Explanation: Roman public latrines were, counterintuitively to modern Western cultural norms, places for socialization while you did your, ahem, business. Rather than desperately trying to avoid eye contact with anyone in or out of the latrines, it was common to take a seat next to someone, strike up some conversation; even play a quick game of tic-tac-toe between the seats! The Roman poet Martial even wrote a short poem making fun of a man who was lingering in the public latrines all day - not because of intestinal issues, but because he hoped (not entirely absurdly) to score a dinner invitation (free food!) by making small talk with his fellow shitters!
Isn’t that basically also where "doing your business"comes from? People actually doing networking while there
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Did they plan it ahead of time or did they just all happen to wear green pants that day?
Most of the people I saw today were wearing blue pants
I mean… if everyone gets up and washes their dangling bits at one of those fountains right there in the center… sitting next to some dude pushing a mess does not seem like a big deal.
Hands, you wash your hands in the basins XD
This fact is going to keep me from getting executed when I finally get my Sliders wormhole machine fixed. Thank you :-)
Bonus fact: I almost peed in one of those weird round sinks in the parts department of a Toyota dealership, because I thought it was some kind of community urial.
They aren’t so different from us, as you may be reading this comment while doing your business.
Hi, friend sitting on the toilet.
Romans wearing pants wasn’t acceptable, that’s what the barbarians did.
This only changed in Byzantium, after the Visigoths sacked rome in 476. (https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/trousers-pants-roman-history-banned-trajan)
Changed long before that - legionaries in northern provinces are recorded wearing trousers as early as 69 AD (nice), while over the course of the 3rd century AD trousers had become widespread even in the civilian population.
Why do they have… spoons?
Sponges on sticks! For wiping
