ATAR Notes: Forum
Uni Stuff => Universities - Victoria => University of Melbourne => Topic started by: Collin Li on March 25, 2009, 01:35:49 am
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So... which toilet is the best in the University of Melbourne?
I value:
* paper towels over hand dryers
* cleanness, but if not, funny grafiti to read
* cubicle doors that you can close without having to stand so close to the toilet that your knees practically touch them
* location
Unfortunately, it's hard to think of my favourite, so I'm going to start off by eliminating some of the worst ones that I go to (often because of location):
* The toilets outside Elizabeth Murdoch Lecture Theatre A, failing dot point 1 and 3.
* Architecture ground floor, failing dot point 1.
* Union house basement level, failing dot point 1 and 2.
Some good toilets (whitelisted):
* John Medley toilets have paper towels!
* Law has nice toilets, but unfortunately no paper towels.
* The new commerce building (The Spot) has paper towels, and is nice like the Law building toilets! IMO, this is the holy grail of toilets at Melbourne, besides its poor location.
Can't think of any more. Feel free to add your own list and whatever reasons you like.
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The toilets in The Spot.
+ I can close the toilet door without my legs nearly touching the toilet itself.
+ I think they had funny instructional posters. I remember seeing a guy wash his hands, and then he took one off the wall and left with it.
- Only paper towels (yeah, they work better than dryers, but I feel kinda wasteful when I use them).
Asia Centre - The one opposite Carillo Gantner.
There's only one stall, but I like the labels on the 'dryers'.
I haven't really been to many others. I don't like the underground union house ones, and I don't like the one on the ground floor of the old Economics and Commerce Building.
Oh, was it in the Medical Building? I think there was a toilet paper holder that had 'take BA here' or something written on it.
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LOL
This brings back memories of my orientation in 2008: the host leader made his own list of the best toilets at UoM and told us :P (he seemed to emphasise that the ones in the law building were the best...LOL)
I don't have a fave toilet. LOL
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Upstairs in the Asia Centre fulfils all your criteria, and the taps are less evil than those outside Carrillo Gantner (i.e. they don't spray water everywhere when you put your hands under it)
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Upstairs in the Asia Centre fulfils all your criteria, and the taps are less evil than those outside Carrillo Gantner (i.e. they don't spray water everywhere when you put your hands under it)
Nice reason. Never really found that a problem but I noticed it at those toilets as well!
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i have dont have toilets at my school, we have to carry small bottles in our pockets. But its good, we dont have to ask the teacher to go to the toilet
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i have dont have toilets at my school, we have to carry small bottles in our pockets. But its good, we dont have to ask the teacher to go to the toilet
Haha veryy nice. Reminds me of Rove on sunday where they showed a golfclub that you could piss in called the URO or something.. That thing was ridiculous.
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we have to take shits by digging holes
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Although I've only been UoM a few times, I thought the toilets on the ground floor of the Architecture were pretty good compared to the ones in Redmond & Barry and the 2nd (or is it 3rd?) floor Medical Building.
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Oh yeah.
I just realised.
The toilets in the Maths and Stats building are just shit. I hate 'em
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Disgusting: Redmond Barry
Clean: The one next to Copland Theatre, but found that there were bar soaps and once found a short curly hair on it....
Fav: Handicapped toilet at Physics Podium - Huge cubicle, paper towels and everything lol
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The one at the Bailieu library (downstairs) was pretty good although i saw two boys washing their feet on the taps today (yuck!)
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Redmond Barry isn't disgusting is it? Although I've never tried the cubicles there. Just because it doesn't have white tiles... (just rock interior).
Handicapped toilets are always good.
One thing I just remembered: Asia Centre toilets outside Carillo Gantner has mirrors which give you line of sight of people pissing in the urinals, which is poor design. Even worse, these mirrors are viewable by anyone walking past if the door is open.
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One thing I just remembered: Asia Centre toilets outside Carillo Gantner has mirrors which give you line of sight of people pissing in the urinals, which is poor design. Even worse, these mirrors are viewable by anyone walking past if the door is open.
does it work for the chix toilets
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One thing I just remembered: Asia Centre toilets outside Carillo Gantner has mirrors which give you line of sight of people pissing in the urinals, which is poor design. Even worse, these mirrors are viewable by anyone walking past if the door is open.
does it work for the chix toilets
chix don't have urinals.
