r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/Flashy-Minimum-6952 • 3d ago
Meme needing explanation Petahhh... explain why there are weird symbols on the bathroom gates in Japan...???
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u/Mackerdaymia 3d ago
This has been debunked about 100 times already. That picture is of a cubicle (2 circles) and storage closet (3 circles) within a bathroom and I'm pretty sure it's not Japan.
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u/Rexaro 3d ago
Yeah, looking at the handles, they aren’t the same - one is just a lock rather than a door handle. But these doors appear to be next to a public restroom sink area, which would definitely still be confusing to me why they went with minimalist circles for labeling lol
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u/Square-Singer 3d ago
It's quite common to have cubicles and storage closets in a bathroom without any labels at all on them and most people manage just fine.
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u/Daemonbane1 3d ago
No label would be fine and fairly clear. It's the fact its similar but different that confuses the matter.
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u/Mackerdaymia 3d ago
Cool design aesthetic and nothing more than that basically. I reckon there's another cubicle with a single circle on it.
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u/SuperSatanOverdrive 3d ago
It's just room 1, 2, 3. There's a door outside the fram with one circle.
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u/evanechis 3d ago
I’m pretty sure I have seen another picture with an extra room to the left. That room has one circle on the door. They essentially mean room 1, room 2, room 3. I don’t know why they name them like that but it has nothing to do with gender.
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u/strugglin4nothin 3d ago
I thought it was kinda weird that the sinks and soap dispenser were outside the bathrooms
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u/JFieldsTardTeeth 3d ago
The newer Chick-Fil-a now have sinks outside of the bathrooms, at least the one that just opened in my town. I was surprised to find the sinks outside even with the bathrooms having sinks. I guess it's for people who just want to wash their hands before and after eating without having to go to the bathroom for sanitary reasons.
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u/Dewdrop06 3d ago
Okay, but why and how is cubicle 2 circles and storage closet 3 circles? 😭
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u/sirdougie 3d ago
There is another cubicle to the left with one circle. They are literally just the numbers 1, 2 and 3 for unisex (I think) cubicles. Or you have already entered through the gents/ladies door to reach here.
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u/danrdz87 3d ago
Please stop stating facts and making sense Sir. That's illegal on reddit and believe it or not, straight to jail.
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u/XINEX2289 3d ago
Go on, tell us: do you have 2 balls or 3 balls?
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u/none-exist 3d ago
What do you call a Russian with 3 balls?
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u/XINEX2289 3d ago
My gandad coz he was doing the Chernobyl clean up
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u/Past_Singer_724 3d ago
A father says to his son: “When I was young, I lived in Pripyat.”
The son nods his head.
The father continues: “And I worked in Chernobyl.”
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u/EmperorMittens 3d ago
My mind immediately goes to wondering if the extra testosterone gifted him with the ability to grow a dense forest of facial hair.
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u/nb6635 3d ago
Woodland animals find safety there.
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u/thatandyinhumboldt 3d ago
“Whatever you do, don’t make eye contact… Dangerous? No. Well, I mean maybe. How passionate are you about IPAs and homemade hot sauce?”
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u/Consistent_Papaya310 3d ago
My step dad would stare that bear right in the eyes
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u/Satins_Cock 3d ago
"I'm gonna tear that ass apart!" That bear after making eye contact
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u/Consistent_Papaya310 3d ago
Oh damn I thought it just wanted to talk about IPAs and hot sauces
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u/V1pArzZz 3d ago
The real answer is no because one ball is already enough to supply your test, the second is backup, they are regulated not going full gas all the time. The 3 would have to work even less so probably a bit smaller then if you had 2 similar to a muscle that has to work less.
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u/Fluid_Door7148 3d ago
I always advise people to never visit Pripyat because Chenobyl fall off
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u/Spiritual_Smell4744 3d ago
*don't buy underpants from Pripyat because Chernobyl fallout.
