"The Los Angeles Times reported Wednesday that the law takes effect on Thursday with the aim of accommodating transgender and gender non-conforming people."
“I hope we can encourage other cities to adopt this,” Abbe Land, a councilwoman who initiated the law, reportedly said at a meeting last month. “It’s really so easy when you think about it, and I’m glad that we’re one of the cities that is moving forward on that.”
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8 out of 10 bathroom visits on a commercial aircraft: What I say to myself after a man has used the facilities before me...
"OMG - what did you do?"
Please don't take offense, most men are considerate and certainly women know how to stink up a bathroom, too. But come on.. pee on the floor? There wasn't even any turbulence.
(urp)
Single stall today, multi-stall on the agenda. Slippery slope.
Speaking of slippery slopes, maybe it was a little kid, April. They can't help where the pee goes.
And what's this picture with an image of a male and a female on the bathroom door? Shouldn't there be some icon of a transgendered person too?
I don't know what that should look like. Tattoos, piercings, goth look?
slippery slope. heh.
Not a kid - (though kids can be problematic)
I was standing right there. It was a pretty big guy. Best I can tell, he peed on the floor and dashed out the door without even pretending to wash up. It was an aimless flush and go.
As long as the bathroom remains safe and private - whatever. Back in the day when big rock shows would come to town at the old mile high stadium - women would often make a break for the men's room because the lines for the women's bath were ridiculous.
It was really odd to see all these men lined up at the urinal. Shocking! My virgin eyes! No one cared. The beer was flowing and the music was bad.
All the restaurants I dine at are the same.
BFD.
It is a cold, hard scientific fact that sex throws the whole aiming system out of alignment and experience has taught me that I am among a small minority of men who are tidy and who think about things like that before letting loose with a pent-up, brilliant golden stream of warm kidney juice.
Promiscuous, observant, and candid women are valuable in more ways than one.
It isn't so much the urine and we can't blame the guys. Women are really the worst for peeing all over the toilet seat. SIT on it for God's sake and take a pee. Then you won't have piss all over it. How about flushing too while you are at it.
The problem is that a guy....you know who you are guys.....gets into the toilet to take a ....ahem....dump....and spends 5 minutes or more. It's like they have moved in and are reading War and Peace while evacuating and God knows what else is happening. Come ON.
I know this is true, because my husband has had to wait and wait and wait for the men's room and then FINALLY out comes some guy who was taking up residence in the damned place. Half the time my husband just gave up and finally just pissed in the bushes or outside in the back of the building anyway.
DBQ - I often wonder why women leave pee splatter all over the seat. I suspect most of it is just industrial flush splash (mixed with pee). ew.
In large public buildings like airports and stadiums and such, I think separate gender bathrooms are a must. Now the trend is to have a 3rd option - the family bath.
Can the gender confused just use those?
In smaller public spaces like restaurants, the bathrooms are often one room/one toilet situations. right? No stall - just one locked door. Well, that solves that.
btw - No I don't think women want to see men lined up at urinals. and yes - women have smaller bladders and we need at least twice as many stalls. Thank you.
Now CA legislators - get on it.
One more indication of the beginning of the end.
@ April
It is the hover routine that women do. Trying to piss while hovering your behind 6 to 8 inches over the bowl.Somehow they think that they are going to get cooties or something.
If you just sit down and urinate, you won't have all that pee spatter. IF it does have pee spatter, then clean it UP when you are done. It isn't hard. Its YOUR pee!!!.....women in public bathrooms are just pigs.
I'm not a prude, but really don't want to see guys lined up at the urinals either. Well, not unless we can get them to drop their pants and we can evaluate their glutes at the same time /wink.
This is the policy in virtually every private home, including yours. When I first heard this, I thought it stupid because I though it was for multiple stall facilities, but if you only have one person at a time in there, it just seems an efficient use of limited resources to make it unisex, but I don't think Presbyterians should be allowed no matter how many stalls you have.
Hovering? Is that want they are doing? Holy Moses.
use a seat cover and sit down.
There's a rest area on the Interstate, located in western NY, I've stopped there many times, where there is a separate room, with a lockable door, marked Unisex. In other words there's a his a hers and a unisex. A simple way of solving the problem, which really isn't a problem, but in the name of sensitivity has to be addressed, I guess.
So much for 5000 years of civilization.
An ex gf explained it's a mess becasue of hovering.
I am able to step in with the physics.
If you sit down, the low point is the low point and stray surface-tension directed pee drops off it into the bowl.
If you hover, the former low point is elsewhere and stray pee goes all over.
In _The Mexican_ Julia Roberts is abducted by a professional assassin on some obscure mission (the plot is not very clear on this to me).
Anyway she's in a stall and he's waiting outside, asking how come he's not hearing any tinkling.
"I can't go while you're out there," she said.
So there was more waiting.
The guy then had to go himself, so walks into the adjacent stall and you hear him pee into the bowl, joined quickly by the sound of a second stream from Roberts.
Just a cute unisex moment.
There were a couple of other nice moments, but confusing plot.
Pee is, according to our scientific community, which includes our global warming contingent, absolutely sterile.
I don't particularly believe that. Call it my Neanderthal aversion.
Though, considering that, and on a most separate note, how did those old folks handle sanitation They must have done okay as we're still here.
But was it transgender?
Do we give up our past to realize our future. I don't think so. Corporal knowledge, from the beginning, is what sustains us.
My 1 1/2 year old nephew pees as soon as the shower tap is turned on.
Since it's West Hollywood,next stop, requirements for facilities for those who like to pee on each other.
DBQ...The worst thing about those long waits for guys in the restroom is anticipating what's still gonna be hanging around in the air when they finally get out.
(....wonders just when anyone actually started paying attention to the signs on single occupancy bathrooms...)
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