Public restrooms

[grimmbass]

Nobody...I mean NOBODY likes using Public Restrooms when sitting is required....but when you gotta go, you gotta go!

What do you guys think are the worst and best public restrooms in existence?

My votes:
Best: New Sheetz on 17th Street...lots of space to spread out!
Worst: (at least ONE of the worst) Rathskeller

Any opinions?

Kent

[bassist_25]

I generally dislike public restrooms. Actually, public restrooms are one of the things in this world that I hate the most.

One of the nicest club restrooms I've ever been in though would have to be Coonie's in Kylertown. It has a nice rustic feel, yet it's very clean. The lighting is just right, enough that you can see well but not so much that it burns your eyes out of their sockets.

[Imgrimm01]

Any Hoss's handicapped stall oh yeah feet on the railing and Baaaaammm

[Punkinhead]

IUP's are the worst to me. I know more than one person who has gotten an STD from their shitters (and not from the dirty sorostitutes, these dudes are practically virgins). Any time you have alot of people from alot of different places using it, it's a bad shitter.

I won't use a public restroom. The only time in the last year that I did I was at Wal-Mart and went and bought disinfecting wipes and cleaned the shitter prior to using. I'm sort of a germophobe in a way.

[Big Jim]

I will not go in one that does not have a door on the stall or no stall at all (if you know what I mean). I like some privacy.

"Oh Lord, it's hard to be humble..."

[Banned]

Worst: Pretty much any campground restroom. The combination of mysterious fungi, enormous predatory insects, and rancid primeval pits beneath the toilet seats are too much for me. Oh, and sometimes there are creepy old guys running around with their schwanzstuckers hanging out. Let's put it like this . . . when my eternal soul inevitably comes to rest in some pit of Hell or another, it will be a step up in accommodations from a campsite restroom.

Best: I'm not telling, so none of you will go besoil it.

Any Hoss's handicapped stall oh yeah feet on the railing and Baaaaammm

Gee, thanks for putting that mental image in our heads, Emeril . . .

[JeffLeeper]

Just to show my age....When I was a kid , we had an outhouse. For obvious reasons , it had to be about 50 yards from the house.....at night it seemed like a mile....

You don't know terror until you are sitting there and looking at a black snake coiled up in the corner.

....ah , the good old days....they sucked !

[Asundor]

What gets me is when you go to set down and look into that dark hole you have to wonder whats going to come up out of their and bite you in the ass. I also always have this fear that some little kid is down their playing some kind of sick joke and is going to wait till I plant my ass on that toilet seat and come jumping up from the bottom of one of those damn things and punch me in the ass. God it gives me nightmares just thinking about it. But lets face the positive side of things woulden't that be cool If you ran into that situation and their was some damn punk kid thinking he was going to scare the shit out of you. Now woulden't it be great if by chance you just happened to have a quarter stick in your car. I would drop that baby in their and say HA HA asshole eat shit. Jason/CYPHIN

[Asundor]

I never said I was right in the head

[gymnast]

Punkinhead wrote:

IUP's are the worst to me. I know more than one person who has gotten an STD from their shitters (and not from the dirty sorostitutes, these dudes are practically virgins). Any time you have alot of people from alot of different places using it, it's a bad shitter.

I have been at IUP for 10 years, 4 as a student and 6 as an employee. I had never heard of anyone getting an STD from a toilet. Then again I am a girl and when living in the dorms we always hovered or put TP down. If you are ever on campus and have to go... Go in an administrative building - they are cleaned daily and used by way fewer people, especially the basements. Example Stright Basement restrooms: girls used by maybe 10 people a day (9 work there) Stright First Floor: girls used by maybe 50 people a day (20 work there). If it is after 8 or 9 PM then your best bet is sutton (all other admin buildings are locked).

Worst Bar or Club potty: G-man in ALtoona - gross but smelled lovely cinnamini
Best Bar or Club potty: Dew's Tap and Tunnel room WIlmore - even had bath & body works products in a basket

[RobTheDrummer]

The worst in my opinion is the Saloon in State College, we're talking a trough big enough for 1 and a half people and a sink. That's it...I remember a guy pissing in the trash can, and another in the sink...St.Patricks Day was bad bad bad....I dread goin in there, so I would go upstairs to the highway pizza bathroom.

The best...there is no best. If it has urinals, then I like having the divider. For stalls, locking doors are a must and with no see-through cracks. Ultimately, the home is the best place to go.


Also...

IUP's are the worst to me. I know more than one person who has gotten an STD from their shitters (and not from the dirty sorostitutes, these dudes are practically virgins). Any time you have alot of people from alot of different places using it, it's a bad shitter.

They like to make you think they are practically virgins, but it only takes one dirty ho...

[Punkinhead]

The worst in my opinion is the Saloon in State College, we're talking a trough big enough for 1 and a half people and a sink. That's it...I remember a guy pissing in the trash can, and another in the sink...St.Patricks Day was bad bad bad....I dread goin in there, so I would go upstairs to the highway pizza bathroom.

The best...there is no best. If it has urinals, then I like having the divider. For stalls, locking doors are a must and with no see-through cracks. Ultimately, the home is the best place to go.


