Public Bathrooms

WickedLou9 · 10-31-2007, 10:20 AM

I just want to rant about something that bothers me.

Who decided that public restrooms need to be places where you lose your humility and your dignity.

If I go to the urinal, there is a tiny board that seperates me from the jerk next to me. I don't want to stand less than a foot away from someone while we are both peeing into a urinal. Why can't that tiny board be a little bigger. I dunno, maybe have thew stupid thing extend far up enough so that I can't see the other guy. Maybe have it go back far enough so that you have some privacy. Not too long ago there wasn't even that tiny board there. This is a somewhat new thing. Most placs just had Urinals lined up and there was no privacy what so ever.

And the stalls... Why don't they go from floor to ceiling? If I have to go sit in a stall I have to hear every painful detail of what the guy next to me is doing. Of course these walls don't go to the floor either. They stop a full foot and a half above the floor so that everyone can see what kind of underwear I am wearing. Why can't we have some friggin dignity? Why can't the stall go to the floor, or alteast close enough to thte floor that Lary Craig can't slide his gay sex foot tapping leg under to the next stall.
I don't understand this.

Can we please have some dignity? Can we please have bathrooms with privacy?

Roonie · 10-31-2007, 10:30 AM

Originally Posted by WickedLou9

I just want to rant about something that bothers me.

Who decided that public restrooms need to be places where you lose your humility and your dignity.

If I go to the urinal, there is a tiny board that seperates me from the jerk next to me. I don't want to stand less than a foot away from someone while we are both peeing into a urinal. Why can't that tiny board be a little bigger. I dunno, maybe have thew stupid thing extend far up enough so that I can't see the other guy. Maybe have it go back far enough so that you have some privacy. Not too long ago there wasn't even that tiny board there. This is a somewhat new thing. Most placs just had Urinals lined up and there was no privacy what so ever.

And the stalls... Why don't they go from floor to ceiling? If I have to go sit in a stall I have to hear every painful detail of what the guy next to me is doing. Of course these walls don't go to the floor either. They stop a full foot and a half above the floor so that everyone can see what kind of underwear I am wearing. Why can't we have some friggin dignity? Why can't the stall go to the floor, or alteast close enough to thte floor that Lary Craig can't slide his gay sex foot tapping leg under to the next stall.
I don't understand this.

Can we please have some dignity? Can we please have bathrooms with privacy?

This sounds a little Larry Craigish to me LOL........

Seriously though you sound a little uptight. Who cares what color your underwear is or how you take a shit or how close the other guy next to you is as long as he is not peeing on me I don't care.

JaJae · 10-31-2007, 10:36 AM

Little dramatic. I would imagine the reason the stalls are open on the bottom is because it makes it a lot easier to clean and bathroom floors, especially public ones get wet with overflowing water, etc... especially with people missing and pissing all over the place. And they probably don't go all the way up for ventilation and so they're universal.

In any event, get over it man. Nobody cares about your underwear.

Linzyhop · 10-31-2007, 10:37 AM

i'd imagine it has something to do with cost of materials as well......

7960 · 10-31-2007, 10:37 AM

Most places have "men" "women" and "Privacy" or something like that. If there's a choice I use the "Privacy" bathroom even though it's supposed to be for handicapped.

That's one of the good things to come out of the PC movement.......now it's not labeled "handicapped" so I don't feel at all bad about taking my time dropping a deuce in the double-wide stall.

JaJae · 10-31-2007, 10:38 AM

Originally Posted by Linzyhop

i'd imagine it has something to do with cost of materials as well......

It's also nice to see feet at the bottom of the stall so you know which ones are occupied cause some jackasses don't bother to lock it and you walk in on some dumb fuck taking a sloppy shit.

.. or quite often the locks break.

7960 · 10-31-2007, 10:39 AM

Originally Posted by JaJae

It's also nice to see feet at the bottom ...

It also makes it easier for senators to run their hand underneath, trolling for who-knows-what.

WickedLou9 · 10-31-2007, 10:39 AM

It's not really that big of a deal, it just bothers me. When I am in a stall doing my business, I don't like seeing someone else walk in, sit down, drop thier pants and release all sorts of strange sounding things. It's even worse when I see thier name tag dangling from thier pants and I know who they are.
Hey Bill, sounds like you had mexican for lunch again huh?

JaJae · 10-31-2007, 10:39 AM

Originally Posted by 7960

Most places have "men" "women" and "Privacy" or something like that. If there's a choice I use the "Privacy" bathroom even though it's supposed to be for handicapped.

