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The only room you lock to be alone with your phone.
means A room containing a toilet, sink, and usually a bath or shower, used for washing and other personal needs.
from A transparent compound of "bath" plus "room." "Bath" descends from Old English bæth, sharing deep Germanic roots with German Bad and the ancestor of the verb "to bathe." Originally a bathroom literally housed a bath — but in American English especially, the word politely drifted to cover any room with a toilet, even one with no tub in sight, making it a kind of euphemism hiding in plain sight.
- hand washing
- Routine handwashing only caught on around the 1850s
- reading spot
- Average person spends three years of life here
- royal toilet
- Tudor kings had a paid Groom of the Stool
- shower thoughts
- Warm water releases dopamine, sparking sudden ideas
- germ myth
- Phones carry far more bacteria than seats
bagno di san filippo — natural hot spring bathroom in tuscany, italy where visitors bathe in travertine pools formed by thermal waters
skibbereen eagle bathroom — the famous outhouse in county cork, ireland where the 1898 newspaper editorial was written about watching the russian bear