Public Toilets

[Anjel]

I can pee in the cubicles but nothing else - see below.

I cannot pee in the urinals after watching a documentary about splashback - nothing further to add.

Okay so the cubicle story is a weird one. Someone wrote "COMPANY NAME is shit", in shit on the cubicle wall. You think it'd put me off doing anything in there but now I can only offload on my own throne.

 

[SckizoBoy]

I like it when someone's warmed the seat up.

*brrr* I'll pretend I never read that...

OT: Like most, I only piss at public toilets, only ever doing a No. 2 if I have a severe case of diarrhea, and I can't leg it home without crapping myself.

 

[Griffolion]

Well that depends on just how they look. Like at my school I can only drop a log in the wood work area toilet because it isn't dirty, but at work I have no problem doing any of my business there. I just all depends on the tidiness.

Who's your avatar?

 

[RanD00M]

Well that depends on just how they look. Like at my school I can only drop a log in the wood work area toilet because it isn't dirty, but at work I have no problem doing any of my business there. I just all depends on the tidiness.

Who's your avatar?

I don't know. It's as simple as that.

 

[VaudevillianVeteran]

I've been traumatized from using most public toilets. Ones that are in pretty well-managed places like restaurants, cinemas and all that are against the hate but anything other than that, like public porta-pottys? *Shudder* I just wonder about 'who' does the vile things that we end up seeing... or worse, what are their bathrooms at home like?

 

[Griffolion]

Well that depends on just how they look. Like at my school I can only drop a log in the wood work area toilet because it isn't dirty, but at work I have no problem doing any of my business there. I just all depends on the tidiness.

Who's your avatar?

I don't know. It's as simple as that.

Damn, she's cute.

 

[tahrey]

Mixed I must say. Everyone here in my department and the neighbouring one at work seems to be pretty civilised. If I have to take a crap, there's no desire to simply hold it in til I get home instead.

But if I go down to the public area because all the stalls are full up, it's like a goddamn warzone in which the only weapons are tissue and human exrement. The construction itself is very modern and flash, particularly compared to our 1960s relic, and the housekeepers try to keep it clean, but we appear to let all manner of monkeys in to ruin our facilities... Far less of a pleasant experience. Plus it has no windows and the lights are on an IR sensor with a ludicrously short timer, if you get the squits then you'd better hope your phone has both battery and a torch app, and you can build up a thick enough layer of tissue on the floor (to be flushed afterwards of course) to insulate it from whatever's floating about down there.

 

[KingofallCosmos]

I think the worst I encountered was during Sziget festival in Hungary. The chemo toilets didn't get emptied till the third day. I stepped into the cubicle to find that the pile of sh*t was actually sticking out the toilet. The only way that's possible is if the last couple of visitors hung from the ceiling or something...

Also, I had a nice roommate once who I never spoke (he was a bit Hikikomori) but who always left "messages" in and around the toilet. Sometimes tracks led to his room. He said he didn't :s

 

[Scarim Coral]

Do my business in there no matter how bad of a state it is in (a man got to go). Granted however if the toliet is in a ugly state like no one flush teh toliet I would try to flush it and use the bog roll to clean the seat before seating on it.

 

[subtlefuge]

Public toilets are just bad. There's really no way of getting around it. Anyways, it's not like you always have to use them.

Since this is an observational humor thread, devoid of humor, a video:

Spoiler

 

[matt87_50]

I always find that there is some remnants of someone else offloading

TOILET PAPER!! KILL IT WITH TOILET PAPER!!

 

[Trivun]

My university has these weird urinals that are basically toilet bowls on the wall, but without seats. It's the weirdest thing, and it looks like it would just use up more water.

Spoiler: Also, have a relevant and funny video

We have those but not at my university, they're at the cinema in my city. There's a Vue multiplex in the city centre and the urinals there are just as you describe .

Anyway, at university the toilets vary but are mostly fairly clean. Depends on where you go, there are a few that I try to avoid at all times, but mostly the toilets are okay. At work, since I work in a supermarket, there's a lot of pride placed in cleanliness and hygiene, so the toilets tend to be pretty damn clean. When in public, I try to avoid using public toilets if I can, unless I risk becoming desperate. If possible I try to go to the toilet in shops if there are any, because they're usually a lot cleaner, particularly in food outlets (like the Subway I regularly go to, and Starbucks - they say customers only, but no-one ever really bothers following that rule...).

