While traveling in India on business, Melissa spotted this sign in all of the women’s restrooms at one office.
Note: Based on my experience with this site, I have to conclude that the fairer sex most definitely does not “define hygiene.”
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#1
Zichao
“Used the sprayer”? Either indian toilets have attachments with which I’m unfamiliar, or this person just won the Most Revolting Euphemism for a Bodily Function Award.
Oct 3, 2012 at 5:45 pm rating: 31
#2
Andy
Judging by the capitals used in “We Define Hygiene” it’s pretty clear she’s referring the readers of the note to a book she wrote.
Also, why is INSIDE and DUSTBIN capitalized? Shouldn’t “NOT ON” be underlined? Ugh ugh, parallelism!
Oct 3, 2012 at 5:47 pm rating: 10
#3
Clevegal42
Ha! I worked in a building for about 6 months and there was an incredibly similar sign in our bathroom – we shared the floor with a lot of contractors who are visiting from India. I thought it was put up by some of my piggy colleagues, but I’m wondering if it is put up by one of our contractors because that is their cultural custom?
Sadly, we didn’t have sprayers, so that stuff on the toilet seat wasn’t water. And no one ever paid attention to the signs.
Oct 3, 2012 at 6:56 pm rating: 6
#4
Little Brother
I need to begin by noting that I’m a male… a man… a guy.
Many years ago, a female co-worker who was fed up with the sloppy toilet habits of the employee ladies’ room users asked me to print a sign with the classic message,
“If you sprinkle / When you tinkle
Please be neat / And wipe the seat”
She asked me to do it because she thought I was a good printer. So I did. Apparently she made several photocopies and posted them in all the stalls.
Weeks later, another co-worker made a beeline for me when I was sitting in the crowded lunchroom and asked loudly, “Hey, how come there are all these signs in the ladies’ room in YOUR handwriting?”
Oct 3, 2012 at 10:09 pm rating: 49
#5
Derp
I’ve worked in food service for years and whenever I clean the toilets the women’s is always the worst. I’m not sure what ladies do in there, but you gals manage to get poo and pee just everywhere.
Oct 3, 2012 at 10:41 pm rating: 10
#6
Jami
I spent a summer cleaning public beach restrooms. Except on holiday weekends when there was a lot of drunk men on the beach, the women’s was always far more disgusting.
But on those holiday weekends, the men were extreme pigs. I don’t know what it is about booze and men, but the crap I had to deal with when it came to the urinals on those holiday weekends made the women’s room look like one of those computer chip clean rooms.
Oct 4, 2012 at 12:10 am rating: 8
#7
The Elf
I think we might be looking at a dialect difference, but “dustbin”? Where I live, a dustbin is what you use to collect dust and other sweepings. It isn’t what you’d put a feminine hygiene product in!
Oct 4, 2012 at 10:52 am rating: 2
#8
Beatus Mongous
Why is it missing here?
Because women need a moment to unwind after being so tidy and neat for the majority of the day.
Oct 4, 2012 at 3:12 pm rating: 2
#9
Nope
A few things annoy me about this. First off, you don’t need commas for a list of 2 items. It should be replaced by and. Secondly, the seemingly random capitalization of words that don’t require capitalization is also odd. Why are there periods for some sentences but not for others? What is the point of the last part and why is it crossed out?
Oct 5, 2012 at 8:21 am rating: 3
#10
Scarab
Someone has a high opinion of their own sex. You define hygiene? Really? Women are just as prone to being disgusting as men.
Oct 6, 2012 at 5:02 pm rating: 5
#11
Jennifer
I do enjoy it when I’ve caught someone in the act of External-Toilet Urination. If I go in the stall and see that the “gal” who just exited the stall dirtied it, I bring out my best passive-aggressive show. I’ll do a barely audible “ugh” –but enough that she hears it, make a disgusted face, and then proceed to wait for the next empty stall. Actually, that would probably happen even if no one is around, but I don’t hide my disgust out of consideration for her. I tend to think it teaches a nice lesson, especially if there are others in line. Then everybody knows she’s a seat pisser. It’s mean, I know, but if you don’t want to clean up your urine, imagine how the rest of us feel! So, I revel in the show I put on.
Oct 9, 2012 at 9:45 pm rating: 3
#12
Novemberlights
How do you know the lady who left the stall is the one who made the mess?
Oct 10, 2012 at 5:44 pm rating: 0
#13
Novemberlights
Some women may be using the old hovering technique when finding a dirty toilet.
Oct 12, 2012 at 7:30 pm rating: 0
#14
Mia
Women are the definition of hygiene, for sure. Even though the all-girl floor of the dorms I’m living in is the most disgusting one, far more than the boys’ floor or even the co-ed floor. We currently have a moldy melon in our “slop sink” (for washing paintbrushes, since it’s an art school), blood smeared on the wall in one stall, and the biggest dump of the century in another stall. Oh, and animal-sized clumps of hair in the showers. I just go down to the coed floor to use the bathroom.
Oct 16, 2012 at 10:37 am rating: 0
#15
Tn
In the Indian culture it is not completely uncommon to still use water and hand to “wipe”, instead of toilet paper.
The note is referring to the spray hose that is used in this process.
So literally, the nite is saying; if you use the spray hose to clean yourself off after —-ing, please wipe the water from your cleansing off the seat of the toilet and don’t get your cleansing water all over the floor…
That’s the sprinkle issue.
Oct 19, 2012 at 1:38 pm rating: 0
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