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Are Female Urinals the Answer to Queues at the Loos?

posted by Fnord666 on Friday March 13 2020, @06:09AM   Printer-friendly

Phoenix666 writes:

BBC:

A few years ago, Nathalie Des Isnards was attending a music festival with her husband David, and planning to watch her favourite group.

Before the show, they headed to the toilets. "I spent 30 minutes in the queue waiting to pee," she recalls. Much to her frustration, she missed the first part of the concert.

Meanwhile David took just "two minutes", and saw the whole show.

"I was upset. I told myself, 'We're in the 21st century, something should be done about that.'"

She set about creating a women's urinal. The simple seatless basin she devised is housed in a cubicle with roof and door, designed for faster use but also privacy. "I was not a designer. I was a user first," says the 46-year-old.

A different but important engineering challenge.

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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by MostCynical on Friday March 13 2020, @10:58AM (3 children)

    by MostCynical (2589) on Friday March 13 2020, @10:58AM (#970629) Journal

    ...because the men's is usually disgusting?

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  • (Score: 5, Informative) by EvilSS on Friday March 13 2020, @12:56PM (2 children)

    by EvilSS (1456) Subscriber Badge on Friday March 13 2020, @12:56PM (#970670)
    I worked in restaurants while in school and have cleaned both, and I can tell you it's usually the opposite. The women's room was almost always dirtier.

    • (Score: 2) by Freeman on Friday March 13 2020, @03:25PM

      by Freeman (732) on Friday March 13 2020, @03:25PM (#970728) Journal

      I can attest that men's dorm rooms are less awful than women's dorm rooms. (Testimony from brothers who ran wire in a dorm or two.) Men don't need to worry about a certain time of the month and some women don't clean up very well after themselves. Exceptions to every rule, but you might be surprised at how often it's true.

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    • (Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 13 2020, @04:07PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 13 2020, @04:07PM (#970747)

      Cleanest bathroom of all: men's room in a female patronized business, like Michael's Crafts.