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Handicapped Toilet Etiquette

  • 19-10-2008 11:27PM
    #1
    Tails
    Closed Accounts Posts: 295 ✭✭


    Right some public feed back about this would be nice.

    This issue was of great debate in the pub last night, and it seems there's 2 main schools of thought on it.

    Anyways whats your opinion on using a disabled toilet?

    Would you use it as normal if it is vacant or would you leave it and wait if all the usual cubicles are full?

    My stance on the whole thing is that they should be used by anyone but if any one who is disabled needs to use it gets first preference.


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  • #2
    MagicMarker
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 32,865 ✭✭✭✭MagicMarker


    I would use it, and if i were ever caught? .....

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=


  • #3
    Sabre0001
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,499 ✭✭✭Sabre0001


    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=01sHrDku2rE&feature=related

    :D

    Edit: Grrrr MagicMarker! Needs Moss' bit at the start though ^^ see clip :)

    🤪



  • #4
    axel rose
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,050 ✭✭✭axel rose


    well I wouldnt leap over the disabled (but my god the image:D)............but if it is cleaner nearer and has toilet roll then Im there.


  • #5
    Jesus Wept
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,243 ✭✭✭✭Jesus Wept



    Tails wrote: »
    Handicapped Toilet Etiquette

    It's DISABLED.


  • #6
    ejmaztec
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,369 ✭✭✭✭ejmaztec


    Why would someone disable a toilet?


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  • #7
    minidazzler
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,650 ✭✭✭✭minidazzler


    Considering my young sister is in a wheelchair and has had incidents because some idiot decided it was a good Idea to take a ****e in a disabled toilet in a place where there were 16 cubicles, most of which were free, I am of the school that waits until there is a free cubicle.

    It is basically the same as a parking space. There should be fines.


    However I still make fun of the Cappers and Tards. Cos My sister is OK with it!!!


  • #8
    towel401
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,911 ✭✭✭towel401


    The-Rigger wrote: »




    It's DISABLED.

    It's the Cripple crapper


  • #9
    Karoma
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,396 ✭✭✭✭Karoma


    It depends on the toilet...
    <avoids repeat argument>

    Can we all at least agree on putting the toilet seat down when we're done? Nobody likes a show-off.


  • #10
    tony1kenobi
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,755 ✭✭✭tony1kenobi


    The Ironsides of this world are not restricted from using the regular dumpers so it's all good........


  • #11
    minidazzler
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,650 ✭✭✭✭minidazzler


    Karoma wrote: »
    It depends on the toilet...
    <avoids repeat argument>

    Can we all at least agree on putting the toilet seat down when we're done? Nobody likes a show-off.

    I agree with this, I always do, but not even one of my close friends does!!! I don't know why!!! They are just eejits!!!

    The Ironsides of this world are not restricted from using the regular dumpers so it's all good........

    except by mobility.


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  • #12
    Sharpshooter
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 31,859 ✭✭✭✭Sharpshooter


    Cant believe no ones taking the Piss out of this one

    .........Oops.


  • #13
    MagicMarker
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 32,865 ✭✭✭✭MagicMarker


    Are puns the new yore ma's?


  • #14
    Wishbone Ash
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,157 ✭✭✭✭Wishbone Ash


    minidazzler wrote: »
    It is basically the same as a parking space. There should be fines
    Hardly the same unless the able bodied person locked the toilet from the outside and walked away for an hour.


  • #15
    emeraldstar
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,383 ✭✭✭emeraldstar


    sharpshooterH wrote: »
    Cant believe no ones taking the Piss out of this one

    .........Oops.
    Yeah, I know, this thread is a pile of crap.


  • #16
    Overheal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 86,683 ✭✭✭✭Overheal


    MagicMarker wrote: »
    I would use it, and if i were ever caught? .....

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=
    damnit I was about to post that :pac:


  • #17
    bluto63
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,228 ✭✭✭bluto63


    I don't see what the problem is to using a disabled toilet. And that whole nonsense of waitin for a "normal" toilet while the disabled one is free is just mad


  • #18
    CtrlSource
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 825 ✭✭✭CtrlSource


    Tails wrote: »
    Right some public feed back about this would be nice.

