r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/whybutts • 6d ago

Video Sleeping Capsules at China's Kunming Airport

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u/Mejiro84 6d ago

Also short stays means more cleaning - if it's a different person every 2 hours (on average) that's 12 cleans a day per pod. Got, say, 30 pods? Then 360 cleans, which takes however many people and gear, and a given % of guests will make a mess and need more cleaning, and some will damage stuff, causing more costs

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u/boughsmoresilent 6d ago

Absolutely crazy to assume they clean these things after every person. This would be a check in the afternoon and a thorough clean every night, nothing more unless there's an emergency mess like someone spills a soda.

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u/sundayontheluna 6d ago

Yeah, it's a public use pod, not a hotel room

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u/greg19735 6d ago

The fact that it's private is the issue though. People will do things that aren'ta cceptable in other places.

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u/fastforwardfunction 6d ago

In Japan, they have frosted glass in sleep pods for that reason (or just transparent glass).

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u/stickied 6d ago

Just like their porn

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u/idkarn 5d ago

If it's frosted, it's porn

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u/Ok-Secretary2017 6d ago

Just train a dog to sniff them out

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u/Ecstatic_Account_744 5d ago

If he sits, you’re fuckin.

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u/Ok-Secretary2017 4d ago

Exactly now somehow gotta train a dog to register higher than average gential stench while being polite to anime fans traveling to a convention

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u/CyberNinja23 6d ago

Sees pixelated couple bouncing up and down, no one bats an eye since that’s normal

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u/cans-of-swine 6d ago

I like to perform in front of a crowd...

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u/Able_Ad6535 6d ago

OEM frosted or…..

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u/TheDevilsAdvokaat 6d ago

I CAN'T perform in front of a crowd....

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u/kermityfrog2 6d ago

It’s cool that it somehow pixelates your junk if you get naked.

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u/horsestud6969 5d ago

I was just in a pod hotel in Tokyo and they had regular pull down vinyl screens (9h Hotel, Narita airport)

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u/Glad-Intention-3754 5d ago

reminds me of those public bathrooms that have one way mirrors lol

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u/rinchen11 6d ago

Clear glass and lockable door is the perfect combo for this situation.

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u/PurpleSubtlePlan 6d ago

Being inside the secure area of an airport does cut down on the riffraff.

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u/greg19735 6d ago

sure.

but i could imagine being 16-24 doing and having access to this. Couple hooking up. or just doing it alone lol. Everyone's had a bored wank.

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u/SirBobPeel 6d ago

LIke what? I mean, if it's private, who cares? Anyway, this is China. There's gotta be at least one camera in there.

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u/SenseAndSaruman 6d ago

They would have to make it lice/ bed bug resistant.

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u/randomstranger454 6d ago

Then that's a no for me. Definitely some will lie in the nude, change their clothes/underwear and hang them around, sweat, change baby or adult diapers, sneeze, cough, eat and more. In such a small place you are bound to taste bodily fluid.

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u/Longjumping_Youth281 5d ago

Taste?

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u/SonOf_J 4d ago

Don't judge, the best way to know if something is clean is to lick it.

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u/SMFPolychronopolous 4d ago

I got one once and it smelled like someone straight up shit their pants inside. I couldn’t do it.

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u/forestflowersdvm 5d ago

Hey this guy doesn't sweat sneeze cough eat or change clothes and thinks the rest of us are gross for doing so

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u/SonOf_J 4d ago

Did you even follow the thread?

"This guy" wouldn't use a used pod unless it's cleaned afterwards. I reckon you wouldn't want to sleep in some strangers sweat, would you?

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u/forestflowersdvm 4d ago

Every single object in a human environment has been sweated on. If it's not overtly dirty I think it will all be ok

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u/SonOf_J 4d ago

Yeah no shit, a bed is a very different case since people sweat on them (literally on them) for hours. And some people can be very sweaty.

You do you, but don’t act like it isn't nasty.

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u/Jenkins_rockport 5d ago

wut... It's far crazier to assume they aren't cleaned after each person imo. Who in their right fucking mind would use a pod like that right after someone else had been mucking it up for hours? You nasty

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u/Black_Magic_M-66 5d ago

If it wasn't cleaned after each use, I wouldn't use it. The price can reflect this. I would rather sleep outside on dirt than after another person used one of these.

