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How good's your aim?

emaja said:
Don't laugh. I visited South Korea this last year and public bathrooms have a hole in the ground instead of a proper toilet. The western style hotels had a toilet, but if you needed to go outside of the hotel - say at a gas station or rest stop - well, I'll resists saying what kind of luck you were out of!
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I have been to those outback Australian toilets and they looks like a normal toilet except in the toilet bowl is a hole where in it (where all the crap goes) are bacteria or some natural substance to breakdown all the crap into less offensive stuff. No water involved whatsoever.
 
angelneo said:
I have been to those outback Australian toilets and they looks like a normal toilet except in the toilet bowl is a hole where in it (where all the crap goes) are bacteria or some natural substance to breakdown all the crap into less offensive stuff. No water involved whatsoever.
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You mean a composting toilet? I actually stayed in a house in a very remote place in Washington state (Olympic peninsula) that had a composting toilet. Kind of weird, but more environmentally friendly, I believe. It's more or less like an indoor out-house, if that makes any sense!

ND
 
angelneo, try a long drop. It's as Australian as the Hills Hoist. :cool:

I went to a hippy music festival over New Years with over 15,000 people. The toilets were predominantly waterless. You just need a handful of sand, a twig of rosemary and a strong stomach. I guess it's what we have to do, living in such a dry country. :(
 
This festival had the worst of both worlds. They were on the back of trucks so they weren't exactly very deep. The smell was interesting, to say the least... :(
 
I like the idea of these things, but I don't understand why we need them. I've never had a problem hitting the center of the urinal, it is really that hard to aim and keep it there?

I think they should do something like they have at carnivals, where you blow up the balloon by hitting a target with a watergun, make it a race against the other guys next to you.
 
vniow said:
I never quite understood the point of urinals anyway, is it convenience or something? I just don't see the appeal of walking up to one, upzipping the pants, whipping it out and taking a piss all in what is quite a public place. Maybe its because I loathe public bathrooms in general, ugh...
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- No pants dropping (nice if you're wearing a jacket/tie)
- No dealing with stalls. I ****ing hate stalls.
- Sanitation. Most men are going to pee standing up even with toilets. Urinals are (somewhat) more dumbass proof and reduce floor-piss.
- Shake security. A given.
- Water conservation. Women who haven't explored urinals that much might not understand that a urinal has like 1/10 the water of a toilet, because, unless mad jew is using it, it never has to flush any 'bombs.'

The only real downside with urinals is backspray. If the urinal is really poorly designed, some thought is required to avoid backspray.

I personally have no problem with unzipping+whipping at a urinal, dividers or no, though apparently others don't share that sentiment. :p
 
OutThere said:
The only real downside with urinals is backspray. If the urinal is really poorly designed, some thought is required to avoid backspray.
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There are some that are so poorly designed that no matter where you aim, you end up spraying yourself. I once had a job at a place where the urinals seemingly had no "backspray free" zones. I had to use the stalls every time.
 
I work in a high tech research park. The wash room nearest my office has two urinals (with no divider between them) and two stalls.

At least once a week I find someone has p*ssed all over one of the toilet seats. I can only assume that they have a shy bladder and used the stall because someone was at one of the urinals. That's fine with me, but please lift the dang seat! Sheesh.

I have a somewhat shy bladder but I still use the urinals since I don't like sitting in pee (any more than I have to).

Greg
 
emaja said:
There are some that are so poorly designed that no matter where you aim, you end up spraying yourself. I once had a job at a place where the urinals seemingly had no "backspray free" zones. I had to use the stalls every time.
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I always go for the sides, because I HATE back spray.

And I've actually only been using urinals since about 11th grade or so. I just couldn't bring myself to do it beforehand. :eek:
 
I could easily see some drunk going in and seeing an empty bathroom and an idea pops into his head. "Let's see how far away I can be and still play the game!!!"
 
edge540 said:
Yea... they are called eastern toilets and are everywhere if you go to asia and eastern europe. They are very smart ideas as you do not dirty a seat and therefore you are not sitting where someone elses butt was. Its also probably faster as you pull down, squat... rinse... and walk away.
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eastern europe? i've travelled through most of europe and only ever seen them (and walked away shaking my head) in france... which isn't eastern europe, however you look at it.
 
rdowns said:
Middle stall pissers - There are usually 3 stand up urinals. If no one is there, you don't take the middle one.
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I know the rule but I always break it, as the middle one has the cleanest floor because of this rule and I don't want to stay in a pee pond...
 
emaja said:
Don't laugh. I visited South Korea this last year and public bathrooms have a hole in the ground instead of a proper toilet. The western style hotels had a toilet, but if you needed to go outside of the hotel - say at a gas station or rest stop - well, I'll resists saying what kind of luck you were out of!
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Women generally like them because they don't have an awkward time squatting over a toilet seat. They all squat anyway, so the hole is better designed for them. On the other hand, hole + spray peeing = bad for your feet.
 
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