If you were really rich, would you have a urinal installed in your home bathroom?

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PPTV?

― g--ff (gcannon), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 21:32 (twenty years ago) link

posed penis television

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 22:38 (twenty years ago) link

i don't really know how having a urinal is more convenient.. i mean unless you have an actual cubicle too in the room.. so two people can piss+piss/piss+poo together. otherwise how's pissing into a normal toilet different?

the one q i kinda want to know the answer to is.. if you were really rich (and your house doesn't already have one) would you have a bidet installed in your home bathroom? i would be tempted.. i used one about a month ago and it was a very pleasant experience.

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 22:41 (twenty years ago) link

You don't have to lift the seat or flush and it's angled better.

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 22:44 (twenty years ago) link

Dude if I were really rich I'd just pay some guy---no, no some really foxy lass. yeah--- to follow me around with a golden pee-bucket.

― oops (Oops), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 22:46 (twenty years ago) link

I meant that the bucket would be golden.

― oops (Oops), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 22:47 (twenty years ago) link

urinal recipe: drill a hole in bathroom floor, into insert an upturned traffic cone.

― cºzen (Cozen), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 22:49 (twenty years ago) link

It worked pretty well, as I recall! They just needed more of them.

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 22:50 (twenty years ago) link

he's not talking about my house.

― cºzen (Cozen), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 22:52 (twenty years ago) link

Google's top hit for urinal recipe

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 22:54 (twenty years ago) link

30/60

― cºzen (Cozen), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 22:57 (twenty years ago) link

i guess that is slightly more convenient. esp for those with poor aim. (i slice my pee through with the seat down no problem.. not a drop that doesn't go down the toilet)

toilets with auto-flush exist too.

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 22:58 (twenty years ago) link

I disagree with some of their answers. I think (2) is actually trickiest. Standing at 6 is like saying 'ooh - I'm paranoid about being within 15 feet of you in case you think I'm gay'.

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 22:58 (twenty years ago) link

25 out of 60
Well, you barely passed. Odds are in favour that you are actually a female and have never experienced a male rest facility in all it's glory. That, or you're a guy who doesn't get out much. If we were you, we wouldn't be showin' your score off to any of our friends, since they can probably pee way better than you can.

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 22:59 (twenty years ago) link

for 2, I said stall 'I'm okay with being gay but let's not, ok?' 4.

― cºzen (Cozen), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 23:00 (twenty years ago) link

Ken - I don't believe that. There are micro-droplets. Shine a good light on the seat afterwards and see if you're still such a hotshot.

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 23:00 (twenty years ago) link

Alba - I'm with you on the not going to #6. We can form a homo club.

― x j e r e m y (x Jeremy), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 23:01 (twenty years ago) link

It's not a homo club! It's an I'm not a homo but I'm perfectly at ease with my sexuality club.

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 23:03 (twenty years ago) link

homo.

― cºzen (Cozen), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 23:04 (twenty years ago) link

40 out of 60

Well done. We can continue to accept you into our society, since at least you have the means to determine where to go to the bathroom. Well, not counting that time in third grade when you got stuck in that locker. Yeah, that's right, we know.

Huh. So if nothing else, for the most part I know what to do in the men's room.

― j.lu (j.lu), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 23:04 (twenty years ago) link

50 out of 60.. for 4) i chose to be part of the pact rather than being paired up with the guy on the left.. but i neglected the standing between two men rule.

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 23:07 (twenty years ago) link

I knew what they wanted me to answer each time, but I am my own man.

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 23:08 (twenty years ago) link

I have noticed that in Scotland (and Ireland), men are far more likely to go into the stalls to pee, even if there is just one person (or even none - I am at the basins in this scenario, not spying with PPTV) at the urinals. English men are more comfortable with the whole thing.

btw. in this proposed home urinal set up, will there be a whole row of them, enabling one to pee with visitors and thrash out the positioning etiquette?

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 23:11 (twenty years ago) link

no thrashing.

― cºzen (Cozen), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 23:12 (twenty years ago) link

But the drip!

