# Stupid bathroom incident of the day. **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [May 16, 2016, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-bathroom-incident-of-the-day/754930 "2016-05-16T19:41:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Punoqllads](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/d2c977/32.png) [@Punoqllads](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Punoqllads)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2016, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-bathroom-incident-of-the-day/754930/41 "2016-05-17T19:59:25Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > I bet the homosexual room is _amazing_. Fabulous, darling. It’s fabulous. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2016, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-bathroom-incident-of-the-day/754930/42 "2016-05-17T20:01:02Z")
> [@Punoqllads](#): > > Fabulous, darling. It’s fabulous. I’m picturing a disco ball, and an attendant in a bowtie and leather pants but no shirt, and Cher is just hanging out for some reason. ---
**Author:** ![Icarus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/icarus/32/72_2.png) [@Icarus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Icarus)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2016, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-bathroom-incident-of-the-day/754930/43 "2016-05-17T20:03:22Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > Your confusion results because this really has nothing whatsoever to do with “protecting the children”. > > The secondary purpose is to ensure that those who are different should stay the hell out of public sight, where the bigoted might be offended by their very presence. > > The primary purpose is to drive the rubes to the polls, in the hopes that they will reliably pull the “R” lever, despite the clown at the top of the ticket, and the other politicians who are screwing them over. That is the saddest part to me, every election cycle the tighty-righties gin up some wedge issue and play the rubes like a violin in order to attract money and votes. I guess these folks just like getting played over and over and over again. ---
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2016, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-bathroom-incident-of-the-day/754930/44 "2016-05-17T20:06:12Z")
[Alabama state Senator introduces a bill to “suggest” bathroom monitors.](http://www.timesdaily.com/news/state-capital/alabama-lawmaker-files-bathroom-bill/article_03c33db0-26d5-5944-a5e2-769ead7c9e2f.html) ---
**Author:** ![davidm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidm/32/225_2.png) [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2016, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-bathroom-incident-of-the-day/754930/45 "2016-05-17T20:10:02Z")
> [@Icarus](#): > > That is the saddest part to me, every election cycle the tighty-righties gin up some wedge issue and play the rubes like a violin in order to attract money and votes. I guess these folks just like getting played over and over and over again. That’s certainly my concern. This will bring out the most regressive voters in droves. Maybe we should start a rumor that there will be same sex voting booths. That might keep them home. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Askthepizzaguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/askthepizzaguy/32/9405_2.png) [@Askthepizzaguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Askthepizzaguy)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2016, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-bathroom-incident-of-the-day/754930/46 "2016-05-17T21:21:25Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > The primary purpose is to drive the rubes to the polls, in the hopes that they will reliably pull the “R” lever, despite the clown at the top of the ticket, and the other politicians who are screwing them over. You hit the nail on the head. Pretty much all of the paranoia here is a result of rubes who have hardly ever left their ramshackle family fucktrailer, have nine generations of inbreeding in their veins and iron age literature in their brains, being told by the pretty blonde lady with the non-regional diction on the TV machine that\*\* perverts and rapists are coming to rape their daughters \*\*before they get a chance to, and that makes Billy Willy Joe Bob mad enough to put down his beer _and his other beer_ to get up and grab his gun to protect his family and stand up to the PC gubbermint thugs. In Billy Willy’s mind, he’s a goddamned hero. And he’s MAD! He’s ANGRY! He’s FULL OF RIGHTEOUS ANGER! And Donald Trump seems like the kind of guy who don’t apologize to nobody, and says what everyone inside the trailer who is male is thinking! We’re all thinking it, right, and liberals are just too scared to say it out loud! And gawd help us all if Hitlery gets elected, she’ll force us all to become queers and she will obamacare us all straight to the death panel run by transgender bathroom perverts who I’m sure definitely exist somewhere. And if they don’t turn up, that doesn’t matter, because Billy Willy is sure to put on a dress HIMSELF and barge into a ladies’ room to prove a point. And his point is… uhhhh… because of this law, he’s now required to dress like a lady and peep on women, and \*it ain’t right goddamit! \*Or something! **Trump 2016!** Because, fuck reasoning, I gotta battle the invisible transgender rape goblins you keep hearing nothing about! MERICAN HERO!!! Well, Billy Willy’s work is done. Time for another brewski. You’re welcome, America. ---
**Author:** ![Valgard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/7feea3/32.png) [@Valgard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Valgard)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2016, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-bathroom-incident-of-the-day/754930/47 "2016-05-17T21:36:49Z")
> [@Askthepizzaguy](#): > > **Trump 2016!** Because, fuck reasoning, I gotta battle the invisible transgender rape goblins you keep hearing nothing about! Which really would be amusing since one of the few positions Trump has taken that I agree with is that transgender folks can use the bathroom appropriate to their gender identity (or at least the only public comment of his I’m aware of on the subject is that Caitlyn Jenner is welcome to use the ladies’ room at the Trump Hotel, which she did in fact do). ---
**Author:** ![xizor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xizor/32/102_2.png) [@xizor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xizor)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2016, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-bathroom-incident-of-the-day/754930/48 "2016-05-17T22:15:16Z")
This whole debate reminds me of a bit they used to do on the show _Night Court_ where the bailiffs would stand near the bathrooms and make bets as to which room the freaks from the courtroom would go into. ---
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2016, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-bathroom-incident-of-the-day/754930/49 "2016-05-17T22:29:02Z")
Are you equating trans people with freaks? ---