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One thing I just remembered: Asia Centre toilets outside Carillo Gantner has mirrors which give you line of sight of people pissing in the urinals, which is poor design. Even worse, these mirrors are viewable by anyone walking past if the door is open.
Haha, I noticed that too. If I'm there I use the cubicle (though I try to avoid there because of the EVIL TAPS OF DOOM).
Additions to my previous post
- Edmund reminded me of the ones next to Copland Theatre, but spray soap > bar soap.
- Old Arts was clean from what I remember
- Second floor of Baillieu Library was clean with well-sized cubicles (but there was a small hole in the divider between cubicles which made me paranoid)
Generally, I like bathrooms that have very little traffic (I hate being heard while I pee!), are clean, and paper towels are a bonus too.
Also, lol @ how we're taking this rly srsly.
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Btw Redmond Barry has that old fashioned "pee on the wall". And they only have 2 cubicles. And they expect us to crowd along the wall. And pee. And some nub looks over and takes a peek at your...
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Redmond Barry isn't disgusting is it? Although I've never tried the cubicles there. Just because it doesn't have white tiles... (just rock interior).
I think they were the worst toilets I've been to at UoM (I've only been to the Medical Building, Old Arts, Redmond Barry, Eco & Commerce). I was thinking of the ones of the 2nd floor. When I went there at the start of last year, there were paper towels all over the floor and not to mention the stench...
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I go to the toilets at Redmond Barry almost every day of the week, and they are certifiably gross.
The best toilets I've been in are the ones in the ICT building. The only bad point about them is the paper-dispenser confuses the hell out of me, and I end up tearing the pieces of paper which are there.
And Richard Berry toilets are pretty alright, went in there today while I was searching for assignment boxes.
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my morning pee's are usually ~8.30 at the union house
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because I have 30mins to kill before my Calc2 lecture which starts at 9.
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Seeing that I graduate this year I thought I'd pass on the following sage advice to others.:D
The Baldwin Spencer toilets (upstairs and past the lecture theatre) are complete with the essentials and don't look like they haven't been cleaned for weeks.
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Seeing that I graduate this year I thought I'd pass on the following sage advice to others.:D
The Baldwin Spencer toilets (upstairs and past the lecture theatre) are complete with the essentials and don't look like they haven't been cleaned for weeks.
sage :)
on a more contributive note, this thread seems to have some great feedback, maybe convince your dean or whoever to look at it :P
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definitely the best toilets are: BIOMED LIBRARY 2ND FLOOR very clean no traffic
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Another update:
- Male toilet in David Caro building fulfils all your requirements
- Male toilet in electrical engineering building (next to South Lawn) are probably the best I've been to so far. Although they have no paper towels, they are among the cleanest and quietest I've used (it was at the end of a corridor of staff offices, so maybe not many students visit there). A+ would use again.
Also, it seems we've rated nearly all possible toilets. Maybe we should rank them, haha.
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Ground floor architecture is good as well. :D
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^ not for the guys though.
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Are girls toilets better than boys toilets? I've always wondered this.
Ah, the mysteries of life.
If ever I have to do that host or mentor thing, a toilet tour will be in there for sure.
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Seeing that I graduate this year I thought I'd pass on the following sage advice to others.:D
The Baldwin Spencer toilets (upstairs and past the lecture theatre) are complete with the essentials and don't look like they haven't been cleaned for weeks.
Is Baldwin Spencer the building near Union?
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Seeing that I graduate this year I thought I'd pass on the following sage advice to others.:D
The Baldwin Spencer toilets (upstairs and past the lecture theatre) are complete with the essentials and don't look like they haven't been cleaned for weeks.
Is Baldwin Spencer the building near Union?
yes
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One thing I just remembered: Asia Centre toilets outside Carillo Gantner has mirrors which give you line of sight of people pissing in the urinals, which is poor design. Even worse, these mirrors are viewable by anyone walking past if the door is open.
does it work for the chix toilets
chix don't have urinals.
LOL. :P
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^ not for the guys though.
Haha that's for sure.
One thing I just remembered: Asia Centre toilets outside Carillo Gantner has mirrors which give you line of sight of people pissing in the urinals, which is poor design. Even worse, these mirrors are viewable by anyone walking past if the door is open.
does it work for the chix toilets
chix don't have urinals.
