Men's toilet etiquette: what is wrong with so many men?

Fuaranach wrote: »

I think after littering/not caring about the environment this is the societal behaviour in Ireland that annoys me most. I doubt it's unique to Irishmen, but are there any countries where males do not behave like this in toilets? A society of men with toilet manners and toilet etiquette?

The filth. Manky. Horror. Jesus. Mary. Joseph. What way are so many men raised that they urinate on toilet seats and floors and seem wholly incapable of hitting a simple target of water in a toilet bowl? Basic respect.

And then there's the minor matter of flushing the toilet. It's allowed, you know? If you must urinate in a toilet as opposed to at a urinal, could you please wipe the seat (assuming you're too lazy to lift it beforehand) with the toilet paper, or tissue in your pocket if there's no toilet paper, and then flush after you? And, yes, many people like you to put down the toilet lid also. A simple consideration for the next person.

And then there's the excrement. Mother of God. Flush the damn thing quickly if it's too difficult to position your posterior (arse) so that your poop drops into that bowl of water. Use the brush if you lack the technical skill to hit the water. If there's no brush, be creative and save your pee for a stand up to scorch the poo off the sides above the water. And if it's a really big, stinky Blue Whale-sized one, flush immediately - immediately! - before the stink has the time to kill us all. Then worry about the wiping etc.

This problem is particular awful in the huge number of substandard pubs in poorer areas in Dublin and across rural Ireland. It's like the owner doesn't even think twice about ensuring the toilet is checked every day never mind every hour, or that the brown-stained, cracking urinal that's been there with the cracked tiles, endemic fumes and poor ventilation since 1950 is changed. Even in some of Dublin's hugely profitable "legendary" traditional pubs where apparently great pints flow the toilets remain as they would have been in 1950. Cheapskate owners are trying to pass off awful hygiene and comfort standards as "traditional". Is there even a minimum hygiene standard in Irish law for these places? In the soulless superpubs amid the roaring televisions and/or music, the toilets are generally better kept, but that's about their only redeeming feature. Is it not possible for publicans to create pubs with character, tradition and regularly cleaned, well-maintained toilets?

Do the huge number of males who treat toilets in pubs, restaurants, etc like this in 2019 treat the toilets in their own homes like this? It's a matter of basic respect, you barbarous, ignorant arrant troglodytes.

Not much seems to have changed since this review of Irish pubs in 1971 (from 12:58)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLsaO9SiRbs

KungPao wrote: »

It’s simple. Himself has been listening to her indoors all week, giving it large about the toilet paper not hanging the right way, and putting the seat back down, opening windows and spraying Oust after taking a ****.

Now he’s out with the lads, a few jars, no woman moaning, so time to piss all over the place and forget washing the hands... that’s wasting drinking time.

Real man stuff.

KevinCavan wrote: »

Men’s toilets are disgusting I must say. On occasion I’ve gone into a stall for a whizz, only to see somebody else has given the toilet seat a “golden shower.” I then proceed to take my own pee carefully. Then I realize that 12 angry men are waiting to use my cubicle. What do I do? I reluctantly clean the pee belonging to somebody else with a tissue before I exit. How do you explain to the next guy that it wasn’t me? It’s the closest I’ve gotten to feeling what Lee Harvey Oswald must have felt.