Never heard “half bath”, and I always called those washrooms.
It's weird that a room with just a toilet and sink is called a "half bath", when it in fact has zero bathtubs.
Submitted 3 months ago by pruwybn@discuss.tchncs.de to showerthoughts@lemmy.world
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mp3@lemmy.ca 3 months ago
spankmonkey@lemmy.world 3 months ago
It is common in the US, frequently they will be listed as 2 & 1/2 baths if they have two with tubs and one without.
Haven’t paid enough attention to know how they list multiple 1/2 baths but pretty sure they don’t add up like regular fractions…
Ledivin@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Haven’t paid enough attention to know how they list multiple 1/2 baths but pretty sure they don’t add up like regular fractions…
They’d either list them separately or as a whole and then clarify. E.g. "two full- and two half-baths"or something like “four bathrooms - two full”
kSPvhmTOlwvMd7Y7E@lemmy.world 3 months ago
that’s some realtor math. they are known to magically inflate surface before you buy it, and shrink it back once you bought / rented it. Mathematicians can’t explain that !
jewbacca117@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Imagine getting a half bath but only the back half so you don’t even get a faucet
JackFrostNCola@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Commonly called called a ‘powder room’ in australia.
NielsBohron@lemmy.world 3 months ago
or “water closet” in the UK
sowitzer@lemm.ee 3 months ago
I’m in the US and powered room is used in places I’ve lived. But on real estate listings it is common to call it 1/2 bath.
Walk_blesseD@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 months ago
Maybe it’s a class difference thing but I’ve more commonly heard it referred to as “the shitter,” “dunny,” or “toilet.”
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 3 months ago
Powder room is where you store amino.
FlexibleToast@lemmy.world 3 months ago
It’s a way to conveniently talk about the number of bathrooms. You can say a house is “three bedroom, two and a half bath” and you convey that there are two bathrooms and one “washroom”.
Steve@startrek.website 3 months ago
Or 5 powder rooms and zero bathtubs
sowitzer@lemm.ee 3 months ago
What gets confusing are these large homes, or McMansions that list 5 bedrooms and 7 and a half baths. So are they listing 3 powder rooms at 1.5 baths? I can’t afford them, so I only see it online; but that part gets weird. I have seen descriptions that then list full and partial though.
CidVicious@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
Real estate term.
Kolanaki@pawb.social 3 months ago
You can bathe half your body in the sink and the other half in the toilet.
psoul@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Cursed comment, but I’ll add on to it: If you plug the door slit with a towel the whole room becomes your tub.
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 3 months ago
And now I’m going to touch grass
Kolanaki@pawb.social 3 months ago
Don’t forget to bathe after!
fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 3 months ago
Bidet ftw.
kitnaht@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Bath doesn’t refer to the tub, it refers to bathing. You can ‘sink bathe’ with a rag and running sink water.
TomAwsm@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Yeah, a “full” bathroom with just a shower also has zero bathtubs.
samus12345@lemm.ee 3 months ago
The real weirdness originates from any room with a toilet being called a bathroom despite many not having bathtubs.
kevincox@lemmy.ml 3 months ago
Technically if it doesn’t have a bathtub or shower it is called a powder room. But that phrase is rarely used. (Mostly because 90% of the time when we say bathroom we mean toilet.)
blackn1ght@feddit.uk 3 months ago
We’d just call that room “the toilet”
Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 3 months ago
At that point you’re halfway to having a standard bathroom, so it makes sense to me.
ThomasCrappersGhost@feddit.uk 3 months ago
We call it a trap, khazi, bog, privy, WC, toilet…don’t think I’ve heard “half bath”.
gedaliyah@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Showerthought: You could technically have a three-bath house with zero showers or bathtubs, just six little sinks all over.
Marty_TF@lemmy.zip 3 months ago
in german that room is just called “das kloo” (the toilet)
SoGrumpy@lemmy.ml 3 months ago
*Klo
Marty_TF@lemmy.zip 3 months ago
thx, fixed the typo, dam phone keyboards being so small
CrazyLikeGollum@lemmy.world 3 months ago
True, we should call it the “shit 'n rinse.”
Dasus@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Excuse, where’s the shitrinse located at?
Would you mind if I used your shitrinse?
Yeah I think it works.
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 3 months ago
It is half a bathroom
No you don’t get to ask why a bathroom is called a bathroom. It is like questioning the origin of a hot dog.
CidVicious@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
It’s a euphemism. “Water closet” is another old fashioned word for a bathroom.
TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zip 3 months ago
If you chop a bathtub in half and place the parts in different rooms, you can have two half baths. If you bring four such parts in the same room, you’ll get a double bath. Probably still not very good for actually bathing, because a half tubs don’t hold much water.
LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Clearly you’ve never half-bathed in gas station restrooms while hitchhiking cross country. Hint: it doesn’t involve the toilet.
SolidShake@lemmy.world 3 months ago
You’re right. It should be called a 2/3 bath instead.
LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 2 months ago
So is this a good time to bring up Hillary’s email? Cuz I thought merely not using a properly secured server was a super huge deal to conservatives, which many thought was tantamount to treason and that she deserved prison. And I don’t recall that any vital information was ever actually leaked through it.
Thorry84@feddit.nl 3 months ago
On the other hand, if you say you are going to the bathroom, nobody expects you to take a shit in the bathtub
thefartographer@lemm.ee 3 months ago
Which is what makes it all that much more satisfying when the next person goes in