Men's public toilets
I can only speak for the men's toilets, obviously. I don't know how ladies' are, but why do the men's public toilets always have to be absolutely DISGUSTING?

Why is it that EVERY fucking time I go into a cubicle, it looks like someone has pissed all over the seat and the floor? I might understand it happening very rarely - like for example, in a pub toilet in the evening when some drunk person lost control of his ability to aim. But why is it that EVERY time I ever use ANY public toilet - no matter where or when - then the previous user has always made a disgusting mess?

Do these people do the same at home, I wonder?

I have had to spend countless hours, wiping up their mess with toilet paper simply in order to be able to sit down. I don't want the bottom of my trousers to lie in a puddle of someone else's piss on the floor.

*sigh*

Can any women here please confirm whether it is the same in ladies' toilets - or if they are generally clean in comparison?

Oh - and don't even get me started on people leaving the toilet lid up. It drives me nuts. I don't just mean the seat: I mean the actual lid. Why oh why do most people seem incapable of closing the toilet after they have finished? The lid is there for a reason: use it!
(EuroSong I love horse meat: best of all the animals, Wed 7 May 2008, 9:06, 4 replies)

Comparison
As a yoot I used to work in a Happy Eater next to the A1, which occasionally involved cleaning the toilets. The women's would always take a lot longer, as every single patron seemed to have lined the bog seat with multiple layers of loo roll and then let it fall on the floor rather than put it in the bowl.

Both were about equal in terms of stray piss, although there was the occasional woolly tunnel rat to contend with in the ladies'...
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In twopubs I've been in
The men's loo is tiled, stark and smelly. The ladies is carpeted, statue in the corner, warm colours, clean, with a bottle of moisturiser and very nicely fragranced.
( Methylene Blue - electrohead, Wed 7 May 2008, 10:38, closed)

Ladies toilets can be pretty grim
I once went in one where there was shit all over the walls. Somebody must have actually gone to the trouble of smearing it up there.
(grandmasterfluffles Come to my Armageddon party on, Wed 7 May 2008, 10:48, closed)

Adding to what grandmasterfluffles said.........
At a karaoke bar in Auckland after a Table for 6 party, I had the urge to go for a slash. Alighting to the gents, I was surprised to see a crowd of males & females! gathered around a toilet cubicle, pointing and laughing.
I just had to take a look....
All I can surmise is that someone had consumed something akin to 93 pints and a Chicken Vindaloo, and subsequently their bowels had collapsed.
They must have dropped trou and reversed in, as there was a demarcation line of shit all the way around the walls to a height of 3&1/2 feet. You couldn't see the toilet for shit. Nor the floor.
Scary and somewhat fascinating at the same time.
Glad I wasn't the cleaner....
(Sebulba continues to fight evil with evil....., Wed 7 May 2008, 11:44, closed)