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What you're seeing here is numbered doors of toilet stalls.
This picture is from the inside of a restroom area, so any gender icons would be the outside of any door in here anyway.
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- ytf do they number their stalls? is it like: "help, my zipper's stuck! I'm in stall oo. Whatever you do, don't go into stall o!"
  "where did you say you were?"
  (sighs) "stall oo, toilet |||, co-sharing toilet roll ~~~. Hurry!"
  
  "Hey Randy, grab the bucket, someone's had explosive diarrhea all over stall three again."
  Putting in a support ticket. "Flushing problem in stall two of the toilets on the second floor."
  So Randy doesn't need to go through all the flushes to find the broken one.
  
  Some people take a long time - why would a restaurant leave that market untapped? Everyone gets snacky sometimes
  
  I read "stall oo" in my head pronounced like in "food" which is hilariously useless information for those needs
- Legitimate question... Why?
  
  Easy identification by cleanup or maintenance crew, I'd gather
- I fuckin knew it! I immediately assumed it was a stupid numbing scheme, I've been in way too many restaurants/bars/pubs...
- This is confusing as I've never seen a toilet stall that is just a regular room, rather than a cubicle divider thing
  
  The airport near Stockholm. Private little rooms. Everyone has a loo and a sink and room to change. It's so humane.
  
  Most hotels, restaurants, and cafés in Europe have singular private stalls like this.
  Gas stations, clubs, airports and schools might have a big restroom with dividers, but if they are fancy enough they might still have private rooms.
  Public toilets and campsites rarely have private rooms.
  
  That's how most public toilets are. Who the fuck wants to be in cubicle to do their private business?

2 circles is if you need to #2, 3 of you need to take a #3.
- 1+2=3
  There's no place for a number 1. If you're not going to shit, then you're not allowed to pee either.
  
  No no no, you just piss in the sink instead
  
  I gotta go, I gotta take a number three.
  That's a piss and a shit and a wank in a tree
  https://youtu.be/sLLQFLXz6VE
  
  The place for number 1 is to the right.
- Is it possible to #2 and not #1? I don't think my plumbing works that way.
  Actually now that I think about it, back in highschool one of my friends took a shit in someone's vegetable crisper and I don't recall him pissing all over the place when he did. So it must be possible.
  
  It’s technically possible for everyone, barring some specific quirk or injury, but men generally find it easier to only shit. I looked it up a while ago and the research was American, so I do wonder if it’s because American men tend to pee standing up and they therefore have a bigger mental barrier between #1 and #2.
  I’d like to see the study repeated with men who sit to pee or women who stand (it’s possible and not inherently more difficult than for men, but clothing and culture make it a lot less common than the other way around), because I suspect that the mental barrier is the key here.
  I suspect there’s a difference because of other culture-related urination urges. I grew up doing a lot of swimming in lakes, and I was never really discouraged from peeing in the lake, as long as I wasn’t right next to someone (probably pretty gross for some people, but I honestly can’t bring myself to find it very gross). That’s my main experience with rapid, immersive temperature changes, and I still feel an almost overwhelming urge to pee when getting into or out of the shower or any body of water. I can pee immediately before getting into the shower, but that doesn’t make a difference. Infants have the temperature response too, which is why you need to be careful changing a diaper in the cold, lest you get peed on. It can be trained out of you though: a friend of mine grew up swimming competitively and had a lot of experience jumping into and out of pools, where she was discouraged from peeing (thankfully). She no longer feels any temperature related urge to pee that she notices.
- You don't do a #3, a #3 is when your kid does a massive high pressure shit, it squirts up out the back of the nappy and into their clothes. Just hope it doesn't happen indoors, or in the car or really anywhere.
  
  Had that happen in a restaurant. I was at the opposite end of the packed restaurant from the restrooms. I got a lot knowing nods from a lot of folks as I walked through holding the very smelly child at arms length due to the amount of soilage at play
  
  Ooof. Been there. But I was going off of the video by the "Northern Boys" that EisFrei posted.
- #3 is puke.
  
  I was going off of the video by the "Northern Boys" EisFrei posted.

He doesn't know how to use the three rings.
- I had to scroll down this far?... What is this nation coming to?
  
  Mellow greetings

My instinct would be to use the one that seems to have a functioning door handle.

Number of testicles
- Number of boobs.
  
  Number of X chromosomes?
  
  Or the sum of both?

When you're Nonbinary every bathroom feels like this, not because you don't know which is which but because you don't know which choice is more wrong or will get you in more trouble.
- Out of curiosity, what do you usually choose? I would imagine men tend to be less likely to care, but also maybe more dangerous if they do happen to care.
  
