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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
I want a urinal in my house.

My usage depends on who else is in the restroom. I have had a few instances of old men trying to catch a glimpse. I don't trust old men.

The Urinal Test app if quite funny to play. (iTunes link)
 
Urinals are quicker to use than a toilet stall. Plus, the stall door gets in the way. You either have to hold the door open or close it behind you but deal with it resting against your back since it's not completely shut. Stalls are also more difficult to use when you're drunk. You have to worry more about precision aiming, which can be difficult when you've been drinking. It's too easy to get the seat wet. Question: if you guys get a seat wet in a public/bar/restaurant toilet, do you wipe it up?

What I don't like, though, are the urinal troughs that older sport venues often have. Those are essentially those giant metal tubs that everyone pees into, together. They are against a wall or, worse, right in the middle of the room where everyone surrounds it. Those actually make me uncomfortable. I can't remember where I was but I remember being horrified seeing one of those "middle room" ones.

Speaking of rules, there needs to be a 9th:
9. When stepping away from a urinal, turn away from the person next to you, not toward him.
* if both urinals are occupied, do the "back off and turn" maneuver.

There should also be an extra, bonus, rule (which would apply specifically to urinal troughs): Never cross streams!
 
Those urinal rules are so true. When I see someone use a urinal next to another man, I, and most of the other men in the room, are instantly disgusted.

I hate going into toilets to see just 2 urinals there. Only 1 will get used at once, so why bother with 2?

And another thing that annoys me is when you see barriers between urinals that are far too small to be effective. I mean, I appreciate the effort, but if you're going to bother building walls, they should be big enough so as to prevent sideways glances. I've seen ones that are so small they may not be there.
 
yorkshire said:
When I see someone use a urinal next to another man, I, and most of the other men in the room, are instantly disgusted.
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I never realised straight guys are so hung up about using a urinal.
How bizarre. I need to take a leak, I walk into the place see if there is a urinal free and I take a pee.
Do I (Being gay and therefore an obvious lech and predator :rolleyes:) scout out the talent first and then go and perv at some hapless guy getting rid of a pint or two?
No I don't…
Jees people, get over this. Unless you guys really have got something to hide/be ashamed about.
If so, well, condolences. ;)
yorkshire said:
I've seen ones that are so small they may not be there.
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Hang on, I thought you didn't peek.
;)
 
arkitect said:
I never realised straight guys are so hung up about using a urinal.
How bizarre. I need to take a leak, I walk into the place see if there is a urinal free and I take a pee.
Do I (Being gay and therefore an obvious lech and predator :rolleyes:) scout out the talent first and then go and perv at some hapless guy getting rid of a pint or two?
No I don't…
Jees people, get over this. Unless you guys really have got something to hide/be ashamed about.
If so, well, condolences. ;)

Hang on, I thought you didn't peek.
;)
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Haha, I don't think it's to do with being straight/gay. It's just common courtesy for a man to have his privacy.


And I don't peek! In fact my head is as rigid as cardboard, looking straight ahead. It's just annoying to go into toilets to see such pathetic walls between the urinals.
 
stridemat said:
I know where your coming from, I know a few to many bars in Plymouth like that...
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I think your two problems IS where you're coming from.

I used to be strictly stalls only, but this proved to be quite inconvenient at times, so I'm slowly getting over my hatred of urinals. At the moment I will use a stall if it's available, and urinals are second choice. It all depends on how drunk I am.

Trough urinals are the absolute worst. At Reading festival last year they had tens of huge ones set up in a caged off area on the field. The troughs were all angled wrong so the pee would spill out onto the grass. This covered the entire toilet in about an inch of piss-mud, it was absolutely disgusting and very slippery. One man fell over into it. Nobody laughed, everybody was too upset for him.
 
Antares said:
Urinals are quicker to use than a toilet stall. Plus, the stall door gets in the way. You either have to hold the door open or close it behind you but deal with it resting against your back since it's not completely shut. Stalls are also more difficult to use when you're drunk. You have to worry more about precision aiming, which can be difficult when you've been drinking. It's too easy to get the seat wet. Question: if you guys get a seat wet in a public/bar/restaurant toilet, do you wipe it up?

