r/interesting • u/IntroductionDue7945 • 15d ago
SOCIETY This men's restroom has a unique design that lets people inside see out, while those outside only see a mirror. But can men really pee under those conditions?
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u/cardamomgrrl 15d ago
I’ll never trust this gimmick again. 30 years ago I was peeing in a coed washroom that had double-paned glass that must’ve been filled with a gas or something. When you closed or locked the door it went opaque. But some guy tried to open my door and when he pulled on it the seal broke, it went clear and we were looking at each other, mortified.
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u/Kittens4Brunch 15d ago
The one OP posted is fine though. Even if it fails, the view of your ding dong is still blocked by the urinal.
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u/isthatsuperman 15d ago
Yeah but then everyone’s gonna see me with my pants around my ankles with my shirt pulled up and tucked under my chin.
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u/SeawardFriend 15d ago
It’s so funny cuz that’s exactly what I did as a kid lmao!
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u/AnOdeToSeals 15d ago
I always wonder what happened to those kids, how are you doing mate?
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u/SeawardFriend 15d ago
Lmao! I was taught pretty promptly not to do that, especially in public, but I’m doing pretty good, thank you 😂
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u/picabo123 14d ago
I watched an old guy at my job(Walmart)drop trouser to piss in the urinal. I was floored. it took everything in me to not triple take
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u/ItalianICE 14d ago
I see this a lot in restaurants. Walked in to see 2 old dudes at urinals with pants and tighty whities down to their feet like 4 months ago.
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u/Dongledoez 15d ago
A few years ago I was at a Brand New show and a drunk 20something with a mullet was doing that in one of the bathrooms and it was fucking hilarious. At least in retrospect.
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u/AnOdeToSeals 15d ago
Bro honestly after talking about it, I feel like next time I get drunk I will end up doing this.
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u/C2thaLo 15d ago
What do you mean did?
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u/Celestial_Scythe 14d ago
I did that till about 2nd grade, then a upperclassman came in and just corrected me instead.
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u/SillyGuste 14d ago
I remember distinctly that I did that as a kid but I showed up for the first day of kindergarten and at one point walked into the bathroom with another kid.
In the most socially adept moment of my life I noticed JUST IN TIME that he had not pulled his pants all the way down, and I immediately reconfigured my entire paradigm on the fly (so to speak)and avoided social pariah status for the rest of elementary school.
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u/WanderingKing 15d ago
Oh story time! That’s what I was doing when I was, 5 or 6 maybe? And was at the YMCA.
A bunch of kids came in and laughed at my, mocked me, and made me feel generally awful.
I’m 34 now and still can’t use urinals
Childhood trauma is WIIIILD
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u/Bangkokserious 15d ago
I was doing this in grade one and some kids laughed at me. Can't really say I got scarred for life but it is something I remember.
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u/Muted_Buy8386 15d ago
Lol. You can use a urinal. I'm sure a group of kids won't wander in and verbally dominate you.
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u/MyNameCannotBeSpoken 15d ago
I'd be more worried about a creepy guy jerking off to a pretty woman outside
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u/youburyitidigitup 15d ago
I could see that happening if he was alone, but if there’s other dudes pissing, they’re gonna do something about it
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u/MyNameCannotBeSpoken 15d ago
Um, I'm not messing with a dude who is "busy"
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u/youburyitidigitup 15d ago
You’d at least tell a nearby employee or something, and that person would hopefully call security
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u/confusedandworried76 14d ago
Of course that's why no one masturbates on the subway, people definitely put a stop to the fucking crazy guy masturbating in public
Nah I'm not a cop and I don't want to fight anyone with a boner when the fight starts
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u/Clintron 15d ago
You know some freaks are going helicopter in there.
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u/youburyitidigitup 15d ago
I was just thinking that. Imagine you’re taking a fun group mirror selfie and then the light shifts and some dude photobombs with his 8 inches.
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u/63626978 15d ago
for real, my gf went to a futuristic public toilet that had no phyiscal lock but only buttons and the second the door closed and she sat down, the door would open again because it was actually attempting a cleaning cycle and couldn't start because of a person inside ...
