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It's weird that a room with just a toilet and sink is called a "half bath", when it in fact has zero bathtubs.

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Submitted ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨pruwybn@discuss.tchncs.de⁩ to ⁨showerthoughts@lemmy.world⁩

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  • Thorry84@feddit.nl ⁨2⁩ ⁨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

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    • thefartographer@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Which is what makes it all that much more satisfying when the next person goes in

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  • mp3@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Never heard “half bath”, and I always called those washrooms.

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    • spankmonkey@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨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…

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      • Ledivin@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨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”

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      • kSPvhmTOlwvMd7Y7E@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨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 !

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      • jewbacca117@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Imagine getting a half bath but only the back half so you don’t even get a faucet

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    • JackFrostNCola@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Commonly called called a ‘powder room’ in australia.

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      • NielsBohron@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        or “water closet” in the UK

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      • sowitzer@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨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.

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      • Walk_blesseD@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Maybe it’s a class difference thing but I’ve more commonly heard it referred to as “the shitter,” “dunny,” or “toilet.”

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      • possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Powder room is where you store amino.

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    • FlexibleToast@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨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”.

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      • Steve@startrek.website ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Or 5 powder rooms and zero bathtubs

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      • sowitzer@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨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.

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    • CidVicious@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Real estate term.

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  • Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    You can bathe half your body in the sink and the other half in the toilet.

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    • psoul@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨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.

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    • possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      And now I’m going to touch grass

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      • Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Don’t forget to bathe after!

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    • fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Bidet ftw.

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  • kitnaht@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Bath doesn’t refer to the tub, it refers to bathing. You can ‘sink bathe’ with a rag and running sink water.

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    • TomAwsm@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yeah, a “full” bathroom with just a shower also has zero bathtubs.

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  • samus12345@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The real weirdness originates from any room with a toilet being called a bathroom despite many not having bathtubs.

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    • kevincox@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨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.)

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  • blackn1ght@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    We’d just call that room “the toilet”

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  • Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    At that point you’re halfway to having a standard bathroom, so it makes sense to me.

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  • ThomasCrappersGhost@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    We call it a trap, khazi, bog, privy, WC, toilet…don’t think I’ve heard “half bath”.

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  • gedaliyah@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Showerthought: You could technically have a three-bath house with zero showers or bathtubs, just six little sinks all over.

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  • Marty_TF@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    in german that room is just called “das kloo” (the toilet)

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    • SoGrumpy@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      *Klo

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      • Marty_TF@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        thx, fixed the typo, dam phone keyboards being so small

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  • CrazyLikeGollum@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    True, we should call it the “shit 'n rinse.”

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    • Dasus@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Excuse, where’s the shitrinse located at?

      Would you mind if I used your shitrinse?

      Yeah I think it works.

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  • possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨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.

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    • CidVicious@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It’s a euphemism. “Water closet” is another old fashioned word for a bathroom.

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  • TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨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.

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  • 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.

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  • SolidShake@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    You’re right. It should be called a 2/3 bath instead.

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  • 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.

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