To not understand why people put mirrors by the toilet?

[malificent7]

I do not want to watch myself while on the loo. Petrol stations are the worst. That is all.

If you don't go down the Australian toilet in a separate room route, where else are they supposed to go? Stop putting the toilet in the bathroom across from the sink where the mirror (and your toothbrush) lives.

If you don't go down the Australian toilet in a separate room route

Is that Australian? I've never noticed any difference. Our toilets are all in separate rooms in this house in the UK, and they have been in many other houses I have lived or stayed in.

Presumably it’s a space saving measure in somewhere like a petrol station public toilet

Not just Australia, but it's a very 'southern' thing to do (also piping. For the love of God, can we steal Australia's enormous pipes? I've never met an Australian who has had a blocked toilet). I have noticed more new builds are starting to do the separate toilet room thing. Thankfully, for having a loo in the same as your personal hygiene products is grotty.

I've never met an Australian who has had a blocked toilet).

I can confirm from grim first hand experience that toilets get blocked in Australia too.

It’s a space saving measure in the UK. In countries where toilet paper isn’t used as a norm mirrors are often at the side to support bidet cleaning.

@changi

I've never met an Australian who has had a blocked toilet).

I can confirm from grim first hand experience that toilets get blocked in Australia too.

But nowhere near as often because of the dual flush system and regulated diameter of the pipes. They are large enough to fit a baseball through.

I have researched this. It's the most boring yet fascinating thing.

In our biggest local shopping center they put in new toilets with floor to ceiling doors and the door is basically a mirror. I mean it's not an actual mirror, but it's pretty close 😂

You need to close the cubicle door

@Iminaglasscaseofemotion

In our biggest local shopping center they put in new toilets with floor to ceiling doors and the door is basically a mirror. I mean it's not an actual mirror, but it's pretty close 😂

Is it one of those 2-way mirror ones? I've been to a shopping centre that had those on the door, so you could see everybody walking by while pooing, but they couldn't see you.

Now THAT was a trippy experience.

The toilet in my local library has a floor to ceiling mirror wall to the side of the toilet. Presumably so you can observe and wonder at your own poo-face.

Slightly off topic, we have a giant 3ftx2ft mirror in our shower, installed by the previous owners. We haven't taken it out because there's no tile behind it and we'd have to retile the entire thing (it's quite a big shower). I always feel the need to explain to our houseguests that it was there when we moved in

One of my showers has a fishtank in the wall, and when you look through it you can see yourself in the mirror. It was definitely a choice. Not my choice, but a choice.

I think it is a disability access requirement for disabled toilets so a petrol station may just have one all-purose toilet fit for all users?

I once squealed at my own reflection in a mirrored toilet door at a client's offices. I looked up from my phone and thought my own reflection was someone who had opened the door on me. There was a thankfully unknown person in the cubicle next door.

I’m a bit confused by this - do you mean in people’s homes/in a large cubicle when the sink is in there too? In which case of course you want a mirror, as people use going to the loo to redo their make-up/check they haven’t got food in their teeth etc. Or do you mean actually in a cubicle, when the sinks are outside? In which case that’s very weird, but I don’t think I’ve ever seen it.

It is a disability requirement, particularly for people with stomper bags

Stomer not stomper bag!

< visions of one with a rabbit jumping out >

I mean in any location. Ive got friends who have a ginormous mirror adjacent to the loo .

You should use the loos at Chatsworth House restaurant.
You close the cubicle door, take your seat, to find all four sides are mirrored