• Dr. Helpful (unregistered)

    Maybe the door next to the escalator is an emergency exit in case it breaks down.

  • Jo Bob (unregistered) in reply to Tam

    It's just a Google Earth view of Washington, Congress must be in session.

    Nuking from orbit is still the best option though.

  • Jo Bob (unregistered) in reply to MD
    MD:
    Some people try to squat over the toilets to avoid touching the seat with their bare skin. You know, public toilets tend to get dirty over time.
    In some places I'm sure that's the case, but there's others that they just don't give a s#!t where they go or how nasty they leave it. I've seen drug infested back alleys in the US that were cleaner/ healthier then the squatters they pretended to be using.
    MD:
    The problem is that often the toilet will break and hurt the squatter. I saw some pictures at a safety training here... one guy almost severed his leg off.
    I agree with the idea of the toilet seat breaking, not the bowl. My wife broke her hip a bunch of years ago, which required her to use some 'weird' angles. Needless to say even the better designed seats were no match for 150 lbs of lateral force.
  • Daveytay (unregistered)

    The photo of the door on the second floor makes sense when you live where you get 15 feet of snow a year, and you need to get in without shovelling a tunnel. I have heard of this before.

  • Mojo Hand (unregistered) in reply to MD
    MD:
    one guy almost severed his leg off
    I once saw a guy sever a leg on again. Blew my ever-luvin' mind.
  • (cs) in reply to Dr. Helpful
    Dr. Helpful:
    Maybe the door next to the escalator is an emergency exit in case it breaks down.
    Maybe it's a long-drop squat toilet, in case you're stuck there for some time until they get it going again!
  • (cs)

    Do not touch the operational end of the device. Do not look directly at the operational end of the device. Do not submerge the device in liquid, even partially. Most importantly, under no circumstances should you-"

  • anonymous (unregistered)

    The toilet sign is for islanders (e.g. samoans) not for korean or japanese people.

  • AntiQuercus (unregistered) in reply to DaveK

    I understand through third parties (never having personally observed this myself) that at such nightclubs, public loos etc, many women will "hover" to avoid the horror below. Of course, the very act of hovering is a large contribution to the problem.

    Errr, I don't mean that they levitate. Although that'd be really cool.

    ThatkeyboardisthemostdisgustingthingIhaveseeninawhile.Hmm,somethingiswrongwithmyspacebar.Ewwwwww!

  • censored (unregistered) in reply to Alan
    Alan:
    I once saw a specials board in a cafe with...

    Ass. Cakes

    Clbuttic.

    Butt. Scones
    Classic.
  • Eddi (unregistered)

    The Germans may have misleading signs on how to get to the toilet, but at least when you are at the toilet, they give proper instructions:

    http://www.shop-royal.de/images/R3045.jpg [sign says "please sit while peeing"]

  • illtiz (unregistered) in reply to IDon'tReadTheCommentsBeforeIPost
    IDon'tReadTheCommentsBeforeIPost:
    chrismcb:
    I don't understand what being a Microsoft Shop, and having an MSDN Premium subscription has to do with anything?

    Are you asking, xor telling?

    Without knowing the original intention, I can safely say "Yes".

    A XOR Not(A) is a tautology, isn't it? I suggest we abandon the xor proposal.

  • dr. Hannibal Lecter (unregistered)

    We had a female colleague in our company that could benefit from that toilet sign.

    On the other hand, maybe not. She was the kind of developer that downloads a javascript function for parsing a string and pastes it into code.

    And call it "MyParse".

  • Yazbec (unregistered) in reply to Andy Goth

    Perhaps you should have ordered the large...

  • JM (unregistered)

    It is a convention in many Eastern countries for people to use the toilet in a squatting position, so this is not as “self-evident” as you may think.

  • IT Girl (unregistered) in reply to Daveytay
    Daveytay:
    The photo of the door on the second floor makes sense when you live where you get 15 feet of snow a year, and you need to get in without shovelling a tunnel. I have heard of this before.

