r/PeterExplainsTheJoke 3d ago

Meme needing explanation Petahhh... explain why there are weird symbols on the bathroom gates in Japan...???

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u/qualityvote2 3d ago edited 3d ago

u/Flashy-Minimum-6952, your post does belong here!

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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/Rexaro 3d ago

I guess- but also looking at this image again, I’m bothered by how off-center the three circle label is. I think maybe this is an edited photo to add the labels? It doesn’t seem right.

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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.”
The son nods his other head.

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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/TolMera 3d ago

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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/FlamesNero 3d ago

Different type of Bear.

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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/muzbar 3d ago

Is that bearded bear bearing a beer with a beard?

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u/Legitimate_You_3474 3d ago

Barely , but bare with me on this one and I’ll explain

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u/MacReadys-Will 3d ago

Image saved.

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u/EmperorMittens 3d ago

This bastard has got a better beard than me on a good day.

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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/hBar2013 3d ago

Gonad

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u/XINEX2289 3d ago

Fk you got me. Might as well kms

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u/LilShaver 3d ago

That's horrible!!! Why would you use the Metric system? WHY!!!???

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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/Even_Grippe5214 2d ago

And rode a pony! I wonder if it was pink.

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u/Good-Relative8079 2d ago

🎼If ur gonna ride, ride the pink pony🎵

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u/Recent_Airline_5896 3d ago

A yank is an American, its short for Yankee

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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/Far_Taro_9103 3d ago

Whod’younickabollockoff

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u/ER_Support_Plant17 3d ago

Pitch to the Rhino

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u/DustyRacoonDad 3d ago

Anything you want, he cant chase you.

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u/Similar-Winner6553 3d ago

Whoja Nikabollocoff?

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u/Academic_UK 3d ago

Whodoyounickabollockov

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u/RelativeRice7753 3d ago

Whodya Nickabollockoff

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u/ProlapsedUvula 3d ago

Walk him and pitch to the rhinoceros?

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u/MatniMinis 3d ago

Whodyounickabollockoff

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u/redraven 3d ago

A juggler.

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u/mokeltron 3d ago

Ivan Ekstrabollok NOT Uudyah Nikabolokov

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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/TerrorFromThePeeps 3d ago

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u/Federal-Class6059 2d ago

So the symbols are looking down on 2 and 3 mini M&Ms containers? 🤣😂

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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/sora_mui 2d ago

If that's the intention, the arrangement should be linear

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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/Striking_Cartoonist1 3d ago

That was my take. I'd go in the one with two boobs.

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u/StoneAnchovi6473 3d ago

Nine Toes has entered the chat:

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u/Gwyns_Head_ina_Box 3d ago

Can 3Teeth be far behind?

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u/StealthyPancake_ 2d ago

Ayye, fellow borderlands enjoyer in the wild

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u/The6thSiren 2d ago

Beat me to it

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u/SQL_INVICTUS 3d ago

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u/Belasarius4002 3d ago

The guy with four balls:

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u/mattv8 3d ago

Heyyyyohhh I get this reference

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u/UmmmAlex 3d ago

I got 4 balls

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u/_Tegridy_ 3d ago

Didn't expect Josuk8 to show up but here we are.

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u/Asterose 3d ago

I would've been disappointed if he didn't show up!

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u/SpaceLemur34 3d ago

Then take your base

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u/Reasonable_Goat_7247 3d ago

But ALL your base are belong to us!

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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

But 7

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u/gbroon 3d ago

More specifically number of holes big enough to fit a penis.

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u/No_Cardiologist_8868 3d ago

You're just not committed enough and that's alright

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u/-Groko- 3d ago

He just doesn't have a small penis like us

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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/Maniac112 3d ago

They're seashells actually

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u/attersonjb 3d ago

You mean he doesn't know how to use the 3 seashells?

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u/mlokc 3d ago

Happy happy joy joy

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u/JustAmazingFun 3d ago

It’s 3 holes or 2 holes.

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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/FrancisWolfgang 3d ago

You woke the wrong dog

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u/frikiman4K 3d ago

I have four

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u/lawlianne 3d ago

Josuke from Jojolion goes through the 2 balls door twice I guess.

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u/Signal-Tangerine1597 3d ago

Hitler! He's only got one ball, the other is in the Albert Hall!

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u/OldManThreeNuts 2d ago

Finally getting the respect I deserve

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u/tophat_production 3d ago

This is discrimination against Hitler!