That's one of the good things to come out of the PC movement.......now it's not labeled "handicapped" so I don't feel at all bad about taking my time dropping a deuce in the double-wide stall.

At a mall near me it says it's the "Family" or something one cause it's the only one with a changing station. I always imagine something nasty though.

JaJae · 10-31-2007, 10:41 AM

Originally Posted by WickedLou9

It's not really that big of a deal, it just bothers me. When I am in a stall doing my business, I don't like seeing someone else walk in, sit down, drop thier pants and release all sorts of strange sounding things. It's even worse when I see thier name tag dangling from thier pants and I know who they are.
Hey Bill, sounds like you had mexican for lunch again huh?

You should join the military, your problem would be cured.

WickedLou9 · 10-31-2007, 10:41 AM

Originally Posted by Linzyhop

i'd imagine it has something to do with cost of materials as well......

Not really in an office building like this. They have plenty of money to have slightly larger walls. they just totally re-did all the bathrooms here. Nice stone tile floors, fully automated everything ( which I hate). Cost probably was not an issue.

Publius · 10-31-2007, 10:41 AM

Originally Posted by WickedLou9

It's even worse when I see thier name tag dangling from thier pants and I know who they are.
Hey Bill, sounds like you had mexican for lunch again huh?

hey it was worse in the dorms at my college. The row of toilet stalls was right across from the row of shower stalls. It was horrible when showering and the stench of someone dropping the kids off at the pool creeped in to join you in the shower stall.

WickedLou9 · 10-31-2007, 10:41 AM

Originally Posted by JaJae

You should join the military, your problem would be cured.

NO thanks!

Publius · 10-31-2007, 10:43 AM

Originally Posted by WickedLou9

Not really in an office building like this. They have plenty of money to have slightly larger walls. they just totally re-did all the bathrooms here. Nice stone tile floors, fully automated everything ( which I hate). Cost probably was not an issue.

why do you hate full automation? I love not having to touch anything in the bathroom.

7960 · 10-31-2007, 10:44 AM

Originally Posted by WickedLou9

......fully automated everything ( which I hate).

I was with you up to here.......... automated everything rocks. Every time a toilet flushes it spews vaporized shit into the air. When I go in a public bathroom I don't breathe, I don't touch anything.....nothing. I want the toilet to flush, I want the water to come on, I want the soap to dispense, and I want the paper towels to come scrolling at me like we have an unlimited supply of trees.

Publius · 10-31-2007, 10:45 AM

Originally Posted by 7960

I want the paper towels to come scrolling at me like we have an unlimited supply of trees.

avsp · 10-31-2007, 10:45 AM

how else can one tell if people are having sexual relations, taking drugs or dying if the door goes all the way to the floor?

A foot & half gap seems a bit much to me tho', ..., times must be hard for stall door manufacturers who now try to cut costs dramatically etc

The gap at the top is to allow access for those who which to intervene in other peoples sexual activities, drug taking or death

as for urinal separators, ..., fings seem to be going in th opposite direction here, ..., the more modern the urinal the less likely it is to have such shields

Lastly just in case you aint seen it before & feel the need to brush up on yer urinal etiquette
Urinal Test - Drinknation.com
theres a much better one but the library wont let me find it

cliffs: if you arent joking I'd say you seem overly sensitive to me. its undigified to worry about such stuff

7960 · 10-31-2007, 10:46 AM

should this be linked?

JaJae · 10-31-2007, 10:47 AM

Originally Posted by 7960

I was with you up to here.......... automated everything rocks. Every time a toilet flushes it spews vaporized shit into the air. When I go in a public bathroom I don't breathe, I don't touch anything.....nothing. I want the toilet to flush, I want the water to come on, I want the soap to dispense, and I want the paper towels to come scrolling at me like we have an unlimited supply of trees.

I agree. I love automated toilets, it means the asshole before you can't not flush and leave a huge ass turd in the stall. You ever have to use a public bathroom to take a shit and they're all full except for that one smelly stall with the rhino sized turd in it? Fucking gross. It forces the shit out. I don't like touching the faucet. I prefer the paper towels over the hand dryer because I can use the paper towels I dried my hands with on the door handle.

WickedLou9 · 10-31-2007, 10:48 AM

Originally Posted by Publius

why do you hate full automation? I love not having to touch anything in the bathroom.

Because it always breaks. Toilets OK, I like those auto flushers.. but sinks, soap dispensers, towel dispensers?

The sinks turn on and off while you use them. The soap dispensers are finicky and the towel dispensers are the worst. You have to wave your hand in front of them and they break all the time and work half the time.