What I don't like, though, are the urinal troughs that older sport venues often have. Those are essentially those giant metal tubs that everyone pees into, together. They are against a wall or, worse, right in the middle of the room where everyone surrounds it. Those actually make me uncomfortable. I can't remember where I was but I remember being horrified seeing one of those "middle room" ones.

Speaking of rules, there needs to be a 9th:
9. When stepping away from a urinal, turn away from the person next to you, not toward him.
* if both urinals are occupied, do the "back off and turn" maneuver.

There should also be an extra, bonus, rule (which would apply specifically to urinal troughs): Never cross streams!
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I like your thought process.
 
SpookTheHamster said:
I think your two problems IS where you're coming from.

I used to be strictly stalls only, but this proved to be quite inconvenient at times, so I'm slowly getting over my hatred of urinals. At the moment I will use a stall if it's available, and urinals are second choice. It all depends on how drunk I am.

Trough urinals are the absolute worst. At Reading festival last year they had tens of huge ones set up in a caged off area on the field. The troughs were all angled wrong so the pee would spill out onto the grass. This covered the entire toilet in about an inch of piss-mud, it was absolutely disgusting and very slippery. One man fell over into it. Nobody laughed, everybody was too upset for him.
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That reminds me off Leeds Festival this year, and the legendary 'Poo Girl".

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/5/20090902/tod-girl-laughs-off-festival-loo-handbag-870a197.html

Nevertheless, nothing matches festival toilets in terms of sheer disgustingness.
 
arkitect said:
Jees people, get over this. Unless you guys really have got something to hide/be ashamed about.
If so, well, condolences. ;)
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I don't know what everyone's reasons are. But for some like me it is impossible to go in a urinal when other people are in a restroom.

I did not think anyone was looking. But I could not force anything out. Then one day I suddenly got over whatever the subconscious problem was.

SpookTheHamster said:
Trough urinals are the absolute worst. At Reading festival last year they had tens of huge ones set up in a caged off area on the field. The troughs were all angled wrong so the pee would spill out onto the grass. This covered the entire toilet in about an inch of piss-mud, it was absolutely disgusting and very slippery. One man fell over into it. Nobody laughed, everybody was too upset for him.
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That is horrible.:eek:

yorkshire said:
That reminds me off Leeds Festival this year, and the legendary 'Poo Girl".

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/5/20090902/tod-girl-laughs-off-festival-loo-handbag-870a197.html

Nevertheless, nothing matches festival toilets in terms of sheer disgustingness.
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That is even worse. Was that girl seriously planning on handling the phone, money and other stuff that was in that bag afterwards? The only item that could be sterilized are the keys.
 
Jaffa Cake said:
One thing I've never understood is the need by some gentlemen to spit in the urinal before using it.
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It's a sailor thing. Once, while traveling by boat (a 70' shrimp trawler), I was advised by one of the crew to spit before urinating over the side. Apparently, it's important to see which direction the wind is blowing first.:cool:

Okay, maybe not in the situation above. Unless there's a strong chance of crosswinds due to the flatulence from the stalls:eek:, I don't see the need.

Back on topic. I prefer urinals. In and out quicker than you can spit.;)
 
^^^^^ I guess my Navy days took away any inhibitions. Rode an old destroyer where you had 20 crappers lined up in a row without a single wall to be seen.

Along with a massive communal urinal thingy.

You quickly learn to let it all hang out or get pretty sick.
 
velocityg4 said:
That is even worse. Was that girl seriously planning on handling the phone, money and other stuff that was in that bag afterwards? The only item that could be sterilized are the keys.
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Well the rumours were rife that she had £400 in there, as well as an iPhone. I do love my iPhone, but I'm not sure I'd dive into a rotting cesspit of other people's faeces and sick to retrieve it.
 
haha, i'm surprised nobody has mentioned the old trough urinals that they used to have in stadiums.


personally, i don't really care. if i gotta piss, i'll piss wherever.
 
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