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[–] 98 points 10 months ago (3 children)

The sign in the right says "bees", but the picture shows a creature with eight legs, two body segments, and no wings. That's no bee, that's a spider!

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  • [–] 189 points 10 months ago (10 children)

    It's not gendered, it's birds for turds and bees for pees.

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  • [–] 63 points 10 months ago (6 children)

    i like this one, very inclusive

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  • [–] 56 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (3 children)

    I've been stuck in this exact situation at a local pub. It's even worse when you've downed 3 pints so you're simultaneously drunk and been holding it for way too long cause you had to finish explaining a friend why Marx was right.

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  • [–] 41 points 10 months ago (3 children)

    This post made me realize, I've only ever heard "the birds and the bees" referenced, but never actually how it's applied during sex ed.

    But uh, turns out this does not make any sense in that context either. It's just two separate examples to explain sexuality, so bees pollinating flowers and birds laying eggs. They're just used as examples, because they're visible in nature and somewhat resemble the mechanics of sex.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_birds_and_the_bees

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  • [–] 9 points 10 months ago

    They should have used the eggplants and the peaches. Before cell phone emojis that would have made things even more confusing. Then Piper Perry could do the putting the condom on the eggplant demonstration, and every boy could feel inadequate for the next several decades.

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  • [–] 26 points 10 months ago (9 children)

    The gendered single person bathroom. I never understood those.

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  • [–] 31 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (6 children)

    I've heard reasons for it like "women's bathroom needs places to dispose of pads/tampons but, like, it's a box on the wall. Put one in both.

    Also heard reasons along the lines of "men are faster at using the bathroom so why should we need to share with women" (even though with single bathrooms the washing your hands part is the time bottleneck, not the peeing part) or just general disgust at the idea of sharing a bathroom with the other gender (have heard it from both genders).

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  • [+] 10 points 10 months ago (2 children)
  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    A can on the floor would be super impractical.

    There needs to be one in every stall (imagine having to find somewhere to set down a soaked feminine product so you can finish up, and then leave the stall with it in your hand 🙃 a gendered bathroom is one thing but either way I imagine you'd have way more folks just opting to flush. Best case scenario, it gets wrapped in a wad of toilet paper that also has to be supplied and attended to.)

    There's only so many places on a stall floor to put a trash can. Next to the toilet is out of sight enough that you're gonna have more flushed tampons. Next to the door is in the way enough to get kicked and knocked over. In a larger stall it could easily end up out of reach.

    You'd also be asking a janitor to move a trash can out of the way and replace it in every stall every time they mop, on top of bending down to clean and change each one.

    On that note, anything that gets on the floor will also get on the trash can, meaning any metal will probably be exposed to corrosives (urine, cleaning chemicals, even standing water).

    Even in terms of cost; the ones on the wall can be as cheap as cutting, bending, and installing a piece of sheet metal, and will basically last the lifetime of the stall.

    I honestly can't think of a single good reason for it to be anywhere else.

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  • [+] 3 points 10 months ago (1 child)
  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

    I guess I'm not really sure what you're disagreeing with? You asked, I answered. This is quite possibly the stupidest thing I've ever wasted my time thinking about though so literally who gives a fuck put your stupid trash can wherever you'd like it to be.

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  • [–] 4 points 10 months ago

    Yeah duuuuh. Women leave their claw marks everywhere, blood splatter, and oh my god throw that tampon to the trashcan it's literally there for that reason!

    But also yeah duuuh, men take personal offence at the idea of not pissing all around the stall, and washing hands has to include splattering water, somehow, behind the stall. Also never manages to drop the paper towel to bin.

    We are all terrible lil shits <3

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago

    My second favorite washroom was a grand all-genders one at a bar. There was never a wait and it had a hang-out area so you could keep an eye on your friends if they got too tipsy, or just do nose drugs with strangers. Mostly nose drugs.

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  • [–] 25 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    “She’s the bees knees” or “look at that sexy bird” I’m still confused after writing it out. Does the stinger go into the cloaca? If so, I’d guess the bee is the man… but then bees are mostly female. I fucking give up. I’d piss in the alley.

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  • [–] 22 points 10 months ago*

    If that was Poland it would be pretty understandable since nearly every bee is female* while "ptak" (bird) is widely used synonym for penis.

    *i never met anyone who wouldn't know this, also even the word "pszczoła" (bee) is always feminine in language

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  • [–] 21 points 10 months ago* (2 children)

    Birds lay eggs and bees pollinate.

    For the traditional story, birds are girls, bees are boys.

    Hence the common UK slang of calling girls "birds" or in the US "chicks".

    Ironic given that bee sexual reproduction is probably the least analogous to humans in the entire animal kingdom and the VAST majority of bees that you encounter outside the nest (and the only bees with stingers" are sterile female worker bees.

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  • [–] 18 points 10 months ago* (4 children)

    Bird is slang for girl, Bee = B for Boy

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  • [–] 17 points 10 months ago

    Just pick a random one. They are nonbinary as far as I am concerned.

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  • [–] 13 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    Only thing you can do is crack a door and take a peak.

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  • [–] 7 points 10 months ago

    Gender neutral id wager. Just go in one and do your business. If some people are offended who cares

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  • [–] 13 points 10 months ago

    Birds have a pecker!

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  • [–] 11 points 10 months ago (4 children)

    Most bees are female so I guess women go in the bees stall

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  • [–] 5 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    Flappers from 1920's to the left and Buzz Aldrin to the right.

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  • [–] 11 points 10 months ago (4 children)

    British 1960s slang for a woman is "bird". So, men are bees.

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  • [–] 16 points 10 months ago (3 children)

    Almost guaranteed that every bee you've seen in the wild is female. So, women are bees

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  • [–] 4 points 10 months ago

    In the UK women can be called birds but it’s considered a bit tasteless nowadays.

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  • [–] 6 points 10 months ago (6 children)

    I think a bee is male cuz they have stingers

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  • [–] 15 points 10 months ago (5 children)

    Male bees don't have stingers though...

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  • [–] 6 points 10 months ago (4 children)

    In the "teaching sex ed" way not the reality way, like why the fuck would birds and bees fuck eacother?

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    Yeah, I was just trying to point out the absurdity of trying to assign gender to either of them.

    Most bees people think of are worker or queen bees (female) while the birds people tend to picture are bright and colorful (males) or the songs (also typically males). On the other hand people associate birds and egg laying (so I suppose femaleish) and bees have a stinger that could symbolize a penis (though if you have a barbed and venomous penis please stay far away from me).

    So I vote you pick based solely on vibes instead of gender. Hell, I vote we take it a step further and stop gendering bathrooms at all. Just put random unrelated symbols and people can pick which they like. So like one with a book, the other with cheese. Or whatever else you want. Make it a big poop related social experiment.

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago

    If it's yellow poop go to bees if it's white go to birds.

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    Bee if you want to get stung, bird if you want to get shat on.

    Either way, you're fucked.

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  • [–] 7 points 10 months ago (6 children)

    Bees pollinate (boys), birds lay eggs (girls).

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  • [–] 4 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    The, female, Queen Bee is iconic.

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago

    Haha you’re right!

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  • [–] 0 points 10 months ago (3 children)

    Bees have a stinger so I assume that's the penis analogue.

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