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 23:13 (twenty years ago) link

20 out of 60

Good lord! You can't possibly be male! We have monkeys that are better trained at peeing than you are. If, on the obscure off-chance that you ARE male, you need some practice going to the bathroom. Sad, really.

― g--ff (gcannon), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 23:14 (twenty years ago) link

wouldn't having a urinal in your bathroom be a bit stinky? or is that only public ones that smell bad?

― gem (trisk), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 23:14 (twenty years ago) link

This whole 'not wanting to look gay' thing. Do gay men ever really deliberately go and stand next to people peeing to spy, or as a signal? This was not my idea of how cottaging worked.

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 23:16 (twenty years ago) link

you'd probably want a "no cigarette butts in urinal" sign in your house too

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 23:16 (twenty years ago) link

I don't think urinals themselves smell bad, but the piss that misses 'em really does. (xpost)

and damned if I know, but I can't imagine watching urine shot from anybody's urethra is actually a turn-on to many people.

― x j e r e m y (x Jeremy), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 23:17 (twenty years ago) link

i guess you could have those little deodoriser cake things in there too. isn't that what you boys aim for when you're at the pub?

― gem (trisk), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 23:17 (twenty years ago) link

Yes, often we count them. There were 34 in the pub the other day, I think Ally C said.

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 23:19 (twenty years ago) link

Of course, this is in a trough set up. He didn't go around inspecting individual urinals. That would be gay.

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 23:20 (twenty years ago) link

I am thinking of all the corrosion and pitted paint I've seen on the partitions dividing urinals everywhere I go. Urinals would take more cleaning than toilets thanks to the spattering.

― Rock Hardy (Rock Hardy), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 23:21 (twenty years ago) link

well if you were going to the trouble of getting a urinal at your house surely you'd want a trough? more impressive. and more publike.

― gem (trisk), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 23:21 (twenty years ago) link

Also easier to step in during the midnight pee-fumble.

― x j e r e m y (x Jeremy), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 23:22 (twenty years ago) link

sort of like a water feature when it's flushed too

― gem (trisk), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 23:23 (twenty years ago) link

Anyway. I meant to go to bed two hours ago and instead I have stayed up talking about urinals on the internet. Good night.

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 23:23 (twenty years ago) link

stupidest idea i've ever heard. though i do remember reading an article several years ago about barry sonnenfeld (director of 'get shorty', 'men in black', and 'the addams family') where it mentioned he had an urinal installed in his bathroom. i remember thinking, "yeah, that sounds about right".

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 23:29 (twenty years ago) link

Urinals only smell if unflushed or clogged.

There is scientific fact what sez that the urinals at the ends are hygenically superior because fewer menpeople frequent them.

― Leeeter van den Hoogenband (Leee), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 23:29 (twenty years ago) link

if the urinal test was to be believed the ones at the end should really be the ones frequented the most.

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 23:34 (twenty years ago) link

The test's phallacy derives from its benighted assumption that most men aren't gay.

― Leeeter van den Hoogenband (Leee), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 23:36 (twenty years ago) link

maybe it assumes that the men are secure enough about their gayness to be able to pee at the end urinals, becuase they don't have to prove their gayness to anybody.

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 23:48 (twenty years ago) link

i'd just piss wherever i wanted, and have an assistant clean it up.

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Thursday, 2 September 2004 01:21 (twenty years ago) link

I am going to write an article about this. It is going to be called 'Peeks and troughs'.

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 2 September 2004 06:17 (twenty years ago) link

(first line: "Women go to the loo together, men go apart")

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 2 September 2004 06:17 (twenty years ago) link

i never go to the loo with other girls. i get performance anxiety and plus i hate it when people want to talk to me by shouting over the cubicle partition mid-wee.

― gem (trisk), Thursday, 2 September 2004 06:19 (twenty years ago) link

I have gone off the idea of writing this article.

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 2 September 2004 06:23 (twenty years ago) link

sheesh fickle

― gem (trisk), Thursday, 2 September 2004 06:24 (twenty years ago) link

your article title was tops anyway

― gem (trisk), Thursday, 2 September 2004 06:24 (twenty years ago) link

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classic, no more splashing on the seat. also you get to put them yellow cubes in it.

