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[that_punk_guy]

I'd guess that at least 90% of the Amiga.org membership is male, so I'd like to pose a question. Why do our bathrooms smell so bad?

I'm talking about public toilets, mostly. My bathroom smells lovely now that my (incidentally male) housemate has gone. What genetic deficiency is it in men that precludes our ability to keep the toilets clean? I'm sure you're all aware of this. You walk past a girl's toilet and it doesn't smell, or even smells nice. You can smell the men's toilets fifty yards away and it is not pleasant.

Maybe it's the use of urinals and things that makes it more smelly. Everyone's doings get flushed away in the girl's room. But my harrowing experience in a men's public toilet yesterday suggests that an all-cubicle gentleman's (hah!) room would not remedy the situation.

So like, normally, I avoid going near the public toilets. Supermarkets aren't so bad because the owners have a commercial interest in keeping the place smelling decent, but dingy shopping centre toilets run by the council... ew. These particular toilets have blue lights installed now to combat drug use. I wouldn't know how that's supposed to work. I do know it's a lot easier to fall on your arse or get mugged there now. Anyway, I managed to find a cubicle with a toilet that wasn't entirely covered in excrement and spent a few minutes attempting to sanitise the seat to my satisfaction, eventually deciding I might as well just sit on the cleanest bit and then bathe for three hours when I get home.

So, you know, I did my business. Then I notice the cubicle next to me, there's a grunt. I see a shoe, and it's pointing towards the toilet, so he's not taking a s***. I'm pretty sure there was a guy in the next cubicle masturbating.

It's like "when you gotta go, you gotta go" taken to its logical conclusion. I mean, ew!!!

Speaking of masturbating in the toilets, I'm just watching 'Secretary', which one Matthew Parsons might be interested to know. Cool film. :-)

[iamaboringperson]

Okay, for a start there is usually piss all over the floor.

But also it is to do with poor cleaning.

Bleach is always the best substance for cleaning toilets as it kills bacteria, and bacteria is the main cause of the smell.

[AccyD]

Yep I agree.

I think they smell so bad for 2 reasons:

1) Can you really be bothered to worry about not missing when it's not your own house?

2) As you say since most of these places have become drug dens most "normal, hygenic" people do not use them - so its bound to smell bad.

I haven't used a council run public toilet in years, as you say they are terrible compared to those run by supermarkets or other businesses (e.g. motorway services).

[BouncingAyatollah]

I think the ideas here seem pretty good, i.e. that there is just likely to be piss all over the place in a men's room, especially one where drunk people may be missing, "joking around", vomiting etc. However it is an assumption that women's public toilets don't smell though, I wouldn't know.

I would assume too that seeing as the day's of a "toilet attendant" have passed (which brings to mind Carry on Screaming :-D ) there is just less likelihood of detritis being cleaned up .. ever? I doubt if those new superloos smell, if not, there's your reason.

About that wrong-way-foot man. He may have suffered that odd male condition wherein you are in dire and immediate need of bladder release up to and including the moment UNTIL you get your dopper out, wherein all desire to go evacuates the mind and body, and you are left huffing and puffing, gritting your teeth and straining to release the muscles that you were just straining to contain. If so he might have "hid" in the cubicle because of this, noticed someone else was "doing their business" right next door and suffered the same effect.

Note: this is not related to the male condition wherein you finish going, do your waggles, even stretches, swinging, bashing against the wall, wringing out, clenching, squeezing and forcing every last drop out and ... as soon as you put it back a drop of wee comes out. I expect science will find a special gland that holds just a couple of drops of wee for such an occasion.

[mikeymike]

Women are in much more close and personal contact with lavatory facilities, plus they love cleaning. And they like to natter in the toilets. And makeup.*

Men have one mission. Get into the toilets asap, do what needs to be done and LEAVE. Asap. Virtually any deviation from that mission and you risk other men thinking you're gay :-)

One thing I don't get though. Personally I'd much rather save a dump for when I get home for many reasons (and everyone here are probably well aware of them), so that in mind, why to the cubicles get so messed up?

* - but the question is, what were they doing away from the kitchen in the first place?

[that_punk_guy]

BouncingAyatollah wrote:

Note: this is not related to the male condition wherein you finish going, do your waggles, even stretches, swinging, bashing against the wall, wringing out, clenching, squeezing and forcing every last drop out and ... as soon as you put it back a drop of wee comes out. I expect science will find a special gland that holds just a couple of drops of wee for such an occasion.

You mean the foreskin reservoir effect? I don't know why it doesn't occur to men to use toilet paper for No.1 as well like girls do...

[BouncingAyatollah]

@that_punk_guy

You mean the foreskin reservoir effect? I don't know why it doesn't occur to men to use toilet paper for No.1 as well like girls do...

LOL! No I mean when everything outwardly appears "shipshape and Bristol fashion" after said evacuatory exercises, i.e. completely dry, clean ... errr... *finished*, pop it away and - bugger, but just a tiny drop. Thankfully this appears to be very rare, e.g. when you have that "rare" job interview, or that stunning woman takes a "rare" interest in you etc.

[cecilia]

this has GOT to be one of the funniest threads i've ever seen!

you guys and your cute pee pee's! :-D

what a drama!

one of the main reasons guys forget to wash up (the room) is because mommy usually did that while you were all growing up. my mom taught me to clean up after myself. and i don't expect anyone to be my servant.

AND, to rectify an incorrect notion, I am in AND OUT of the rest room in about 30 seconds. It IS possible, and i don't want to be lumped in with stranglers! and i don't wear makup.

and the 30 sec includes washing my hands!

so there!

[BouncingAyatollah]

@cecilia

Well, he has a point re: public toilets, some male public toilets are absolutely RANK, I mean the smell that hits your nose when you enter makes you retch or at the very least try and hold your breath for the duration. I think he was saying surely women's public toilets can't be like this?

It seems to be about respecting general or "not MY" property.

My own toilet at home is pristine and smells great, sadly the same is not true of public toilets too often.

[Cyberus]

Perfectly put!

Note: this is not related to the male condition wherein you finish going, do your waggles, even stretches, swinging, bashing against the wall, wringing out, clenching, squeezing and forcing every last drop out and ... as soon as you put it back a drop of wee comes out. I expect science will find a special gland that holds just a couple of drops of wee for such an occasion.

Pure poetry of the penis :-o

[cecilia]

ok, well, as most of you (!) have never been in a ladies toilet, i can reveal that while most seem ok and "clean", every once in a while you will find one that is, em, er, not nice.

i suspect this has to do with complete lack of maintenance.

[cecilia]

Cyberus wrote:
Pure poetry of the penis :-o

is that anything like "Puppetry of the Penis"????


http://www.puppetryofthepenis.com/

[Cyberus]

@ Cecilia

I thought that after I had written it actually

[iamaboringperson]

Cecilia seems to have this weird fascination with the penis!

[cecilia]

iamaboringperson wrote:
Cecilia seems to have this weird fascination with the penis!

it's all on account of my hormones . (and it's normal)
:-D