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Mark my words, in 100 years we'll look back at urinals like we look back at communal toilets in Rome where you shared a shit covered sponge to wash your ass. Why use a urinal when you can just use the toilet? Do you like having other people's pee splatter all over you? It's a barbaric practice. I will make sure urinals are abolished once i am made the general secretary of the central committee of the communist party of the fucking world republic

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[–] [email protected] 39 points 6 days ago (1 children)

urinals use a lot less water which is a very good thing and also your pee shouldn't be splashing on you when you use a urinal

hope this helps

[–] [email protected] 19 points 6 days ago (2 children)

and also your pee shouldn't be splashing on you when you use a urinal

urinals should not reach the floor

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[–] [email protected] 36 points 6 days ago (1 children)

we'll look back at urinals like we look back at communal toilets in Rome.... It's a barbaric practice.

Which is it Roman or barbaric? Make up your mind!

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Do you like having other people's pee splatter all over you?

I do, and I'm tired of pretending I don't

[–] [email protected] 16 points 6 days ago (1 children)

volcel-police VOLCEL POLICE! "Yeah officer, that guy, the wet clown."

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 days ago

The VOLCEL POLICE are on the scene! PLEASE KEEP YOUR VITAL ESSENCES TO YOURSELVES AT ALL TIMES.

نحن شرطة VolCel.بناءا على تعليمات الهيئة لترويج لألعاب الفيديو و النهي عن الجنس نرجوا الإبتعاد عن أي أفكار جنسية و الحفاظ على حيواناتكم المنويَّة حتى يوم الحساب. اتقوا الله، إنك لا تراه لكنه يراك.

volcel-police

[–] [email protected] 35 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I’ve never had another person’s pee splatter on me at a urinal.

Urinals are not any less sanitary than toilets. If anything, they are more sanitary because contactless.

Furthermore, they are optional. Many people do not feel ashamed to be seen peeing and have no hangups when it comes to using a urinal. I grew up playing outside with friends and often being far from a bathroom, and it wasn’t unusual to go find a tree in the woods to pee instead of finding a toilet.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 6 days ago

to be fair, pissing on bushes or trees is MUCH nicer than using an urinal. you're in nature, there's green stuff to look at, there's fresh air. it's nice.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 6 days ago (2 children)

People need to pee way more than poop, most people using a public restroom just need to piss. This is especially true at public places that involve drinking (bars, concerts, sporting events). So having a thing you can just walk up to and piss in is more efficient than having people have to get in and out of a stall. Also poopers don't have to compete with pissers for toilet space.

Plus their easier to clean, especially when you're dealing with people who have bad aim, which also connects back to the alcohol thing.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 days ago

Men's bathrooms in clubs are divided into two parts –

  • The urinals. These are for people who want to just piss.

  • The cubicles. These are for people who want to do cocaine.

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 6 days ago

abolish urinals and reduce bathroom throughput by 70%, drunk men waiting for toilets will show you barbaritie

[–] [email protected] 23 points 6 days ago

I'm a trans girl and I like urinals because I'm relatively intimidating and can put on a mean face and they give me a method of making cis men uncomfortable

don't take this from me angery

[–] [email protected] 26 points 6 days ago

It is a lot more efficient in terms of size, time and water usage. Have you ever been at a public event and wished that the line was twice as long?

[–] [email protected] 26 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I have a long screed that I’ve repeated many times to friends about why I love that urinals still exist, but I’m too depressed to write it atm. Maybe I’ll come back to this in the morning

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 6 days ago

This is quite the post to say you're bad at pissing

[–] [email protected] 18 points 6 days ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 days ago (1 children)

So instead of peeing directly at the wall, pee at an angle?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 days ago

Utilize the Pythagorean theorem to calculate the perfect angle of attack

[–] [email protected] 17 points 6 days ago

Do you like having other people's pee splatter all over you?

Have you considered not pissing like some weird feral animal?

the only splatter is on the floor and im befuddled how people manage that shit

Also if it's toilet only, the dipshits pissing all over the floor will piss all over the seats

[–] [email protected] 19 points 6 days ago (3 children)

The best argument in favor of urinals is that you can fit more in the same space, but I have sympathy for folks that don't like using them.

When I was a teen I hated using urinals. In most places they're optional, but in a busy public bathroom situation there's a social pressure to use them because otherwise you're standing in a public bathroom waiting while there is open urinal stalls.

Fenway Park used to have these horrible open trough urinals that were like a 12 foot wide urinal with no dividers and had a line most of the time. When the smallest hole opened people behind you would want you to be hip to hip with other people pissing. Fuck that.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 6 days ago

Fenway Park used to have these horrible open trough urinals that were like a 12 foot wide urinal with no dividers and had a line most of the time. When the smallest hole opened people behind you would want you to be hip to hip with other people pissing.

The Renn Faire has these too. Imagine this but with a guy in a jester costume.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 days ago

Counterpoint - dudes rock

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 days ago

The best argument in favor of urinals is that you can fit more in the same space

This but for toilets:

[–] [email protected] 15 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

I always sit down to pee at home. But when using toilet facilities elsewhere, I do a handstand.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 6 days ago (1 children)

FWIW, I'm in China

So I frequent 2 bars, next to each other in the same building. Basically cookie cutters of each other, one has a unisex bathroom with 4 stalls and one has gendered bathrooms, bathroom 1 with 3 urinals and 1 stall, bathroom 2 with 2 stalls.

I've not had issues with either the unisex or the gendered bathrooms, but the line is simply noticably longer for the unisex bathroom. In a densely populated situation where people are drinking a lot of beer and space is a premium, fitting 4 people peeing at the same time on a Saturday night vs 3 in urinals + 1 (in men's) and 2 (in women's) decongests the whole process by a lot.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 days ago (3 children)

Do the urinals have little wall separators so you don't have to look at each others pee pees?

[–] [email protected] 32 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Fam, no one has to look at other people’s peepees.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 6 days ago

The temptation is irresistible

[–] [email protected] 14 points 6 days ago

I'm a very self conscious AMAB and not only do you not have to look, there are ways you can make sure no one sees it while at the urinal.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 days ago

You mean “don’t get to look at each others pee pees” obama-sad

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 6 days ago

downbear

urinals are great

[–] [email protected] 13 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Absolutely can not pee in a urinal if other people are around, bladder's too shy even with good dividers. Doesn't matter if I sit there with my dick out for 5 straight minutes trying to will my filled to bursting bladder to release, it ain't gonna work

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 6 days ago

takes up less space than a stall and therefore lets more people piss in a bathroom at the same time

Death to America

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 days ago

Gender is a ploy by Big Toilet to sell more restrooms

[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 days ago (4 children)

Northernlions bit about how urinals are actually sexism resonated with me: they are a single sex infrastructure, and men deserve the seated toilets just as women do!

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 days ago

I will not hear this anti-urinal slander! When properly implemented with dividers they're fast, efficient, touchless, and sanitary.

Those massive pee troughs are disgusting though.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 days ago

When youbpee in a urinal you don't risk splashing like you do in a toilet, plus you don't have to touch anything like the toilet stall door

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 days ago

If you think that's barbaric you haven't used a baseball game piss trough.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 days ago

Is this the music thread again? Comment, coward

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 days ago

Counterpoint: comes with a free cake!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 days ago

Damn, I didn't know Romans did that.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 days ago

We should replace all the urinals with showers.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 days ago
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