Comments on: The School Bathroom Paradox

By: Everybody

Everybody — Tue, 12 Oct 2010 22:51:32 +0000

“[...] absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth.”

There you go.
You need to read your own fact.

By: jerret

jerret — Fri, 17 Sep 2010 02:05:50 +0000

solution to your paradox: take a roll of tp from another stall and put it in the smelly-good stall that latches.

By: wow

wow — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 18:53:19 +0000

what’s with all these home-school fans?

By: Dogfan

Dogfan — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 01:05:50 +0000

I don’t get it.

By: God

God — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 21:23:24 +0000

this graphic does not illustrate a paradox. FAIL

By: speakforthetrees

speakforthetrees — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 20:14:57 +0000

Agreed. XD

I’d go for the one that doesn’t latch, myself. If you’re ridiculously shy, you can always keep it closed with your foot. =/

By: Starcat

Starcat — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 19:02:03 +0000

I think it’s an annoyance for all humans (any many non-human life forms… Cats are notorious for being a bit picky about where they poo).

Just ahead of guys who stand up to pee in public toilet stalls on my “pet peeves” list: Guys who stand up to pee in public toilet stalls, don’t wipe the seat, and don’t have the gray matter to comprehend that auto-flushing sit-toilets do not not automatically flush if you don’t sit on them. They don’t work by magic, guys!

By: chris

chris — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 06:01:06 +0000

Amy,

No, it is an *annoyance* for woman.

By: Beth

Beth — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 01:36:57 +0000

So true. A third of the bathroom stalls at my college don’t latch, another third do, but pop open as soon as someone opens or closes a nearby stall, and then the remaining third seem to always have pee on the seats! Srsly, people, don’t pee on the good seats!

By: thepsychocat girl

thepsychocat girl — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 00:16:51 +0000

see above w/ alex’s for the same rebuttal

By: thepsychocat girl

thepsychocat girl — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 00:01:40 +0000

if two things are right, one isn’t, and if three things are right, it isn’t possible, even though that’s how it always works

By: Amy

Amy — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 22:30:42 +0000

Alex,

It is a paradox for women. I school bathroom might as well not truly exist unless it has toilet paper, isn’t disgusting and can lock. You don’t understand because you don’t have to sit down to pee.

By: Scythelord

Scythelord — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 22:30:12 +0000

More like you failed to properly read it. It is clear. Three conditions. Two conditions overlapping without one of them states simply the opposite of that third condition. Whereas the presence of the third means there are none within the overlap that do not conform to all three conditions.

Your failure does not bring this diagram down any.

By: Tranztopoleez

Tranztopoleez — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 02:04:27 +0000

You’re just pissed your parents made the decision to send you to school and brainwash you instead of waiting until you were old enough to understand and make the decision yourself.

By: Aby

Aby — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 13:58:55 +0000

Yeah, my bad. Maybe I should have acknowledged that with THE VERY NEXT COMMENT or something, huh?

By: erich

erich — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 11:43:33 +0000

next time you want to think, do it to yourself plzkthx.

this is a terrible venn diagram; your principal will probably think you are equally as retarded.

oh, and UGH! omg!

By: Sigourney

Sigourney — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 04:58:39 +0000

This is perfect, I should send this to my school principal.
I think I will. Maybe I won’t have to hold it for hours and hours just because it’s disgusting, broken, or unusable. UGH!

By: itwasadarkandstormynight

itwasadarkandstormynight — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 22:36:09 +0000

It doesn’t…why are you on this site if you can’t read venn diagrams?

By: Juliet

Juliet — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 20:26:35 +0000

Because after you’re done (and so are they) you walk by the stall and see that it has toilet paper and you can smell that it’s not bad, and of course you know it has a working latch because it wasn’t practically open as you walked by it the first time.

By: Juliet

Juliet — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 20:24:16 +0000

Yet another reason to be thankful I’m homeschooled…

By: will

will — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 19:43:45 +0000

How do you know if it smells bad, has a working latch, and has toilet paper if it’s taken?

By: Are You Mr. Venn?

Are You Mr. Venn? — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 19:36:17 +0000

So I’ve stumbled on a website where seemingly intelligent adults are going to argue about the proper use of the Venn diagram rather than enjoy a bit of lighthearted humor?

Put down the slide rules and pocket protectors, Nerds.

