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View HeathMan's Profile HeathMan Flag Purley 18 Aug 18 8.28am Send a Private Message to HeathMan Holmesdale Online Elite Member Add HeathMan as a friend

I had a very interesting conversation yesterday with a lady who works for the Home office in its Central London Main Office. She told me that £36,000.00 has been spent so that the toilets are gender neutral. It could have been done for less money, but being in a workplace signage was needed at a cost of £8,000.00. There is one problem. Blokes are so used to urinals that they enter the cubicels and neglect to shut the doors. Female staff who feel uncomfortable with this are not using the toilets. We need to do our bit and shut doors in these circumstances.

 

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View dannyboy1978's Profile dannyboy1978 Flag 18 Aug 18 8.37am Send a Private Message to dannyboy1978 Add dannyboy1978 as a friend

How many people is this actually applicable to?

 

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View Helmet46's Profile Helmet46 Flag Croydon 18 Aug 18 8.42am Send a Private Message to Helmet46 Add Helmet46 as a friend

Originally posted by dannyboy1978

How many people is this actually applicable to?

Nine.

 

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View Harpo's Profile Harpo Flag Oxfordshire 18 Aug 18 8.53am Send a Private Message to Harpo Add Harpo as a friend

Some people are just too sensitive.

In France, I have used (desperately) a toilet with no doors, no toilet paper and no towels (which didn't really matter, as there was no water).

I had to phone Mrs H to fetch some toilet paper.

A roadside facility? No, the Town Hall in a town of c100,000 inhabitants.

 

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View becky's Profile becky Flag over the moon 18 Aug 18 8.58am Send a Private Message to becky Holmesdale Online Elite Member Add becky as a friend

Originally posted by Harpo

Some people are just too sensitive.

In France, I have used (desperately) a toilet with no doors, no toilet paper and no towels (which didn't really matter, as there was no water).

I had to phone Mrs H to fetch some toilet paper.

A roadside facility? No, the Town Hall in a town of c100,000 inhabitants.

Yes, but would you have changed your tampon?

 


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View Badger11's Profile Badger11 Flag Beckenham 18 Aug 18 12.00pm Send a Private Message to Badger11 Add Badger11 as a friend

Originally posted by HeathMan

I had a very interesting conversation yesterday with a lady who works for the Home office in its Central London Main Office. She told me that £36,000.00 has been spent so that the toilets are gender neutral. It could have been done for less money, but being in a workplace signage was needed at a cost of £8,000.00. There is one problem. Blokes are so used to urinals that they enter the cubicels and neglect to shut the doors. Female staff who feel uncomfortable with this are not using the toilets. We need to do our bit and shut doors in these circumstances.


This was discussed on LBC and for once I am with the ladies on this. Us guys can be pretty "caveman" in the toilets and I don't blame any woman not wanting to see or hear those sights.

The solution is obvious but typical civil servants would rather blow the tax payers money on a solution no one wants.

Handicapped toilets are gender neutral. Just change the sign to include "those who feel excluded". If they don't like that then pick a gender.

 


One more point

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View becky's Profile becky Flag over the moon 18 Aug 18 2.38pm Send a Private Message to becky Holmesdale Online Elite Member Add becky as a friend

Another reason we like our privacy is that women are quiet in a lavatory - making noises is a real no-no in the Ladies.

Now, according to my husband, lots of men, whilst using the stall, tend to accompany their actions with farts, grunts, groans and plentiful exclamations of the "O God, no!" "Oh! Pleeeease!" "Oh Help Me" and "Oh! Come On" variety variety.

Like Badger11, I'm with the women on this one.


Edited by becky (18 Aug 2018 2.38pm)

 


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View Harpo's Profile Harpo Flag Oxfordshire 18 Aug 18 4.09pm Send a Private Message to Harpo Add Harpo as a friend

Originally posted by becky

...lots of men, whilst using the stall, tend to accompany their actions with farts, grunts, groans and plentiful exclamations of the "O God, no!" "Oh! Pleeeease!" "Oh Help Me" and "Oh! Come On"...

We do that because it's just 'right'.

Women utter exactly the same phrases while being humped - because it's just 'right'.


 

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View Stirlingsays's Profile Stirlingsays Online Flag 18 Aug 18 5.06pm Send a Private Message to Stirlingsays Holmesdale Online Elite Member Add Stirlingsays as a friend

I know....here's a solution.

Just have separate male and female toilets.

As for anyone telling people how a gender should behave.

That's like the old King Canute and the tide.

Edited by Stirlingsays (18 Aug 2018 5.08pm)

 


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View Hrolf The Ganger's Profile Hrolf The Ganger Flag 18 Aug 18 5.47pm Send a Private Message to Hrolf The Ganger Add Hrolf The Ganger as a friend

Originally posted by Stirlingsays

I know....here's a solution.

Just have separate male and female toilets.

As for anyone telling people how a gender should behave.

That's like the old King Canute and the tide.

Edited by Stirlingsays (18 Aug 2018 5.08pm)

Isn't it so like the 'progressives' to create a problem that never existed and then blame the people who never wanted it in the first place.

 

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View Stirlingsays's Profile Stirlingsays Online Flag 18 Aug 18 5.59pm Send a Private Message to Stirlingsays Holmesdale Online Elite Member Add Stirlingsays as a friend

Originally posted by Hrolf The Ganger

Isn't it so like the 'progressives' to create a problem that never existed and then blame the people who never wanted it in the first place.

You hit the nail on its head.

 


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View becky's Profile becky Flag over the moon 18 Aug 18 6.37pm Send a Private Message to becky Holmesdale Online Elite Member Add becky as a friend

Originally posted by Hrolf The Ganger

Isn't it so like the 'progressives' to create a problem that never existed and then blame the people who never wanted it in the first place.

....whilst paying for it out of the public purse.....

 


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