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Men pissing on toilet seat, why?

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BrickHare · 15/06/2025 23:16

Just why? Why can’t they wipe it up? We have a communal toilet at work which everyone uses, however piss is always on the seat after a male has been. I know this because there’s only one toilet in the staffroom and everyone can see who uses it. This never happens after a woman has used the loo. It’s disgusting that other people are having to clean it up. Suggestions at what to do?

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TheCurious0range · 16/06/2025 11:54

I hate this too, when we moved offices the new toilets on each floor were completely self contained and unisex (like a little room with toilet sink, hand dryer etc). I work in a professional environment and some of the men were vile, the amount of piss and pubes was disgusting and I know it wasn't the women as they were the same women I'd shared toilets with for years with none of those issues. To be fair it was male colleagues who started calling out men who did that, John I've just been in the toilet after you and you've left piss all over the seat go and clean it up mate, etc. After a while a couple of the guys suggested at a team meeting we unofficially designate a male and female (only one has a sanitary bin anyway so that made the choice which was which) . It was a vocal male colleague who said it's bad enough for me but I don't have to sit down in there, it's not fair on the women in the office.
There are other toilets out in the hall behind the lifts that people tend to use if they need more than a wee and they are designated male female.

I was surprised because it's not something DH does at home, the only time we've had spillages that need mopping were when DS was learning to wee standing up and his aim wasn't great! Even then I would do the first wipe then tell him he needed to, to get him in the habit.

Enrichetta · 16/06/2025 11:48

HeyWiggle · 16/06/2025 01:15

Mixed loos are vile, smelly, sticky floors, piss over the seat, shitty skid marks, just awful. Thankfully the women's loos usually have dry seats and floor, no skid marks. Very rarely I find a blocked loo which might be due to flushing issues?

I totally agree, and I’m absolutely pissed off by the National Portrait Gallery having switched to gender neutral loos.

What’s more, when I complained about this I was treated first with ‘incomprehension’, then bemusement, and finally a clear implication that I was being weird and unreasonable.

Dbank · 16/06/2025 11:42

Because they don't care about it, and are rarely challenged.

It's horrible and lazy, I would put a notice up saying "Those with willies, please ALWAYS, lift seat before pissing...no one wants to sit in your wee."

Lonelydave · 16/06/2025 11:33

DoreenDo · 15/06/2025 23:39

Yep there's one area of the offices which has mixed sex toilets. Seats left up and piss on the floor constantly. It is absolutely disgusting. Men are pigs

Going to get in to trouble - but surely that should be 'some men are pigs', in the same way that 'some women are gold diggers'?

We can't all be perfect, but as a chap I get equally annoyed at some behaviour my fellow men do, the loo thing, is just laziness and if they don't look after that bit, well their life can't be great. It's a hr and a general office issue, throw it out there and embarrass them, you'll soon notice the change.

InterestedDad37 · 16/06/2025 11:29

Yep, it's inexcusable and thoughtless 👍

GinnyandGeorgia · 16/06/2025 11:25

I have only ever used female toilets so I can't comment on male public toilets (and my boys at home are told manners)

but toilet seats covered in pee is far too common in the ladies toilets. I am a woman, it's not difficult not to pee on the seat for a start 😂even if you squat and don't sit!
but apparently women can't wipe either.

or can't close the lid when they flush.

Women are just as bad. I am not even going into the obvious signs someone was on her periods. Shameful and filthy people (the problem is not having your periods, we all do, is leaving places in a state so the next person in the loo will know!)

Bagelmonster20 · 16/06/2025 11:04

This is why I cannot stand unisex toilets. We have them at work now and they are always unpleasant. There is a Waitrose with clean single sex toilets across from the office so I go out to them instead. I haven't been pulled up on this (yet) but will have plenty to say if/when I am!

I will always favour places with single sex toilets OP for this very reason.

Needmorelego · 16/06/2025 10:58

As a regular user of public toilets I can tell you that is not just a man thing.
There are clearly women out there who are just as messy, gross and completely disgusting.

TomatoSandwiches · 16/06/2025 10:51

My eldest went through a phase of "forgetting" to flush or wipe his pee droplets especially at night so he had a few weeks of me waking him up at random times of the night to clean it up, when it because inconvenient for him to "forget" he suddenly stopped doing it.

Jevarakh · 16/06/2025 10:49

Man here 😀

I always sit. The old chap is far too unreliable. If standing, it can go in ANY direction and you (or at least I) don't have any control once it starts!

Gets worse with age.

Stand-up urinals are OK, but on a chodbin fellas, ALWAYS sit.

