A video recently shared on various Chinese news and social media sites shows a set of timers installed above a row of toilet cubicles in a female washroom, with each stall getting its own digital counter.
When a stall is unoccupied, the pixelated LED screen displays the word “empty” in green. If in use, it shows the number of minutes and seconds the door has been locked. ‘We won’t kick people out midway’
The original video was reportedly taken by a visitor who sent it to the Xiaoxiang Morning Herald, a state-run local newspaper.
'We won’t kick people out midway’
The original video was reportedly taken by a visitor who sent it to the Xiaoxiang Morning Herald, a state-run local newspaper.
“I found it quite advanced technologically so you don’t have to queue outside or knock on a bathroom door,” the paper quoted the visitor as saying.
“But I also found it a little bit embarrassing. It felt like I was being monitored.”
Competitive timed shitting league in China?
Eating some more fiber so that I can get my ELO up
Excretion Length Output?
I REALLY need the social credit for a vacation. Give me all the laxatives!
Your ELO? You mean these guys?
I’m going to use aimbot
Please do. Saves the cleaners some work…
Ass-wipe skip is definitely a viable time-save.
I mean, what problem are they trying to solve? And is long-sitting people really the main cause of that problem?
If a tourist destination is frequently winding up with people waiting for an open stall, and if the majority of people are in the stalls for what is considered a normal amount of time in their home country, then the actual problem is that the place simply doesn’t have enough stalls and needs to add more
if it shows hours someone likely died in there again. i think it’s okay to knock and check on them.
I like your casual use of “again” here 😁
Well they either died in which case checking doesn’t help, or they didn’t in which case checking doesn’t help either.
I used to work at a movie theater and someone died once in the bathroom. So that is probably why
That doesn’t sound likely to be the reason. That’s an extremely rare event that doesn’t need a regularized solution. And visible timers is pretty much the least useful way to address that problem, instead of using standard emergency pull cords or even just an alert sound that rings after X minutes.
My guess is it’s for the women’s restroom because when bathrooms are busy, most women just wait for a stall door to open and don’t always bend over to look under the doors to see if they’re even occupied. It’s also probably hard to see from a distance if the stall is occupied or not and nobody wants to be the one to shamefully walk back to the line because they had to get closer to check.
Nah occupied/unoccupied status lights have already been in existence for a while. The new thing happening here is that they’ve added a visible stopwatch counter
Oh I see! Yeah that is a bit strange
If the Chinese are anything like the Japanese, some people (especially old people) will just lock themselves inside and sit down to take a nap. Even in a busy toilet, with no regard for people who actually need to use one.
That feels like part of the reason this exists.
What? Are these people who don’t have homes? That’s really weird to me
For some elderly, they may find that they need to nap again to function. If you don’t drive, you don’t have a private location to sleep beyond home or a hotel. Rather than go home, they sleep on a bathroom stall.
Interesting. Thanks
If your social credit score is high enough, you get 5 extra minutes on the Throne!
“Reactions are mixed” is enlightened centrism at its worst
Having been to China, their public toliets are not up to Western standards in terms of smell and cleanliness. Either these are equivalent to Western-standard and they trying to curb abuse because they are attempting to be equitable, or they are trying to boost productivity via public shaming. I saw the locals would just squat and smoke while playing on phones while being very exposed without any care in the world. I was shocked at how widely accepted that was and that was in like a public kybo. Never seen anything like it.
Could have kept the empty/occupied sign with a subtle indicator for staff that comes on after an unusually long time. Same functionality without showing everyone the time down to the second.
I will be here until nature has taken its course. Stop being pervs china.
A timer in the shitter. I’d flat out ignore it. Unless armed guards are kicking the door down, why should anyone care about it?