**Author:** ![SeaDragonTattoo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/df705f/32.png) [@SeaDragonTattoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SeaDragonTattoo)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2016, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-bathroom-incident-of-the-day/754930/50 "2016-05-18T00:15:58Z")
> [@MissTake](#): > > [Idiots driving to EVERY Target in Minnesota, protesting their bathroom policy](http://minnesota.cbslocal.com/2016/05/16/flush-target-anti-target-campaign-hits-the-road-opposing-bathroom-policy/). I wonder how long it will take for the truck to be completely defaced? I’m hoping for tonight. I’d like to draw a dick on top of the kid’s head. If only I had the time to road trip up there. ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2016, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-bathroom-incident-of-the-day/754930/51 "2016-05-18T00:53:18Z")
> [@MissTake](#): > > [Idiots driving to EVERY Target in Minnesota, protesting their bathroom policy](http://minnesota.cbslocal.com/2016/05/16/flush-target-anti-target-campaign-hits-the-road-opposing-bathroom-policy/). I wonder how long it will take for the truck to be completely defaced? [This article](http://www.grandforksherald.com/news/region/4034815-anti-transgender-protesters-ejected-target-parking-lot) points out: (1) They had to get their own truck to put that billboard on, because every billboard company in the state declined to run their ad. (2) At the Baxter Target store (discussed in this article), the store manager and a security red-shirt quickly asked them to leave the premises. So: There is _some_ sanity in the world. ETA: **MissTake** ’s link doesn’t fully work on my machine; it doesn’t show pictures (if any). Does the page show a pic of an entire side of the truck? My link shows a pic of only part of it. The FlushTarget web site shows the entire picture. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2016, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-bathroom-incident-of-the-day/754930/52 "2016-05-18T00:58:03Z")
> [@andros](#): > > Fair enough. I’ll do you the courtesy of continuing to assume _you_ know what you’re talking about, even when I can’t figure it out. > [@Slash1972](#): > > And I shall do the same! 😃 Y’know, when you say the following: > [@Slash1972](#): > > I honestly have no clue what you are talking about. **Nor, I suspect, do you.** it tends to not inspire confidence in your sincerity. ---
**Author:** ![SeaDragonTattoo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/df705f/32.png) [@SeaDragonTattoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SeaDragonTattoo)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2016, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-bathroom-incident-of-the-day/754930/53 "2016-05-18T01:24:12Z")
> [@Senegoid](#): > > ETA: **MissTake** ’s link doesn’t fully work on my machine; it doesn’t show pictures (if any). Does the page show a pic of an entire side of the truck? My link shows a pic of only part of it. The FlushTarget web site shows the entire picture. There’s a video, the entirety of the truck and stupid statement by Princess Dumb Head are shown in the video. Here’s an image link: [https://s3.amazonaws.com/lifesite/Miscellaneous/flushtarget\_truck\_smaller.jpg](https://s3.amazonaws.com/lifesite/Miscellaneous/flushtarget_truck_smaller.jpg) and there’s a flushtarget dot com website - not linking because I have no idea if it’s SFW and I refuse to give the site traffic to check. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2016, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-bathroom-incident-of-the-day/754930/54 "2016-05-18T04:25:31Z")
Porta-Johns. Just set them up and let everyone pick one. ---
**Author:** ![xizor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xizor/32/102_2.png) [@xizor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xizor)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2016, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-bathroom-incident-of-the-day/754930/55 "2016-05-18T13:59:26Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Are you equating trans people with freaks? Not in the least. My comment is about the people worried about who goes in what bathroom, not those who are actually going into the bathroom. ---
**Author:** ![OffByOne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/45deac/32.png) [@OffByOne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OffByOne)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2016, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-bathroom-incident-of-the-day/754930/56 "2016-05-18T14:24:44Z")
> [@Not\_Carlson](#): > > Brilliant logic at work here. > > “Err, I just barged into the Ladies’ room 'cause I was concerned there might be a man in here.” > “Well, there’s certainly a dick in here now.” > > I’ve accidentally walked into the Ladies’ room a couple of times myself, due to sheer absent-mindedness. The first thing that makes you realise such a blunder is when you notice the lack of urinals. > (I imagine that in the US this will soon change so that the first thing that makes you realise your blunder is the body-tackle from the toilet police.) “I thought it said, ‘Laddies.’” ---
**Author:** ![Zyanthia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Zyanthia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zyanthia)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2016, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-bathroom-incident-of-the-day/754930/57 "2016-05-18T14:51:06Z")
This is just sad ☹ > [@](#): > > Send Target a message — don’t shop where women and children’s emotional and physical safety and privacy are under assault,” Minnesota chair of the Child Protection League Julie Quist said. Why are they trying to make so many homeless people? ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2016, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-bathroom-incident-of-the-day/754930/58 "2016-05-18T15:17:36Z")
It’s a pity a trip to my nearest mall or commercial area wouldn’t make their heads explode except figuratively. I’d invite them to come visit. We could make a movie… fashion! Zombies! Blood on walls! Small cars trying to avoid the headless corpse! ---
**Author:** ![Slash1972](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slash1972/32/6461_2.png) [@Slash1972](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slash1972)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2016, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-bathroom-incident-of-the-day/754930/59 "2016-05-18T15:26:07Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > Y’know, when you say the following: > it tends to not inspire confidence in your sincerity. Really? Because I’m perfectly sincere when I say I don’t know what he’s talking about. ---
**Author:** ![Not\_Carlson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/bc79bd/32.png) [@Not\_Carlson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Not_Carlson)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2016, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-bathroom-incident-of-the-day/754930/60 "2016-05-18T16:25:27Z")
> [@OffByOne](#): > > “I thought it said, ‘Laddies.’” Off by one indeed. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-bathroom-incident-of-the-day/754930.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-bathroom-incident-of-the-day/754930.md?page=4)