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Really minor annoyances


Startrite said:
I get irritated by that red headed puppet in the LNER adverts. Not sure why, but the only thing I can think of is the smug face and walking on the ceiling of the carriage. Dont like puppets generally.
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She's called Eleanor. I don't like her either, other than the wordplay.
 
matt228 said:
Happens quite often at gigs. I never quite know why there's such a disparity. Surely it takes about the same amount of time to have a piss and wash your hands, regardless of whether you're male or female?
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Partly as men have more facilities overall than women. A urinal takes up much less space than a toilet cubicle, so you can fit more urinals in to the same amount of space.

Partly as it's quicker for men to unzip and lob a willy out, compared to women who have to wipe the seat, half undress, and then redress themselves. I think it's been timed as women take twice as long as men to have a wee. Some females will be changing sanitary protection, which makes them take longer too. If there's a family group, the children tend to go in with the woman which also adds time.

There's been studies about it - architectural gender bias. Women's toilets are usually designed by men who don't think about the above. They allocate the same amount of space for each set of toilets, when in reality they should allocate a bigger space to female facilities.
 
Becs said:
Partly as men have more facilities overall than women. A urinal takes up much less space than a toilet cubicle, so you can fit more urinals in to the same amount of space.

Partly as it's quicker for men to unzip and lob a willy out, compared to women who have to wipe the seat, half undress, and then redress themselves. I think it's been timed as women take twice as long as men to have a wee. Some females will be changing sanitary protection, which makes them take longer too. If there's a family group, the children tend to go in with the woman which also adds time.

There's been studies about it - architectural gender bias. Women's toilets are usually designed by men who don't think about the above. They allocate the same amount of space for each set of toilets, when in reality they should allocate a bigger space to female facilities.
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Nah. Too much chatting and applying lippy I reckon.
 
Becs said:
Partly as men have more facilities overall than women. A urinal takes up much less space than a toilet cubicle, so you can fit more urinals in to the same amount of space.

Partly as it's quicker for men to unzip and lob a willy out, compared to women who have to wipe the seat, half undress, and then redress themselves. I think it's been timed as women take twice as long as men to have a wee. Some females will be changing sanitary protection, which makes them take longer too. If there's a family group, the children tend to go in with the woman which also adds time.

There's been studies about it - architectural gender bias. Women's toilets are usually designed by men who don't think about the above. They allocate the same amount of space for each set of toilets, when in reality they should allocate a bigger space to female facilities.
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I bet they designed them to smell nicer though
 
Becs said:
Partly as men have more facilities overall than women. A urinal takes up much less space than a toilet cubicle, so you can fit more urinals in to the same amount of space.

Partly as it's quicker for men to unzip and lob a willy out, compared to women who have to wipe the seat, half undress, and then redress themselves. I think it's been timed as women take twice as long as men to have a wee. Some females will be changing sanitary protection, which makes them take longer too. If there's a family group, the children tend to go in with the woman which also adds time.

There's been studies about it - architectural gender bias. Women's toilets are usually designed by men who don't think about the above. They allocate the same amount of space for each set of toilets, when in reality they should allocate a bigger space to female facilities.
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You are bang on about all of the rationale why male and female toilets are designed in a particular way. One other point to add, more so for stadiums and bars etc is the balance of people tends to be greater for men, so there’s an offset in the number of people using the facilities to take into consideration too.

Not always the case admittedly.
 
Startrite said:
I get irritated by that red headed puppet in the LNER adverts. Not sure why, but the only thing I can think of is the smug face and walking on the ceiling of the carriage. Dont like puppets generally.
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Plus if you tried doing it you'd get hoyed off. Rightly so. Looks like condoning it in the advert.
 
Becs said:
Partly as men have more facilities overall than women. A urinal takes up much less space than a toilet cubicle, so you can fit more urinals in to the same amount of space.

Partly as it's quicker for men to unzip and lob a willy out, compared to women who have to wipe the seat, half undress, and then redress themselves. I think it's been timed as women take twice as long as men to have a wee. Some females will be changing sanitary protection, which makes them take longer too. If there's a family group, the children tend to go in with the woman which also adds time.

There's been studies about it - architectural gender bias. Women's toilets are usually designed by men who don't think about the above. They allocate the same amount of space for each set of toilets, when in reality they should allocate a bigger space to female facilities.
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Thank you. One or two things I'd not thought of there, which I suppose proves the point.
 
When you buy wood stain that meant to be walnut and it’s f***ing grey. And despite the reviews saying it dries to a walnut finish, it doesn’t, so you have to try sanding it off which will take about 5 hours easily, will be a nightmare getting out the corners and probably look f***ing shit.
 
Becs said:
Amazon said my delivery was 1 stop away, but he was over the other side of the village and stopped several times on his way to mine.

I was stalking him as I was about to take the dog out when I got the notification, so I waited until he'd been.
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People using Amazon... ;)
 
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