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5/21 Man question: what does flushing the urinal while peeing accomplish?
It seems like everybody at my company does, even the young guys
\_ Why flush a urinal at all, except sporadically? It's got a drain
on the bottom anyway, so it's not like the stuff's sitting around.
\_ unflushed unrinals lead to contaminated water being splashed
on your pecker.
\_ Sure it is. You can smell it. Which is part of the reason to
flush afterwards.
\_ Never heard of or seen such a thing. How could you flush a stand
up urinal while still peeing anyway? You don't you touch the thing
with your bare hand, do you? This is what God invented shoes for.
\_ Mine are approximately shoulder level, which inspires careful
scrubbing afterward.
\_ flushing first insures that any splash-back is just your own piss
or water--as opposed to your piss comingled w/ the piss of others.
Personally, I agree w/ the guy who never touches the handle with
his hand... and additionally I only piss in the stalls to further
mitigate the splash-back issue
\_ You probably piss on the seat too. Wanker.
\_ ...and i piss on your keyboard at night when you're not there
making it all pointless.
\_ Your kitchen is probably more contaminated. Germs don't do well
on stainless steel. As long as you wash your hands after
flushing, you don't have to worry about it. Are you one of those
nuts that dries his hands and then uses the paper towel to open
the door (leaving the towel behind)? It's freaks like you that
make the biggest messes.
\_ I do this all the time, but throw the towel in the trash can.
After you see the n-th guy walk out from a stinky stall and
head straight back to work, you'll pick up the habit too.
\_ I do this all the time too, but only after I notice
my manager (male) walk out from the stinky TOILET
back to work w/o washing his hands.
\_ just to mention, pee is sterile unless you have a UTI or kidney
infection. afraid of a little amonia? (I know it SEEMS gross).
\_ The way I avoid splash-back is to aim at the side of the urinal,
so that 1) my piss hits the surface at an angle rather than
perpendicularly, hence reducing splash, and 2) any splash will be
towards the urinal instead of me. See the illustration below.
urinal urinal
_____ _____
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me me
No splash. Splash.
It works well on most urinals. It only doesn't work on those
urinals that are very wide and have small side walls. In that
case I control my bladder to not piss with full force.
\_ Here's another alternative:
----
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urinal | - - - - ---- Sodan
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---- "
\
\_ Congratulations. You win the award for most bored sodan.
\_ On a related note. Guys fart while urinating. It must be
some muscle relaxation thing. I told my wife about this and she
seems rather disgusted. Apparently she never farts while urinating.
Is this true of women in general?
\_ It doesn't enter into her consciousness, but she does it.
We all do. Is she a goer? Does she go?
\_ "goer"??? If you're asking if she farts out loud in my
presense, yes she does.
\_ Say no more.
\_ Seconded. Please say no more.
\_ A wink's as good as a nod to a blind bat,
know what I mean, know what I mean?
\_ Release of bladder pressure and relaxing the muscles in the
region has a lot to do with it.
\_ Some people have a tough time letting go, and the sound of
the running water helps them get started.
\- hello, you may wish to see:
http://maddog.weblogs.com/stories/storyReader$68
--psb |
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| maddog.weblogs.com/stories/storyReader$68 In each of the urinals, there is a little printed blue fly. It looks a lot like a real fly, but it's definitely iconic - you're not supposed to believe it's a real fly. Fly Urinal: I asked a user interface designer I knew at Nortel about this, who happened to be Dutch and who was familiar with this particular piece of toilet technology. And he told me that washrooms are much cleaner when these flies are there. Presumably because they encourage, in a very subtle way, good aim. Fly Zoom In: A zoom in on the fly icon Now I love this kind of interface, because it's so psychologically clever. A certain percentage of men would deliberately try to disobey this instruction. But this innocuous little fly just invites being peed upon, if such a thing makes any sense, but in a non-insistent, gentle, and entirely effective way. For those who don't read Dutch (which includes me - I can make out the gist if I squint real hard and pretend it's badly-spelled German), here are the interesting findings: (Thanks to correspondents Branko Collin and Inne ten Have) A discussion about the question why the fly is on the left and not in the middle: * Men are mostly righthanded, so they hold their little fella slightly aimed to the left. User Interfaces typically benefit from immediate feedback, after all. An alternate design shows a urinal with the image of a burning candle, right in the center this time. Apparently, it is special that in this case the image is part of the ceramic, which saves on cleaning. The flame is apparently an invention by scientists of a German university so that men can quench their boyhood desire to become a fire fighter. Update 2 After the Dutch industrial designers weighed in, I started getting e-mail from British folks knowledgeable in Victorian toilet technology. They have been able to provide the most likely origin of the idea (thanks to correspondents Rupert Goodwins and Jez): British Victorian Urinals had various targets to aim for, some literally being a target like on an archery range. My favourite was that of a Bee to aim for, much like that of the fly used by the Dutch, but as an (British) English speaker it is worth noting that Latin for Bee is apis, so a rather erudite visual pun in a lavatorial setting is quite unexpected and amusing ed: I wonder if the Dutch had English-language punnery in mind when they made the animal in their pissoirs a fly - 'cause you have to undo one to pee on one. |