I always try to write my name on the mint.
“Hey, any of you guys wanna take a look at this before I flush it?!”
#2 is why people do #3. What I’ll pit is the idiot building management who doesn’t put the trash bin next to the door, or requiring the door to pulled open rather than pushed.
since fresh urine is actually pretty clean, I’d imagine it’s highly unsanitary to have urinals acting as basins for standing urine. At the very least, it could serve as a nursery for misquote larvae. Nobody wants that.
Right. I was not under any illusion that it’s not a clean business, but your strong emphasis on the word ‘COVERED’ really does make it sound like you were saying that when you wipe, you’re dipping your hand in a spraybooth full of shit. Maybe that’s not what you meant, but I only had the words to rely on.
Not in dispute. Not even mentioned in the post to which I responded.
Aiee. My words described the process of cleaning after a bowel movement, a process which will leave one’s hand covered in fecal matter. You may argue that my writing is unclear (you would not be the first), but I’m honestly not at all sure where you get the idea that I was positing a “spraybooth of shit”. That’s nowhere in my post and isn’t required for the conclusion that the wiping process puts fecal matter on one’s hands.
Not everything I say must be in response to a dispute. My point here is to describe that going to the bathroom, especially in a public restroom, is dirty business, and to the extent you agree we’re copacetic.
Although piss skeeters would be a good band name.
Well, I understand, really. But it’s still terribly off-putting to reach for the door and find the handle completely swathed in used, wet paper towel. A trash can usually isn’t far outside the door, and if not, I’d even rather someone drop the towels on the bathroom floor than leave them on the handle (custodial staff probably disagree). If you simply must leave the towels on the door handle … then at least, please, use a towel that wasn’t used to dry your hands.
Sorry, I misunderstood. I assumed you meant towels lying around on the floor. On the door handle? Yeech!
I laughed till I peed myself.
Well, not really. But I did get a damn good laugh out of it.
Is it just me that sees flushable urinals as a curiously American thing? Does anywhere else in the world have them? It always looks so strange in TV and film when someone does their business and then presses down that wee thing beside the pipe
Doesn’t mean the people in the stall next to you are. That was the joke I was making.
Well, all I can say is that it was my earnest reading of the graped words in the following quote (and in particular, the bit on which you placed emphasis yourself) :
Perhaps we just have different understandings of the word ‘covered’ - to me (and especially when emphasised) it means: coated entirely.
Yesss. It’s not so terribly frequent to cause mental anguish, but I probably encounter it … once every six months, maybe? And it always makes me want to find the sumbitch and make him eat the towels.
I’m not qualified to answer to that question, but what I can say is – as someone who has lived in the US for his entire life, making use of a wide variety of public restrooms – the last time I saw an unflushable urinal was the trough in my high school bathroom. (And I hated that thing.) I guess we love being able to flush.
There are three types of urinals–hand flushable, automatic flush, and non-flushable. My experience has been that non-flushables are very common in Europe and elsewhere, but very rare in the United States.
As an American, and used to flushables, I prefer flushables. They smell better. Non-flushables hold a residue of urine, and they always smell a little bit. I feel an urge to flush them, and I’m frustrated when I can’t.
But far worse is the flushable which hasn’t been flushed. The non-flushable is at least designed to drain. The flushable isn’t. So when you don’t flush a flushable, or when an automatic flush (increasingly common, but still not dominant in the US) malfunctions and doesn’t flush, you have a big pool of stagnant urine in the bottom of the urinal, and it stinks.
So on the stink-o-meter, from best to worst, you have the flushed flushable, the non-flushable, and the unflushed flushable. Got it?
There were flushless urinals in Korea in the mid nineties while I was stationed there. They seemed great. No smell. No flush. No water usage. I’m not totally sure why they aren’t in use stateside.
From what I have heard the urine that sits in the unflushed gooseneck crystalizes pretty easily and can create serious plumbing problems if not properly maintained. That may be why they are not in wide use here.
If they were I wouldn’t have to piss into someone elses yellow foam water.
When I’m in my own home, or hotel room or whatever, I can use my best judgement regarding whether or not to “let it mellow.”
In a public restroom, though, everything should get flushed. Don’t leave your waste behind for someone else to deal with. Ick.
When I’m using public toilets, I don’t get how someone who takes a mega dump, or piss, or period blood, AND it’s there for me to see when I open the stall door? How do the automatic flushers not flush when they stand up? Does someone put a sticker on the red sensor light? Or their hand?
Now I’m wondering how flushless urinals work, and what keeps them from smelling all uriney, and how one “properly maintains” them.