Best san bins ever

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I hate san bins.. the whole loo is touchless except when it comes to.stuffing over large soiled pads into the tiny mouth of the SAN bin

Then I wen to the service station off junction 11 on the m74 near Glasgow

There was no San bin, just a Matt black cylinder in the corner where the bin should be. You wave your hand over the top. A tube slide silently upwards, exposing a vast target into which even I could lob a max strength well used pad without it touching the sides. Wave the hand again and down the tube glides

Totally utterly awesome

Forgot my purse in the excitement

But where do the pads go? Does the tube also launch them into space?

There has to be some compensations for living in the future and not having a flying car.

I didn't take it apart, because I didn't have a tool kit on me at the time. I understand the nearest black hole is around 2.8 light years from us, so that would be my guess.

Oh is that how they work? I have seen them but not needed to use them!

How did you know what to do? Did it say 'wave at me'

No hints. That would be uncool.. Experimental physicist training / wishful thinking paid off

Was there a banana hanging from the ceiling and a 2 way mirror?

See that's what robots is good for

Stop having sex with them and build more brainy San bins

I’m silently playing ‘thus spake Zarathustra’ in my mind at the thought of this silent monolith of progress.

Is that zedoc the king lol I can hear it too

Bong bong bong bong... duuuum, daahhhhhhm..., dahhmmmmmmmm!

(Ape lobs sanpro in.)

People will make pilgrimages to this site from miles around!

There has to be some compensations for living in the future and not having a flying car.

I’ve always wondered why loos are centred in cubicles. Wouldn’t it make sense to offset the loo so there’s space for the bin and you don’t have to wee whilst balanced on one buttcheek to try and avoid touching the bin.

Well, Sweary clearly loo cubicles were designed by people who never considered that there was a need to accommodate bins for sanitary products. There must be a name for people like that? Something collective that describes someone who doesn't have to actually consider the realities of carting around and disposing of smelly biologically contaminated stuff.

@Swearyg, it’s because they are designed by men.

@FireFartingDuck, would that be an ‘architect’ :)

I’ve always wondered why loos are centred in cubicles. Wouldn’t it make sense to offset the loo so there’s space for the bin and you don’t have to wee whilst balanced on one buttcheek to try and avoid touching the bin.

The loos in my newly opened local cinema are off set to allow space for the bin. I was so excited when I saw it I started a thread on here.

BWatchWatcher I'm seeing a whole new language option opening up to sidestep recent rule changes!

I remember on a thread where a poster was looking at her architect DH’s designs for a community centre or some such. She looked at the plans for the ladies loo and asked about space for the bins. He said ‘what bins?’

see, that sounds too interesting. anytime I use a public toilet with DS2 I spend the whole time screaming 'Don't touch. DIRTY!' while he attempts to explore the san pro bin.

if it was a magic robot cylinder I'd never be able to get his hands off it

I remember on a thread where a poster was looking at her architect DH’s designs for a community centre or some such. She looked at the plans for the ladies loo and asked about space for the bins. He said ‘what bins?’

Well doesn't that just tell you everything.

Sigh.

And yet, men still think there is no need to have more female architects. They really do think the able-bodied man, unencumbered with children/pregnant bellies/elderly people, are the default to design the world around, and all the rest is just some weird special requirements.