TheDivergentEnigma · 16/06/2025 10:46

hellohellooo · 15/06/2025 23:33

I had a male relative stay for two weeks

When I tell you the toliet and the surrounds was covered in his piss

No lie

I ended up being so angry every time he did it I left spray and wipes on the seat and it still made no difference

Just vile

One morning I stood on his pee it was literally EVERYWHERE ON THE FLOOR aghhhhhhhj

Did you tell him to get his arse back in and clean it up?

I do with my son and husband, and tell them they are gross for doing it and thinking they can just leave it.

Sleeplessnightssleepydays · 16/06/2025 10:35

If you can see who uses the toilet is it one member of the male staff who is doing this or is it multiple men?

If you have complained to management and the issue is still continuing then it sounds as though this is deliberate. Especially given you say there is snot on the walls because there is no accidental explanation for that.

When you complaining to management is it a male manager you are complaining to?

Do you have an HR department?

Because this should be a health and safety issue and you need to step up with co.plaints to HR and management until it is dealt with. And point them in the direction of who exactly is behaving in such an anti social and disgusting manner.

mathanxiety · 16/06/2025 03:32

You should complain until this issue is fixed. It's a disgusting thing to do.

Mumtobabyhavoc · 16/06/2025 02:19

"Oi, mate, this ain't the men's down the pub!"
😁

Devianinc · 16/06/2025 01:34

hellohellooo · 15/06/2025 23:33

I had a male relative stay for two weeks

When I tell you the toliet and the surrounds was covered in his piss

No lie

I ended up being so angry every time he did it I left spray and wipes on the seat and it still made no difference

Just vile

One morning I stood on his pee it was literally EVERYWHERE ON THE FLOOR aghhhhhhhj

Yeah, I would’ve told him where to go. Don’t ever put up with that when some piece of crap is staying at your home. I really don’t know what I would’ve done but he wouldn’t be happy. Disgusting

HeyWiggle · 16/06/2025 01:15

Mixed loos are vile, smelly, sticky floors, piss over the seat, shitty skid marks, just awful. Thankfully the women's loos usually have dry seats and floor, no skid marks. Very rarely I find a blocked loo which might be due to flushing issues?

Thepossibility · 16/06/2025 00:59

My DH used to have a close friend as a teenager/early 20's that did this every time he went. My DH genuinely believed he wasn't quite right in the head, he was so bemused by it. Friend is quite high up in the police nowadays.

BrickHare · 16/06/2025 00:11

ninjahamster · 16/06/2025 00:00

I find thus so strange. I have a husband, 2 now adult sons. At no point have they ever pissed on the toilet seat. Nor did my dad, my brothers. My sons over the years had friends visit, as did my daughters. I never had to clean piss up. I don’t know who these people are!

Strange because the people you knew had manners? It still happens even if you haven’t experienced this.

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BrickHare · 16/06/2025 00:09

TranceNation · 15/06/2025 23:53

My point is flushing the toilet without the lid down is just as grim a habit as peeing on the seat/floor.

I would say there’s a huge difference to flushing a toilet without the lid down and pissing on the seat. When I’ve flushed without a lid due to there not being one I don’t get toilet water on the seat. Are you a man btw?

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ninjahamster · 16/06/2025 00:00

I find thus so strange. I have a husband, 2 now adult sons. At no point have they ever pissed on the toilet seat. Nor did my dad, my brothers. My sons over the years had friends visit, as did my daughters. I never had to clean piss up. I don’t know who these people are!

TranceNation · 15/06/2025 23:53

BrickHare · 15/06/2025 23:42

So men can’t use their arms to wipe?

My point is flushing the toilet without the lid down is just as grim a habit as peeing on the seat/floor.

BrickHare · 15/06/2025 23:42

TranceNation · 15/06/2025 23:35

Yeah mixed sex toilets are not ideal but let's be honest more often than not in the ladies the toilet lid is left up so everything is getting covered in germs anyway when the toilet is flushed.

So men can’t use their arms to wipe?

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BrickHare · 15/06/2025 23:40

hellohellooo · 15/06/2025 23:33

I had a male relative stay for two weeks

When I tell you the toliet and the surrounds was covered in his piss

No lie

I ended up being so angry every time he did it I left spray and wipes on the seat and it still made no difference

Just vile

One morning I stood on his pee it was literally EVERYWHERE ON THE FLOOR aghhhhhhhj

Urgh god. I mean as a woman I don’t get my period everywhere, maybe that is the answer? Fight fire with fire? Or just leave it and squat?

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DoreenDo · 15/06/2025 23:39

Yep there's one area of the offices which has mixed sex toilets. Seats left up and piss on the floor constantly. It is absolutely disgusting. Men are pigs

BrickHare · 15/06/2025 23:38

Nevertrustacop · 15/06/2025 23:29

I guess they don't wipe it up because they are never going to have to sit in it.

Surely they will if they have a 💩?

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