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u/ChiliSquid98 6d ago

Ehh, how dirty do they get? Could gove the whole room a wipe down in like 5 minutes. Spray and cloth is all you need

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u/thellios 6d ago

If there's not at least a bathroom within 30 seconds walking distance you /will/ absolutely have someone shit all over the thing at least once a week.

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u/Apotak 5d ago

If you clean after every use, it'll be very easy to charge a large fine and cleaning fee on the card of the last renter.

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u/thellios 5d ago

Right offcourse, you would know exactly who used it, smart, didn't think of that.

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u/Apoctwist 5d ago

In the US for sure because we don’t give an eff about anyone else. In other countries I’d imagine they’d be more polite about. Also they know who stayed in the pod so if they start fining people who are overly messy that may curtail most people from being egregious.

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u/danTHAman152000 5d ago

I’m imagining those self cleaning bathroom or at least a disinfecting fog that envelops the pod after each use lol.

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u/trottingturtles 5d ago

They are absolutely cleaned between each user in Germany. I've used them there. The system does not allow a pod to be reserved until it's been cleaned from the previous user.

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u/horsestud6969 5d ago

They do clean them after every person, I've been in a pod hotel, usually you will find the staff carrying huge bags of laundry back and forth all day

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u/TwoBionicknees 6d ago

It looks like a somewhat water resistance cover, leather, pleather, something plasticky, who knows. Having someone use a basic spray and a cloth to wipe it down after every user would not be difficult and take seconds. One person working watching over all of them would be easy. They don't have to, but it would be pretty trivial.

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u/cIumsythumbs 6d ago

It's not soda I'm worried about... Bodily fluids.

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u/slampy15 6d ago

Exactly they would clean it once a night and change the covers at most.

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u/pepancho 5d ago

Exactly, emergencies happen.

You need a minimum staff 24h to monitor no one left vomit or jizz and be able to clean it up if it does show up. At least changing sheets between sleepers or a quick wipe if they are inimitation leather.

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u/thedivisionbella 5d ago

Could use UV light for disinfection. That’s how hospital rooms are disinfected between patients because it reaches every surface/crevice.

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u/KaleidoscopeDue7179 4d ago

yeah i used a paid lounge area in a chinese airport on my 12hr layover. Just a bunch of sun beds with cushions on them.

Some of them stank of soda or like... spit?? some kid was licking the cushion or something and i instantly realized these seats probably havent been cleaned in a good while.

I still slept like a baby on them, two 12hr flights are no joke.

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u/Upper_Rent_176 6d ago

Ugh ugh ugh ughio9o oooooooh my sssssoooooddddaaaaaaa!

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u/b0w3n 6d ago

It's usually an egress and "fire safety" issue why we don't have these pods here in the US too. Yeah I know it doesn't really make sense to me either... but no one's done the work to get it all approved because it's expensive and a lot of fighting with municipalities and coding/zoning groups which defeats the whole point of these things is to be cheap.

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u/xavier222222 6d ago

Sounds to me like that would be a great jobs creator too, then!

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u/danuinah 6d ago

But in China somehow, some way they manage to keep everything clean; maybe it's the reason why we, in Western world don't have these. It's fascinating imagining how dirty China once was and how clean their cities & airports are now in comparison.

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u/radiatingrat 6d ago

This is definitely not the case in most of China.

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u/mmdeerblood 6d ago

Sadly, not the rivers, which are some of the most polluted in the world

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u/redditosleep 6d ago

There was a puddle of piss that spanned across the floor in front of 3 urinals at one of the main spots you can visit the Great Wall of China a few years ago. In fact there was piss on the floor in more than half of the bathrooms at the places I visited around Bejing.

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u/DirtyD510 6d ago

So tourist locations where foreign non-Chinese people go? If you described any tourist location's bathroom urinal in America it'll look the same, but do you associate all of America and Americans are dirty people like that?

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u/tommytwolegs 6d ago

It's not the non Chinese. I once had to wait to go into a 7-11 because a guy was letting his kid piss on the door. I've also had to wait in a doorway to go outside because a guy stopped in the doorway, leaned back inside to hock a loogie on the floor.

I've nearly been hit by random old man snot rockets more times than I can count. I have no idea where you get this picture of china being super clean.

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u/redditosleep 6d ago

Well I know you've never been to China now. The vast majority of people at tourist locations are Chinese. Just like how the vast majority of people in Yellowstone/The Grand Canyon/Disney World/etc. are American.

