Bogs for the girls

[j4]

This year there will be special loos just for the laydeez at Glastonbury. (Thanks to sion_a for spotting this one.)

How daft, though. I don't want toilets which aren't used by men -- they're all individual cubicles anyway! -- I want toilets that aren't used by morons. I certainly don't think men have a monopoly on being filthy and inconsiderate.

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[fluffymormegil.livejournal.com]

Women have to go out of their way to piss on the seat.

[j4.livejournal.com]

Well, the toilets at Glasto often end up so grim that you don't want to sit on them at all, so you end up trying to piss squatting over the toilet rather than sitting on it, at which point it is quite easy to hit the seat (especially given how, er, undirected it tends to be).

But if I do hit the seat I wipe it up with some of the huge wads of loo-paper that I have stuffed in my cargo-pockets.

Glasto 'top tip': DO NOT go in the chemical portaloos while tripping. *shudder*

[juliet]

Gosh. I don't think I've ever used a loo at Glasto *that* bad - though I do frequently use some of the huge wads of loo-paper to wipe the seat off beforehand. Mind you, I avoid the portaloos if at *all* possible (will walk quite a way if necessary) and stick to the long-drop & similar, which are invariably nicer. And I've certainly seen toilets sufficiently grim that I just avoided them altogether & found another one.

But by and large IME the loos at Glasto are nowhere near as bad as is commonly made out. Certainly they're better than the Reading campsite ones (mostly because they get cleaned out regularly), and the long-drop aren't too horrendous at all. Maybe I just have a high tolerance for such things, mind...

[j4.livejournal.com]

It's when there's a lot of... well, fallout. Mind you, there were times when I had trouble finding a portaloo which was still concave. Blehhh.

The long-drop ones are much nicer, though. And by and large you can find one that's okay, though you often have to wander a bit to find them.

I think I avoided the Reading campsite ones completely when I went to Reading, and just made sure to use the ones in the arena (which were okayish) before going to bed! (Given that everybody seemed to be using loo-paper to decorate trees before setting fire to them, I wasn't too hopeful that they'd treat the toilets any less moronically.)