 

[Arvid Rydahl]

ITT: A bunch of insecure people who can't take a dump.

Maybe I'm overly hardened against this from doing military service, but the *state* of a toilet, if it's not yours, shouldn't affect your ability to take a shit, even if further degrades said state. After all, you don't have to clean it up. And no, you won't catch any disfiguring diseases from sitting on a dirty toilet seat.

On a related matter: why do english speaking people call it a "restroom" or "bathroom". Because I certainly don't go into one to have rest, and for it to be a bathroom, it should have a tub!

 

[Lawnmooer]

I dislike using public toilets... To the point where I held in a crap for 3 days (I ate alot of chilli during those days...) just because the only available toilets where public ones.

That said I will use public toilets on certain occasions such as:

Being desperate for a pee (Due to having too much caffiene) I tend to pee in a stall if there are other people there... If I'm alone I quickly go into a urinal.

Having a nosebleed and needing to wash my face/hands and get some tissue.

Needing to throw up, or cough up something (Either accidentally swollowing something or producing too much phlegm)

If I have certain stuff I'm not supposed to have... (At college, alcohol is forbidden... But it helps me focus)

Though when I'm in town I do tend to favour going to the college toilets (They are clean since people who use them are on college courses and therefor slightly mature. They are also cleaned regularly) even if it means walking over a mile.

 

[Soxafloppin]

When ever I use a public toilet I always make sure to piss REALLY hard so people are impressed and intimidated by the sound of my mighty urine.

 

[Fooz]

i think people that use public toilets are animals, its just a room full of disease, why would you want to do your business in there

 

[SilentCom]

I tend not to use public toilets for that reason although I will use urinals.

 

[breadsammich]

The worst are the long-ass urinals that everyone pees into that are at some sports stadiums. I don't know if they still have those, because It's been forever since I've gone to one, and I make it a point not to use a restroom at a place where everyone's loaded with beer and hotdogs. But those communal urinals were just nasty.

 

[breadsammich]

i think people that use public toilets are animals, its just a room full of disease, why would you want to do your business in there

Because if you do it elsewhere, you get to have a nice chat with one of our fine law enforcement personnel.

 

[SIXVI06-M]

Okay, here's one for you guys.

At my work there is a toilet (obviously). One of them is the cubicle type ones to do your heavy duty business one, then there is one pot-on-the-wall thing. Whenever I go into the cubicle to erm, offload, I always find that there is some remnants of someone else offloading or it is completely yellow and looks to have been used but never flushed! I find it disgusting every time that someone would do that!

So what's your experiences with public / work toilets?

I don't even understand how some people could miss that badly. Then again, I can understand the stream doesn't always travel the way some people would like them to and it does something totally odd instead... But still.

I can't function on a full bladder or what not, so I search for the cleanest stall and deal with it.

In any case, if it was some wet spots here and there - I can still deal with it, just fold up a good lot of toilet paper and wipe it up till it's dry, and the seat will still be serviceable (and I won't catch any diseases). Of course- some I just say no to - like if the whole damn toilet; seat, cistern, floor, etc was soaked in piss - thats a definite no, no amount of toilet paper is going to save that. It goes without saying, but - there's no one in their right mind that will sit on a vomit encrusted seat either.

And who has come across a toilet seat with shit on it? I seriously have to question the degree of civility a person has to SHIT ON a toilet seat and not THROUGH it. I do also wish that if anyone accidentally splashes a bit on the freakin seat, come on, grab several ply of tp and clean up after your own goddamn excrement.

Don't get me started on the freaking troglodytes that wipe shit ON THE WALLS. YOUR MOMMA RAISED YOU WELL, good going, bravo, that will surely get you far in life -_-.

Oh and a quick thing about what I do if I have to piss in a stall - I life the seat first, coz it's for sitting on, not pissing on. If it's dirty, i lift the seat up with my foot. Also, I always, ALWAYS flush.