to hate sanitary bins in public toilets?

[YellowLawn]

why can't they be smaller so that you are not forced to sit on them?
or they are full so the lid doesn't close and they smell what's the point then ?
a small pedal bin with lid would surely do?

I know exactly what you mean too! For those of us without size 8 bots, when the bin is so close to the loo you can't help accidentally 'spilling out' onto the bin (not on purpose, obviously!).

NB I'm only a size 10/12, so not huge either!

treaclesoda I laughed but I boaked!!! I need to erase that from my brain!!

Small cubicles are the problem. I bet in most cases they are exactly the same size cubicles as in the men's toilets...simply not designed to accommodate a suitable bin.

And then those bloody ginormous loo roll holders...there's barely room to turn around.

In the loos at a certain London theatre I remember being unable to close the door. Between the toilet, the bin and the loo roll dispenser there was nowhere to stand where I was not obstructing the door. Admittedly, I was pregnant at the time but even a slender 10 year old would have had to breathe in and turn sideways.

I keep banging on about the fact that women's toilets should be designed with the sanitary bin in mind. Where has women's toilets without them?

I was on a airforce base once where they were on the wall behind and above the loo, ifyswim. Totally out the way, only place I've ever seen it.

I am a size 8 and I've still sometimes sat on bins. Some cubicles are so small that the bin actually overhangs the seat. It is minging. You can't avoid sitting on it, regardless of arse size, unless you are a fucking hoverer (in which case fuck off and stop pissing on the seat).

I've recently had a holiday in a country where in the public toilets you couldn't flush toilet paper. The open bins in there were not pleasant

Oh it's the bins which aren't emptied often enough which give me the absolute rage / vom.

I've never sat on one afaik though. I can imagine how it happens though.

Oh sorry yanbu.

I hate them. They are often not emptied put enough and smell.

The toilets aren't centred in 3 out of 4 of the cubicles at work. I don't think it was by design as they are in a different spot in each cubicle. Despite there being about 15-18 inches on one side of the toilet and about 6 inches on the other side, the bin changers always put the bin on the small side so it's right up against the toilet and overlaps it slightly. I end up sitting on it too, despite being a size 10.

I, and at least one other colleague, keep moving it to the roomier side of the toilet but the message doesn't seem to be registering. I can only presume it's a man who empties them.

YANBU, the bins are necessary. The cubicles just need to be larger, or better designed.
I have seen tiny bins that still were in the way, due to how the toilets were designed. (If the loo wasn't in the middle of the cubicle but on one side, the other side would have more space for the bin, for example)

One public toilet I have seen had the bin inside the wall, not in the way whatsoever, and the cubicles were really big, too.

Perfect. It should be like that everywhere.

If there's not enough space, I would also not be opposed to having one communal bin, next to the one for the paper towels.
But I suppose many women wouldn't like that as they feel they have to hide their periods even from other women.

It's public toilets in general, some women are right dirty bastards 😷😷

Ds2 and I often use a particular accessible loo that happens to have a baby change so unlike debenhams has a nice big bin for his gigantic nappies.

We were in there, yesterday, and I was having a quick wee while he changed himself and he started trying to flick something into it that looked like a piece of popcorn before he'd attempt to put his nappy in.

It was a manly great big adult tooth [boak]

Might have been manly, too, but was definitely manky.

YANBU I've just been on holiday to Denmark and they have a good solution, a plastic bag on a clippy thing on the wall. Doesn't take up much space and emptied frequently (barely any I saw had anything in them). Trying to attach an image to show what it looks like although the plastic bag is missing from this photo.

This is the type of toilet/bin combo you mean? Surely it's not beyond the realms of people's imagination that a slightly larger bottom, or thigh may rest on the bin?

Ah I see what you mean now! For some reason I was imagining someone trying to squat over one in order to change San pro .

I hate those automatic sensor flush things as my big bum sets them off prematurely and my arse gets flushed. Bit like a bidet really.

treaclesoda Poor you. Something else I'm forever going to be looking out for now. I worked somewhere we'd get hate mail. I used to open things with a letter opener in case of razor blades. A colleague opened a letter with shitty toilet paper inside.

OP I get what you mean about sitting on them. Some cubicles are so small the bins are crammed in and press against your leg. And smell.

oh, yes ferret that's the ones.
I find it so annoying.

and yes to hoverers, manky people. if you want to hover go to a french motorway service.

Never sat on one personally. Am I missing out?

namechanger
just try it and see if you are missing out

Better than having the used tampons on the floor innit

I hate them too. The ones at work frequently stink of rancid fish.