Judging from the way that most of the cubicles look, you wouldn't think the male toilets have any urinals either. ;D
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Seeing that I graduate this year I thought I'd pass on the following sage advice to others.:D
The Baldwin Spencer toilets (upstairs and past the lecture theatre) are complete with the essentials and don't look like they haven't been cleaned for weeks.
Is Baldwin Spencer the building near Union?
yes
I couldnt find it. I ended up in one of the toilets with no lights and weird screeching noises... :(
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At about the 6th floor in the Medical Building, has anyone tried out those really weird hand dryers? Like you stick your entire hands in the "thing" (how else to describe it?) and your hands are meant to dry in ten seconds.
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At about the 6th floor in the Medical Building, has anyone tried out those really weird hand dryers? Like you stick your entire hands in the "thing" (how else to describe it?) and your hands are meant to dry in ten seconds.
I have!
But on the first floor of the Balileu Library in the ladies room.
It scares the fuck out of me those dryers. :( :(
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At about the 6th floor in the Medical Building, has anyone tried out those really weird hand dryers? Like you stick your entire hands in the "thing" (how else to describe it?) and your hands are meant to dry in ten seconds.
I have got to try those hand dryers!
So you stick your whole hand in the dryer and it will dry your hands in 10s?
in engineering we looked at a LCA on hand dryers and hand towels! I can't remember, but, I think the hand towels were slightly better. I have always wondered why hand dryers are even used! They are great for winter but for drying hands they are useless!
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Female bathroom in the basement of Union House. Fuschia walls, clean and there are several rooms you must pass through to reach the cubicles. The grey room in the middle doesn't seem to exist for a reason other than as a decompression chamber.
This was an important thread to revive from 2009. For reasons that will likely become clear to me after exam revision is over.
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Ground floor of the chem building is by far the worst toilets i have been in to at Uni.....avoid them lol. 3rd floor baileu is pretty good, hardly anyone uses it.
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wtf I work my ass off to an ATAR of 92 to do BSc at UoM but finding good toilets is a struggle?
I went there for the TSFX Lectures, and I found the ones in the Medical Building, in particular, we're pretty bad. =/
Its a pretty old building though.
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Its a pretty old building though.
Pretty old thread too...
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imo, the business and economics building near grattan street has the best and most modern bathrooms. They also have this really cool lecture theatre.
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But the best toilet by far, is the one I have at home. Home sweet home.
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The basement bathroom at union house really aren't that bad anymore. No doubt FBE/Spot, Law School and Carrillo Gantner are the best though. The ones near the Copland Theatre in the Arts and Music Student Centre are pretty good too. Upstairs David Caro goes okay too, as does the bathroom near the Laby Theatre.
Worst: Old Arts and the Chemistry building. Shudder.
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Don't mind me the Dr. DAX toliets if not too soiled/busy.
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Can confirm Chemistry toilets as horrifying. I used the Chem bathrooms once. Once.
I got ill two days thereafter, too >___>
Copland toilets can be pretty bad, there's often no bin and just a pile of tissue papers in one corner masquerading as waste disposal, and large pools of water on the floor are fun too :'D
Babel Building has a nigh-unused disabled bathroom on the ground floor right next to the entrance which is clean and private, but it's nothing fancy.
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Someone must be procrastinating hardcore to give this ancient thread a mega bump!! Go study damn it!
The Spot/FBE and Law building are the best hands down. (only problem is that they're so far away from main campus and you need to cross Grattan street -.-)
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toilet threads for every university!!!1!!
To the chem building decriers, have you visited the futuristic bathroom in the chem building, facing east? It's more innovative than any of the 7 wonders of the world. A fundamental flaw of bathrooms is that the interior door requires pull, not push. A significant amount of people don't wash their hands, which means that you've washed yours is redundant because you need to pull the unclean handle to leave regardless. The ONLY bathroom I've EVER encountered with push instead of pull doors is this bathroom.
Another advantage: The cubicle doors swing outward not inward, unlike again, all other bathrooms. This ensures when you flush and open the door, you don't back further into the onslaught of tiny poo particles propelling upward in the cubicle.
I would take my vacation in that perfect bathroom if I could.