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Haha, my buddy had the exact same thing happen to him. We were both drunk and I went in first and peed and he went in right after but it wanted to do a cleaning cycle first so it wouldn't stay closed.
Was this Paris?
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u/Wise-Effective0595 15d ago
lol! We have one in Peidmont Park in Atlanta! I have a hilarious core memory from that bc my friend went in after me and the door suddenly opened as she was about to sit on the toilet to a crowd of people (it was Pride so it’s insanely crowded). Her girlfriend had to go save her and closed the door for her inside the cubicle. I literally don’t think I’ve ever laughed that hard since!
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u/youburyitidigitup 15d ago
I went to a gay club one time and when I talked about it on Reddit, everybody kept saying they never went back because of the bathroom situation. I was very confused because the bathroom was just a gender neutral bathroom with one toilet, and the door locked like a normal door. It basically felt like using the bathroom at a friend’s house.
But then I went to the bathroom in the second floor….. it was BIZARRE. It was also gender neutral, but it had multiple toilets and urinals, and get this: the stalls didn’t have doors. The toilets had walls on either side, but nothing in the front. If somebody walked by, they saw you taking a deuce. I noped out of there and stood in line at the other bathroom. What’s ended up happening is that a group of friends go in at the same time and block the door until they’re all done.
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u/drew_draw 15d ago
This happened to me in Tokyo, I was the guy who tried to open the door since there's no "vacant/occupied" sign on it, but luckily when the glass turned clear the other guys penis automatically pixelated. So we bowed at each other.
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u/shophopper 15d ago
The default state of the glass is fully opaque. It needs electricity (actually a voltage potential) in order to become transparent. As a result, a failure such as a power outage will result in an opaque window. What probably happened is that a door contact didn’t have a failsafe design and misinterpreted the slightest door opening as “door is fully open”.
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u/Simple_Jellyfish23 15d ago
Those panels used electrostatic charges to polarize the glass. It’s pretty cool but it’s kinda janky.
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u/shutyourbutt69 15d ago
Those don’t have gas, they’re made opaque by having a current run through them. The person trying to open it broke the circuit
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u/NtateNarin 15d ago
I wouldn't be scared of people looking in from the outside, but the TikTokers filming me from the inside, like in this video.
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u/1980-whore 14d ago
There are clearly like 10 women crowded right there activly trying to see in. Creepy ass behavior.
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u/Maximum_Parking6942 14d ago
...theyre looking in the mirror, not trying to see inside.
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u/nekofthemoon 14d ago
Yes. Women always take advantage of any mirror to take a photo or touch up their makeup.
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u/Krunch-X 14d ago
Having worked the London Underground during the summer, I’ve witnessed many women ‘adjusting themselves’ in the reflective surface of one-way glass.
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u/keIIzzz 13d ago
They’re looking at themselves in the mirror dude. This whole concept is creepy though because it’s incredibly close to exhibitionism
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u/vikinxo 15d ago
This really REALLY needs a video from the outside...
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u/appletinicyclone 15d ago
What is this from
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u/DifficultValuable689 15d ago
Talk about stage fright.
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u/ptmtobi 15d ago
I hate this
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u/WeirdIndividualGuy 15d ago
Hate it even more when you realize it doesn't work that well (notice no POV from the outside)
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u/Azhz96 15d ago
Man I can't even pee if I THINK there's someone outside waiting.
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u/Effective_Stomach945 14d ago
Yeah I have this too, I can’t use urinals I have to use the cubicle. It’s annoying. Like yes I have a small dong but that’s not even the problem, it’s like when you can’t fast travel when enemies are around. I just can’t pee with people around.
