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  • Joe WebbJoe Webb Posts: 837

    Its the ultimate Locked Room Mystery!

     

    But its walls detach which is the important part. It doesn't matter that it doesn't have a door unless you really need to show someone coming in the door into the room. Its not a "real" room, after all. And if you can easily knock out a wall to get a camera situated without much fuss, thats great. Interiors that are all one piece are harder to deal with.

    And this is a nice room, after all.

  • maikdeckermaikdecker Posts: 3,037
    nonesuch00 said:
    fred9803 said:
    nonesuch00 said:

    The opposite problem: Me & the squad I was in charge of once scrubbed the entire platoon's bathroom before inspection with bleach, water, and 10 toothbrushes (actually we usually used them to clean our rifles but whatever). That's floors, walls, stalls, ...it wasn't fun.

    The Battalion Commander said they'd never inspectioned such a clean bathroom.

    Wouldn't it be worse if they said "...We don't inspect bathrooms"? after the inspection. That would be the pisser. Why do Americans say bathroom for toilet? Are you taking a bath or a dump guys?

    There's no bathtub in this "bathroom" scene.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kK-2E4MTc3Y

    We say bathroom if there is a tub and/or shower in it. If it doesn't we still call it a bathroom because all of them have a sink for bathing/washing one's hands. Looked at logically, taking a dump is a type of 'body cleansing'. Anyway, this bathroom was want you might think: about a dozen toilet stalls (thank goodness that was privatized at least), a dozen urinals, a dozen sinks with mirrors and dozen showers in a communal bathroom and white tiles all over the floors and ceiling with mold and dirt in the grouting (before scrubbing with the toothbrushes laugh). I think it's been for sale even in the DAZ Store (just joking).

    The other word that Americans use for bathroom that drives Englanders batty is restroom but those almost always have no shower or tub but do have sink(s) and is what American guest or tourists say to avoid too direct a reference to something as uncouth a taking a dump. Also if you Englanders visit on Derby Week and ask me where the lavoratory is, then I'm going to look at you like why are you asking a busboy in a hotel where the laboratory is, don't get mad though we really aren't taught such weird words. laugh If you say bathroom instead of restroom while out in public it is cringeworthy. I can picture parents all over America now cringing as their children whine "I haf to go to the bafroom!"

    And now think of us poor non-british europeans, who - when in their 60s like me - grew up learning english from teachers trained in Greater Britain - so: Queen's English, Oxford style - just to get some additional education by subtitled US movies which made it sound like a totally different language.

    My teacher at school often told me to "stop talking american" while during my only visit in the USofA people thought of me being either Australian, Canadian or Swedish but never german...

     

  • PetercatPetercat Posts: 2,321
    WendyLuvsCatz said:
    Petercat said:
    richardandtracy said:

    Our last house had a bathroom that was 4ft6in x 7ft. We fitted a bath, toilet and sink into it as well as an inwards opening door & sash window. And, if I remember correctly, some TARDIS technology, because it all fitted. The bath was a 4ft corner bath, and we used a small vanity sink. Worked quite well in the end, so it is possible to make tiny spaces work - the layout is the key driver and I think that for decorative purposes it's not thought about enough in a lot of the DS architecture.

    I once bought a house where the bathroom was so small that the toilet was inside the shower. The only sink that would fit (also in the shower) was a small one meant for bars or RVs. The only things outside the shower were the towel and medicine cabinet and the toilet paper holder.
    The nice thing was that bathroom cleanup was super easy. (Shower head on a hose)

    well that would save on toilet paper cheeky

    Poor man's bidet, or baby wipes.

  • LeanaLeana Posts: 12,858

    And another room without doors released today... https://www.daz3d.com/parallel-lounge

  • PaintboxPaintbox Posts: 1,633
    Leana said:

    And another room without doors released today... https://www.daz3d.com/parallel-lounge

    Parallel Dimension Lounge it was originally called ;-)

  • VyusurVyusur Posts: 2,235
    WendyLuvsCatz said:

    I have a bathroom without a toilet

    it has a bath

    the loo has it's own little room next door

    same here

     

  • miladyderyni_173d399f47miladyderyni_173d399f47 Posts: 2,544
    edited May 2020
    Paintbox said:
    Leana said:

    Double post

    Post edited by miladyderyni_173d399f47 on
  • miladyderyni_173d399f47miladyderyni_173d399f47 Posts: 2,544
    Paintbox said:
    Leana said:

    And another room without doors released today... https://www.daz3d.com/parallel-lounge

    Parallel Dimension Lounge it was originally called ;-)

    Daz sells models of transporter tech, dimensional portals, and ritual circles, right? Just plop one of those in a corner and retexture to match. 

