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queing for ladies toilets

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bedraggledmumoftwo · 31/10/2015 18:03

Am at rugby wold cup final. Men must outnumber women 4:1. Why are we queuing and men sauntering in?!

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TwllBach · 31/10/2015 20:02

I used to do the holding it in till the hair drier goes thing...

Then I got pregnant and now I can't be bothered. Cuts minutes off my wee time...minutes!!

Oysterbabe · 31/10/2015 20:07

What?! People genuinely hold it in until the hand dryers are going. That is bonkers. With that and the making a little loo roll nest it's no wonder it takes so bloody long.

Allbymyselfagain · 31/10/2015 20:11

Loo roll nest

DeepBlueLake · 31/10/2015 20:19

Or there are the people who put the tap on for 5 minuets whilst they do their piss.

I'm also a ninja pisser, I can't be arsed to faff about putting loo roll on seats. The sooner you do you business, the sooner you get out.

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bedraggledmumoftwo · 31/10/2015 20:19

That is ridiculous!

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Panickingalot · 31/10/2015 20:19

Because for some unknown reason to me a lot of women faff in the loo. It takes I think 30-45 seconds to lock door, drop bottoms/ pull up skirt, pee, wipe, clothes back up,flush loo, unlock door.

I've stood in queues where women were in the loo for 4-5 minutes. Yes they may have been changing sanitary protection or having a poo but how is it taking so long????

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bedraggledmumoftwo · 31/10/2015 20:21

Who can faff about with loo roll after hopping on one leg for twenty minutes?!

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LunchpackOfNotreDame · 31/10/2015 20:21

5 minuets?! That must make a hell of a mess on the floor...

I'll get my coat

Aposey · 31/10/2015 20:24

Putting loo roll on toilet seats is pointless. Does anyone really think that any nasties on the seat would really be stopped by something that is mostly air and fluff?! Either hover and work on having good aim (men seem to manage it, why can't women?) or maybe come equipped with sanitiser? Otherwise you're wasting paper for no good reason.

pinotblush · 31/10/2015 20:26

Im extremely fast due to knowing what its like waiting in a queue when busting. In-pee-out.

Also known to take a deep breath and use the mens.

Greaterthanthesumoftheparts · 31/10/2015 20:26

Well, the pub I was in today for the rugby World Cup had 1 loo for ladies, whilst in the gents there was one cubicle and two urinals, unsurprisingly no queue for gents, line out the door for ladies. I used the men's!

BogusCatAndTheFuzz · 31/10/2015 20:27

The drier waiters and tap runners, WTF? Seriously why? You're in the loo you're either peeing, pooing, changing sanitary towel/tampon/moon cup.

We all know what you're doing…

Just get on with it!

SockQueen · 31/10/2015 20:29

What on earth do people think is going to happen to you if your legs/bum touch a public toilet seat?

I wipe away any visible drips, but life is too short for hovering or lining with toilet paper.

Dollymixtureyumyum · 31/10/2015 20:33

Once went to the millennium station for championship play off final and there was one womens toilets on each concourse compared to 3 mens. Actully there was two womens toilets but one of them had been changed to a mans for the match. And yep the massive queue was the womens!!!! You would think by they would have released and changed one back by half time.
It's really annoying when you are at a concert or show and you only have 15 minutes in the interval. I once got so worked up that I was going to miss bon jovi coming back on stage that I shouted and reminded the many women who had been in the cubicles for 10 minutes that we were on a clock and others needed to go.

BitOutOfPractice · 31/10/2015 20:36

It's because the usually men who design these stadiums (i know it's really stadia but that sounds a bit wanky I think!) assume that women don't like rugby / football / sport and will be at home baking instead.

The worst place of been in Vicarage Road (Watford) where there werr 3 ladies for about 4000 away fans. Allof which were blocked.

I think it's all about keeping us in our place

Mama1980 · 31/10/2015 20:38

I never use the ladies at twickenham. It's ridiculous and the men don't seem to mind, I take my sons with me anyway.
I love the atmosphere there but seriously the whole stadium layout is just crap. (And that's not mentioning the horrific queues back to the station)

ThisisMrsNicolaHicklin · 31/10/2015 20:40

That's just what I was thinking Bogus. Don't they realise that by sitting in there for ages they are drawing more attention to themselves?

jelliebelly · 31/10/2015 20:50

All those women reading this who know they take ages faffing about please hang your heads in shame - it never ceases to amaze me how long some women take to have a wee ...

shinynewusername · 31/10/2015 21:11

I don't get the loo roll thing on seats thing either. WTF do people think they are going to catch from resting their thighs on the seat? Urine doesn't contain germs anyway and, if someone's actually crapped on the seat, a bit of bog roll is hardly much help.

Creating nonsensical fears about hygiene are another way of keeping us in our place.

bobbilyknob · 31/10/2015 21:24

sockqueen absolutely, plonk your bum down and get on with it!

DieSchottin93 · 31/10/2015 22:00

It always annoys me when I go to Murrayfield for the rugby, for every one ladies loo there seems to be 3 mens I just try and have a tactical wee just before half time before the queues start getting ridiculous. I too am a quick wee-r, OK I can understand if you're on your period and need to change your pad/tampon etc but if it's just a simple wee you need then you can be out in 90 seconds imo

DizzyNorthernBird · 31/10/2015 22:45

It's the bastard seat hoverers that cause these issues! If everyone just sat the fuck down on the seat then no one would need to faff around drying/sanitising/carefully arranging paper on the seat & everyone would be in and out in under a minute. No one ever caught anything by the back of their thighs touching a loo seat. Ever.

MrsMook · 31/10/2015 23:10

It took a daft amount of time queuing for 4 cubicles on a ferry the other day. The lady ahead of me went in accompanied by a young child, but she was the first to come out. No movement from the other 3.

Under provision of female toilets is really annoying.

ElementaryMyDear · 31/10/2015 23:20

I was in the Twickenham area today, and would have said that the proportion of men to women was more like 8 or even 10 to 1. Given that it's a relatively new building, that makes it all the more of a disgrace that they couldn't put in enough Ladies' loos to avoid endless queues.

Mind you, I've always wondered what the hell the council was doing giving that hideous building planning permission anyway, and my theory is that they were so awestruck by the fact that it was a famous stadium that they didn't feel they could question the design in any way. So I suppose it's no surprise that they also didn't scrutinise the plans sufficiently closely to check whether the facilities were adequate.

Pipbin · 31/10/2015 23:23

Either hover and work on having good aim (men seem to manage it, why can't women?) or maybe come equipped with sanitiser? Otherwise you're wasting paper for no good reason.

Or just sodding well sit down.
You won't catch bum AIDS by sitting on the toilet seat that someone else has sat on you know. If you must then wipe round with paper then sit the fuck down.

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