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Urinal usage?

What are your urinal habits?

  • Stongly prefer urinal

    Votes: 28 23.9%

  • Prefer urinal

    Votes: 26 22.2%

  • Neutral

    Votes: 25 21.4%

  • Prefer stall

    Votes: 20 17.1%

  • Stongly prefer stall

    Votes: 18 15.4%
  • Total voters
    117

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and don't forget to follow the rules!!!

8 Basic Rules for Using a Urinal

Avoid a major faux pas and follow these 8 simple rules for using the urinals in a men's restroom.

1. Never, ever turn your head

Look forward, eyes straight. Ideally there will be a newspaper or TV placed above the urinals to keep eyes from wandering. If somebody taps you on the back, don't fall for it.

2. Always leave a gap when possible

Never, ever stand next to a man at a urinal if you don't have to.

3. Don't touch the bathroom wall

Yes, I know, some people like to take one hand and slap it on the bathroom wall while taking a piss. It's not cool, and it's not "urinal acceptable."

4. Only talk to people you know at a urinal

There is no point in making useless conversation with a random dude at the urinal. Exception: if you're drunk.

5. If a situation looks too much to handle, it's OK to abort

Pretend you came into the bathroom to wash your hands or blow your nose. Anything, just get out!

6. Don't use the midget urinal unless rule number 2 applies

There's nothing wrong with the midget urinal, it just implies something.

7. Angle

Choose the urinal near the wall and angle towards it. You'll thank me for this later.

8. Use extreme caution when standing next to a man in a pair of urinals

Really, I think the only thing worse than being in the middle of a 3 urinal set is being part of a urinal pair. No explanation needed.
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I have been known to do number 4!!!
 
#2 and 3 are frequently violated in my department. Colleagues with whom i otherwise only exchange good mornings and good byes find it acceptable to make small talk in the toilets! You often find small groups of men discussing work in the (rather small) men's room. I've never understood it, and have frequently engaged in this activity, wary of appearing 'antisocial'. NB for those with overactive imaginations, there's nothing remotely homosexual about these gatherings.
 
I prefer a stall, because I like to dab with a tissue. The idea of walking around with stale urine in your underwear is not that appealing. I'm actually surprised by the amount of men I see walking around with splashes or wet patches on their trousers.
 
Stall for me. And them rules are the reason why. I just want to get in there, p**s and get the hell out of there and back on with my life.

In, out, shake it all about.*
*not necessarily in that order.
 
One thing I've never understood is the need by some gentlemen to spit in the urinal before using it. This seems to be especially prevalent in pubs and at football grounds.

Is there some subconscious 'marking your territory' thing going on, or was I just off ill the day we covered this at man school?
 
stridemat said:
No more than actually urinating???
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Who knows? Maybe I just ought to try visiting a better class of pub or something...

The thing is though, I see folk doing it a lot. In the toilets at the football – which are normally quite busy as people tend to nip there during half-time or during lengthy breaks in play – you see loads of men doing it. Crikey.
 
I know where your coming from, I know a few to many bars in Plymouth like that...
 
ddiogyn said:
#2 and 3 are frequently violated in my department. Colleagues with whom i otherwise only exchange good mornings and good byes find it acceptable to make small talk in the toilets! You often find small groups of men discussing work in the (rather small) men's room. I've never understood it, and have frequently engaged in this activity, wary of appearing 'antisocial'. NB for those with overactive imaginations, there's nothing remotely homosexual about these gatherings.
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I used to be extremely kidney shy and had to use a stall if anyone else was in the restroom (unless the only other people were in stalls). Even if I'd been boozing a lot and had not used the loo for a few hours.

At some point that problem has suddenly and nearly completely disappeared. I can use use urinals fine now when other people are in the restroom.

However, people violating the no talking rule will still send me straight to the stalls. Or just really busy ones like in airports I need to use the stall, assuming there is considerable activity.

When it comes to preference.
- Stall: When the restroom is busy or there is some chatting.
- Urinal: When the restroom has few visitors and is quite.
 
I use the urinal if the man law is in effect "there must be one free urinal on either side." If this is not available, I will use a stall or wait.
 
Unspoken Demise said:
I use the urinal if the man law is in effect "there must be one free urinal on either side." If this is not available, I will use a stall or wait.
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This.

Here's a different perspective. I do a lot of work at a summer camp. Ergo, outhouses. Disregarding the "you could always pee in the woods" factor, outhouses are MUCH less disgusting when you can use a urinal (generally a bleach jug with a hole cut out that pipes its output directly into the tank). A lot less smelly.

And I think anyone who equates using urinals with being gay has some insecurity issues. Sorry.
 
blinkie said:
I agree it's a strainge rational. There is a gay club in my town where the urinals are on a two way mirror, so that every one walking in the corridor outside the toilet can see you. :eek:
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A friend was in the toilets in one bar where there was a mirror above the urinals at 45 degrees, and the same above the urinals on the opposite wall. So if you looked up, you were staring at the "manhoods" of the guys behind you... :rolleyes:
 
whooleytoo said:
A friend was in the toilets in one bar where there was a mirror above the urinals at 45 degrees, and the same above the urinals on the opposite wall. So if you looked up, you were staring at the "manhoods" of the guys behind you... :rolleyes:
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Do not want. Thats waaay too weird. I'd be in the stall, real quick.
 
Swiss Apple said:
I prefer a stall, because I like to dab with a tissue. The idea of walking around with stale urine in your underwear is not that appealing. I'm actually surprised by the amount of men I see walking around with splashes or wet patches on their trousers.
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That's why you shake it, but only once or twice. Three times or more and you're playing with yourself :D
 
I was at a club where the urinal was in front of a translucent glass pane which was backlit from behind you. Everyone in the club can see a fuzzy outline of you taking a piss. You can't make out anything other than that--but still!
 
For some reason it got decided that urinals don't need full stalls the way toilets get, and often times there aren't even dividing panels between them. I never understood that.

I also remember working with a female architect who drew on the plans for a building toilet paper dispensers at each urinal. When we asked why she did it, she explained it was for the guys to "wipe" when they were finished. A bunch of us stared at each other while we tried to figure out whether she was serious (she was).

Turns out she lived with her mom and sister, who was a single mom of a young boy; and because none of them knew any different, they had taught the kid to wipe his pee-pee after he got done doing a #1.

That poor kid is likely ruined for life. :(
 
Tomorrow said:
For some reason it got decided that urinals don't need full stalls the way toilets get, and often times there aren't even dividing panels between them. I never understood that.

I also remember working with a female architect who drew on the plans for a building toilet paper dispensers at each urinal. When we asked why she did it, she explained it was for the guys to "wipe" when they were finished. A bunch of us stared at each other while we tried to figure out whether she was serious (she was).

Turns out she lived with her mom and sister, who was a single mom of a young boy; and because none of them knew any different, they had taught the kid to wipe his pee-pee after he got done doing a #1.

That poor kid is likely ruined for life. :(
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Eh, at least she is thinking differently. If I saw one of her concept restrooms, I would find it odd, but honestly, I wouldnt mind using it, and the paper. Shaking it can get a little messy when you're tired. :rolleyes: Although, with current urinals, you couldnt flush the paper.
 
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