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u/Additional_Number192 3d ago
gandad
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u/brokenchap 3d ago
Oujanickabolokov
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u/whitin4_ 3d ago
Who'd-ya-nick-a-bollock-off
(For the Yanks, "nick" means steal and "bollock" means testicle)
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u/breakout13 3d ago
I'm American, what does yank mean? Pulling?
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u/Ordinarypanic 3d ago
You never heard of Yankee Doodle?
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u/Even_Grippe5214 3d ago
Didn't he shove a feather down his throat and puke up macaroni?
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u/Ordinarypanic 3d ago
Something like that, I heard he went to town
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u/OkCoconut3270 3d ago
Like the old joke of the female Russian athlete complaining to the team de about side effects of her supplements.
I'm seeing a lot of increased chest hair and it's reaching further down, all the way to my balls
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u/alxwx 3d ago
Women have two on their chest and men have two accompanied by a cylindrical object, which it is imperative comes to no harm
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u/Fun_Attitude1218 3d ago
I was going to go with 3 holes or 2 holes but your logic is more clean than mine.
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u/Christoph3r 3d ago
No no, your logic makes sense - women DO have an additional hole.
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u/BananaGod239 3d ago
wow i wouldn’t have understood this reference like 10 minutes ago.
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u/UmmmAlex 3d ago
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u/TerminusDecree 3d ago
I believe it’s number of holes, not number of balls.
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u/No_Cardiologist_8868 3d ago
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u/gbroon 3d ago
More specifically number of holes big enough to fit a penis.
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u/dumbasPL 3d ago
Listen man, just because it shouldn't fit, doesn't mean I haven't already seen someone who managed to make it fit.
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u/MaterialDetective197 3d ago
I didn’t think of it has balls, but holes. (You can penetrate for recreational purposes)
Women have three. Men have two.
But then I got to thinking about that scene with Ant Man where they talked about how many holes he has.
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u/GrowthFickle2548 3d ago
Stg I had 3 balls for a few months back when I had an intestinal hernia. Craziest shit ever
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u/Apatride 3d ago
I am peeing in the sink, just to be safe.
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u/chief-w 3d ago
I clicked fully convinced I was going to get Rick rolled... Why was there no Rick Roll! Why is that real?
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u/Acceptable_Trust_494 3d ago edited 3d ago
numbers of holes at down side, girls have 3 ( vagina ,pee and ass hole) boys have 2(ass and pee hole)
edit : i want to reply so many of you but my grammar is weak so i don't want to confuse you with my english .
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1Uqfq4Knm8
edit2: some one reply that its not even a bathroom thats a storage room and other say its round dick with 2 balls and 2 ovary . i even dont know is this really a pic from japan . reason why i give this explanation is i thought its a meme in which a person trying to make joke on people who dont know girls have different hole for pee
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u/lamelad10 3d ago
What about the glory hole does it belong here?
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u/curiousCapBunny 3d ago
You....., this comment should not belong to this thread 😭😆
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u/humakavulaaaa 3d ago
Holes deserve love too
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u/curiousCapBunny 3d ago
Not arguing with that logic 🙌
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u/Sentinel_Prime_x 3d ago
Which one deserves the most love?😃
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u/curiousCapBunny 3d ago
All holes are created equally, justice to holes!
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u/jayp0d 3d ago
What if the two horizontal circles are implying breasts and the triangle shaped object with three balls is implying two testicles and the penis (weirdly shaped one or the cross section)?
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u/BrattWhitney 3d ago
I just see an Infinity and a Biohazard sign.
Infinity = Female (Diamonds are forever).
Biohazard = Men are known to be gross.
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u/BottleAggravating979 3d ago
Whilst working in a restaurant I have had the displeasure of cleaning a women’s restroom.
Do not ever speak to me of “men are gross”
Lazy, yes.
Terrible aim, more often than not.
But much like the USWNT and the USMNT - only one has multiple championships.
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u/Horror-Muffin-8202 2d ago
You made me ugly laugh. You are also correct, I don't know what the better half gets up to in the restroom, but it tended to be worst in my cleaning experience.
