Seen posted in the men's restroom

[Orrex]

NO ONE LIKES TO STAND IN A PUDDLE.

IF YOU CAN'T MASTER THE USE OF A URINAL,
PLEASE CONSIDER USING A TOILET OR A DIAPER.

THANK YOU.

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Thoughts?

[ohiosmith]

1. Reminds me of a sign above the urinal in the men's in Gatwick Airport:

All pilots with a short stack and low manifold pressure are requested to taxi in close.

[Orrex]

2. That's brilliant, but a little too obscure for my target audience

Thanks for sharing!

[Ravenseye]

3. I agree

I don't get how messy some people are. What particularly pisses me off, so to speak, is when I go to a restroom and the toilets, not the urinals, but the toilets are completely covered in Piss...

Lift the fucking toilet seat, or wait for a urinal you animals.

Seriously people are so disgusting, men and women both, in public restrooms that I just don't get it. I mean seriously. Why? How hard is it to aim for the urnial, lift the seat, etc.

And it's not 'class', sex or race based either. I've been in first class lounge private restrooms that have had it. I've had to clean a women's bathroom regularly and some stuff in there was more disgusting than anything else I've ever seen.

I personally think everyone, man and woman, should have to sit to pee every time. That way no urine on the ground. Clean restroom. Etc. Everything in biohazard bins, and the toilet. Nothing on the walls or floors.

I just know it'll never happen though because people are freaking animals.

[JVS]

8. If you touch the seat you get germs and die, if you piss on it that's...

some other poor bastard's problem

[Ravenseye]

12. That's what those seat covers are for

the paper seat things. They protect your ass just fine.

Anyway the seat would be fine if everyone just used basic hygene regularly.

[JVS]

13. The covers don't help when others want you to lift the seat befor peeing

It's a simple choice, touch the seat with your hand vs. leave it down. Drawback to leaving it down is that it might get a sprinkle, but that's the next users problem.

[Ravenseye]

14. Then don't use it

Wait for a urinal, or use your foot to lift the damn seat. Don't piss on the seat, cause then it's pretty much UNusable to anyone.

Not caring how you leave something, because then it's the next user's problem and not yours...I'm assuming that's not a common philosophical postion you hold.

[JVS]

15. I was just telling the poster upthread why that happens

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

16. Dumb question

Can you not use either TP or the toilet seat covers to protect your hand, just as it would you ass? Or you can even use your foot to lift the seat too - it's not that hard.

[JVS]

18. The answer is that people won't bother.

It's someone else's problem.

[alcibiades_mystery]

20. Whatever happened to the art of lifting the toilet seat with your foot?

I'm a master at it. Tuck the tip of your shoe underneath the overhang, and perform a bent leg lift. I haven't touched a public toilet seat in ages, and I never piss with a seat down. Even drunk as fuck. In a dirty dive bar. And I go. To a lot. Often.

Also did a bit of toilet cleaning in college when I worked on the janitorial crew for a Lord & Taylor's. What a fucking mess people make. The first few times I had to clean the bathrooms I was gagging. But then you get used to it, and it doesn't bother so much. Taught me that human beings can literally get used to almost any state of things, no matter how atrocious.

[JVS]

23. Whatever happened to the art of realizing that people don't give a fuck?

And that's why they just don't do anything.

[alcibiades_mystery]

25. It's an art to realize?

My bad...

[Orrex]

4. Update

The sign was torn down within about 20 minutes of posting.

I guess people would rather stand in a puddle than learn to use the facilities.

Charming.

[cleofus1]

5. i can't help it....

it just squirts in every which direction...

[JVS]

7. Life is so hard

[nickinSTL]

11. then sit...

and spare the rest of us

[JVS]

6. AIM AT THE SIGN

[Book Lover]

9. At a hotel I used to work at, our sign said

"We aim to please. You aim too, please!"

[Neoma]

10. People need to mop up their own messes.

[NewWaveChick1981]

17. I've never understood how guys miss and then just leave it.

It is laziness? Cluelessness? Or something else? :eyes: You make a mess, YOU clean it up! :grr: I've had this argument with hubby countless times. Fortunately, he got the message and it's no longer a problem. It's disgusting.

[ikri]

19. Reminds me

Of a former work place. The company I worked for shared a building with a call centre and whilst many of the people who worked in the call centre were pretty decent people there were a few who were complete pricks. This often became very evident when using the toilets on their floor.

Some of the guys who used that toilet were simply disgusting. Any time you went in there you could guarantee that someone from the call centre had either pissed all over the floor or toilet seat or somehow forgotten to flush. There were posters all over requesting that paper hand towels should never be flushed down the toilets as they caused blockages, yet office maintenance workers would be in there at least once or twice a week to unblock a toilet where people had flushed the hand towels. Soap dispensers were routinely broken, half of them never washed their hands anyway so they probably weren't too bothered.

Oh yeah, and one time someone left their underwear on a window ledge. For 7 hours.

Half the staff in my office used to use the toilets on a different floor. I felt really sorry for the people who cleaned those toilets each day.

[jmowreader]

21. You think men are bad?

I was coming out of the men's room at work one day and was approached by a woman. "The ladies' room is a complete mess, could you have someone clean it?"

I got one of the female associates to go in there and see what was wrong. Turns out that an adult had done her business right in the middle of the floor, then walked away from it. I don't know why. Crack, mental illness, ethnic differences, revenge, whatever, but we had a huge pile of urine, feces and toilet paper in the middle of the floor that caused us to close the restroom and call a hazardous waste company to come get it. They come quickly when there's two pounds of shit on the floor of your restroom.

Men don't do this.

[Orrex]

22. Yikes!

But I thought that women were so dainty and refined?!?

Anyway, maybe that woman is the one who tore down my sign.

[JVS]

24. What kind of sign do you post to prevent that?

[jmowreader]

27. You don't

Americans don't shit on the floor. We were all brought up around plumbing. Okay, Matcom was raised by a pack of wolves and my wife acts like I was, but most Americans know what toilets are for.

I figure anyone who shits on the floor is:

* deranged, in which case a sign won't help
* a defector from North Korea, where your "toilet" was a ditch, and since they don't read English a sign won't help
* two years old, although this one wasn't...once again, signs won't help either
* or pissed off at the Home Depot for some reason. I guess that if we trumped up a reason to terminate someone they might shit on the floor to get back at us, but it would be more effective to block all the fire doors with freight then call the city.

[Ravenseye]

26. I agree

...and my wife does as well.

We've both had to clean the facilities at one point in our career (she was a part time janitor in college, and I worked at a restaurant/coffeshop/bar).

The female bathrooms were consistently filthier than the mens. What with women unwilling to at all touch the seats and without aparent care for aim...there often would be shit and piss EVERYWHERE on and around the toilets. Mostly Piss obviously.

Then of course were the MULTIPLE times we found used tampons like...stuck to the walls of the stall, or on the floor. How fucking hard is it to flush them. Seriously. How hard?

[Benfea]

28. The best urinal sign I ever saw was:

DON'T EAT THE BIG PINK COOKIE