By: mcging

mcging — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 17:22:29 +0000

it seems more of a conundrum to me

By: Humm.

Humm. — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 16:30:28 +0000

It’s probably just me, but doesn’t the “no toilet paper” section seem smaller than the “smells really bad” and “doesn’t latch” sections? Might be intentional too, but at least I’d find it weird if it was so.

By: OVZ

OVZ — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 15:22:50 +0000

home-schooled ??? home-schooled ???!!! …..

Now I know where all the “First Trolls” came from !!!!1111one one one etc.
God Dammit… should have known that…

By: SLC

SLC — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 12:07:13 +0000

Also, the clogged toilets and sometimes someone would take the honor of pooping behind the toilet. Never figured out who that ninja brownie baker was…

By: Starlinguk

Starlinguk — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 10:34:04 +0000

It smells really bad and it doesn’t at the same time? It has toilet paper and it doesn’t have toilet paper at the same time?

Looks more like a case of “I don’t know how venn diagrams work” to me.

By: giovanni

giovanni — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 10:03:19 +0000

Agree. There should be more creativity with those venn diagrams.

By: Aby

Aby — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 09:08:58 +0000

Oh wait – I’m a bit crap. Really shouldn’t post first thing in the morning.

By: Aby

Aby — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 09:06:44 +0000

How, exactly, can “has toilet paper” overlap with “no toilet paper”? That’s either some advanced zen thing or a bit crap.

By: philip

philip — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 08:30:47 +0000

This is actually the exact opposite of a paradox: it’s perfect logic. All things which don’t smell nice smell bad, all things which do not latch don’t latch. all things which do not have toilet paper do not have toilet paper.

The one and only original thought with this graph (as with 80% of venn diagrams with 3 groups on GraphJam) is the thing in the middle – the fact that it’s taken.

And even that makes sense. Except for that it’s just as often not taken in real life.

By: (^.^)

(^.^) — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 08:23:37 +0000

My school bathrooms are all 3 bad sides. They stink, (and the floor often covered in urine or water) The latches don’t work majority of the time, and there is hardly any toilet paper.

By: erich

erich — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 08:09:22 +0000

wow, without the extra labels, i would never have known that areas outside a circle would be the opposite of inside the circle.

By: drive-by commenter

drive-by commenter — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 08:06:09 +0000

I had this problem in Chinese bathrooms with hot water, soap, and a working hand dryer (no paper towels there). You only got two out of the three, if that many.

By: Lisam

Lisam — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 06:20:06 +0000

Do they teach spelling there?

By: Az

Az — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 06:19:41 +0000

The logic in those circles sucks

By: rawrrr

rawrrr — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 03:31:40 +0000

hah u should come to my school… O_o

By: The Eric

The Eric — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 02:05:19 +0000

Only some cases.

By: Nubify

Nubify — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 02:02:12 +0000

They purposely encase the toilet paper, making it un-attainable. Those bastards

By: TheObject

TheObject — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 01:24:57 +0000

We don’t permit thinking outside the box in this school.

By: gow

gow — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 23:51:50 +0000

True Dat

By: gow

gow — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 23:51:29 +0000

aww exactly

By: Emily

Emily — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 23:27:29 +0000

All of the above, and also abandoned underwear, sometimes in the ceiling.

By: abysmal

abysmal — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 22:31:18 +0000

actually, they didnt really use it correctly… or at the least effectively. there is no need to write “smells really bad” “no toilet paper” and “Doesn’t latch”.

By: King D

King D — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 22:03:15 +0000

Do any paradoxes make sense?

By: itwasadarkandstormynight

itwasadarkandstormynight — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 21:54:41 +0000

That’s why you take toilet paper from the one that doesn’t latch and then go in the one that doesn’t have toilet paper.

By: zombie*luver

zombie*luver — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 21:53:00 +0000

u had to worry ’bout poop on the seat at mine…

By: Tingo

Tingo — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 21:44:11 +0000

Wait….if it’s TAKEN by a STUDENT, then what about the student that is taking the bathroom?? This paradox wouldn’t make sense o.o

By: Zoid

Zoid — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 21:12:25 +0000

I can’t remember the last time I had a problem with school bathrooms…

By: Alex

Alex — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 21:10:53 +0000

See above post for this exact same argument.