  I usually go in the women's room because people clock me more feminine than masc. Men's room is very risky because they might not care but they might also be violent. If the bathroom is busy I pee sitting down so no one sees my feet facing the wrong way, I don't really like it and it feels awkward to do which is why I pee standing up when it's not busy or no one else is in there. I have been caught a few times and the women gave me shit for it, though it was always yelling, chastising, or slurs, they never got violent with me. Most violent one got was grabbing my ear and escorting me out of the bathroom. I don't know if I could trust the men to do the same. I heard a story of a trans woman who was physically and sexually assaulted and murdered in a men's room. That story is very much burned into my mind.
  I usually try to avoid public bathrooms in general but lately that's been harder.
  
  I usually end up holding it in so the one at my house ;(
  (If it's bad I go to the bathroom which matches my agab though but it's not been necessary often)
- I'd go w/ the female bathroom, because I think men are more likely to get pointlessly violent about stuff like this.
  
  Men don't give a shit about who is in their bathroom, in my experience. Women, on the other hand, often stopped and harassed me when I was presenting female but cut my hair short (AFAB).
  
  That's what I usually do. Some people get mad or annoyed with me but I imagine it could be physically dangerous to go into the men's room.
  
  I think I'd disagree there, unless youra woman walking in half undressed i doubt you'd get more than a questioning glance if that, on top of the fact that it seems like a much lower bar to pass as male.
  Honestly, short of the Karen type who is looking around for things to get pissed about you probably won't hear much of a fuss in the restrooms themselves on either side, really seems like the butt hurt people are men worried about who's going into the women's room, or women worried about the potential rather than anything that's actually happening in the moment.
- Not how it works at all.
  
  Hey pal, FYI not all NonBinary experiences are the same. I commented sharing my experience. If your experience is different, you could've just said that instead of being rude or trying to say I'm wrong for feeling the way I do.

It's a test to determine your gender, you just walk into whichever one you're naturally compelled to and then when you get out you find out your gender. If you don't want to go into either then you're either nonbinary or agender
- What if one is taken but you really need to go?
  Guess I'm whatever three circles is!
  
  That's what the sink you can see outside the door is for
- So this is basically the equivalent of the sorting hat from Harry Potter.
- Is this the ritual I heard in old sagas called "Gender Reveal"

Two holes or three holes
- Ones boobs the other is a dick?
- Two boobs or three boobs.
  
  After all, what is a fat belly with an outie belly button, if not a third boob

1 circle of life
2 shotgun
3 maritime international sign for distress
4 audi owners
5 Olympic athletes
- 6 Good dice roll

This is what the Republicans said would happen!!

Please solve the following puzzle to prove you are a human

I feel like one is a set of boobs. The other is a man, fully erect as seen from the front at a direct angle (business end pointed towards your mouth as you approach the door).
Places with gendered bathrooms should stick to icons that make sense. The place can do something cutesy too, but have a real bathroom sign.

i mean.
The two look like boobs, and the three look like a penis, so... Case closed?
- Boobs are two circles. Penis head with two balls underneath is the three circles. It's not a good representation, whoever decided that
  
  boobs are two, cuz two boobs.
  Penis is three cuz balls, plus one.
- The two look like balls, and the three look like a head and boobs.
  
  Ducks is heads because ducks have heads.
  What kind of scary ass clowns came to your birthday?
  
  I came here to pee but I'll hold it in to spend some time in the head-in-some-boobs room.
  
  yeah but then where penis?
- It could be interpreted as number of major orifices a person has not including eurethra.
  
  possibly, but that would be way too complicated for signage like this, it seems like this is actually just stall numbering inside of a gendered bathroom as per another post in the thread though.
  
  Let's see 2 nostrils...2 ears...mouth.. oh shit
- That's exactly how I interpret it.

I wanna go into the 3 ball bathroom to see all the dudes with 3 balls.
- And the chicks with 3 boobs

Indicates how many seashells were installed in each room.

Two is for couples, three is for threesomes.
Not pictured is the single circle which has a glory hole.
- https://youtu.be/avb1XbO0EIs
  
  That skit is certified gold.

Very self explanatory its for how many CANS OF BEANS YOU HAVE.
PISS EVERYWHERE WITH BEANS
MWHAHAHAHHA
- This made me laugh so hard I reverse aged six weeks
  
  I read your username, thats a fucking funny username.
  Glad you enjoyed my shitposting :P

Men, who have 2 testes go left, while women who have 3 testes go right. Wait...

I can't read these runes. Life sense, roll for initiative.

Number of holes beneath the waist.
- Ok so the pilodonal sinus count too? Cause then they need to increase the amount of circles lol
  
  TIHI. New fear unlocked.
- One. One is the answer, so we're all fucked. Unless you're including cavities. (Isn't topology fun?)
  
  What is the strict topological definition of a hole?

They are already in the bathroom...
- I think it's one of those places where the sink is outside, and the mystery hole is behind the doors.
  
  Why even gender it at that point
  
  That's kind of disgusting, especially for a door that opens inward. Ew.

3 coins is more than 2, so it's for men.
Cause they earn more.
- No, it's for women because pink tax.