  • WendyLuvsCatzWendyLuvsCatz Posts: 40,363

    I updated the door thread cheeky

  • willowfanwillowfan Posts: 241
    maikdecker said:
    nonesuch00 said:
    fred9803 said:
    nonesuch00 said:

    The opposite problem: Me & the squad I was in charge of once scrubbed the entire platoon's bathroom before inspection with bleach, water, and 10 toothbrushes (actually we usually used them to clean our rifles but whatever). That's floors, walls, stalls, ...it wasn't fun.

    The Battalion Commander said they'd never inspectioned such a clean bathroom.

    Wouldn't it be worse if they said "...We don't inspect bathrooms"? after the inspection. That would be the pisser. Why do Americans say bathroom for toilet? Are you taking a bath or a dump guys?

    There's no bathtub in this "bathroom" scene.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kK-2E4MTc3Y

    We say bathroom if there is a tub and/or shower in it. If it doesn't we still call it a bathroom because all of them have a sink for bathing/washing one's hands. Looked at logically, taking a dump is a type of 'body cleansing'. Anyway, this bathroom was want you might think: about a dozen toilet stalls (thank goodness that was privatized at least), a dozen urinals, a dozen sinks with mirrors and dozen showers in a communal bathroom and white tiles all over the floors and ceiling with mold and dirt in the grouting (before scrubbing with the toothbrushes laugh). I think it's been for sale even in the DAZ Store (just joking).

    The other word that Americans use for bathroom that drives Englanders batty is restroom but those almost always have no shower or tub but do have sink(s) and is what American guest or tourists say to avoid too direct a reference to something as uncouth a taking a dump. Also if you Englanders visit on Derby Week and ask me where the lavoratory is, then I'm going to look at you like why are you asking a busboy in a hotel where the laboratory is, don't get mad though we really aren't taught such weird words. laugh If you say bathroom instead of restroom while out in public it is cringeworthy. I can picture parents all over America now cringing as their children whine "I haf to go to the bafroom!"

    And now think of us poor non-british europeans, who - when in their 60s like me - grew up learning english from teachers trained in Greater Britain - so: Queen's English, Oxford style - just to get some additional education by subtitled US movies which made it sound like a totally different language.

    My teacher at school often told me to "stop talking american" while during my only visit in the USofA people thought of me being either Australian, Canadian or Swedish but never german...

     

    America and Britain - two countries divided by a common language laugh

  • nonesuch00nonesuch00 Posts: 18,781
    maikdecker said:
    nonesuch00 said:
    fred9803 said:
    nonesuch00 said:

    The opposite problem: Me & the squad I was in charge of once scrubbed the entire platoon's bathroom before inspection with bleach, water, and 10 toothbrushes (actually we usually used them to clean our rifles but whatever). That's floors, walls, stalls, ...it wasn't fun.

    The Battalion Commander said they'd never inspectioned such a clean bathroom.

    Wouldn't it be worse if they said "...We don't inspect bathrooms"? after the inspection. That would be the pisser. Why do Americans say bathroom for toilet? Are you taking a bath or a dump guys?

    There's no bathtub in this "bathroom" scene.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kK-2E4MTc3Y

    We say bathroom if there is a tub and/or shower in it. If it doesn't we still call it a bathroom because all of them have a sink for bathing/washing one's hands. Looked at logically, taking a dump is a type of 'body cleansing'. Anyway, this bathroom was want you might think: about a dozen toilet stalls (thank goodness that was privatized at least), a dozen urinals, a dozen sinks with mirrors and dozen showers in a communal bathroom and white tiles all over the floors and ceiling with mold and dirt in the grouting (before scrubbing with the toothbrushes laugh). I think it's been for sale even in the DAZ Store (just joking).

    The other word that Americans use for bathroom that drives Englanders batty is restroom but those almost always have no shower or tub but do have sink(s) and is what American guest or tourists say to avoid too direct a reference to something as uncouth a taking a dump. Also if you Englanders visit on Derby Week and ask me where the lavoratory is, then I'm going to look at you like why are you asking a busboy in a hotel where the laboratory is, don't get mad though we really aren't taught such weird words. laugh If you say bathroom instead of restroom while out in public it is cringeworthy. I can picture parents all over America now cringing as their children whine "I haf to go to the bafroom!"

    And now think of us poor non-british europeans, who - when in their 60s like me - grew up learning english from teachers trained in Greater Britain - so: Queen's English, Oxford style - just to get some additional education by subtitled US movies which made it sound like a totally different language.

    My teacher at school often told me to "stop talking american" while during my only visit in the USofA people thought of me being either Australian, Canadian or Swedish but never german...

