Comments on: Glass floor in bathroom has illuminated view of 15-level elevator shaft

By: Fred von Blume

Fred von Blume — Sun, 29 Apr 2012 04:56:00 +0000

Great! “Why are there curtains on the ceiling?”

By: penguinchris

penguinchris — Sat, 28 Apr 2012 08:16:00 +0000

Relevant...

By: lewis_stoole

lewis_stoole — Sat, 28 Apr 2012 01:12:00 +0000

or a really amazing 150-foot-tall septic tank

By: skeptacally

skeptacally — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 23:00:00 +0000

a few years back, there was an interesting happenstance at a conservation area not so far away from my home city of peterborough, ON… http://contests.eyeweekly.com/eye/issue/issue_01.04.96/NEWS/nak0104.php

my guess is that a photo like this would be prime porn for the poor arrested fellow.

oh, and by “poor,” i mean: sick and twisted.

By: Donald Petersen

Donald Petersen — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 22:51:00 +0000

I almost hate to admit it, but me too. But I’m currently celebrating my 35th year of being a 7-year-old boy.

By: bwcbwc

bwcbwc — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 20:07:00 +0000

Technically, you’re supposed to close the seat and the lid before you flush because the flush sprays germs into the air.
http://www.webmd.com/a-to-z-guides/features/germs-in-bathroom : According to Charles Gerba, PhD, a professor of microbiology at University of
Arizona in Tucson, flushing the toilet with the lid up is not wise.
“Polluted water vapor erupts out of the flushing toilet bowl and it can
take several hours for these particles to finally settle — not to mention
where,” he says. “If you have your toothbrush too close to the toilet,
you are brushing your teeth with what’s in your toilet.”
(argh, this was supposed to post as a reply to Matthew Petty above. Lost the reply link during login?)

By: Scott Anger

Scott Anger — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 19:45:00 +0000

I’m going to go with the gaping maw of blackness being the more disturbing of the two.

By: bcsizemo

bcsizemo — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 18:53:00 +0000

Tempered glass is fairly strong, I just wouldn’t walk on it with diamond encrusted stiletto heels.

By: bcsizemo

bcsizemo — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 18:53:00 +0000

Actually I wondered if that’s where the poop goes, but I guess why works as well.

By: bcsizemo

bcsizemo — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 18:51:00 +0000

Put some vents down by the wall and have them blowing a stream of air up (like you are falling) while playing the horns from Inception…

By: chris jimson

chris jimson — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 18:40:00 +0000

I’m not sure if this will help cure constipation, or make it worse. Arguably you could walk into the room, turn on the light and immediately crap you pants. OR if you make it to the toilet you might be too nervous to move your bowels.

Ironically, both could be considered “scared shitless.”

By: Josh Jasper

Josh Jasper — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 18:37:00 +0000

Minecrap?

By: Mike Godwin

Mike Godwin — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 18:14:00 +0000

This is clearly MINECRAFT inspired.

By: vjer

vjer — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 16:59:00 +0000

man id seriously enjoy watching my turds drop 150 feet to a painted + lit target below.

By: GawainLavers

GawainLavers — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 16:58:00 +0000

DONOTWANT

By: Matthew Petty

Matthew Petty — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 16:51:00 +0000

I always get those “soft close” seats, so I can flip it closed and walk away.
Of course, I forget that many people don’t have them, so SLAM

By: CLamb

CLamb — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 16:44:00 +0000

I wonder if the shaft continues overhead.

By: Matthew Petty

Matthew Petty — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 16:44:00 +0000

Or an octopus pool like the 1940 version of The Thief of Bagdad!

By: Tim H

Tim H — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 16:26:00 +0000

There was an architect, Paul Rudolph I think, who installed a glass bottomed bathtub in his own home. The folks in the room below could look up at the bathers.

By: bklynchris

bklynchris — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 16:10:00 +0000

yeah…otherwise I just woulda said “rectum”. I am still hoping I will grow one in my mouth though….

By: A Nonny Moose

A Nonny Moose — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 15:56:00 +0000

Since I don’t see any evidence of a tub or shower, I conclude that this is a “half bath”, and a full bath exists elsewhere in the apartment. This is good, because I couldn’t set foot in this room without carpeting (or painting) the floor.

By: for_SCIENCE

for_SCIENCE — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 15:49:00 +0000

…or you can put the seat down, one motion.

Stalemate.

By: Martijn Vos

Martijn Vos — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 15:24:00 +0000

Is this to give the owner of the penthouse the impression they can piss on the peasants below?

By: jandrese

jandrese — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 15:08:00 +0000

http://theoatmeal.com/comics/peeing_sitting_down

By: saurabh

saurabh — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 15:00:00 +0000

Why can’t you just sit down? Peeing standing up still makes more splash and gets piss everywhere. It is a bad paradigm that only achieves one thing: it saves a tiny (and I mean TINY, it doesn’t take that long to drop your pants and sit) amount of time for men.

By: Crashproof

Crashproof — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 14:46:00 +0000

And speakers at the bottom that play a recording of vuvuzelas.

By: Cool K

Cool K — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 14:33:00 +0000

I never understood that “toilet seat up issue.” If we leave it up, doesn’t it then guarantee you that we have not peed all over the seat, thus the seat is clean? But no, as a courtesy to women, men have to put the seat back down. That is why men make more than women working the same job.

By: Dan Hibiki

Dan Hibiki — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 13:57:00 +0000

shame there’s no spikes at the bottom.

By: ShawShaw

ShawShaw — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 13:52:00 +0000

It’s cool looking but isn’t a really slick surface like glass kind of a bad idea for flooring? Particularly since certain… ahem.. “spills” might be more likely due to people being suddenly confronted by what looks like a 150 foot deep pit in the floor?

By: OtherMichael

OtherMichael — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 13:45:00 +0000

Because it’s not there.