    This issue was of great debate in the pub last night, and it seems there's 2 main schools of thought on it.

    Anyways whats your opinion on using a disabled toilet?

    Would you use it as normal if it is vacant or would you leave it and wait if all the usual cubicles are full?

    My stance on the whole thing is that they should be used by anyone but if any one who is disabled needs to use it gets first preference.

    It must have been a really interesting night if this was an issue of great debate lol! :P

    But seriously, i''ve a question to ask. Are you only referring to the enlarged accessible cubicles within regular toilets, or also the proper unisex wheelchair accessible toilets that are completely separate to the Ladies & Gents?

    My opinion of the former is that if all the other cubicles are occupied, the able bodied should indeed use them and not wait for another to become free. But if it is the separate room accessible toilets, these are reserved for those who really need them and are not part of the regular toilet blocks. It's pig ignorant to use one if you don't need it and you haven't first checked out the regular toilets first. TBH, the only justification i find acceptable is emerging diarrhea trickling down your leg, necessitating the use of the nearest available hole in the ground or bucket!

    In my experience, people often use wheelchair accessible toilets (of the separate room kind) when they've got something very nasty to hide, like a morning dump after a night drinking 15 pints, followed by a few donor kebabs on the way home. i've been confronted by some really awful aftermaths of such dumps and unlike the rest of you, i can't simply go and use the next cubicle.

    Some issues commonly faced by wheelchair users in accessible toilets: http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055027363

    Muppets who like to continually abuse the admittedly superior facilities offered in many accessible toilets: http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055064886


  • #19
    tony1kenobi
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,755 ✭✭✭tony1kenobi


    minidazzler wrote: »
    It is basically the same as a parking space. There should be fines.

    If I was caught taking a **** in a handicapped parking space a fine would suffice from my perspective.


  • #20
    Lillyella
    Closed Accounts Posts: 119 ✭✭Lillyella


    I used to ALWAYS use them, and would even use them first over the normal cubicles because I can do my make up in peace and there is loads of room in them.

    My point was that, if I was somewhere where I was aware there was someone disabled in the establishment, I'd avoid it, but if there is no sign, then why not? I'll only be a couple of mins and if I heard a knock on the door, I'd be out like a light.

    But what was pointed out to me was that when somone is disabled, it may not just be something that effects the use of their legs, and that bladder or kidney problems go hand in hand.

    And so the extra couple of mins or even seconds that it takes me to pull my keks up and get out of there, could mean the person has wet themselves.

    No-one wants that. :(


  • #21
    minidazzler
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,650 ✭✭✭✭minidazzler


    Lillyella wrote: »
    I used to ALWAYS use them, and would even use them first over the normal cubicles because I can do my make up in peace and there is loads of room in them.

    My point was that, if I was somewhere where I was aware there was someone disabled in the establishment, I'd avoid it, but if there is no sign, then why not? I'll only be a couple of mins and if I heard a knock on the door, I'd be out like a light.

    But what was pointed out to me was that when somone is disabled, it may not just be something that effects the use of their legs, and that bladder or kidney problems go hand in hand.

    And so the extra couple of mins or even seconds that it takes me to pull my keks up and get out of there, could mean the person has wet themselves.

    No-one wants that. :(

    You don't know how true this is until it happens to someone you know!!!


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  • #22
    Thirdfox
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,105 ✭✭✭Thirdfox


    Do people sit/stand in the seat/area reserved for disabled people on the bus - sure they do, and if someone in a wheelchair comes gets on, it's only common sense to move unless the bus is full.

    So what's the problem with using a disabled person's toilet? I don't use them unless the others are full but wouldn't give it a second thought if they were.


  • #23
    axel rose
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,050 ✭✭✭axel rose


    pardon my ignorance but why am I to assume that someone in a wheelchair is the only person who cant 'hold it in'. something as simple as a bladder infection can render a person 'sensitive'.
    In the early and later stages of pregnancy women find it difficult to 'hold it'. As far as I am aware we dont need permission to use disabled toilets nor will I seek it.
    Its not my automatic toilet of choice but if Im bursting Ill use it. If I have a buggy with me Ill also use it.If its not in use I cant see how my 3 minutes can harm anyone.....or am I expected to wet myself on the offchance that a more disabled person may also wet themselves?
    Are we supposed to have disabled stickers similiar to parking stickers? :rolleyes:

    nah! too pc for my liking. Ill use them when the circumstances deem it so.


