At the client site I am, all the bathrooms are independent cubicals with their own door, basin, and dryer.
I wonder why they felt it necessary to mark half of them as ladies and half as mens.
At the client site I am, all the bathrooms are independent cubicals with their own door, basin, and dryer.
I wonder why they felt it necessary to mark half of them as ladies and half as mens.
1. graybo
Have you actually been into the ladies to check that they are identical? They might have plush sofas, fresh flowers and posters of naked men in there.
2. Adrian
Surveying them from the outside, they look likely to be exactly the same size inside (as the mens).
Which means no plush sofas.
3. QE
Although you’re not denying the flowers and the posters…
4. Adrian
There would be space for them, yes that’s possible. Although for a large blue chip corporate I doubt their would be pictures of naked men.
5. Tom
I’d have thought it would have been obvious - in the womens cubicles, the loo seats are nailed down and can’t be left up.
6. Destructor
Tom: Brilliant.
I think the real answer is that men are horrible, awfully messy piss-fountains and women are dainty and their poo smells like flowers. If I was a woman, I wouldn’t want to use a man’s toilet.
7. Jack
Because if a man goes into a cubicle previously frequented by a woman, he’ll get cooties. Obviously.
8. annie
to deter shagging in the toilets? ( a common problem with unisex bathrooms)
9. Adrian
If you you are going to risk shagging in the office, I don’t think a little figure of a man or a women would stop you. In fact having all the toilets self contained and separate and not linking into any sort of bathroom at all would probably encourage you.
10. matthew
I reckon it’s to stop the men in the office finding out that women’s poo doesn’t smell anything like flowers. It smells like, well… like poo. And to stop the women being overpowered by the pungent aroma of men’s poo.
11. anna
Sorry but the destructor man is right - our poo smells of flowers and your poo smells of hades. That’s if women even GO for a poo in the office, which most will claim not to. And those that do poo and it Doesn’t mysteriously smell of sugar and spice? They sometimes carry little bottles of perfume spray around with them so they can pretend they are like all other women and it does.
Men of the office however, will happily pick up a section of the paper, and go and shit in there for AGES. And fart.
Frankly, I don’t vaguely want to go into the men’s toilet, and I certainly don’t want to risk going in there straight after one of you.
They are right to label the dorrs. Anything else is a mistake.
12. matthew
There’s an old Irish/Dublin saying that goes ‘you’d swear his/her shite didn’t smell’. Which is an old adage for ‘playing innocent’. Everyone’s shite smells, and everyone’s shite smells bad. And if you claim women don’t fart, well all I can say is women don’t make fart noises, usually, but their farts sure as hell smell just as bad as men’s. Although you can get pills in Japan that make your arse smell like roses (and possibly sugar and spice).
And we don’t ‘shit in there for ages’, we meditate. On the bog.
13. Tom
I don’t meditate on the bog. I power nap. Normally when hungover but nevertheless, I have it down to a fine art.
I’ve even found the optimum position which doesn’t cut circulation off to my legs.
14. Adrian
Before mobile phones had alarms, I used to lean my arm against the flushing mechanism, and my head on my arm. When I fell asleep to heavily I pushed down on my arm, flushed the toilet and woke myself up.
It’s easier now with a phone alarm.
15. matthew
You mean you can set your mobile phone alarm to go off when you fall asleep on the bog? Wow, I’ve never found that setting on my phone.
16. QE
Have you made sure you’re on the latest firmware, Matt?
17. matthew
Of course I do QE!+ However, I suspect the AI of my CyberFone 9000tm may not be functioning within established parameters.
18. ella
the annoying thing is at work i have to wear a personal alarm on me at all times. this is clipped onto my trousers/skirt. however, there is nothing more embarassing than undoing your trousers/skirt, the alarm falls off, hits the floor, sets off, people come running to find out where the emergency is. and having to call up our security company to explain why the police aren’t needed.