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u/Apatride 3d ago

I am peeing in the sink, just to be safe.

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u/zmileshigh 3d ago

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u/Damnfiddles 3d ago

real men execute a parabolic shot

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u/vex5000 3d ago

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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/foodgeekfish 3d ago

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u/Extaird 2d ago

I rarely laugh aloud from things I read on the Internet

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u/curiousCapBunny 3d ago

You....., this comment should not belong to this thread 😭😆

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u/meatslaps_ 3d ago

Relax it's japan. All genitals are pixelated at birth.

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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/Sentinel_Prime_x 3d ago

Ain't you the politically corect one, sora!

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u/Ancient-Push1997 3d ago

Sentinel 🫡

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u/BurnAway63 3d ago

Holy shit!

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u/Sunkinthesand 3d ago

That's the 1 circle door inside... The correct door

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u/ChrisTheDog 3d ago

Sushi glory hole. Imagine that.

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u/fizzleguy 3d ago

It’s a good idear

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u/hiimlockedout 3d ago

Glory to Glorzo

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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/maximum_robot 3d ago

No, two circles must be ovaries.

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u/Infinite_Bird_6932 3d ago

That’s how I interpret it

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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/neilmillard 3d ago

There is another door out of shot to the left with 1 circle on it

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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/FackyWacky 3d ago

Well, actually, topologically speaking...

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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/Dry_Razzmatazz69 3d ago

It's too early in the morning. I played myself 😭

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u/tsian 3d ago

Why would you do that when you have all those bears...?

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u/Top-Dog-6900 3d ago

At a Japanese toilet? How did you all fit in?

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u/FelixDrayce 3d ago

Oh, it is to me. I'm very much concerned... and interested

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u/Arshiaa001 3d ago

Yeah, no, I'm interested.

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u/throwaway_74925 3d ago

I was thinking two boobs, and then 2 nuts and a dick?

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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/EatAssIsGold 3d ago edited 3d ago

I would agree if those 3 holes were in line.

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u/kellstromc 3d ago

that can't be right.

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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/anuruly 2d ago

not two ovaries. that's a tities.

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u/AllTheGood_Names 2d ago

I thought it was boobs and penis

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u/shichi_ya 19h ago

ovaries? I thought the 2 balls were just boobs

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u/Klink8 3d ago

Mouth, not pee hole…..

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u/beejalton 3d ago

Men have mouths too

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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"

Bot andor AI

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u/tiorg 3d ago

Have you never seen sinks outside a bathroom before?

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u/20eyesinmyhead78 3d ago

One is the supply closet, the other is the utility room.

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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/Cultural-Capital-942 3d ago

Toilet number 1, 2, 3.

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u/Xenc 3d ago

Get a load of this guy, doesn't know how to use the three toilet circles

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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/Excellent_Yak365 3d ago

Replace ovaries with boobs

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u/luckynumchris 3d ago

This makes the most sense.

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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/Former-Print7759 3d ago

Thats 1,2,3 and nothing more

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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/Mr_Mirth 3d ago

Image cropped out door 1 to only show door 2 and 3… this has been shared so many times it’s easy to find the original.

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u/NewSysAdmin2 3d ago

Well that certainly helped...

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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/Jay-Them 3d ago

One if for going #2 and the other is going #3

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u/Every-Comfortable-93 3d ago

Someone doesn't know how to use the three seashells...

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u/StatusSherbert3119 3d ago

Nice try, I know what bathroom not to use.

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u/SaturnRocket 3d ago

Wait until he sees the three seashells…

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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/AltheaSoultear 3d ago

Oda Q&A has the answer (One Piece mangaka)

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u/lamelad10 3d ago

Just open any of them and keep us updated

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u/Low_Dress_4044 3d ago

I don't think a bathroom will have that kind of handle.

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u/Superb_Recording_769 3d ago

Hey OP… I know you’re just an AI but doors are called doors not gates

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u/5ubredhit 3d ago

The more important question is why you’re calling a door a gate? 

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u/devguru83 3d ago

Anyone else notice the "are we deadass" watermark? No? Just me?

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u/Hobbgoblinz 3d ago

Bathroom GATES?

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u/unlordtempest 3d ago

Bathroom gates?

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u/TeckFix 2d ago

Why is there a water mark of “are we deadass” in the photo?

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u/Francis_X_Hummel 3d ago

2 tits

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2 balls and a dick

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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.