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This sign apparently hangs in a ladies’ room at the Department of Veterans Affairs. But is this a standard thing in all ladies’ rooms, everywhere? Ladies? [Endless Simmer]
THERE MUST HAVE BEEN AN INCIDENT
Women Constantly Trying To Do Kitchen Chores In Veterans Affairs Dept. Bathroom
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4:23 PM
on Wed December 3 2008
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Jim Newell
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Are you positive this sign wasn’t pulled from engrish.com?
Left over food in toilet = bad
Vomited up left over food in toilet = good
It could be worse.
My sister’s employer had to post signs in the male bathrooms for workers not to wash their feet and genitals in the sinks.
The feet part is understandable as many of the workers are recent muslim immigrants who was their feet before praying to Mecca. The penis washing part is because some people are just fucking weird.
Mark Penn must have used the ladies room.
no ladies’ room i’ve ever snuck into has had a sign like that….
FreshCliches: oh god, I pent hours reading Engrish.com Thanksgiving weekend, laughing myself to tears…
Civilized women do NOT do this. They have some scary white trash working for the VA. When I did the paperwork for my Dad’s funeral at Arlington National Cemetery, the cretin who processed it had a snake tattoo up her leg and missing teeth.
Sign in a laundromat in Mass: “Do Not Put Soap In Dryers”
A health lesson would be to tell you all to wash your hands BEFORE touching you penis. This way you won’t get AIDS germs on your penis when you take it out to piss.
Left over food from….what? Thanksgiving? Perhaps ladies were desperately flushing Aunt Sophie’s fruitcake from five years ago down the loo?
NoWireHangers: damnit - you beat me
Having no garbage disposal and not wanting to throw my soggy compost into an otherwise clean and dry trash can, damn right I flush my tea leaves. Every day. Sometimes an occasional small apple core too.
Just not anything so large as to uh, cause problems with the plumbing.
ManchuCandidate: personally speaking, im rather glad to see that men do occasionally wash their penises…
And do not put your turds in the fridge.
Who takes food into the bathroom anyway? That’s the question. What’s that - in & out in one sitting?
anabellum:
True, but I don’t scrub mine clean in a public bathroom.
Can we wash our dishes in the toilet?
Did Larry Summers get nominated for Secretary of Veterans’ Affairs?
Those wimmenfolk can’t do math, and they’re such slobs, too.
OMG engrish.com is so good. I am old enough to remember Traveller’s Tales in the Far Eastern Economic Review, which were not only Asian. My favorite was Austiran, telling people not to wear their ski boots indoors. “Do not wear boots of ascent in the hours of repose.”
ToeCramps: Guilty - but only when I on the Laptop reading this stuff
ToeCramps - Guilty - but only when I on the Laptop reading this stuff
ToeCramps: It does cut out the middle man.
My office apparently staged a revolt a few years before I started after cutbacks got rid of the nightly cleaning crew. The protest of choice was flushing random shit down the ladies’ room toilets – office supplies, whole Lean Cuisines, whatever people could get their hands on.
We have a nightly cleaning crew now.
Lascauxcaveman: I do respect a clean trash can, but they do have these plastic liners that go in them, thus keeping the can itself unsullied by waste. Just FYI….
Also, do not give food to hobos! And feeding pigeons is right out.
ManchuCandidate: Hey, I wash my penis in the office sink all the time, because it gets stanky down there in the summer. What, do you expect me to shower before work?
ToeCramps-I won’t be able to eat a Double-Double for weeks now.
Dumb bitches, you wash the dishes in the toilet and put the leftovers in the sink! Damned! How many times do I got to tell you this shit!
So glad I don’t work for the federal government. Everyone I’ve ever known who did had horror stories. Like the one who worked for DEA and was told after a week on the job, “Slow DOWN! You’re working too hard!” No sarcasm or irony, it was straight-up “Stop making the rest of us look slow in comparison.” You can spot the bureaucrats on the Metro with their polyester short-sleeve dress shirts and gravy-stained brown ties and plastic shoes….
Oh my God, you guys are so sexist. How dare you assume that it’s women doing the kitchen chores just because it’s in the women’s bathroom???
azw88:
I agree with you. HAHAHAHAHAHAHA, but I doubt you know just how close you are to reality in The Vets System.
actor212: Anyone who has ever stood at a urinal holding a beer truly understands his place in the universe.
WadISay: LOL, was waiting for that one.
I worked for a place that had a sign saying “Do not defacate in the urinals.” …It was covered in boogers.
They’re only throwing food in the toilet to cover up the preemies in there.
Hamster: funny thing about a sign like that, anyone defecating in a urinal is too fuckin stupid or too fuckin drunk to know what defecating means.
