• DuckWrangler9000@lemmy.world
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    5 hours ago

    I don’t mind urinals. It just sucks when you have to double or triple up on them. Sharing with someone else just isn’t fun

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    Urinals should definitely exist because they speed things up a ton. If you’re too shy to piss into a urinal just go to the shitter instead. But don’t dare try to take the speed and convenience away from the rest of us, goddammit!

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    What was the movie/show where there’s a bunch of urinals and a guy comes in and stands right next to the only guy there, and the guy already there moves over (peeing on the guy’s leg as he does) to get to one that’s a space away?

    I’m glad I never had the shy bladder thing.

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    When I lived in Japan, I really appreciated how the women’s public bathroom stalls often had this little button you could push to make a white noise sound.

    So glad I got over that peeing in public anxiety eventually, though.

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        7 hours ago

        I saw one in a Shanghai department store once. I’m a woman. It ran through all of the stalls. It’s the third most awkward pee I have ever taken.

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            It’s a tough call which of the other two is the first most awkward. It’s either the time I used the filthiest fucking bathroom you have ever seen in some restaurant in New York’s Chinatown (I was desperate!) or the first time I used a hole-in-the-floor style toilet. I was so sure I was going to piss all over my pants, and also fall down (I didn’t!).

            Edit: Oh wait, there was also the time I needed to pee at like two or three in the morning when I was camping in the middle of a snowstorm. It was so windy, the boulder I tried to hide behind did nothing.

            I never thought about how many awkward pees I’ve had in my life. It’s kind of a lot.

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    The movie ‘Waiting’ has a character whose entire arc is them trying to get over urinal anxiety while working one crazy shift at an Applebee’s clone.

    Early Ryan Reynolds. Some of the humor hasn’t aged well, but it shines a light on the service industry for those that haven’t worked in a kitchen/bar/restaurant.

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      I remember a movie called Caffeine from when I was a kid and one of the characters had a nervous bladder. One of his friends kept telling him it might be prostate cancer (while he was trying to pee) and it only made him more frustrated and nervous.

      Later in the movie, someone is being mean to him and he just snaps and lies saying, “You know what? I’ve got cancer! So back off!”

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    Why is this post full of people who are seemingly overtly defensive over the idea of urinals? Did I miss something? The comic is a joke. Every other poster here trying to make sure everyone knows they can and will always use a urinal. An ode of fragile masculinity.

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    Legend has it that alpha males stand in front of each other when they pee, looking straight into each other’s eyes and sometimes arm wrestling with their free hand.

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    I lived in a house once that had a urinal and it was the best thing ever, especially for the first pee of the day. Normalize home urinals!

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      All houses have at least one urinal. The cool thing is, you’re also able to wash your hands in it afterwards!

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      Use a urinal while wearing shorts and you’ll change your opinion. I avoid them as much as I can preferring to sit, but sometimes that option is worse than the urinal…

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        Well, it doesn’t work so well with morning wood, but at all other times I aim toward the bottom so the pee’s hitting the back wall at less than about a 30° angle. I guess compared to sitting there’s gonna be more splash back, but even with shorts I don’t really notice anything. I’m sure it’d be different if you power blast the wall or base at 90°.

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          Maybe it depends on the urinal? In the US I have seen urinals that basically reach from the floor to your waist, which I imagine involves some splashing. Here in Europe I’ve only seen the ones that are way smaller, around waist height.

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    Count the number of tiles in front of you, solve some math problems in your head, think about what to do next saturda- shit, some guy just moved next to me. Is he looking? Maybe I should pull out my phone and check lemmy. …but then people will think I’m recording them piss, and the fact that I’m still not pissing will further justify their suspicions. Maybe I should just pretend to have a small coughing fit and that’s why I can’t pee. But then people will start looking, and maybe even worry I’ll spray them accidentally. Oh the guy finished peeing. I’ll just wait until he leaves the room then. Oh another guy just entered. Well, he doesn’t know anything so I’ll just pretend I finished peeing and hold it in for the rest of the day.

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      Look at the tiles and imagine the grout lines are an infinite grid of 1 ohm resistors. I wonder what the resistance is between two points a knight’s move apart…dammit I’ve been standing here for hours again

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    I don’t understand why they don’t just install partitions. One that goes from the very bottom to the very top. A thin plank would do it. Not these 50cm pseudo partitions. That’s why I prefer to use a cabin when a lot of people are peeing.

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      Come to our uni. Each toilets at our faculty have the first cabin be a urinal for some reason. Real nice if you a re a shy pisser.