Public Toilets

It is time they moved on. They go in pairs anyway.

Soon it will have to be as these days men are woman, woman are men and dogs will soon be sheep.


If you entered a room and it is cubicles then it works for all.
 
donkey said:
On the way in one can open the door using an elbow or knee, but on the way out you have to grab a handle to open the door. OK if everyone has washed their hands, but most do not appear to do so.

Geoff
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I use a tissue
 
I wrote our Highland Council about our public loos, most of which are closed. I noticed that roundabouts are sponsored (why roundabouts beats me ??) and suggested they have the public toilets sponsored the same way. The sponsoring companies could advertise in them for the sponsorship.
I got no where, the council said they were not interested.
 
BusyBuilder said:
I wrote our Highland Council about our public loos, most of which are closed. I noticed that roundabouts are sponsored (why roundabouts beats me ??) and suggested they have the public toilets sponsored the same way. The sponsoring companies could advertise in them for the sponsorship.
I got no where, the council said they were not interested.
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That suggestion was a loos'er then?
Mike.
 
Being in a wheelchair is a nightmare for toilets, but I’m not proud and will generally piss in a discreet area….

I remember once dying for one and went in a place and they said the toilet is only for customers and I said well I’m going to be pissing on your floor so can you give me a mop and they then gave me the key for the loo, not sure where it was but subway comes to mind…🤔
 
Isn’t this why god gave us McD’s.

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The Old Man said:
Not wanting to start a dispute, the Area Manager was in yesterday and she says that as far as she knows it is still policy but now kept on the QT.
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On further investigation it seems the new Starbucks code applies to US & Canada customers, but I can’t find any reference to UK code of conduct or staff training here to implement the change as is the case in N America, so I think it’s carry on as you were?
 
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cyberyacht said:
I have an app on the phone called 'Flush' for when the moho is too far away. Like many, an enlarged prostate (size of a walnut? coconut more like?) creates problems.
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:rofl: They'll be offering you TURPS next. That's fun!

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meanders said:
Taking the side of the ladies for a moment, why do so many architects make ladies and gents loos the same physical size spaces so the blokes could have a dance but the lasses have to queue. I got it corrected in the design for our village hall but the original design had the same size rooms. The gents would have three cubicles plus two urinals and three basins and the ladies had three cubicles and three basins.

After my challenge the space was adjusted so the ladies got 4 cubicles and 4 basins, and the blokes got 2 urinals and one cubical. Still get queues during events, especially film night interval, at the ladies although we steer them also to the accessible toilet and baby change of not in use.

But the number of times you see it, the architects obviously are mainly men.
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If you had just changed the door signs, you would have been okay.

In the 70's when equality and burning of bra's was going on, I saw desperate women using the urinals at a couple of the Pop Concerts where I was with Security! 😄
 
Landy Andy said:
It is time they moved on. They go in pairs anyway.

Soon it will have to be as these days men are woman, woman are men and dogs will soon be sheep.


If you entered a room and it is cubicles then it works for all.
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The Romans had loo's like that, you all sat around having a chin wag! 😄
 
donkey said:
I am not a clean freak, but just do not understand the rational behind the placement of door handles in public/supermarket and the like toilets.
On the way in one can open the door using an elbow or knee, but on the way out you have to grab a handle to open the door. OK if everyone has washed their hands, but most do not appear to do so.

Geoff
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Neither have I and I've always thought it went against H&S fire rule where, in an emergency, door are supposed to open towards the exit? 🤔
 
L' Hobo said:
Doesn't that work both ways?
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Yes but people inside the loo tend to expect the door to open as they are on their way out. People outside, who maybe walking along a corridor, might not.

The loos in our local supermarket are all off a busy corridor and the public loos in town open onto a narrow alley between two streets which is a pedestrian short cut.

The loos at the transport exchange are better as through the turnstile and ladies one side and gents the other, nothing else in that area. Outward opening doors would be easy there.
 
Puddleduck said:
Yes but people inside the loo tend to expect the door to open as they are on their way out. People outside, who maybe walking along a corridor, might not.

The loos in our local supermarket are all off a busy corridor and the public loos in town open onto a narrow alley between two streets which is a pedestrian short cut.

The loos at the transport exchange are better as through the turnstile and ladies one side and gents the other, nothing else in that area. Outward opening doors would be easy there.
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As I used to recommend when I was a Transport H&S Rep for the T&GWU, a small window in a door with an inexpensive one way mirror film, solves a myriad of access problems!
 
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Not just gents with prostate problems who get desperate for the loo. As those who know me well can testify rosalan 😉
Am not shy and have used the cubicle in the gents a few times, get john to have a quick look for urinals being in use if he is with me, if on my own i just shout, i also shout before coming out of the cubicle, it wouldn't bother me but think most blokes wouldn't be too happy.
As regards women going to the toilet in pairs, I was glad i was with a relative when a man followed me into toilets in Glasgow, I might have looked like a 'wee (oops) lassie' but he soon found out i was more of a Rottweiler.
 
Like Scotzsue if needs be use a toilet, any toilet, I certainly have when getting desperate so has my wife, the alternative being a hand on my collar as I write my name on a passing (?) wall.
In other countries they are less picky, I have literally had a mop cleaning around where I stood by the lady attendant, no problems.

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scotzsue said:
Not just gents with prostate problems who get desperate for the loo. As those who know me well can testify rosalan 😉
Am not shy and have used the cubicle in the gents a few times, get john to have a quick look for urinals being in use if he is with me, if on my own i just shout, i also shout before coming out of the cubicle, it wouldn't bother me but think most blokes wouldn't be too happy.
As regards women going to the toilet in pairs, I was glad i was with a relative when a man followed me into toilets in Glasgow, I might have looked like a 'wee (oops) lassie' but he soon found out i was more of a Rottweiler.
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I like the French urinals installed in the street, they’re fairly discreet and must cost a fraction of gents public toilets here. Also, many women think nothing of using the cubicles in men’s toilets if there is a queue in the ladies. The men don’t seem bothered. Our prudish approach works against provision of public toilets.
 

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