Also...

IUP's are the worst to me. I know more than one person who has gotten an STD from their shitters (and not from the dirty sorostitutes, these dudes are practically virgins). Any time you have alot of people from alot of different places using it, it's a bad shitter.

They like to make you think they are practically virgins, but it only takes one dirty ho...

Maybe man but, they both got them after using Stapleton (library) 1st floor stalls.

I won't go at IUP after that but, then again that has as much to do with my not using any public restroom as anything else.

[Brian of the Clan Plush]

Example Stright Basement restrooms: girls used by maybe 10 people a day (9 work there) Stright First Floor: girls used by maybe 50 people a day (20 work there).

...is this shitter-tracking part of your job at IUP or just a fun hobby?

I haven't seen a bar bathroom yet that didn't scream for the hover method, so when I need to negotiate a hostage release, yanno...drop the kids off at the pool....I usually just squat behind the bass player's rig during a long solo, wipe with the flyers that Bad Daze has littered the countryside with, and then hang out on the guitar player's side of the stage for the rest of the night.

[bassist_25]

Plush wipe with the flyers that Bad Daze has littered the countryside with

Dude, you could have used that flyer for a free beer. Luckily, the flyers are also bio-degradable. Also, a small percentage of gig income goes to Green Peace.

bad daZe: The Enviro-Friendly Rock Band.

[Staceman]

Worst: Has to be the men's room at the Hurry Sundown in Bedford. Haven't been there in years, but I can't imagine it got any better.

Non-bar-related, I don't think I've ever been in a worse restroom than the ones at the Starlake/PPG Pavilion during Ozzfest.

Another non-bar-related one- Most embarrassing one to use, would have to be the men's room at the MoonGlo 2 skating rink in Bedford, back in the 80's. They had a large trough-like thing in the middle of the room to piss in. Yes, in the middle of the damn room. It was a shy bladder's worst nightmare. Haven't been there in years, but surely it's no longer like this.

Best? I don't think I've ever seen a restroom in a bar that could be called such.

I've always equated a bar's reputation to the conditions of it's restrooms. Always seemed like the bars with the worst restrooms, had the most fights. Something about the bad condition of a restroom just puts people in a bad mood.

[Brian of the Clan Plush]

Luckily, the flyers are also bio-degradable.

anything that comes into contact with my dookie is bio-degradeable!


::: can't believe he's been pulled into a thread about poo :::

[Jim Price]

As far as nightspots are concerned, my vote for best restroom at the moment is Burgi's...touchless flush...touchless sink...touchless paper towel dispenser...how can you go wrong?

Worst restrooms...I would agree that any of the downtown State College restrooms on a busy Saturday night can be a nightmare. Back when they used to run bands, the Altoona G-Man and the William Penn Inn in Huntingdon were two of the worst I had seen.

The worst restrooms I've dealt with outside of nightspots: until they started upgrading them a few years ago, the restrooms at Prince Gallitzin State Park. These things used to test the limits of even the strongest noses, plus some of the biggest arachnids known to man resided there. Very scary!!!

[songsmith]

Porta-Potties, man. There is no good experience there. At least in an outhouse, the "effluent" is outta-sight-outta-mind... in a jobjon, it's right THERE, burning your nostrils AND your retinas. I did sound at an Irish music festival once, open bar all day... they overflowed them. Everybody was drunk, maybe a thousand people, it was very funny watching geeky folk-music types scrapping in their corduroy jackets with the leather elbows... anyway, they had nastiness flowing in the streets... the board of health shut them down, and they had to rinse the whole street with firehoses.
At a fair in New York, I spent a whole week running sound in a circus tent in the middle of the horse-pull field. A single porta-potty for crowds of maybe 600 people a day, and you had to navigate giant Percheron workhorse road apples to get to it. In 100 degree heat.
I still have bad dreams. ----------->JMS

[HurricaneBob]

Lol John, reminded me of these pics of Felix years ago..

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[Asundor]

I just come up with a good one. Anyone remember The Colonial Bar, in Huntingdon, it's a restraunt now and you woulden't believe what they have done to that place. But that bathroom in there at one time WOW thats all I'll say about that. People use to piss in their sink, and in the corner of the wall. What makes me laugh is one night I went in there to piss and one guy was using the sink, another was going in the toilet and some other dude had the top off the toilet pissin down into it. You have to give him credit atleast he wasen't like the many I have seen just piss in the corner of the bathrrom. I think that one takes the cake.

[Bert|Evil]

Punkinhead wrote:

IUP's are the worst to me. I know more than one person who has gotten an STD from their shitters (and not from the dirty sorostitutes, these dudes are practically virgins). Any time you have alot of people from alot of different places using it, it's a bad shitter.

I have been at IUP for 10 years, 4 as a student and 6 as an employee. I had never heard of anyone getting an STD from a toilet. Then again I am a girl and when living in the dorms we always hovered or put TP down. If you are ever on campus and have to go... Go in an administrative building - they are cleaned daily and used by way fewer people, especially the basements. Example Stright Basement restrooms: girls used by maybe 10 people a day (9 work there) Stright First Floor: girls used by maybe 50 people a day (20 work there). If it is after 8 or 9 PM then your best bet is sutton (all other admin buildings are locked).

