Brushing teeth in public bathrooms is common in Brazil, especially those of an office.
To be fair, yall don’t have fluoride in the water so you need to brush more often. (This is aimed at the Americans commenting)
That explains why a former coworker of mine, who is from Brazil, brushes his teeth at the bathrooms after lunch at work. I thought he must have had some special reason, but I never asked because I figured it would be too much of a personal question when we weren’t that close.
It’s funny. In America you never see it. I brush in the bathroom at work after lunch and everyone looks at me like I’m a mental patient. Like where else am I supposed to brush after lunch? Do people just not brush their teeth after every meal?
Do people just not brush their teeth after every meal?
In the USA the norm is morning and evening. Twice a day. Only at home.
Across my life in corporate America, I’ve seen a few people doing it after lunch, but it’s very rare.
I bet Diogenes would pay the senate to let him live in an airport.
Why would the Cynic pay for something, especially to the Senate?
It’s a reference to the time Diogenes payed the senate to be able to live in a Market.
Drinking before 6AM? LOL
There are already people bellied up to the bar as soon as it opens in airports.
I ordered a bloody Mary at an airport in Florida and the bartender looked at me, indignant, and said “sir, it is ILLEGAL to serve alcohol before 8am in this county.”
Bro, you are the one peddling addictive substances in an airport. Get off my case. For me it was midnight a few hours ago.
TX had similar bullshit (nothing until 11) when I was there working overnights. It’s my 8pm. I’ve been up keeping patients alive all night. Make my drink.
But it’s always before 8AM! What’s his imaginary cut off time where the previous night ends and the new day begins?
In the places I’ve lived (all US), no businesses could sell alcohol between the hours of 2am and 6am, and some alcohol licenses have even more limited hours. I’m pretty sure I overheard a cashier at the Target near my parents’ place telling a customer that they couldn’t sell alcohol until 8a, and I believe I’ve encountered some alcohol licenses with a cutoff as early as 10p.
I hear that some regions don’t allow alcohol sales at all on Sundays, but luckily I’ve never lived in any of those places.Ah yes, substance abuse is cured in the land of the free :D
That describes pretty much my Monday
You mean it’s NOT common practice to do all these things at Wal-Mart??
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Having complete strangers photograph your underwear and then feel it for good measure. Espresso martini. Saying “I flew in from St Louis and BOY ARE MY ARMS TIRED”.
I don’t know what it is, but aside from the side effects of nicotine addiction and access problems in these spaces(which, whatever, I get it), transportation hubs (airports, train stations, ferry terminals, etc.) are my favourite places to be.
public transport in general is just nice because you’re around other people, the idea of sitting isolated in a car for hours on a highway fills me with primordial dread
I have it the oposite way :( Especially the airports, they pressent themselves as this beautiful, clean location for happy traveling people. In reality it looks more like in the picture, people beeing on the edge of collapse, exhausted, living like shit
I’ve always felt like they just present themselves as transportation hubs and that’s it. They’re often very utilitarian and full of signage and whatnot. Remind me of other transport terminals.
Those little white nicotine pouches have solved my nicotine access issues while flying. I still hate that most airports completely did away with smoking areas though. I don’t smoke, but I vape. It’s pretty fucked up to put someone into an area that takes 4 hours to get into, and then not provide an area for their basic needs. Yes, I know nicotine isn’t an actual need, but it’s an addiction, and it feels like a need when you’re addicted.
Snuss. I’m about to board a plane in 14 hours and I have several cans ready. I’m a vaper too.
I prefer the white pouches because they don’t require spitting, and they don’t mess up your teeth. But I used to use the snus back when I was a smoker, before these little pouches popped up everywhere.
Snus, at least in the USA, is those white pouches that you don’t have to spit. The ones you spit are called Dip. The ones where you spit a gallon are called Chew.