    Okay, unless you're talking to Inuits in Iqaluit, someone's pulling your leg. I live in Canada and have lived in areas that get some serious snowfall where I've had to dig myself out of the driveway to get to work and back in to get home. Even with the snowplows piling the snow up, the most I've ever seen is 8 feet (that's piled not fallen). There are practical things (like don't put your garage under the house because a sloping driveway is brutal in the winter) that make for differences in housing, but a second story door with a sheer drop to the ground isn't one of them

  • Zapp Brannigan (unregistered) in reply to IT Girl
    IT Girl:
    Daveytay:
    The photo of the door on the second floor makes sense when you live where you get 15 feet of snow a year, and you need to get in without shovelling a tunnel. I have heard of this before.

    Okay, unless you're talking to Inuits in Iqaluit, someone's pulling your leg. I live in Canada and have lived in areas that get some serious snowfall where I've had to dig myself out of the driveway to get to work and back in to get home. Even with the snowplows piling the snow up, the most I've ever seen is 8 feet (that's piled not fallen). There are practical things (like don't put your garage under the house because a sloping driveway is brutal in the winter) that make for differences in housing, but a second story door with a sheer drop to the ground isn't one of them

    It's not uncommon to get 20 feet of snow in a season in upper peninsula Michigan.

  • (cs)

    Just so everyone knows, an average wooden-handled knife has more germs than your average toilet seat.

    The more you knooooow!

  • Zapp Brannigan (unregistered) in reply to Sutherlands
    Sutherlands:
    Just so everyone knows, an average wooden-handled knife has more germs than your average toilet seat.

    The more you knooooow!

    Are you saying that I should sit on a knife when I want to crap and cut my steak with a toilet seat?

  • Dave (unregistered)

    Truth in advertizing ...

    [image]
  • dfhaerhae (unregistered) in reply to frost
    frost:
    The second-story door is common in the Michigan upper peninsula. It's for when you have 8 feet of snow.

    I live in the UP of Michigan. We never get that much snow unless you specifically pile it up. I've also lived in Alaska, and there I remember having to climb in/out the second story window due to snow.

  • IT Girl (unregistered) in reply to Zapp Brannigan
    Zapp Brannigan:
    IT Girl:
    Daveytay:
    The photo of the door on the second floor makes sense when you live where you get 15 feet of snow a year, and you need to get in without shovelling a tunnel. I have heard of this before.

    Okay, unless you're talking to Inuits in Iqaluit, someone's pulling your leg. I live in Canada and have lived in areas that get some serious snowfall where I've had to dig myself out of the driveway to get to work and back in to get home. Even with the snowplows piling the snow up, the most I've ever seen is 8 feet (that's piled not fallen). There are practical things (like don't put your garage under the house because a sloping driveway is brutal in the winter) that make for differences in housing, but a second story door with a sheer drop to the ground isn't one of them

    It's not uncommon to get 20 feet of snow in a season in upper peninsula Michigan.

    Exactly, "in a season", so over the course of 8 months (in a really bad year) or less. There is some melting time in between as well. I'm right across the border from Michigan.

  • (cs) in reply to Code Dependent
    Code Dependent:
    Yes, but here in the western world, we're interested in things like cleanliness.

    Which is of course why we touch our asses to a place that many asses before us have been.

  • (cs)

    I was going to order some ass. sauce, but I found out that night it was made by the ass chef. No thanks. I'd much prefer to get some from the head chef.

  • Anon (unregistered) in reply to Random832
    Random832:
    Code Dependent:
    Yes, but here in the western world, we're interested in things like cleanliness.

    Which is of course why we touch our asses to a place that many asses before us have been.

    I am not entirely sure how you sit on a toilet but I think most people only let their butt cheeks touch. I can safely say I think my butt cheeks are just as clean as most of the rest of my body (excluding obvious areas). Certainly if other more, tender areas touched the toilet seat I would be very concerned.

    I would consider the door and door handle into the toilet a far worse place to touch, especially in public toilets where people do not wash or do not wash well enough.

  • Jean Naimard (unregistered)

    Squatting on toilets is a much more natural position than sitting; squatting is far easier on the bowel muscles.

    That's the mother-in-law entrance. She has to get in through that door, and if she manages to come in nevertheless, she has to leave through that door.

    CAPTCHA: "tation"

  • Thomas Turner (unregistered)

    i think the inedible one may be for when they place them "out back" so that homeless people do not go rummaging through it for food.

  • (cs) in reply to Random832
    Random832:
    Code Dependent:
    Yes, but here in the western world, we're interested in things like cleanliness.

    Which is of course why we touch our asses to a place that many asses before us have been.

    Butte, Montana?

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