Gymnast~ unless you’re a Janitor at IUP, I’m really going to question you on this one. I’ve seen many o’ terrible toilets in my day, and most of them were at or near IUP. Heck, it’s customary for someone to walk to the bathrooms with a can of Lysol. What does that tell you?

This talk about bathrooms and IUP reminds of one of my experiences in my IUP days. I lived in Mack Hall for my Freshman year. Since the sororities had their suites in the basement of the Tri-Halls and met every Sunday night, it was no secret that they would steal as much TP as they could on their way out. It was to the point where you, as a resident of that hall, had to steal your own TP roll and carry it in one hand (of course with the Lysol in your other hand) to the bathroom in the event that it had been picked over. One Sunday night I decided to stock the pond and heard some chicky clamor in the distance of an otherwise quiet hall. So, I lifted my feet from the floor and opened the door a little. Some little Delta Zeta busted in, and the look on her face was absolutely priceless as she went screaming away. Of course, my legs were spread eagle in the air and I probably could have written “Delta Zeta” on the floor at that point.

Not even two weeks later, I saw this same girl at Wolfendale’s. Would you believe that the bathroom experience doubled as the best pick-up line possible in that situation? Oh yeah!

I’ll stop not before this starts to read as a Woofburger story. You’ll notice that there was no mention of aviator glasses, wife beaters, or Mitch.

P.S. Do girls really “hover”? Is that what they do when a Porta-Potty is the only option? They complain forever, but they eventually go!

[gymnast]

Brian of the clan plush wrote:

...is this shitter-tracking part of your job at IUP or just a fun hobby?

My co-worker is insane, and it is her hobby. She is one of those people that wash their hands and purell them before touching a door knob. So of course she freaks out if anyone she does not know, uses the bathroom. Heck if one of us have a cough and use the restroom, she has to know which stall was used so she can avoid it.

Now Bert|Evil I am not a janitor, but common sense would tell ya Stright Basement is not a student area. I bet out of the 13000 people enrolled only 2000 even know that there is a basement to stright. I bet maybe 100 kids come onto this floor in a year during business hours (7 to 5). No classes are held on this floor, students can no longer print down here, and there is no need for them to be on this floor so they aren't.

Oh gosh the tri-halls. I lived in Stewart for a year. Yeah the year of the mad bag piper. I wonder whatever happened to him. Oh that was also the year that the philly girls on the first floor of turnball put their used feminine products in the garbage in their room by the radiator so the smell would infiltrate the upper floors. I believe the reasoning was that some Harrisburg people lived upstairs (I will never understand the fued between Philly and H-burg). I never went into Turnball after catching a whiff.

[Punkinhead]

I bet out of the 13000 people enrolled only 2000 even know that there is a basement to stright. I bet maybe 100 kids come onto this floor in a year during business hours (7 to 5). No classes are held on this floor, students can no longer print down here, and there is no need for them to be on this floor.

That's probably about right. The only people that I know that have been down there (for various reasons) have been comp. sci. majors like myself and there are maybe 200 of us.

[Bert|Evil]

Brian of the clan plush wrote:

...is this shitter-tracking part of your job at IUP or just a fun hobby?

My co-worker is insane, and it is her hobby. She is one of those people that wash their hands and purell them before touching a door knob. So of course she freaks out if anyone she does not know, uses the bathroom. Heck if one of us have a cough and use the restroom, she has to know which stall was used so she can avoid it.

Now Bert|Evil I am not a janitor, but common sense would tell ya Stright Basement is not a student area. I bet out of the 13000 people enrolled only 2000 even know that there is a basement to stright. I bet maybe 100 kids come onto this floor in a year during business hours (7 to 5). No classes are held on this floor, students can no longer print down here, and there is no need for them to be on this floor so they aren't.

Oh gosh the tri-halls. I lived in Stewart for a year. Yeah the year of the mad bag piper. I wonder whatever happened to him. Oh that was also the year that the philly girls on the first floor of turnball put their used feminine products in the garbage in their room by the radiator so the smell would infiltrate the upper floors. I believe the reasoning was that some Harrisburg people lived upstairs (I will never understand the fued between Philly and H-burg). I never went into Turnball after catching a whiff.

Ah, memories!! I’m sure that you and I could go on and on with IUP nostalgia.

Did you ever notice that the Philly kids from the suburbs would want you to think that they are from “the streets”, and the Philly kids from “the streets” would want you to think that they are from the suburbs? And then there’s the “warsh” and “wudder” slang. Coexisting with the Philly kids was a necessary evil, unfortunately.

I hope that you weren’t in rm. 120 Stewart Hall, by the way!

[bassist_25]

Did you ever notice that the Philly kids from the suburbs would want you to think that they are from “the streets”, and the Philly kids from “the streets” would want you to think that they are from the suburbs?

LMAO, there's kids from Houtzdale that would like you to believe that they are from "The Streets". Quit speaking in ebonics people; you're from fucking Pennsyltuckey.