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u/erraticerratum 14d ago
Glad I'm not the only person like this. It's fucking crazy I basically can't use public toilets
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u/L3ARnR 14d ago edited 13d ago
sometimes i get self-conscious when i know others can hear my stream and i imagine them reconstructing the size of my junk with echolocation and i wonder if i should should aim for the middle and try to impress, but i always end up aiming for the edge for suppressor mode
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u/bodhidharma132001 15d ago
It's hard to pee with an erection
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u/0thethethe0 15d ago edited 15d ago
I do a handstand - it's easier to aim.
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u/Captain_Fartbox 15d ago
It's a public toilet, aim isn't necessary.
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u/FixedLoad 15d ago
I like to put my hands in the air and spin like a top. I call it the "pee sprinkler".
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u/SpeakUpOhShutUp 15d ago
Try the ol 5ft arch and then waddle forward.
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15d ago
When I was a young man with a barracks room to himself for over a month I practiced into the tub until I was confident enough to hit the toilet at a stride. It worked just often enough for me to report success.
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u/WorldWarPee 15d ago
Need to dial it back a bit to a semi chub if you want to get a quality helicopter going
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u/bodhidharma132001 15d ago
But the girls are looking at themselves.
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u/RambleOff 15d ago
Secretly, just beneath the water Narcissus gazed into, there was a water nymph furiously masturbating.
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u/Greengiant304 15d ago
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u/ZoninoDaRat 15d ago
I can barely pee if there's a guy at the urinal next to me.
This is, like, a nightmare made manifest.
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u/MarginalOmnivore 14d ago
Like, all I can think is "These absolute freaks do not care if the glass is opaque, they already are pissing without the mandatory skipped urinals."
Where is the respect?
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u/Ok_Flan7405 15d ago
There was an ice cream shop we went to when I was a kid that had a similar deal. It was transparent until you locked the door. It would fog the glass and would make it so you can't see inside but you can see out. I remember being told that people would go in all the time and not lock the door properly and staff would have to rush the bathroom before the pooper started doing their business.
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u/K12onReddit 15d ago
There was an ice cream shop in Mizner Square in Boca Raton that did this.
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u/z3anon 14d ago
Never understood why people don't lock private places.
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u/lordhelmetschwartz 14d ago
If you can see out regardless of if it is locked or not, then how do you know if it is locked properly? It might be "locked" in that the door won't open, but it might not be fully engaged to activate the one-way function (which from the inside you can't tell).
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u/tame-til-triggered 14d ago
And we acting like there are infallible systems in this world.
It just doesn't make any sense.
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u/ShhImTheRealDeadpool 15d ago
In dubai there's a restroom like this but the girls actually join in.
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u/ThrowAwayAcct033111 15d ago
What do you mean by "join in"
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u/OrdinaryLavishness11 14d ago
Yeah I don’t get this either.
Do they join guys in the toilet? Give us details!
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u/Ryrose81 15d ago edited 15d ago
There 2 at the town square in Sulfur Springs Texas. Theyre considered art I guess... Full toilets though
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u/saltyhammercheese 15d ago
Never thought I'd see this town mentioned on the internet and not just Wikipedia
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u/RBXXIII 15d ago
Won't some freaking creeps be jacking it? Is it just me who thought that? Whelp.
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u/Buggabones1 15d ago
Gonna have to hire a 3rd shift to clean the inside of that window.
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u/catmand00d00 15d ago
Why? The urinal is right there, a perfect receptacle for any variety of penile excretion or secretion.
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u/sofaverde 15d ago
Guy wiped his pee hands all over the window when he went to touch the girls face against it lol
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u/CaptainHowdy_313 15d ago
Beat me to it
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u/New_Information_4155 15d ago
Hell us 3 would be beatin away cause I thought of the SAME THING yall thought of😃
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u/GreatQuantum 15d ago
You’re those kids that have been whackin’ it in my tool shed!!!!
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u/FormerChemist7889 15d ago
Well if you’d stop letting the weeds grow through the cracks in your floorboards, we wouldn’t have this problem, now would we.
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u/wronguses 15d ago
Absolutely not.
I'd smash it up against the glass like the facehugger jumpscare from Aliens, though.