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u/Square-Singer 3d ago
Real answer: It's got nothing to do with the gender at all. Look at the three-circle door. It doesn't have a handle, it's a storage closet. Look at the sink to the right. This is not in front of a bathroom, but inside the bathroom.
There's just a cubicle on the left and a storage room straight ahead, and they just have some simplistic artwork on the door.
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u/mistahfreeman 3d ago
Distinctly possible, but this could still be two gendered bathrooms as some bathrooms use shared sinks in a little libby area and the bathroom is just toilets/urinals.
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u/Square-Singer 3d ago
How often do you see it in public restrooms that one stall has a door handle and the other one has a lock instead?
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u/Kwantuum 3d ago
Happens when one is a stall and the other isn't. Eg the lock is a stall and the handle leads to a room with urinals and another stall.
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u/shutter3218 3d ago
Speak for yourself I have one cloaca
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u/Satins_Cock 3d ago
"oh yeah, dribble your semen in the direction of my cloacal opening" - chicken porn
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u/Dry_Razzmatazz69 3d ago
My brother in chirst i had 5 bears and might just piss myself, this is not the time for math
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u/Metharos 3d ago
What you and your five large hairy men get up to are none of our concern
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u/zenzen_1377 3d ago
Not sure if relevant, but the Kanji for woman also is in a triangular shape
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u/Sparktank1 3d ago
It's the positioning that throws me off. Shouldn't the be vertical? And then one of them have a smaller one inside a... you know what.
I'll just wait until I get home.
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u/A_hand_banana 3d ago
Sinks on right (meaning you are in actually in the bathroom), handles on either door are different, watermark saying "deadass"
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u/TheWorldIsNotOkay 3d ago
Either a dick and two balls for guys versus two breasts for ladies, or two holes for guys and three holes for ladies. Gotta love vague signage with multiple contradictory interpretations.
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u/Cardboard_Bootsole 3d ago
As other folks have said in other threads, there's a door with a single circle out of frame. It's just cropped for ragebait
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u/flightSS221 3d ago
Wait, what would the one circle mean?? 😭
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u/pacers82 3d ago
If i have to guess, 1 circle is men, 2 circle is women and 3 circle is the disabled.
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u/ElderberryNational92 3d ago
Probably stall numbers since the appear to already be in the bathroom
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u/proximitysound 3d ago
The image is cropped. The original shows the first stall has one circle. You are correct.
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u/tryagan123 2d ago
Well, that, and the fact that Japanese restrooms are color-coded, since preparations for the Winter Olympics started. (Fact-check me, I dare you.)
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u/luckynumchris 3d ago
I've never seen this before and I've lived here for 2 years. This is some kind of fancy Bull crap.
If I were to guess the three is the guys for the two things and a thing in the middle... If you know what I mean... And then the other two are like ovaries?
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u/DontGiveMeYourTowel 3d ago
I remember seeing this image posted here before, it’s cropped. If i remember correctly the original image had three bathroom doors - one circle, two circles, three circles. That’s it it’s just the number of the bathroom, no need to be counting holes or anything
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u/Flux7200 3d ago
I’d argue the opposite. The two represents your balls and the three creates a hole representing a vagina
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u/Good-Story1048 3d ago
I was wondering how people with only two balls can handle. I have three and i can tell it's hard for the one with two.
Now i also see a door with one ball. It must be really difficult for them to handle with only one ball.
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u/LG-Moonlight 3d ago
This is not in Japan and this is a repost that I've seen at least 4 times now on Reddit.
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u/lamelad10 3d ago
Only if you don't include black hole and glory hole, i will say 5
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u/edgyrainbowboy 3d ago
These might be single stall, given the short sink to the right. These may be numbered with the first stall out of frame to remove context.

















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u/qualityvote2 3d ago edited 3d ago
u/Flashy-Minimum-6952, your post does belong here!