[LMB] OT: bathroom question

[Azalais Aranxta]

WARNING:  GROSSNESS AHEAD

On Wed, 29 Nov 2006, Mark Allums wrote:

> Marna Nightingale wrote:
> > Elvi Dalgaard wrote:
> >> The simple solution: if you're going to hover, raise the seat first.
> >
> > Still splatters. I still favour "if you think you will catch
> > DEATH from a public toilet, even if you wash your hands
> > after, for God's sake stay home."
>
> If you think some women are pigs, be thankful you don't have to
> use a public men's room.

Oh thou innocent and pure!

I know many women who won't hesitate to use an unoccupied men's
room when some stupid architect has neglected to take into
account the differences between the ways women and men use
bathrooms and created lines for the ladies' loo half a mile long.
(I also once witnessed a mass toilet integration at the Castro
theatre once the women's line had got halfway up the stairs at a
premiere during the LGBT film festival--after all, not everyone
there had a defined gender anyway.)

Both sexes can indeed be pigs.

But men who spray the toilet and don't clean up afterward at
least don't claim to be doing it for the goodness of their
health.  They KNOW they're a$$holes.

Also?  Men never leave bloody rags lying about public bathrooms
for strangers to pick up.  I do not want to see your effluvia,
and it should certainly not be on the floor where some hapless
public servant will have to pick it up.  Put it in the garbage
wrapped up.

In private bathrooms, men are often worse, because some of them
neglect to put the seat back down AND don't flush at the same
time; my father was an offender, he considered it a waste of
water to flush for anything but #2 and I used to sneak into
bathrooms behind him when there were guests at our house.  My
stepmother broke him of that.

But women can be pretty gross.  I was sympathetic to the nursing
mother who needed to pump in the ladies' loo even though I don't
think that's very sanitary, because it is a hospital and she
probably wasn't planning to have to do that out of the house.
Had she asked staff we would have found her a place to do it, I'm
sure (I know *I* would have) but I guess she was too embarrassed.

But she put the apparatus into the only sink so that no-one who
used the bathroom could WASH THEIR HANDS.  In a hospital, where
it's not just a good idea, it's the law?  Yeah.

~malfoy :)

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