Benedict Cumberbatch reads a hilarious open letter to people who don't lock bathroom doors 

@@Waterdancer Public bathroom locks can be very dodgy, depending on the lock, so locked doesn't always mean DEFINITELY locked. You know?

That's a great idea.

Another reason to view Japan as the best country on the planet!

Yeah, I'm Japanese too. Those doors are fully open when unoccupied. But if there are very bold people who don't mind closing doors? 🤣(Unlikely tho)

Interesting.

Clever idea.

*audible gasp*

​@@khunagnes 😅

Hilarious, they weren't sorry and it wasn't ok!!

You must have the same mum as me ! 😂

I am your mom 😂

My grandmother just exited the car and leaned on it as she used the bathroom in a parking lot💀

Every school I ever went to removed the doors in the boys room (don’t know about the girls, never asked)

No door means no need to lock it! No chance that it will jam and not unlock! Absolute freedom and an easy exit when business concludes!

Many locks are broken

@@tigressnsnow you'd be surprised how many are not broken in the netherlands.

I British-yfied this in my mind and now you said "Well, you didn't lock the door, so it's hardy my fault, isn't it?!" in a very British accent. Accurate or not, that's how I subconsciously chose to hear it 😂😂

sounds like you revisit the memory often ;)

Except for "nonchalant"

Except for process and nonchalant. But he eventually seemed to get into a more natural groove.

And the body language! Showing how the character is feeling in his body movements. Great actor

Caught me off-guard.

Love him but it's really not

1. Nail it shut 2. Give him a bucket or a chamber pot 3. Paint the window white or opaque. 4. Show me a man who has commonsense…..they are a rare breed in fact almost extinct 😂

The only saving grace in that situation is that people outside (mostly) aren't looking in.

Private bathrooms are very diffrent than public ones. Don't worry though. People can't see in unless it's dark and the lights are on. I think keeping the bathroom door open at home is a sign of trust. I think trust in a relationship is great. Sorry you find it distasteful.

Same. I just don't get it.

@@beverleypeacock … Leaving the door open could also be a sign of thoughtless narcissism. In this case, the behavior clearly distresses his wife, yet he continues to do it.. I think that closing the bathroom door is a gesture of respect for those who live with you. I guess it all depends on the household.

I’ve accidentally open toilet doors on people but I’ve a tendency to ask people when I meet them “ how you doing” without thinking so imagining the embarrassment when someone has their pants around their ankles.

I knocked on a door once prior to barging in and the occupant shouted "Come back with a warrant!" Made us both laugh.

@@KalliJ13 I love that one 👏

I rarely lock the door because I'm worried it will jam or otherwise not unlock. I like the confidence that I will be able to quickly open the door and leave when my business is finished...

🤢

@Marc Melvin Important historical details - thanks for sharing. You could maybe record some of these daily life experiences on an old ship - they're eye-opening, a bit funny, humbling and very instructive! /My grandfather served in the navy before and during WW2. I've recently been able to connect why my grandparents home toilet was not flushed after a wee. (So the look and smell of their toilet was 'different' for us grandkids. Timber seat, really old china bowl, and an elevated cistern with a metal pull-chain. Quite entertaining 😃) It was the years long habit of saving water, essential onboard a serving vessel.

In Oz, in droughts, we don't flush wee. If it's yellow, let it mellow, if it's brown, flush it down... but did the ship loos use that appallingly wasteful normal US flush, or did they use the Australian/English flush, where the water just tumbles and does not fill the bowl and then empty? That always seems so unclean to me. The excess water carries any loose small matter right up to the top, then recedes, to leave bacteria right up the sides. In the UK/Oz flush, the water tumbles down and pushes everything down the bottom and round the U bend. I don't know why there is not a regulation in the US, now, that makes it a requirement to replace loos with the less wasteful version. Of course for a few decades now, we have the half flush/full flush, for wees and... no 2s. So i think now, you choose a flush of 3 litres or 6 litres. Before that came in, people had started lessening wasted flush water, by putting a brick in the cistern, which must have saved a litre or two, per flush. Or you could fill a 2 litre milk bottle with water and put it in the cistern. In rural areas, in Oz, with no neighbours, in the old days, men would sit on the verandah, and smoke, after dinner. It was the tradition to plant a lemon tree or two, in front of the verandah, for household use, and men were encouraged to just stand on the edge of the balcony, and pee on the lemon trees. Great source of nitrogen, less trouble to walk out the back and down the garden, to the 'outside dunny' (long drop). Or the tin you had to empty, each month! Usually other fruit trees planted around the outside dunny, too. They flourished and kept the little shed cooler.

Sounds almost ancient Roman!

Lots of people close the bathroom door behind them on the way out. Maybe they think it’s icky for others to see inside it when they don’t need it, maybe they are trying to prevent toxic gas from escaping. Either way I’m fine with that but expect the door to be locked if it’s closed and someone’s in there.

@@Sashazur I’ve been told not to strike a match in there when there is “toxic gas” because it can backfire 🤣

I'm 100% on your side! No, I have never knocked on the bathroom door at home! It's the responsibility of the person inside to protect their own privacy.

Or worse asking for a helping hand 🤮

They also drank from lead lined cups. Good times...

Interesting though!

Letter was written by American

Glad someone admits it 👍

@Dan J. Boyd Realised I've done this too, quite aware of my vulnerable position and gambling that no-one else comes in. Sometimes it's a quiet location, past the busy use times. So - door, schmoor - no need. Othertimes, the dimensions of the stall are SO micro, so Japanese - especially if you're attempting to squeeze around the toilet door with a backpack, or suitcase, or bags of shopping. Maybe you're wearing a bulky Winter coat as well. The physics of it all, combined with a pressing need, become too much - and the solution is to keep that entrance wide and open.

It’s not the most convincing Brit’s American accent (that goes to Hugh Laurie) but it is ok because it’s Benedict Cumberbatch.

Oh really it is just a bit of fun. The accent is not the point, it’s called entertainment.

@@Gojoseon Aaaah okay theeeeeyn. Baynendaaayk geyts a Caaahmberpaaahs Go Joseon! (withoowwit the baaaahd bahts of coahrse)

@@CatsandJP Entertainment is very subjective I guess. I shall endeavour to gloss over both the weak-tea and rancid portrayals of real regional speech and instead devote my energy to accepting mirth without listening to the screwed warbled-mewling that is holding me back from the joy you get from it. Taaahnks

@@CatsandJP i will look into this new thing that you call 'entertainment' and relax. Thank you and to your pajamas made of stray cats that you put together on an autumn night as you listened, uncaringly to those poor moggies mewl-bark-hiss-gasp as you mentally and subsequently, physically skinned them to pass the time. Entertainment.