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Oct 2014
10:30pm, 7 Oct 2014
17,066 posts
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Red Squirrel
The last 2 places I worked had wet rooms doubling up as disabled loos. I never saw the logic in that. What if someone was busting for a wee when we cyclists and runners were having our pre-work showers?
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Oct 2014
11:15pm, 7 Oct 2014
4,824 posts
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Duchess
I suppose it would be highly inappropriate in this context to suggest that they cross their legs while they wait, same as everyone else does when the facilities are in use?
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Oct 2014
11:30pm, 7 Oct 2014
165 posts
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Ouchling
You'd be crossing your legs a bit longer if you're waiting for someone to shower, change and potentially sort out their hair and make-up than if you're just waiting for them to have a wee!
We have those shower/disabled loo cubicle combos where I work. Any disabled person could be waiting a very long time if they need to go when the running club's just got back.
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Oct 2014
11:35pm, 7 Oct 2014
9,106 posts
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Dvorak
Ouchling, given Duchess's phrasing in this particular context ...
Naughty Duchess! You are very naughty!
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Oct 2014
7:43am, 8 Oct 2014
1,252 posts
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Fellrunning
RS illustrates perfectly one of my pet hates about DP provision. How can that situation be appropriate? Similarly how can it be morally defensible to set aside an entire level of a hospital car park for disabled spaces that remain 80% unused whilst (say) the parents of a desperately sick child have to park miles away? Allocation should be on the basis of need not ticking some "box". My experience is that a the people who get shirty and mike snide comments about our legitimate use of a DP space, are the same people who will shove my wife out of the way or tut loudly when her disability becomes more obvious and she's a bit on the slow side. The truth is that those people don't actually give a shit about the disabled - they just like being sanctimonious. I'm afraid (again) that my view of most employers and businesses is that they're attitude is much the same.
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Oct 2014
7:44am, 8 Oct 2014
1,253 posts
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Fellrunning
Sorry - rant. Better now....
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Oct 2014
9:11am, 8 Oct 2014
224 posts
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magnumpti
The reporting of the suicide of Brenda Leyland. She was referred to as a suspected Twitter troll in the same way they would refer to a suspected murderer or suspected rapist. Whether you agree with her actions or not it's not like this was the same sort of heinous crime as those mentioned above (and probably less heinous than leaving your children unattended in an apartment whilst you went out for a meal and alcohol).
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Oct 2014
9:14am, 8 Oct 2014
31,097 posts
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Velociraptor
It grinds my gears more that people who post abusive messages on Twitter and the like don't get banned from having access to keyboards.
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Oct 2014
10:58am, 8 Oct 2014
9,384 posts
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TRO Saracen
Rain.
Hate it, doubly so when some arse says 'it's good for the garden'
(my answer is usually 'so's horse shit, but I don't want that falling on my head for 3 hours when I go out on my bike either')
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Oct 2014
12:46pm, 8 Oct 2014
17,070 posts
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Red Squirrel
Saracen ... I have this image ... 
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