Guilt Free Railing 6

[WouldBeGood]

When will the railing end?!

no I wouldn't like unisex toilets either, I still want that time machine back to the late 90s, halcyon days when we could focus on education and the NHS and not all this divisive stuff.

Those of you in east Dunbartonshire, how are you voting?

I think there is a difference between proper unisex toilets each cubical having its own wash hand basin, a bit like a domestic downstairs loo and unisex toilets sharing wash basins.

If that makes sense.

@Lockdownbear any shared space makes me quite uncomfortable as regards toilets. Perhaps tainted by my experience as a criminal lawyer, where you hear of all sorts of sleazy behaviour. I’m also quite scared if ones where there’s a closed in shared entrance with the respective toilets off to each side.

Men piss everywhere let's face it. Plus it's hardly beyond the creepiest men to hide some sort of camera in a toilet and come back for it later.

Riverrunning - we didn't appreciate the 90s when we had then.

The 90s were so optimistic! Post-Communism, the Berlin Wall had come down, even Tony Blair felt like a breath of fresh air. We went clubbing in combats and ex-army jackets and we thought everything was going to keep getting better.

OMG I'd forgotten about clubbing in combats!

Haha, I felt sorry for the girls who came a few years later and had to traipse around in heels and mini skirts - although maybe they were always there and I was just sneaking into rock clubs with my (very bad) fake ID

@Lockdownbear

OMG I'd forgotten about clubbing in combats!

No need for a handbag; purse, keys and 20 Marlboro lights all fitted in nicely.

I’m so old no ID was required 😳

Oh god Marlboro Lights...we have our first child-free night this weekend for over a year, and I think I may have a sneaky Marlboro!

My ID was just card! Nothing very failsafe about it at all.

Enjoy that child free night 🚬

Oh.. Marlboro Lights... 😍

I used to keep my taxi fare in my biker boot

oh yes Marlboro lights - enjoy the childfree night!!! Time for a 1990s club like the 80s ones where we can dance to blur, park life, elastica, suede and re-live what was it 5 percent of the population trying to buy Oasis Loch Lomond tickets...can't believe it's so long ago!

Oh the 90s were ace, when grunge was cool and you never had to worry if your hair looked good. Such a good time to be alive

But you can’t fit a buggy and 2 other children into a closed cubicle. I dunno if they will have thought about families out and about

At what point were people in Edinburgh shouting we need gender neutral toilets. Let’s spend 5 million pounds on them

I would have said open the libraries more or fund playgroups or upgrade the playgrounds

That would affect me and my friends more

Families definitely need more consideration when toilets are concerned.

The days of mums happily parking the pram outside the loo are long gone. Plus there's that issue I mentioned earlier kids who are 7+ who are too old to go in with opposite sexed parent but who are still quite young to be going into the loo unaccompanied. When you don't know who's in there.

But your right it doesn't need to be an overnight, blitz all the toilets in one go. They should do them over time as each set of toilets come up for refurbishment anyway.

I used to go to Debenhams toilets when mine were little as they had a big and wee toilet and sink in the same room.

But DS was insistent he must go to male toilets from an early age 🙄 Also that he must pee standing up.. who’d have thought it would be so tricky!

I'm glad I grew up at a time when I didn't have to worry about eyebrows

We were at Dalkeith country park and the toilets were called
Family toilets, no difference I could see apart from the name but my boys were oddly reluctant to go in a toilet that wasn’t just for boys 😀.
My boys would always prefer to go to the girls toilets with me as they smell so much better. I am really really not keen on the idea of non gender toilets as the smell is always so much worse and living in a house with three boys I definitely know why 😀

I wish they would make more men's toilets baby friendly! The amount of places that DH took DS on his own with the inability for change facilities as they were always in the women's!
The solutions some places offered like him going into the women's he was not comfortable with potentially upsetting other female customers so would have to take him back to the car to change him!

I think that's the reason lots of baby changes are in the disabled which makes sense, the disabled tend to be bigger allowing pram space.

I know there are loads of arguments about rights to use disabled but it makes sense to have baby change, if no space for a separate facility, in the disabled.

Just a quick plop in to rail against the elections. I know things will spread out with the list votes today, but I'm just grumpy that the SNP has managed 81% of the seats on 47% of the vote. And you wonder why they aren't keen to change the electoral system to something more proportional. And also, it's looking like the proportion of seats is hardly going to change from the 2016 intake. Because, let's face it... not a lot has changed in the world since then . On the plus side, it's looking like the nutters (and yes, I do include AS in that) aren't making any inroads. Could do without any more nutters in there, frankly.