  • #24
    tony1kenobi
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,755 ✭✭✭tony1kenobi


    Lillyella wrote: »
    But what was pointed out to me was that when somone is disabled, it may not just be something that effects the use of their legs, and that bladder or kidney problems go hand in hand.

    And so the extra couple of mins or even seconds that it takes me to pull my keks up and get out of there, could mean the person has wet themselves.

    They are already less able though and everyone will feel sorry for them.....if you pissed your pants outside a capper john do you think professor x won't laugh at you??


  • #25
    oleras
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,787 ✭✭✭oleras


    Lillyella wrote: »
    because I can do my make up in peace .

    What are you touching up ? those mirrors are crotch height ? :D


  • #26
    minidazzler
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,650 ✭✭✭✭minidazzler


    axel rose wrote: »
    pardon my ignorance but why am I to assume that someone in a wheelchair is the only person who cant 'hold it in'. something as simple as a bladder infection can render a person 'sensitive'.
    In the early and later stages of pregnancy women find it difficult to 'hold it'. As far as I am aware we dont need permission to use disabled toilets nor will I seek it.
    Its not my automatic toilet of choice but if Im bursting Ill use it. If I have a buggy with me Ill also use it.If its not in use I cant see how my 3 minutes can harm anyone.....or am I expected to wet myself on the offchance that a more disabled person may also wet themselves?
    Are we supposed to have disabled stickers similiar to parking stickers? :rolleyes:

    nah! too pc for my liking. Ill use them when the circumstances deem it so.

    Grand if it is actually an emergency, but when there is a normal jacks a few meters away and your not on the verge of wetting yourself then go there!

    I'm not all for special treatment of anyone, in fact, I treat my sister the same as I treat everyone else.

    I jokingly call her capper to her face. but at the end of the day, disabled toilets are there for a reason, and that reason is not because someone could'nt be bothered to walk the few meters to the next toilet.


  • #27
    Xavi6
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41,159 ✭✭✭✭Xavi6


    If there's no one around and it's a straight choice between the regular jacks and the disabled one then it's the disabled on for me. They're always much cleaner, always have loo roll, they're bigger, and they have arm rests. No brainer.


  • #28
    axel rose
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,050 ✭✭✭axel rose


    ok then if I hold my hymnsheet lower than I usually do can the three of us sing from it? ;)


  • #29
    tony1kenobi
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,755 ✭✭✭tony1kenobi


    minidazzler wrote: »
    Grand if it is actually an emergency, but when there is a normal jacks a few meters away and your not on the verge of wetting yourself then go there!

    I'm not all for special treatment of anyone, in fact, I treat my sister the same as I treat everyone else.

    I jokingly call her capper to her face. but at the end of the day, disabled toilets are there for a reason, and that reason is not because someone could'nt be bothered to walk the few meters to the next toilet.

    You would agree surely that a heavily pregnant woman with a child in a buggy is a disability of sorts, even if not in the accepted sense? Like that Larry David video...a guy with a stutter has preference over someone simply busting and in need of the facilities.....all jest aside.....if someone is desperate they go where they can...otherwise they will go where they can't.....someone just using a disabled toilet out of laziness in bad form....but when you gotta go you gotta go wouldn't you agree??.....and fair play to your sister for not allowing her sense of humour to be disabled.....if only their were more like her!!!


  • #30
    xOxSinéadxOx
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,604 ✭✭✭xOxSinéadxOx


    the last 2 times I went to use the disabled person's toilet there was someone in it. I bet they weren't disabled either :rolleyes:


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  • #31
    tony1kenobi
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,755 ✭✭✭tony1kenobi


    xOxSinéadxOx wrote: »
    the last 2 times I went to use the disabled person's toilet there was someone in it. I bet they weren't disabled either :rolleyes:

    If you had tried to actually initiate a bet on whether or not they were disabled, while they are on the crapper, would have been beyond awesome.


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