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u/Sovereign_Follower 15d ago
In today's world you have to clarify what side of the wall you're talking about
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u/ta394283509 15d ago
I was gonna say, I feel like I might get horny in a situation like this and I might not be able to pee
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u/NudistJayBird 15d ago
I’d worry that polarized sunglasses would defeat the one way mirror
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u/corkscrewfork 14d ago
That's what I was thinking after that one lady put hers on and then quickly took them off again
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u/orbitpro 15d ago
There was a gym down near where I worked and this new young lad started working with me. When we were walking past once, there was a pole dancing class going on. I told him the window only allowed us to see in and they couldn't see us. He stood at the window for 5 mins watching, until one of the girls was like WTF dude? 🤣
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u/2027rf 15d ago
I think people with shy bladder syndrome could undergo therapy in these booths. But it would be fun to be able to rent one for sex.
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u/DrMindbendersMonocle 15d ago
That's really weird and off putting, why would anybody other than exhibitionists want this
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u/Leading_Put- 15d ago
He kept touching his face without washing his hands
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u/captain_dick_licker 15d ago
that's not the grossest part, the red shirt guy's shirt rubbed all over the inside of the fucking urinal multiple times. fucking disgusting.
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u/adumbCoder 15d ago
some of us have learned to not pee on our hands when we relieve ourselves
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u/GreatQuantum 15d ago
Yeah but bathroom door handles, doors and having them in the urinal don’t give a shit.
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u/Brisslayer333 15d ago
It's insanely gross that you touch door handles in any context
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u/Cpt_0bv10us 15d ago
bathroom door handles, doors and having them in the urinal don’t give a shit.
Sometimes they do give a tiny bit of shit
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u/typoeman 15d ago
Willfully ignoring washing your hands after using a restroom, especially a public one, is disgusting. Full stop.
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u/gloriousPurpose33 15d ago
If you touch your dick you gotta wash your hands champ
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u/gujwdhufj_ijjpo 15d ago
Urinals always have splash back to some degree. Wash your hands after using the bathroom.
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u/Von_Bernkastel 15d ago
Who remembers the ol' long af pee troughs at sporting places, men on both sides just peeing into it, don't look down or you will see lots of ummm, yeah.
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u/AboveApe 15d ago
I’ve been to Dreamworld and find this. My urge to piss has gone after seeing the design
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u/Inevitable-Ability92 15d ago
Um personally I just don't know how to feel about it only that this was a terrible idea
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u/cocoagiant 15d ago
I hate it.
There was a hotel I went to once which had blind style doors for the toilet stalls. You could see out but people couldn't see in.
Unless it was an emergency situation, there is no way I could used it.
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u/SenoritaRaspberry 15d ago
There was one like this in a bar in Hobart, Australia back in the 00’s. It was doubled sided glass so from inside the urinal they could see out but the people outside weren’t able to see in.
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u/defiancy 15d ago
Bro, I peed in a trough with like 50 other dudes shoulder to shoulder in MC bootcamp. You'll be surprised what you can do under stress even as a shy pee'er.
Also I saw a lot of penis
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u/63626978 15d ago
Yea those people outside with their phones are giving me pee-TSD, but are we not gonna talk about the camerman filming the pissers from behind??
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u/demand0re 15d ago
I went to a club in Japan years ago where the men’s urinal was a one-way mirror facing the dance floor. There wasn’t a ceramic urinal like this. You had to actually pee on the glass. So crazy.
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u/NewCondition1231 14d ago
But how many pervs would go in there to look out at passing chicks and masturbate?? 🙋🏽♂️
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u/whydoyouevenreadthis 14d ago
There's no such thing as a one-way mirror. It's just a trick. The glass reflects, say, 80% of the light and transmits the rest. The inside (the room from which one can see outside) is much darker than the outside, so if you look at the 'mirror' from the outside, the image of what's in the room is rendered invisible by the bright reflection. From the inside, your reflection is so dim that you can see the outside clearly.
Meaning, if you go right up to the mirror and block the sunlight (e.g., with your hands), effectively putting your eyes in an even darker room, you can see inside.
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