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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: 4, Informative) by choose another one on Friday March 13 2020, @08:02PM (3 children)

    by choose another one (515) Subscriber Badge on Friday March 13 2020, @08:02PM (#970842)

    "and small-talk is for outside the restroom"

    you do know that around half the population go _to_ the restroom partly/mainly in order _to_ talk, right?

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  • (Score: 3, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 13 2020, @08:48PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 13 2020, @08:48PM (#970857)

    Notice the correlation with the half of the population complaining about queue times?

    • (Score: 2) by Grishnakh on Saturday March 14 2020, @02:27AM

      by Grishnakh (2831) on Saturday March 14 2020, @02:27AM (#970984)

      No, I don't notice that at all. Instead, I notice when I'm at work that all the loud-mouth managers just love to have loud conversations while they're standing at the urinals.

      Men have absolutely no right to complain about women talking in the bathroom together, or going to the bathroom together: men do it all the time.

  • (Score: 2) by Freeman on Monday March 16 2020, @03:06PM

    by Freeman (732) on Monday March 16 2020, @03:06PM (#971897) Journal

    That 1/2 is the annoying half or they're women/girls, and I'm not a woman/girl. Women go to the bathroom to do all sorts of things other than use the restroom. Guys, do their business and get out.

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