On the other hand, if you say you are going to the bathroom, nobody expects you to take a shit in the bathtub
Which is what makes it all that much more satisfying when the next person goes in
Never heard “half bath”, and I always called those washrooms.
It is common in the US, frequently they will be listed as 2 & 1/2 baths if they have two with tubs and one without.
Haven’t paid enough attention to know how they list multiple 1/2 baths but pretty sure they don’t add up like regular fractions…
I always found the term 1/2 bath weird.
Haven’t paid enough attention to know how they list multiple 1/2 baths but pretty sure they don’t add up like regular fractions…
They’d either list them separately or as a whole and then clarify. E.g. "two full- and two half-baths"or something like “four bathrooms - two full”
that’s some realtor math. they are known to magically inflate surface before you buy it, and shrink it back once you bought / rented it. Mathematicians can’t explain that !
And a room with a toilet, sink, and shower stall is a 3/4 bath.
Anything to avoid the metric system!
Whatever we call them, it’s always some euphemism hiding the fact tha it’s the pooping room.
Commonly called called a ‘powder room’ in australia.
Real estate term.
You can bathe half your body in the sink and the other half in the toilet.
And now I’m going to touch grass
True, we should call it the “shit 'n rinse.”
Excuse, where’s the shitrinse located at?
Would you mind if I used your shitrinse?
Yeah I think it works.
If you chop a bathtub in half and place the parts in different rooms, you can have two half baths. If you bring four such parts in the same room, you’ll get a double bath. Probably still not very good for actually bathing, because a half tubs don’t hold much water.
And in the UK a “cloakroom” is very rarely a place specifically to hang your cloak…
Showerthought: You could technically have a three-bath house with zero showers or bathtubs, just six little sinks all over.
At that point you’re halfway to having a standard bathroom, so it makes sense to me.
We’d just call that room “the toilet”
You’d be amazed how much bathing some people manage to do with just a sink.
Good news! Most of the world would find that extremely weird (as with calling a room with no baths a bathroom). I think it’s due to the euphemism treadmill.
And if you had half a bathtub, you could as well have no bathtub at all
If it’s fixed to a waterproof wall, it would work. Weird, but work.
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You would have been fine if it was a Boston Whaler.
The real weirdness originates from any room with a toilet being called a bathroom despite many not having bathtubs.
Technically if it doesn’t have a bathtub or shower it is called a powder room. But that phrase is rarely used. (Mostly because 90% of the time when we say bathroom we mean toilet.)
in german that room is just called “das kloo” (the toilet)
*Klo