Men have two holes, woman three. I assume it is that dumb.
- Wait until they learn about the urethra... And nostrils... And ears... And the millions of pores on our skin...
  
  Wait til you hear that eye of newt is just mustard seeds.

Two circles: Toilet and sink.
Three Circles: Toilet, sink, and urinal.
- If this is it, I never would have in a million years guessed it

I assume the left is two nuts. The right is a head over two boobs.
Stupidly cryptic, though.
- Oh man I thought left was boobs and right was dick and balls.
  
  one brother lies... the other one tells the truth(they both can lie)
  
  Yeah, could be that too.
  
  that's what I thought. which is why the whole thing is dumb. just have the fucking stick figures you don't need to be cute with the restrooms.
- I was thinking "Men have 2 holes, women have 3."
  
  Men have knobs. Women have fannies.

The three shells (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7nFEnFtvCM)
- Haha! I can't believe they don't know about the 3 shells. How silly!
- THE THREE SEASHELLS
  Yeah that was my thought as well when I saw that

Maybe it’s points of contact?
Two feet for the urinal.
Two feet and a seat for the toilet?
- There is another...
  
  I laughed and it made the sound “rofl”
- spoken as someone who never used an urinal while drunk and so resting your head on the wall to steady up
  
  One of the student pubs I used to go to during uni had padding on the wall for this exact purpose 😁
- Points for creativity, that's for sure
- That's probably it. I was going to go with a view from the floor looking up.

The one on the right are for users of these
- And the left is for bicyclists?
  
  That would make sense, yes, let's go with that.
- Yeah, so im gonna need three of these.

I have 0 respect for gendered toilets and will just go in one if it's not a super active place like a mall or an airport.
- i tried this once and oh man the womans restroom smelled so rancid i could never go back. it was traumatic
  
  When I was in high school I walked into the girls restroom. I was a total idiot. I was like, “oh wow, they took out the urinals and painted the walls. Gee, that was fast.”
  As I was pissing it occurred to me, “oh no. What if this is the girl’s room.”
  As I walked out a girl was walking in and called me a pervert.
  
  I accidentally walked into a woman's bathroom. Immediately was hit by the blood smell. Confused, I did my business and washed my hands.
  Then a woman walked in and I realized where I was.

IMO:
They're gender-neutral. The two and three on the door are so that people can be told which one needs work.
- This is the obvious answer to me. And door "one" just isn't pictured.
  
  Also of interest, door 3 has no handle, but maybe an occupied medallion.
  the close faucet is casting two shadows, while the far sink is casting one.
  The 3 is well to the right fo the door while the 2 is mostly centered.
  While not conclusive, these are red flags for AI.
  
  One google image search later....

There’s a bar on the beach town near me that uses “lobsters” and “crabs” as it’s bathroom door identifiers.
- Does everyone eventually end up using the crabs bathroom?
  
  I mean it’s sylvan lake so. Yeah probably.
- My immediate assumption is that lobsters are for dudes, but I'm not sure why. I guess because they look taller and less curvy?
- Everybody knows that women transmit crabs, and guys are grabby like a lobster. /s
- Do you know which one is which yet?
  
  Crabs is women lobsters is men. I don’t know why. I saw a stand up bit that was similar to that and often wondered if they got it from there or if it’s like a franchise thing. The bartender said he had no idea.
  The crab had a skirt on and the lobster had a suit and bow tie on. So that tipped you off I guess haha

On first visit, I'd secretly try to check where the urinals are. In second visit, I would do that process again because who the fuck is meant to remember what that circles want to express??

it looks like youre already in a bathroom

2 bowls per stall vs 3 bowls per stall. Depends on the size of your friend group.

Binary and trinary

If it's biology based, women have 3 and men 2, but straight line would make more sense. But that is only a guess and who knows what the symbols are actually based on.
- holes... ok.
  I was gonna say the 3 balls is below view of penis and balls. While 2 balls are boobies.

The left one is easy, it's boobs. Which means you're allowed if you have man boobs.
The other one is for people with 3 nipples.

- My vision is augmented 😎

I'm going to the one that looks most like an SCP logo.
- Then you got 3 holes.
  
  I just checked. No, but if I'm wrong, I certainly will have.
  
  Most of us have at least seven, not counting pores.

Choose the door that looks the most like the sweaty imprint your groin leaves on the bench

3 circles doesn't seem to have a handle, so easy choice.

There's a sink. Problem solved.

Which ever one has the couches man, we need the couches.
- JD? dat u?
  
  shit, how did i add lemmy on signal?????

Maybe this is a lesson and it doesn't matter what bathrooms we use?

If some circles on a door prevent you from opening one and peeking inside to check for urinals, you should never have left your house to begin with.
- Who peeks into bathrooms? Found the alpha😤🐺
  
  Just shit in the sink to establish dominance