― not-goodwin (not-goodwin), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 07:27 (nineteen years ago) link

three months pass...

: o

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 28 September 2005 15:01 (nineteen years ago) link

Urinals use a lot less water than toilets per flush. It's environmentally more friendly and one would suppose more economical.

― dewey, Wednesday, 28 September 2005 16:45 (nineteen years ago) link

http://www.exego.net/notes/gadi/user/Urinal%20-%20mouth.jpg

― elmo (allocryptic), Wednesday, 28 September 2005 16:46 (nineteen years ago) link

http://regressoaofuturo4.blogs.sapo.pt/arquivo/Marcel%20Duchamp%20-%20Toilet%20ready-made%20-%20Dada-Movement%20-%201917%20-T1.JPG

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 28 September 2005 17:01 (nineteen years ago) link

I would do this in a second.

― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Wednesday, 28 September 2005 18:31 (nineteen years ago) link

I already own a urinal. It looks like this:

http://img120.imageshack.us/img120/9639/backyardjuly20041pt.jpg

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Wednesday, 28 September 2005 18:39 (nineteen years ago) link

exactly 1 gallon/3.8LPF !!!

also, i think one of these'd be nice:

http://img.urinal.net/mcsorleys/mcsorleys-urinal.med.JPG

and:

"If I am already nude I sit, but I do it facing the tank, like I did when I first learned to pee in the big kids toilet. "

i thought i was the only one who did that!

also, i would do it.

― AaronK (AaronK), Wednesday, 28 September 2005 18:41 (nineteen years ago) link

I'd like to have a men's pee room for the guys in my family (and I am the only female, including the dogs)—an entirely tiled closet with a hole in the floor and showerheads all round that would come on automatically after each use.
That's how I would spend my personal fortune.

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Wednesday, 28 September 2005 20:45 (nineteen years ago) link

ARE YOU TOO GOOD FOR THE FAMILY PEE ROOM? YOU THINK YOU'RE ABOVE YOUR OWN FAMILY'S PEE?

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 28 September 2005 20:49 (nineteen years ago) link

I may not be rich, but I've got a urinal in my house, in a small bathroom not far removed from the dining room. the oddest thing about it is that the bathroom doesn't have a normal door. instead, it's got one of those swinging western bar-style door that goes from roughly my knee to shoulder. so, while my guests are over for dinner, I can relieve myself without missing leaving the conversation. classy!

― tobo (tobo), Wednesday, 28 September 2005 21:13 (nineteen years ago) link

that is very clever

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 28 September 2005 21:17 (nineteen years ago) link

Pleasant Plains OTM. Peeing outdoors is so very enjoyable.

― milozauckerman (miloaukerman), Wednesday, 28 September 2005 21:19 (nineteen years ago) link

The joy of my childhood in the Sierras was walking onto the front porch to pee on the 'lawn'.

― M. White (Miguelito), Wednesday, 28 September 2005 21:24 (nineteen years ago) link

i thought i was the only one who did that!

We accept you, we accept you, one of us, one of us!

I too used to pee outside my door in high scholl - my bedroom was in a converted garage. But I was out there late one summer during the day and it stank! I learned not to pee there in the summer (no rain for months in So Cal).

― nickn (nickn), Wednesday, 28 September 2005 21:31 (nineteen years ago) link

Unnecessary synonym for urinate: micturate, also derived from Latin, and meaning precisely the same thing.

― M. V. (M.V.), Wednesday, 28 September 2005 21:43 (nineteen years ago) link

an ex-plumber from new york married into one of the wealthiest families in michigan. he got into refurbishing houses. he was very proud of putting 12 bathrooms in a ~4000 sq ft house. no urinals, but i'm sure that's only because he didn't think of it. tackiness... didn't seem to bother him. (here's his pool.)

― Matt B. (Matt B.), Wednesday, 28 September 2005 21:44 (nineteen years ago) link

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