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By: Appellation Beer: Beer From a Good Home » Blog Archive » Government lies and other good beer reading

Sun, 21 Oct 2007 13:35:36 +0000

[…] High-rise blues This is among my favorite posts of the year. Lauren Clark tackles an unpleasant subject and writes about women who refuse to sit while urinating in public toilets, instead hovering above the toilet and leaving it sprinkled with pee. There’s also an educational takeaway for those of us who don’t use the women’s room. “Microbiologists have found four hundred times more illness-causing bacteria on the typical office desktop, with its germ-filled computer keyboard, mouse and phone receiver, than on most toilet seats.” […]

By: laura k

laura k — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 17:20:02 +0000

Oh, seriously. This is my constant lament, and yes, I’ve contemplated making stickers or signs to carry around with me and put up in any bathroom where some silly, silly girl has been before me.

By: ljclark

ljclark — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 10:47:26 +0000

Eeewwww. I forgot about that. Yeah, seriously, boys. It seems we need loud, embarrassing anti-sprinkle alarms in the unisex bathrooms, too.

By: Hanky P.

Hanky P. — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 06:55:45 +0000

Let us not forget the dangers of the unisex bathroom and the men who don’t have the strength to raise the toilet seat while not having the best aim in the world. Experienced it tonight…due to the lack of flushing and the lack of toilet paper I feel quite confident pointing the gender finger in this case. Come now boys…a bit of help please…

By: pinky gonzales

pinky gonzales — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 23:55:22 +0000

THANKS drinkboston!! I’ve been pissed-off (huh huh) forever by this one! To all dainty lady germophobes out there, here are my two cents: I promise, from all the 52,959,000 toilet seats on which I have certainly sat in my lifetime, including the Denny’s I-90 restroom outside of Angola NY, I have never contracted any disease of the ass. OK?

By: ljclark

ljclark — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 17:56:30 +0000

M Burns — wa-hoo! I sense a business opportunity.

By: ljclark

ljclark — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 17:53:56 +0000

Cleve — well, aren’t we just the expert on international plumbing! Yes, a spray hose. Or a glow-in-the-dark toilet that sounds a loud, embarrassing alarm when someone’s backside hovers above it.

By: M Burns

M Burns — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 17:50:44 +0000

Finally, someone has said it, and it is the bodacious Lauren Clark….I read this nodding my head and saying YES, YES,…..I want to tear down all the cutesy signs in public restrooms that say “if you sprinkle when you tinkle be a sweetie and wipe the seatie” and replace them with SIT DOWN ON THE FUCKING SEAT!!

By: Br. Cleve

Br. Cleve — Sun, 14 Oct 2007 15:51:19 +0000

Actually, in Angola there would be no seat - just the hole in the ground, possibly with the porcelain ‘footprints of doom’, as Frank Zappa called them, on the floor to show you where to stand (just in case you’re having trouble figuring it out!!). The French like to call them “Turkish Toilets”; I’m not sure what they call them in Istanbul! France, Italy, Spain, et al don’t have overwraught sewage systems, so you will find some TP there. But for the rest of the world, you get either a faucet of a little bucket full of water. Nice hotels and lounges in places like India have a spray hose, like the one on your sink. Maybe this is what American Ladies Rooms need?? Or maybe one could just reverse what girls like to tell the boys : “Put the damn seat up”!