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If there's one little boy, it's little boy's, but if more than one boy is involved it's little boys'. I'll leave it in the hands of the Sub-ed.

Ah, you mean every second urinal. Right, got it now. Just goes to show how the written word can be misinterpreted. Don't go changing anything just for me though - change it only if it's innacurate or unclear.

Like this:
"and only ones in the middle of people are available"
'and the only ones available are in between two other men', or 'and the only option is to use one between two other men'.

I had to use the men's washroom at my school when the women's wasn't working, and I noticed that it had little partitions between the urinals, sort of like stalls without doors, I suppose so as not to offend the delicate sensibilities of the teenage boy. It also means that you can't get a nasty shock, I assume, when you walk in the door.

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Example of toilet graffiti:

"One would think, with all this wit
That Shakespeare had been here to sh*t".


Underneath is scribed in a different hand:

"That my friend may well be true
For Shakespeare had an *rs*hole too".

(Reminds me of where I used to work. We were the proud owners of 'The Duke of Edinburgh's toilet', so named because this had been lavishly refurbished/polished etc etc for his use when he came to visit on one occasion. Don't think it had a condom machine though! ).

Hmmm... no, I think I will pursue the matter of floaters. And if you put something in an entry, you must expect to talk about it.

If a toilet is clogged there is something either in the U-bend or lots of things in the bowl. One floater can't do that because it's sitting on the surface of the water, so 'a floater' can't clog a toilet. It's usually wads of bog paper that do that.

Or a few floaters, though id still say floaters jus dont flush

Floaters float, as their nick name suggests, and they don't flush away easily BH, if they did they wouldn't still be floating flush after flush after flush. Tony, but floaters can't clog the toilet.

Tony has got the ladies toilets about right. They are generally, cleaner, fresher, more spacious, better decorated and more comfortable, it's what we expect and deserve.

It's the toilet papar more often then the cigarette ends that block the gutters and drainage holes, it would take a lot of cigarette ends to block it.

Emmily

Floaters no longer block the toilets, toilet paper and cigarette butts now do block the urinals

Great article

I usually find you can judge the classiness of a pub by its graffiti, most pubs have the usual: 'Stu wos ere', 'phone **** for dirty sex' and 'Cleopatra does the dirty' type lines.

But in some pub toilets i've seen long, well thought out arguements on their walls. Like one pub (the Princess Louise in London i think) which had a rather thought provoking arguement between a number of regulars about the war in Iraq on one wall of the stalls.

This article also reminds me of one of the greatest bits of graffiti i've ever seen:

Someone had written a some homophobic drivel, and under it someone had retorted with; "Mate, you're so far back in the closet, you're in f***ing Narnia."

Yeah that is a lovely line. Haven't seen it graffitied anywhere, but I've heard it said much to my amusement.

Just heard about this in the radio:

http://www.britloos.co.uk/membership/loy.html

So is it 'little boys' room' or 'little boy's room', I still don't know? Anything else to add?

Oh - useless yet fun factoid: the insects often seen carved onto the back of urinals (in order to give a gentleman something to aim at) are, by and large, normally wasps. The reason for this is that the latin for wasp is 'apis' - which, by a staggering coincidence, is one of the many possible sources of the phrase "to take a p**s".

In the Philharmonic Pub in Liverpool City Centre, there are a particularly ornate set of gents' conveniences, which are so delightful that ladies are often given the opportunity to have a quick nose around and admire the intricate carvings. And, nestling at the back of each of the urinals, is a little wasp.

Paully

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I'm gonna have to remember that one.

Tony2Times!

Well done

Well done

excellent

Well done!
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