Fort Lauderdale Mayor Seeks Robotic Toilets To Curb Gays

[Frank Hipper]

What does it say about Ft Lauderdale's resident population that this idiot was elected in the first place? I have a hard time believing that such a rabid homophobe would have kept this attitude a secret during the election.

Wicked Pilot has already mentioned James Kennedy and Coral Ridge in this thread; the population of Ft. Lauderdale has already slit their own economic throat in pursuit of Godly Christian Morality, I have no doubts that homersexurals threatening The American Family (TM) by eating each other's feces in public restrooms is a powerful political tool there.

[Gandalf]

When the thread title mentioned robotic toilets being used to "curb" gays, I imagined Washroom Decepticons.

This is far from interesting, it's just retarded. Public toilets are a magnet for vandals and the like, I imagine the door mechanism will be pinched or rendered useless in under a week.

[Alerik the Fortunate]

In essence, he wants to spend outrageous amounts of money on a solution that not only will probably not technically work, at least not for long, but if it did, would cause increased inconvenience and embarrassment to many of the citizens it would ostensibly protect while doing virtually nothing to solve a problem that not only does not exist, but even if it did, should not be worth bothering about.

[sketerpot]

If anything, the backlash from this might get a few gay couples to go in just to see if they can beat the time before the door swings open. That'll help, for sure.

The true irony of this will only become apparent when some of those gay couples fail to beat the time limit, and people realize that they just spent millions of dollars so that their little children can watch as the doors fly open to reveal two guys having sex.

[Frank Hipper]

If anything, the backlash from this might get a few gay couples to go in just to see if they can beat the time before the door swings open. That'll help, for sure.

The true irony of this will only become apparent when some of those gay couples fail to beat the time limit, and people realize that they just spent millions of dollars so that their little children can watch as the doors fly open to reveal two guys having sex.

True irony would be to have the doors fly open on a child wiping his/herself...a very real possibility, and perhaps the motivation of this Mayor:

He's a pervert who wants to humiliate the children of Ft. Lauderdale for his sexual gratification.

...Suckle that turd, you fundie peices of shit.

[Nieztchean Uber-Amoeba]

So how about people with legitimate medical conditions like myself who might take a good while to relieve themselves?

Millions of dollars and a clammy handshake with an evil lawyer.

[Tanasinn]

Who the hell actually has sex in a public bathroom? Do people actually believe that?

[Justforfun000]

Who the hell actually has sex in a public bathroom? Do people actually believe that?

Oh it definitely happens, but I'd venture to say that 99% of it is usually discreet enough to fly under the radar. People don't really want to get caught by those who won't be amused.

It's a stupid proposal in any case. It's searching for a problem that the police themselves are saying doesn't exist. I guess they wouldn't know, it's not like they have any experience in detecting things like CRIMES now, would they?

[Frank Hipper]

Who the hell actually has sex in a public bathroom? Do people actually believe that?

"T-Room Sex", or, anonymous sex in public restrooms, was quite popular before AIDS.

As a poster on another board admits; "I happily engaged in T-Room Sex until it became T-Cell Sex."

Don't get it myself, either, but there you go...shithouses are nasty.

[Justforfun000]

Don't get it myself, either, but there you go...shithouses are nasty.

I'd venture to say that even people still doing it to this day are probably using condoms. They SHOULD be since we're talking about strangers...

[CaptJodan]

Who the hell actually has sex in a public bathroom? Do people actually believe that?

When I worked in my college library, every once and a while you'd have couples, both hetero and homosexual who would occasionally use the library bathroom as a sex retreat.

Glory holes started appearing in bathroom stalls, so they installed metal sheets to go over the outside of the bathroom stalls. This, in my view, was poor planning, as these sheets were reflective, and anyone using the urinals could be exposed by someone looking at the reflection from the glory hole guard. To my knowledge they still haven't fixed that, though apparently someone did find a way of drilling a hole through the guard.

Still, it was a pretty uncommon problem, especially compared to the people coming in to look at kiddie porn on the web. It seemed like they were spawning inside the building, especially during summer semester.

[Mr. T]

When the thread title mentioned robotic toilets being used to "curb" gays, I imagined Washroom Decepticons.

You know, oddly enough before I clicked on the link I thought what it was going to be about was the Mayor wanting to install toilets that automatically wash your ass for you because he thought wiping it yourself and having one's hands/fingers so close to your anus might turn you gay

It's pretty sad that it's actually not any stretch of my imagination for U.S elected officials to say something like that as well

[Lord Poe]

Why spend all that money on anti-gay robotic toilets? Just spend a few hundred putting out a dozen porta-potties with a bench where the toilet was for gays-who-can't-afford-hotel-rooms-only?

I'd love to see they gay-only sign too, BTW!!!