But how else will we feed the Ninja Turtles?
WILL SOMEONE THINK OF THE NINJA TURTLES????!!!1!!??
BoreExpert: Only after you’ve scraped them into the sink first.
Are people taking ‘dropping a loaf’ way too literally?
Uncle Al: Middling advice! Neither sarcasm nor irony is adequate for or applicable to a CofE style social affairs ministry-made-agency coordinating: a prohibitionist _posse comitatus interstatia_; several dozen ‘false flags’ initiatives extra-nationally; several hundred penitentiary reservations internationally; and , capitally, a thousand bitter, Oliver cum Northern burn-outs reconsidering their Flag Office Commission with all ‘sovereign-acts restraint*’ bullshit for a paramilitary make-work life of crime.
As I take it, only the Directorate of Operations CPD detachment is more despised by those serving civilly.
(Or ‘constraint’ as a DoD relative hearsaid one of these fucking wits “like it put-up”. “SOS – Sovereign on Sanction,” he continued…like a perfect poseur of fortune.)
Nope, we usually only get signs warning us not to flush used sanitary napkins down the toilet.
Anita Cocktail: Which signs are, oddly, NOT red and white, like that one.
An agency I was contracted to had a sign in the bathroom written specifically for the resident purger. Not to criticize her behavior or suggest she get help, but just to ask that she clean up a little better. Not kidding.
FreshCliches: Engrish.com has advance notice of the inauguration’s featured drink. http://www.engrish.com//wp-content/uploads/2008/08/black-boss.jpg
Kwame: Hey, before we got a sink in our suite, I used to wash my dishes in the sinks of our floor restroom, and I am NOT white trash. Nor do I work for the federal government. What I am is an environmentalist, who doesn’t like to use paper and plastic all the time, so I keep my own stash of REUSABLE silverware and mugs (and dish soap and sponge) in my office. What else are you supposed to do if you don’t have a sink in your office suite? I am not going to cart silverware and cups back and forth between home and work all the time (I take public transportation).
I always made sure to wipe down the sink afterwards, and I never put food in the toilets. I would much rather see people washing their dishes in the bathroom than see all the plastic spoons, knives, forks, and cups in the garbage. I don’t think it’s any worse than people brushing their teeth in the bathroom (which is also fine with me).
Texan Bulldoggette: Tea leaves in the toity or another plastic bag in the landfill? I’ll take the former.
But to get in the spirit of some of the other commenters, sometimes I poop in the plastic bag.
(kidding)
We are just told to:
Poop
Flush
Poop
Flush
Flush
Jesus, I feel like I know far more about you people than I ever should have, and it’s making my skin crawl. Now if you’ll excuse me, I have to go take a sponge-bath in the toilet and make a frilly hat out of a bunch of ass-gaskets.
Do not eat urinal cakes.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Do_not_eat_urinal_cakes.jpg
Nanks: I am clearly an elitist, for which I do apologize. I am so grossed out because of what I’ve seen under a black light in bathrooms. Blacklights show fecal matter, and I have been horrified by what I’ve seen in what seemed to be the cleanest of bathrooms. But a few those ladies at the VA probably are flushing their leftover squirrel casserole.
Uncle Al: I worked in a governmental agency research lab for years, testing stuff on rats. I had all the “security” convinced that rats often got loose and lived in the bathrooms, sometimes running over an unwary urinator’s foot. I guess I’m just a bad person.
Seriously though, the lights in all the labs went out at a certain time and sometimes I was there after that time…I asked security to turn the lights back on and was told that it was computer-controlled and they could do nothing about it.
I worked with someone who did this. Bathroom dish-washing is what happens to those people who don’t have access to non-bathroom sinks at work, and bring meals to work in the ONLY gladware container they will ever own, as they aren’t paid enough to deal with plastic bags or purchase multiple containers. Flushing the leftovers saves everyone from smelling the nasty food for the rest of the shift. The container has to be washed immediately or it will start growing spores from the remains of whatever slop they ate.
The VA should get a kitchen sink. And a microwave. For the employees.
Isn’t this where all left over food ends up anyway? Oh, right. Only if you’re a Repug. They’re eating a lot of shit lately.
http://www.passiveaggressivenotes.com/
From the heart…
PsycGirl: Ha! Guess it never occurred to anyone in your agency that someone might work past closing time. Lucky the security guys didn’t report it to your boss or you’d have been in trouble.
Black lights belong in the living room, illuminating your Elvis painting on black velvet.
CivicHoliday: Why must you be so vexing and insolent?
Some liquor store employee must have been watching “Masterpiece Theatre”or something.
ToeCramps: Probably washing out the tupperware containers that held their lunch. What’s the big deal?
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