Dirty public toilets

PinkLipgloss

thriftymanc wrote: »

How to poo neatly needs to be taught in school, apparently. Where I work, people get poo on the FLOOR and don't bother flushing even when they manage to get it in the bowl. Seriously. I don't use the toilets at work anymore because the cabbagey smell makes me want to hurl.

OMG! Are you seriously advocating that teachers take time out of their heavily burdened curriculum to teach children how to poo? Is that what society has come to?

Are parents responsible for ANYTHING these days? :mad:

p.s. - as an extra I think you´ll find that teachers (at least in Scotland) are not allowed to be in the toilets with a child. If necessary it is the responsbility of a specially nomiated member of support staff to help children in the toilet.

p.p.s - I realise your comment was most likely made in jest however I am fed up of teachers generally being held accountable for all manner of things that are not their responsibility (e.g. a parent last year seriously felt it was the primary school teachers job to toilet train her child). I despair for society at times.....

Mankysteve

PinkLipgloss wrote: »

OMG! Are you seriously advocating that teachers take time out of their heavily burdened curriculum to teach children how to poo? Is that what society has come to?

Are parents responsible for ANYTHING these days? :mad:

p.p.s - I realise your comment was most likely made in jest however I am fed up of teachers generally being held accountable for all manner of things that are not their responsibility (e.g. a parent last year seriously felt it was the primary school teachers job to toilet train her child). I despair for society at times.....

I would presume it was meant tongue in cheek and while yes parents need to show more responsibility when parents fail its better for the state to pick up the problem early and sort them than let them smoulder into to a bigger fire and teacher are the best first line to this, but parent should take more responsibility so that its only the odd individual rather than entire class groups.

Better communication between school and social worker would be wise too but with these massive cuts in education and social care are really going to feel painful in 15 years time when this children of failed parents really at age when they can do some real damage.

Gers

The WORST public toilet I have ever been in was recently in a Dubai shopping mall. Shocking, but just one cubicle.

Actually quite like their 'hand held' shower and drain in the floor system, just didn't want to try it!

thriftymanc

PinkLipgloss wrote: »

OMG! Are you seriously advocating that teachers take time out of their heavily burdened curriculum to teach children how to poo? Is that what society has come to?

Are parents responsible for ANYTHING these days? :mad:

p.s. - as an extra I think you´ll find that teachers (at least in Scotland) are not allowed to be in the toilets with a child. If necessary it is the responsbility of a specially nomiated member of support staff to help children in the toilet.

p.p.s - I realise your comment was most likely made in jest however I am fed up of teachers generally being held accountable for all manner of things that are not their responsibility (e.g. a parent last year seriously felt it was the primary school teachers job to toilet train her child). I despair for society at times.....

It was a joke! I wasn't saying teachers are responsible for people not being able to poo neatly! I was making fun of the fact that there are so many people in this country who apparently are incapable of just 'doing it'. It shouldn't need to be taught full stop!

Although I'd like to see it as one of those adult evening courses just for the hilarity of seeing it pinned up on notice boards and the like... How To Poo 101.

chuckley

WOW where do u find them?! i see none around oxford street. I find the lack of them a disgrace 2bh.

z1985m

theres loads where i live. they are all clean and supposedly have a attandant (but you can't see them in the wee room, if they are there...) Toilets in my work are fine, haven't came across anything horrid (mind you, theres hardly any staff in my work nowadays!) The contract cleaners that clean our work were told they wernt supposed to clean our toilets.... who else is supposed to clean them? us? even though the cleaners get paid MORE than us and we are bloody monkeys as it is, anything goes for us but they have a list of things they shouldn't do - they came to an agreement though and they do clean them now but unbelievable!

anyway... i've found that alot of the motorway service stations have lovely clean toilets nowadays, most of the ones i've stopped at (going from edinburgh to staffordshire) were all new, fancy and clean (think its the WELCOME break's we mostly stopped at)

George_Michael

I would presume it was meant tongue in cheek and while yes parents need to show more responsibility

Well that would make a change from using toilet paper to clean yourself up.

WhiteHorse

PinkLipgloss wrote: »

OMG! Are you seriously advocating that teachers take time out of their heavily burdened curriculum to teach children how to poo? Is that what society has come to?

The Daily Telegraph columnist Auberon Waugh discovered that a local authority did indeed employ a social worker type whose entire job remit was to tour primary schools teaching small children how to sh*t.

Keith

chuckley wrote: »

WOW where do u find them?! i see none around oxford street. I find the lack of them a disgrace 2bh.

I always use the ones in Selfridges if I need to go.

chuckley

Keith wrote: »

I always use the ones in Selfridges if I need to go.

last i tried that i was told id have to go to the 4th floor. like im realllllllllllly gonna go all the way to the 4th floor!

dont get me started on ANY of the starbucks along that street... always got a 10+ queue!!!