I was thinking “snuff”, even though you and I both said “snus”. Thanks for clarifying. Now I know what those white packets are called. My friends and I have always used “chew” and “snuff” interchangeably and for the stuff where you spit a gallon we’ve called it either leaf, or loose leaf chew.
Ah, I remember snuff. I don’t dip too often but when I do it’s coperhagen long cut. Bought that Copenhagen snuff by mistake like 20 years ago and I think I still have it in my teeth. I genuinely do not know why anyone uses that stuff.
Snuff used to be named for the stuff people used to use (like Napoleon) and they would snort it. Lots of elegant Snuff boxes out there.
I found a jar of that once in a little convenience shop way up in the Sierra Nevada mountains. It was made by Levi Garrett & Sons, was in a brown jar, had an old timey label on it, and a cork in the top. For years afterwards my friends and I would pull it out when we got drunk enough and snort it. It was crazy strong. It would mess you up real good. Idk what ever happened to it. It kind of just vanished without me noticing.
Edit: “I think I still have it in my teeth” lol. Isn’t that the truth? I preferred the long cut too. But my friends who were “real men” all preferred the short cut because I guess it proves you’re a badass.
As a frequent flyer with lounge access I tend to agree. When I want to be alone with a movie or something, I can be, and when I feel like having a (free!) beer where the people are, I can do that too.
I liked to think that I was a frequent flyer but the bar is set so high. I flew twice a week, every week, for nearly a year straight at my job. Only made it up to Delta Gold status recently and I can’t even access the lounge.
I already spent nearly a year of my life living in a hotel and I’m not even in the top tiers of the travel world.
I don’t know about Delta (never flown with them), but with my usual airlines it’s not just the frequency, but also distance and ticket type.
Yeah I was flying domestic 600 mile (965 km) flights across the country in main cabin sardine class so I probably wasn’t racking up miles that well.
You don’t spend enough. Try being rich next time.
Fuck that lol
That’s the spirit!
Airline status is a joke these days. If you don’t have their credit card it’s basically impossible.
I’m so angry Delta removed lounge access from Amex Platinum card holders.
Enshitified!
Are airports as a whole liminal spaces?
Flying into small fields in a small plane can be an interesting experience; some are actually quite busy, they’ll either have a popular mechanic shop on the field, a busy local flight school, or it’s a destination for business jet travel because of a local golf course or something. Others are almost abandoned, which can be an interesting experience to visit.
Yes. Especially the bits that connect multiple concourses on foot.
An airport fits the definition pretty well
unless you’re a staff member
Yes.
But one can be a bit more specific and think of their long corridors as liminal spaces, but the cafés and stores in them as not. I flu a few times per year out of the same airport, and typically wait in the same café for over one hour. I use this time to rest a bit before getting on the flight and eat something, and it doesn’t feel liminal at all.
Awfully lot like Indian railway stations
2, 3, and 4, sure, but 1, 5, and 6 are common in many non-airport locations
1 for short-haul and 6 for layover longhaul. Or being in an airport that weirdly doesn’t have public transport early morning but has early flights.
No excuse for 5. Society is degrading.
I don’t think it’s common to sleep on the floor in public. Even those who do are typically homeless and many don’t think that’s socially acceptable.
What is this, a festival starter pack?
Or LAN party
There’s public bathrooms at your festivals?
That’s what the water bottle is for.
I am fully on board with brushing your teeth in a public restroom. That is perfectly acceptable behavior.
Unless you leave toothpaste in the sink, in which case you’re a monster!
That’s just people that do the same thing no matter where they are.
Since when are we not brushing our teeth in public bathrooms? Hell they’ve even got outlets so that you can shave!
That’s like, the least weird thing I pull in public bathrooms.
please don’t shave into sinks, that’s how you create horrible clogs
just shave onto the sink and gather it up with a tissue paper and toss it in the trash can
Yeah I’m thinking like a daily shave, like just to get stubble, not like clipping any real amount of length. That’s closer to a haircut lol
Mine has free water fountains but yeah…
Seen all of this at every college I’ve been to
