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HeathMan Purley 18 Aug 18 8.28am | |
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I had a very interesting conversation yesterday with a lady who works for the Home office in its Central London Main Office. She told me that £36,000.00 has been spent so that the toilets are gender neutral. It could have been done for less money, but being in a workplace signage was needed at a cost of £8,000.00. There is one problem. Blokes are so used to urinals that they enter the cubicels and neglect to shut the doors. Female staff who feel uncomfortable with this are not using the toilets. We need to do our bit and shut doors in these circumstances.
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dannyboy1978 18 Aug 18 8.37am | |
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How many people is this actually applicable to?
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Helmet46 Croydon 18 Aug 18 8.42am | |
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Originally posted by dannyboy1978
How many people is this actually applicable to? Nine.
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Harpo Oxfordshire 18 Aug 18 8.53am | |
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Some people are just too sensitive. In France, I have used (desperately) a toilet with no doors, no toilet paper and no towels (which didn't really matter, as there was no water). I had to phone Mrs H to fetch some toilet paper. A roadside facility? No, the Town Hall in a town of c100,000 inhabitants.
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becky over the moon 18 Aug 18 8.58am | |
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Originally posted by Harpo
Some people are just too sensitive. In France, I have used (desperately) a toilet with no doors, no toilet paper and no towels (which didn't really matter, as there was no water). I had to phone Mrs H to fetch some toilet paper. A roadside facility? No, the Town Hall in a town of c100,000 inhabitants. Yes, but would you have changed your tampon?
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Badger11 Beckenham 18 Aug 18 12.00pm | |
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Originally posted by HeathMan
I had a very interesting conversation yesterday with a lady who works for the Home office in its Central London Main Office. She told me that £36,000.00 has been spent so that the toilets are gender neutral. It could have been done for less money, but being in a workplace signage was needed at a cost of £8,000.00. There is one problem. Blokes are so used to urinals that they enter the cubicels and neglect to shut the doors. Female staff who feel uncomfortable with this are not using the toilets. We need to do our bit and shut doors in these circumstances.
The solution is obvious but typical civil servants would rather blow the tax payers money on a solution no one wants. Handicapped toilets are gender neutral. Just change the sign to include "those who feel excluded". If they don't like that then pick a gender.
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becky over the moon 18 Aug 18 2.38pm | |
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Another reason we like our privacy is that women are quiet in a lavatory - making noises is a real no-no in the Ladies. Now, according to my husband, lots of men, whilst using the stall, tend to accompany their actions with farts, grunts, groans and plentiful exclamations of the "O God, no!" "Oh! Pleeeease!" "Oh Help Me" and "Oh! Come On" variety variety. Like Badger11, I'm with the women on this one.
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Harpo Oxfordshire 18 Aug 18 4.09pm | |
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Originally posted by becky
...lots of men, whilst using the stall, tend to accompany their actions with farts, grunts, groans and plentiful exclamations of the "O God, no!" "Oh! Pleeeease!" "Oh Help Me" and "Oh! Come On"... We do that because it's just 'right'. Women utter exactly the same phrases while being humped - because it's just 'right'.
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Stirlingsays 18 Aug 18 5.06pm | |
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I know....here's a solution. Just have separate male and female toilets. As for anyone telling people how a gender should behave. That's like the old King Canute and the tide. Edited by Stirlingsays (18 Aug 2018 5.08pm)
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Hrolf The Ganger 18 Aug 18 5.47pm | |
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Originally posted by Stirlingsays
I know....here's a solution. Just have separate male and female toilets. As for anyone telling people how a gender should behave. That's like the old King Canute and the tide. Edited by Stirlingsays (18 Aug 2018 5.08pm) Isn't it so like the 'progressives' to create a problem that never existed and then blame the people who never wanted it in the first place.
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Stirlingsays 18 Aug 18 5.59pm | |
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Originally posted by Hrolf The Ganger
Isn't it so like the 'progressives' to create a problem that never existed and then blame the people who never wanted it in the first place. You hit the nail on its head.
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becky over the moon 18 Aug 18 6.37pm | |
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Originally posted by Hrolf The Ganger
Isn't it so like the 'progressives' to create a problem that never existed and then blame the people who never wanted it in the first place. ....whilst paying for it out of the public purse.....
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