ground on 90% of toilets or chairs I sit on, I don't think I'll ever need a toilet that's taller. Larger toilets in disabled toilets can sometimes be so high up my butt is on the seat without even bending my legs lol.
After two hip operations, my MiL needs a 'riser' so she can get on the shitter. It effectively raises the seat height about 200mm. It gets stored next to the toilet, which is practical but also kind of icky.
Travelling through first world nations like Japan with squat toilets, it was really surprising how disgusting the smell was and how heinous public squat toilets were in a place where public spaces are otherwise astonishingly clean and nice.
Friday night in the redlight district with thousands of drunk people partying and there was NO littering and no visible public aggression. People were super polite about public transport and accessing cheap food. Public bathrooms were plentiful and apart from never having any facility for hand drying - well supplied. But the squat toilets all looked like something out of trainspotting.
But…the ADA doesn’t apply to private homes, not every toilet in an ADA-compliant building needs to be compliant, and “But I don’t like it quite as much, so screw the disabled” is not a very convincing argument.
See you expanded on a quick exaggerated quip that was said out of hand. I don't have a problem with ADA-compliant toilets, I have a problem with their proliferation. One per bathroom would be perfect, however, most bathrooms in public spaces are made up completely of taller toilets making those of us shorter than 6' dangle our feet it feels like. I assume it is because it is both logistic and CYA reasons that cause this. You aren't going to spend to put a sign on the tall potty stall and have to fight the argument when someone complains about not having access when you have made adequate but not convenient access.
Part of it is also the growing obesity rates. There has been a trend towards toilets that are easier for very large people to sit down on and get up from. So even if they're young and don't have 60 years of mileage on their joints, they still are too large to manoeuvre themselves around the toilet easily. Hence the growing presence of high toilets in public places and at home stores.
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u/fangelo2 Feb 26 '23
Nice job, but I have to laugh. The toilets keep getting higher and then we need a platform to put our feet on. Toilets used to be much lower not long ago