“My boyfriend worked at a club for a while. On busy nights, the bathrooms were full of drunk people shitting or hooking up, leaving only the sinks for throwing up. He hated unclogging them. He didn’t work there long.”
When sinks become emergency vomit bowls, no one wins—not staff, not guests, not the plumbing system.
German vomit stations are their way of preventing that chaos. They direct the mess where it can be safely cleaned, rather than letting the entire bathroom fall apart.
But the Most Surprising Comment Was About the Women’s Version
Just when you think it couldn’t get stranger, one commenter claimed that some German women’s bathrooms have:
“An automatic arm that comes out to hold your hair while you throw up.”
Is this real?
Possibly an exaggeration… or possibly not.
Germany is known for taking engineering seriously—even for unusual situations.
And while not every club or event location has one of these futuristic hair-holding devices, the idea itself has become part of the lore surrounding German nightlife: the quirky, hyper-practical solutions that make visitors laugh, then pause, then think, Actually… that’s kind of genius.
Why These Stations Make Sense in German Culture
Once you look deeper, the existence of these “vomit basins” makes perfect sense.
Germany runs on a culture of:
efficiency
cleanliness
planning for real-world scenarios
organized solutions for problems others ignore
Think about it:
If you know a huge beer festival is about to bring tens of thousands of drunk people into the streets, why pretend that nobody will get sick?
Why let them ruin sinks or bathroom stalls?
Why allow chaos to spill into public spaces when you can contain it?
Where other countries would ignore the issue, shame it, or leave the mess to overwhelm bathroom facilities, Germany simply built a dedicated spot for it.
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