Not even the dread crabs? You mean mother was wrong? 
Just don’t drop a tooth pick in there. The little bastards can pole vault :eek:
DrDeth was correct - I meant urine as opposed to fecal matter.
It’s that whole stupid squatting thing. I’ve never understood it and I never will.
This is one of the threads that actually makes me glad I have my own bathroom at work. (My job sucks. That’s one of the very few good things about it.)
The job I had before my current one was in shipping & receiving for an upscale department store, but we kinda got conscripted into janitorial duties sometimes.
Cleaning out the ladies’ room was always a nightmare, but what killed me was the amount of used tampons on the floor. And, no, the little container next to the toilet was never “too full.” Women would apparently just extract them and drop them on the floor. I’d go into greater detail, but I’m just after eating…
And really, our clientele was (for the most part) rather wealthy. Obviously, piggism knows no socieital bounds!
No, flush the damn urinals. When the water is the color of apple cider, it needs to be flushed. Besides, I don’t want any splash back that hasn’t come out of me.
Ever come in on a weekend when no one’s flushed the urinals? Stale piss really stinks.
And as a slight hijack: ** Damn it, stop typing on your Blackberry when you’re taking a shit.** You are not that important that you can’t stay unconnected from the mother ship for a few minutes while sitting on the can. And I get it in stereo, on both sides of me sometimes. Shit, wash your hands, then check your damn e-mail.
What really gets me aren’t just the subhuman filth who don’t flush the toilet, its the people who USE THEIR CELLPHONES IN A PUBLIC RESTROOM. I’ve had this happen several times, when some guy will come in, talking on his cell phone, and keep talking while he takes a crap. What the fuck is wrong with these people?
My God, that is so damn rude.
I was on a conference call once where the comment was made, “Will whoever is taking a piss PLEASE put themselves on mute?”
When I run into that at work, I try to wait for an important part of the conversation - some essential info like a time/place/phone number/etc. being mentioned, where I suspect the person on the other end is listening intently - and then give a vigorous flush. Maybe two. If the person on the other end of that call didn’t figure out from the echo that their caller is rude enough to be speaking while performing various bodily functions, that’ll ensure it - or at least irritate the idiot on the cell phone in the adjacent stall.
Urg. Where I work, multiple offices share the public restroom, and this fact is combined with the fact that janitorial service is, um, shall we say, inconsistent. Result, grossness in the extreme. Given the fact that one of the office suite (in fact, the one I work in) is a massage studio, you’d think the place where we wash our hands would be kept clean for public health reasons, but, alas, it is not to be.
I’ve had to use the occasional men’s room in an emergency situation, so I can safely say that women’s bathroom’s are more disgusting than men’s rooms by several orders of magnitude. More litter, more likelihood of accidentally sitting in someone else’s pee (I’m usually incredibly vigilant for a few weeks after this has happened, but if I have a client waiting on the table, sometimes I don’t look before I sit), plus the Aunt Flo factor…
Then there’s the hot water faucet. Usually when I wash my hands, I have to let the water run for 2-3 full minutes before I have water hot enough to actually wash my hands. Then after I dry them, I grab a fresh paper towel to turn the spigot off, lest my flesh that will be coming into contact with the flesh of my clients come into contact with something unpleasant that has been left on the faucet handle. I actually don’t throw the paper towel away until I get to the door of my own massage room- I use the paper towel to open the restroom door and the door of my office suite. I feel safe with my own door, I know it’s irrational, several people I don’t know very well touch it every day, but I feel safe with it.
Great Og, women! Show some respect for your fellow human beings. If you have to hover, wipe up the seat when you’re done, ditto if you have to bring your son too young to go in the men’s room alone into the ladies’ loo. And, for the love of God,
FLUSH!!!
Topically speaking, the investigation into the allegation that Guantanamo interrogators flushed the Koran down the toilet while questioning prisoners has me scratching my head…just HOW do you flush the Koran, or any book for that matter, down the toilet? I mean, it’s meant to accomodate 2-inch diameter turds, not books. I doubt you could even flush a miniature Gideon flip-a-Bible down the potty, much less a Koran.
Or maybe that’s why the military has $25,000 toilets…they really ARE THAT BIG.
Ouch, what have you been eating lately?
I’d assumed they just threw it in the toilet and flushed, to both soil it with semi-filthy water and make it unusable.
I agree 100 Per Cent but I guess flushing the toilet and washing your hands isn’t “in style” anymore especially in High School.
I don’t really think it is laziness - I’m sure these people flush at home. I believe that a lot of people have a hostile, anti-social interior covered with a thin veneer of civility. So when they get a chance to be nasty to someone they will take it. And not flushing the toilet really is a way to make things unpleasant for others.
There are three urinals in the men’s room where I work, and rarely do I find all three to be urine-free. At least one, and sometimes all three, almost always bears the remains of at least one urine non-flusher. Judging from the volume and darkness of the pooled urine, it doesn’t seem to be uncommon for three or four non-flushers in a row to visit the same urinal in sequence.
Fecal non-flushing, while not as common as that, is becoming disgustingly prevalent as well.
I mentioned this to my boss once, and he freely confessed to being a urine non-flusher and even defended the practice. “I don’t want to pull that lever that everybody else has touched,” he said.
Wonderful. So instead we’ll let a pool of stagnant, stinking piss accumulate until somebody dares to flush. A better idea: flush it and wash your fucking hands afterward.
He didn’t confess to fecal non-flushing, but since it could be justified by the same logic, I suspect he does that as well.
Aw, swell. So between your and Imasquare’s posts, we two possible reasons for this behaviour: rabid passive-aggression OR pneumocephalic germ-fear. And START’s assertion that this behaviour is starting early* fills me with great sadness.
*Or has it been this way for a while? I never remember finding a loaded bowl while in High School, but there was the time someone took a crap on a piece of paper and left it in a gym locker. Most of our football team got staph infection…
I’ll admit. I’m staggeringly OCD. I can’t touch public phones, or door knobs in bathrooms, anything like that – with my hands. I’ll use the back of my wrist to flush a urinal or my shoe to flush a toilet, though. I also carry around latex gloves for situations when that’s not an option.
The point being that if I can handle it, then dammit, anyone should be able to.