Newcastle students put sanitary bins in gents for the gender neutral

Thanks chaps.

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I want post of the day for that.

Surely bloodhound is just liking a woman on her period?

Bit of a step from there to a stranger's used products up your backdoor, no?

Don’t they know that menstrual cups are all the rage now?

Quite how anybody would get one up their arse (and then retrieve it), boggles the mind. I wonder if anyone would be daft enough to try?

(Tbf I'm referring to the "gender is a spectrum thing". Ffs we just wore what we wanted in the 90's at that uni.)

Well.

Completely confirms my assertion that Northumbria are and have been for some time the superior university of the two. (I've studied at both).

(Not read the full thread, sorry).

Ever heard of 'bloodhound'

Not the dog

I actually don't think the reused thing happened. I think it's someone's sexual fantasy we're reading there. But either way

Finally. We might get some decently designed toiled cubicles then if an architect has to use a loo with an arse cheek hanging over a sanpro bin, given they never leave enough space.

Won't the chaps get fucked off when they can't get in / out of cubicles without great difficulty (going in sideways, breathing in etc) then not being able to sit on the bog without coming into contact with something that stores bodily waste?

I mean I'm not that keen and I use then

OTOH most men train themselves to shit at certain times of the day and don't use public toilets for crapping (experience + multiple threads on here) so maybe most won't notice.

I worked for a fashion company in London. Unisex loos, except after a few weeks they had to make the first few cubicles men's ones as they made such a mess. I once tried to use a men's cubicle thinking it was silly to queue inside the toilets when one cubicle was empty. And I came straight back out and joined the queue again

I can therefore see why the ladies turns unisex and the men's is left as the men's.

Always felt a bit weird leaving the toilet with a male colleague but I didn't feel unsafe.

God I hope so. Part of me still hopes it's just a nasty joke.

I'm not sure why but 'unisex' loos bothers me not one jot - out local waitrose has one loo that covers men/women/disabled/baby changing - but 'gender fluid/neutral' (or whatever the kids are calling it these days) loos make me feel like I'd rather pee my pants than use it. It just smacks of trendy bandwagon jumping.

Tbh I don't think this is hurting anyone. Seeing as transmen get much less awareness I think this will help them a lot. And I'm pretty sure that the gross reused thing is only a small minority.

Really wish I hadn't clicked on that link while eating breakfast.

Yes I wonder if they even let the university administration know they were doing it. Thinking about the university I used to work at all the waste pick up was done under contract, negotiated for I think three year periods at as low a cost as possible. The contract would have to be renegotiated as we're talking about essentially doubling the number of bins to be collected from which would significantly increase the cost. I would imagine that the bins would be removed and returned to the student union very quickly indeed (unless the union were prepared to pay for them to be emptied and cleaned from their own funds, or unless the only loos affected were in the union building which they might be responsible for anyway). The guy that ran ancillary services was totally focused on the bottom line, and in almost permanent battle with the student union to provide more of everything for less. Student union reps are usually elected on incredibly low turnouts but I can't imagine students wanting bins that no one will use vs (eg) more expensive food.

This is a great idea that means the drunks in Wetherspoons will have an extra pot to pee in and pee all over because most men pee on toilet seats and can now pee on your towel bins 😁

This is going to get expensive fast for organisations such as Universities. Right now its just at least one in each students union bathroom and asking the University to put at least one in each of their bathrooms but if its rolled out to every cubicle, its going to be a lot.

Sanitary waste has to be disposed of by a licenced company. I know when I worked at a petrol station it was something like £90 per bin per year to get taken away and replaced every 4 weeks. Even if they're paying half that, given the amount of toilets they have its a fairly big outlay especially if they're in every cubicle

I am in favour of all toilets having sanitary bins purely to raise awareness of bad cubicle design, i.e. sanitary bins frequently being too close to or even overhanging the toilet seat due to narrow cubicles with the toilet stuck in the middle. If men end up having to navigate their bottoms around badly placed bins maybe this issue will get sorted out.

this thread has really opened my eyes.

This thread is hilarious with two conversations running in parallel and it's not always clear which post belongs to which conversation.

Oh my god. That is disgusting!

How on earth do you know? Why would you a) do such a thing and then b) boast about it??