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Hygiene fears may spell the end for urinals
Sunday Times ^

Posted on 05/24/2020 10:45:11 AM PDT by sicsempertyrannisDenver

Everywhere you go, there is nowhere to go. The closure of many public conveniences as part of the coronavirus lockdown is forcing a rethink of the way Britons relieve themselves away from home.

“The way the world is going, the traditional public convenience is becoming a thing of the past,” said Raymond Martin, managing director of the British Toilet Association, which is advising dozens of councils and companies on the problems of maintaining safe washroom facilities at a time of acute anxiety about the lethally infectious virus.

A coming revolution in lavatory design may spell the end of the urinals that have enabled men to come and go in a fraction of the time it takes women to queue for comparatively fewer facilities.

Dreary interiors of ageing facilities may have to have their “guts ripped out”, to be replaced with gender-neutral cubicles, automatic sensors, one-way traffic and other infection-beating “touchless” technologies, said Martin.

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KEYWORDS: covid; culturewars
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To: sicsempertyrannisDenver

feminist are betraying women on this issue. If women vote on no urinals how do you think they would vote?


41 posted on 05/24/2020 11:19:51 AM PDT by stuckincali
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To: sicsempertyrannisDenver

The control freaks have gone mad with power


42 posted on 05/24/2020 11:23:12 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire. Or both.)
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To: escapefromboston

“Urinals are probably more hygienic. You’re not really touching anything (unlike siting on a toilet). Though I do prefer the motion activated sensors. The only real danger with urinals is the occasional splash back.”

But do they really think men are going to squat to pee? Besides urine on the seats, you can get as much splash and short firing with commodes as with well-made urinals. As a sign in my local gas station says, “Old soldiers with short muskets, stand closer to the firing line.” That solves most urinal AND commode problems.

This is a story made up by limp-, er, wrist liberals to have something to talk about.


43 posted on 05/24/2020 11:26:24 AM PDT by Cincinnatus.45-70 (What do DemocRats enjoy more than a truckload of dead babies? Unloading them with a pitchfork!)
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To: PIF

I use public toilets and I piss on the seat - D. Leary.


44 posted on 05/24/2020 11:26:35 AM PDT by Starcitizen (Communist China needs to be treated like the pariah country it is. Send it back to 1971)
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To: escapefromboston

You’re right. I can’t see how a toilet is more hygienic than a urinal. You’re just standing there, not touching anything.


45 posted on 05/24/2020 11:29:05 AM PDT by StolarStorm
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To: sicsempertyrannisDenver
Two guys were taking a leak off the Golden Gate Bridge and one says: "That water is cold".
His friend replies: "It's pretty deep, too."
46 posted on 05/24/2020 11:29:23 AM PDT by dainbramaged (That information is classified. Request denied.)
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To: a fool in paradise

yes good point


47 posted on 05/24/2020 11:30:38 AM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: a fool in paradise

What building code are you under?


48 posted on 05/24/2020 11:32:30 AM PDT by redshawk ( I want my red balloon. ( https://youtu.be/V12H2mteniE))
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To: sicsempertyrannisDenver

Where will homos meet?


49 posted on 05/24/2020 11:32:34 AM PDT by mass55th ("Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway." ~~ John Wayne)
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To: sicsempertyrannisDenver

That’s why I just piss on the floor.


50 posted on 05/24/2020 11:32:36 AM PDT by Artemis Webb (Be kind to each other, unless the other guy is a dumbass.)
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To: Artemis Webb

I just piss in the woods


51 posted on 05/24/2020 11:33:46 AM PDT by RightGeek (FUBO and the donkey you rode in on)
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To: a fool in paradise

Remove the mirrors and you can have something like a 1:1 ratio.


52 posted on 05/24/2020 11:36:33 AM PDT by crusher2013
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To: sicsempertyrannisDenver

I’m on a task force at work that is focused on plans for returning to the office from work-from-home status. Per our tasks, I’ve been gathering up the concerns from my little group of co-workers.

The women want the restroom staffed with a cleaner (paid janitor, volunteer for the day among all the females on the floor, who knows) whose job it will be to clean the toilets after each use.

I can’t wait to report back to the task force about this. I imagine if I am hearing this, others on the task force are hearing it from the women in their little groups.

I say let’s all just stay home if this is the way people are going to be.


53 posted on 05/24/2020 11:36:42 AM PDT by CheshireTheCat ("Forgetting pain is convenient.Remembering it agonizing.But recovering truth is worth the suffering")
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To: sicsempertyrannisDenver

I knew 2 months ago we’d end up in this pissing contest.


54 posted on 05/24/2020 11:37:00 AM PDT by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: sicsempertyrannisDenver

We’ll always have trees. Take that, third wave feminists!


55 posted on 05/24/2020 11:37:55 AM PDT by pepsi_junkie (Often wrong, but never in doubt!)
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To: GotMojo

“Bring back the trough!”

I know a couple of bars in my area that have troughs still installed at the base of the bar - they are covered over to mainly show them off and are not useable but they could be.


56 posted on 05/24/2020 11:39:38 AM PDT by ConsCA
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To: sicsempertyrannisDenver
Martin of the BTA?


57 posted on 05/24/2020 11:39:42 AM PDT by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: StolarStorm

How about this .. if the feminazis want unisex toilets, give them one with only urinals and make them stand!


58 posted on 05/24/2020 11:40:09 AM PDT by Highest Authority (DemonRats are pure EVIL)
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To: sicsempertyrannisDenver

Go Full China - a drain hole in the floor.


59 posted on 05/24/2020 11:46:24 AM PDT by bigbob (Trust Trump. Trust the Plan)
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To: sicsempertyrannisDenver

The whole world is my urinal


60 posted on 05/24/2020 11:46:53 AM PDT by bikerman
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