     

    I always liked hearing strange accents. This newest American TV accent (it's only been about 20 years or so) I'm not a fan of. When I live in Swizerland there were lots of Germans, Dutch, Scandinavians, and other countries working there too and I always felt the Dutch had the most American sounding English, while the Scandinavianms that learned English at a young age spoke like the Queen of England! Even the real regular British didn't speak such perfect English. And there was this Scots guy I worked with that was speaking to me in English but in his Scots accent so I tried to answer him in German because thaty's what I thought he was speaking. He go so mad, he said, "I AM speaking in English!" It was a hoot to hear them. I was sometimes asked if I knew Plattdeutsch or was Dutch when I tried to speak Swiss German. I supposed it was my American accent coming through. I think the generic midwestern American accent comes from those North Sea German speaking folk that moved to the midwest to farm the prairies.

  • nonesuch00nonesuch00 Posts: 18,781
    1gecko said:
    nonesuch00 said:
    fred9803 said:
    nonesuch00 said:
    When we bought that bathroom it had a bath, a drain plug & nothing else, not even taps. Reason being the bath was from 1898 & having a permanent bath was unusual, so it was considered OK to lug buckets of hot water up from the kitchen. By 1992 when we bought the house, that was getting a bit passe.
    richardandtracy said:

     

    I remember visiting grandparents and aunts & uncles and you bathed either in the river or in a metal tub (like in cowboy movies) outside or on the kitchen floor (close to the coal stove used to heat a kettle or two of hot water for the rest of the bath water.). Also a well pump outside to get the water for the bath and everything else you needed water for. That water when first pulled smelled of rotten eggs (hydrogen sulfide). It tasted really good though.

    Reminds me of visiting my Uncle Bill and Aunt Kathleen!  They lived on their farm in a two-room 'house' that was about 22' square (or less).  One room was their bedroom (never saw the inside of that) and the other was the family/living/dining/kitchen. The 'facilities' were in a little outhouse around back (and yes, it had a moon carved in the door) and they didn't have electricity yet the first few times I visited (keep in mind, this was 1980 or so) that I can remember.  There was a big, silvery tin wash tub outside for bathing next to the hand-pump well - you either enjoyed the *invigorating* cold water just out of the ground or hauled some from the wood-burning stove inside.

    ... in 1980 (or very near - I was a teen at the time).

    No, it wasn't Alaska or some such - just the rural South and they were (like pretty much all the family) poor.

    They got electricity (and installed some fans and a couple lights) in around 1982 or so I think it was... and they still had their mid-1950s Ford (sedan - forget the model) they had bought *new* and were driving it when I a drunk driver hit them some time not too many years later. (old car was very well cared for... probably would have saved them if the guy hadn't been going so fast).

     

    hmumh... amazing to think about - so much as changed in so little time.

    Ha, ya, funny at that age since we always visited Easter or the summer at that age I was always ready to go to the cold river rather than that wash tub. While I've not gone on any investigative journalism ventures to see if anyone still has outhouses or wells in that area anymore I'm pretty sure they are all gone. Even my granny got indoor plumbing by the 80s though. I don't know if one of her kids saved and paid for it or it was some sort of EPA or other project. This was in a coal mining area in Appalachian south. The Army Corp of Engineers even built big river spillways to prevent flooding but it didn't quite work with all this extra rain. All the extra rain has increased erosion of mountain sides too.

  • nonesuch00nonesuch00 Posts: 18,781
    kyoto kid said:
    nonesuch00 said:

    The opposite problem: Me & the squad I was in charge of once scrubbed the entire platoon's bathroom before inspection with bleach, water, and 10 toothbrushes (actually we usually used them to clean our rifles but whatever). That's floors, walls, stalls, ...it wasn't fun.

    The Battalion Commander said they'd never inspectioned such a clean bathroom.

    ...back when I was in college I would work during the summer for campus maintenance as they rented out dorms and student apartments for various summer programmes and camps. The big push after the end of academic year was intense to say the least, and we were on a tight schedule as the first camp  was only two weeks after classes ended.  We had to get all the rooms and apartments up to hotel standards.and keep them that way  between the different programmes throughout the summer.  While we had quite an array of cleaning tools, we had to use these little grout brushes (slightly bigger than a toothbrush) in the showers to clean the grout between tiles. This was the most tedious part of the job as we were on the south edge of Puget Sound (at the foot of the Olympic Peninsula which is known for a large temperate rainforest) where it is fairly damp through a good part of summer, so mould and mildew was a constant issue..

    It's so rough to get that sort of thing clean without bleach but using bleach is no picnic either. I avoid bleach now and avoided tiles in the house too.

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