Lady fans, please remember that men and women have separate bathrooms for a reason...

[hatrickpatrick]

...It's because, like at Croke Park tonight, when guys use the cubicles they are fast, when girls use it, they are not. Walking in during a tiny gap in between songs and discovering a queue of women in the men's toilets was possibly one of the darkest moments of my life. I realized I was going to miss a LOT of the gig (As it happened I just held it in, went back outside and tried again later)

Please remember - the rule is not just there for the sake of tradition. It's there because we have different bathroom habits, and just as most girls don't understand why guys go to the bathroom alone, most guys don't understand why you take so damn long in there!!!

(Also, just to point out a hideous double standard in society: If I had gone into the ladies' toilets out of frustration I would most likely have been escorted out of the stadium by the stewards and arrested immediately to await charges of sexual harassment. )

Thoughts, anyone?

 

[BVS]

Thoughts?

You have a fabulous life if this is one of the darkest moments of your life.

 

[Sicy]

Thoughts?

You have a fabulous life if this is one of the darkest moments of your life.

Why is it that you always have to be the first to reply with a snarky comment?

 

[Mr. V]

Thoughts?

You have a fabulous life if this is one of the darkest moments of your life.

This is pretty much my case in point man. Do you have to be a smartass in what is clearly a jokey sort of thread?

 

[Sicy]

On topic, I have sometimes used the mens restroom if the womens is super long But, I could never do it if there were actually men in the restroom.

 

[BVS]

Ok maybe I should have put a so you would know where I'm coming from...

 

[subnet]

On topic, I have sometimes used the mens restroom if the womens is super long But, I could never do it if there were actually men in the restroom.

which is often the case... I mean the mens room being empty during a concert, hockey, basketball, baseball, soccer, NASCAR race

afterwards, its another story

and please if I may, it's OK to jump into the mens room if you HAVE to at a club, just don't push us folks into the urinal. That's left to buddies and their own pranks.

 

[gvox]

Maybe a bit snarky, true...but the OP did ask for thoughts.

Personally I think the OP is being a bit petty. I'm quite accustomed to women coming in the men's room to use the toilet (happens all the time here in Toronto clubs) and to be realistic, there are more urinals than private stalls in the men's room and women only use private stalls. Therefore, if your a male taking a piss break, you are in no way affected by a woman brave enough to use the private stall in a men's room.

I also have to say that I find the statements about men needing to go to the bathroom by themselves and especially the bit about harassment, frankly, ridiculous.

 

[gvox]

This is pretty much my case in point man. Do you have to be a smartass in what is clearly a jokey sort of thread?

I'm not convinced the OP is joking. Honestly...I've never met a guy who complains about the odd gal brave enough to come in the mens room. If he were around me and my friends we would roast him mercilessly

 

[hatrickpatrick]

It was a joke, lads!
Sheesh

First of all that just wouldn't "annoy" me anyway, I just found it very ironic,
Secondly, NOTHING could have "annoyed" me tonight even if it usually would. Best night EVER!!!

 

[AtomicBono]

this thread doesn't really have anything to do with U2, it just happens to have the setting of a U2 concert

that said, I'd personally never go into a men's restroom.

 

[indra]

(Also, just to point out a hideous double standard in society: If I had gone into the ladies' toilets out of frustration I would most likely have been escorted out of the stadium by the stewards and arrested immediately to await charges of sexual harassment. )

Thoughts, anyone?

If you'd tried to use the ladies toilets you would have been stymied by a really fucking long line -- which is why there were a bunch of women in the men's room in the first place!

And public places need to put in at least twice the number of women's toilets as men's -- that's my main thought.

I'd personally never go into a men's restroom.

I have when I absolutely had to, but damn -- you'd think guys would learn to aim those things!

 

[adypole]

Why is it that you always have to be the first to reply with a snarky comment?

.

 

[gareth brown]

what she said

 

[BVS]

So a snarky thread doesn't deserve a snarky response?

Have we lost all humor in here?

 

[gvox]

I think it's fair to assume that if you go out on a limb and call a completely non-noteworthy part of your concert experience - and by non-noteworthy I mean, as in, completely not worth even writing a sentence much less paragraphs about it - one of the 'darkest moments of your life'...well you better put a whole bunch of LOL smileys or at least one. Otherwise, people will take you seriously and write something smartass in reply.

 

[kramwest1]

I just admire anyone who is brave enough to sit on a stadium toilet seat--men's or women's. Please feel free to use the shortest line, whichever bathroom it's in.

And work on your thigh muscles for the inevitable "hover" ladies!


Mark

 

[hatrickpatrick]

I used 3 's, not enough for you's?

 

[blueeyedgirl]

Hey at least it's not a setlist bitching thread....

 

[gvox]

I used 3 's, not enough for you's?

Unacceptably inconclusive.





(see what I did there?)

 

[MissVelvetDress_75]

I refuse to go to the toilet during a show or any event I pay money for because I cannot stand waiting in line. And I too have used the men's restroom when the line for the women's line is too long.

 

[vaz02]

As the OP said, if you had gone into the ladies he would of been hounded out and called all sorts. You should of told those women infront of you to get fucked, its our domain.

 

[MissVelvetDress_75]

lol

 

[gvox]

You should of told those women infront of you to get fucked, its our domain.

Guys that tell women to get fucked...well..usually aren't having the best of luck in that department themselves, if you catch my meaning.

 

[smitefull1]

all you gotta do is walk up to the stall door and cut right in front of the chick standing there,

 

[hatrickpatrick]

No need, a lot of them got quite pink in the face and tried to walk out with dignity when a young lad came out of the dubicle and remarked: "Ah, all the lesbiens out tonight I see"

Next time I'm in Croker for a big event like that I'll walk into the ladies' and see what happens - wouldn't take the risk of being kicked out of a U2 concert so it'll have to be something else.

Also on a slightly related note, does anyone else find the idea of actually MAKING OUT with someone in a toilet cubicle a horrible, HORRIBLE thought? This was the other disturbing horror I witnessed...

 

[Sicy]

I just admire anyone who is brave enough to sit on a stadium toilet seat--men's or women's. Please feel free to use the shortest line, whichever bathroom it's in.

And work on your thigh muscles for the inevitable "hover" ladies!


Mark

Who sits? I squat.

 

[gvox]

No need, a lot of them got quite pink in the face and tried to walk out with dignity when a young lad came out of the dubicle and remarked: "Ah, all the lesbiens out tonight I see"



Also on a slightly related note, does anyone else find the idea of actually MAKING OUT with someone in a toilet cubicle a horrible, HORRIBLE thought? This was the other disturbing horror I witnessed...

Ok this post alternates between downright offensive and self-depreciatingly funny at the same time.

/

 

[KEVIN051269]

Watch out for the 'flocks of bats' girls

 

[zooropop40]

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