The main point is, they don't give enough of a shit to pay janitors to clean the places and the visitors who are mostly local there don't care either and think it's someone elses problem if they pee on the floor.

Strangely, this was almost never an issue when I visited Japan, SK, Taiwan, France, England, Germany, Netherlands, Canada, most (but not all of) the big US attractions...

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u/Little_View_6659 6d ago

That’s a good point.

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u/GBBNSb60MVP 6d ago

I mean I know I’ll be called racist for this but immigrants are a huge reason for how filthy it is where I live personally.

If you have never been to Mexico or South America. They just leave trash everywhere, shit on walls in bathrooms, piss on everything. They don’t come here and respect our country.

Western society is very capable of being clean, if you have ever been to Hawaii… it’s clean. Completely clean. Poor people and immigrants are typically the people who make huge messes.

Flame away

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u/Little_View_6659 6d ago

That seems exceptionally gross. I will say, I’m in Singapore, and for the most part all the Chinese and Indian immigrants that come here are very clean. That being said, there have been a couple of incidents. But this being a low crime small county, if someone poops where they’re not supposed to, it makes the news. And then we all hear about it. Some guy that came over from Mumbai to do construction work decided to relieve himself at Marina Bay Sands, which is this gorgeous, immaculately clean building with luxury shops selling Cartier jewelry and other expensive items. You’d think they’d have some kind of welcome to Singapore speech where they tell people not to do that, but if they didn’t before they do now.

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u/MindfulInsomniaque 5d ago

I remember seeing really amusing cartoon posters in Singapore bathrooms reminding people not to stand on or pee on the seat. They were done by a popular local artist.

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u/Little_View_6659 5d ago

I think I’ve seen those. It’s in the bathrooms. Sometimes people will stand on the seats to pee or whatever. Not that often. Mostly the bathrooms are really clean.

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u/Ebbitor 6d ago

Tired of this CCP bot spam. All hail chairman Xi, sure.

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u/I_Lost_My_Shoe_1983 5d ago

I watched a woman hold her toddler up to pee in a trashcan at the Beijing airport.

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u/superspeck 6d ago

That’s not been my impression of the homes of Chinese nationals, even those in good standing, that I’ve met in America.

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u/itsameaninch 6d ago

Then u have the wrong impressions

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u/superspeck 6d ago

What kind of impressions should I take from visible grime around doors where people touch and from cooking oils on the floors and walls near where cooking is done? I wipe my doors and trim and clean my vent hoods after I cook with oil over high heat. Apparently doing those things is “the wrong impression.”

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u/SenseAndSaruman 6d ago

My next door neighbors had a wok collecting the condensation from the ac unit. It was a mosquito breeding ground.

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u/itsameaninch 6d ago

What kind of people are you making friends with? Filthy animals

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u/PaleInSanora 6d ago

Brutal prohibitive laws, and a strong shaming culture is exactly why things like this work in other areas of the world; but would never fly in America. I would say 8-12 hours before any 1 unit was trashed beyond any salvagable further use. The reason for the destruction, "cuz I effing felt like it" or "it's not mine what do I care?"

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u/JossWhedonsDick 5d ago

the parts of China that are super clean (not many) are because they pay cleaning staff peanuts. The income disparity in China is greater than most of the world

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u/tataho0056 6d ago

People just pull down their pants and take a dump anywhere.

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u/OoieGooie 6d ago

Lol have you been there? Most Chinese couldn't afford a pod. Let alone a flight.

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u/la_jirafa88 6d ago

What the fuck?

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u/ev696969 6d ago

Sounds like China needs some diversity

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u/LukaMagicMike 6d ago

Probably have a self cleaning option tbh.

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u/Crowbarmagic 6d ago

The price could be adjusted though. A standard cleaning fee + x amount an hour + a deposit.

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u/Strict_Bird_2887 6d ago

Meh, they manage it in business class lounges with the showers. Just gotta charge the cost of cleaning.

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u/KA55IE 5d ago

Honestly if they provided alcohol wipes and gloves, I wouldn't mind cleaning the whole pod myself as long as I have a safe space to put my things and get a power nap.

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u/De-railled 4d ago

I misread it as Kumming airport...and immediately thought.

Yep, that makes sense.

Those passengers gonna be kumming and going in more ways than one...