# DoperMen: confirm the psychology of urinal selection, please **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [November 20, 2005, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopermen-confirm-the-psychology-of-urinal-selection-please/331878 "2005-11-20T03:27:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![roger\_thornhill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/d9b06d/32.png) [@roger\_thornhill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/roger_thornhill)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2005, 9:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopermen-confirm-the-psychology-of-urinal-selection-please/331878/41 "2005-11-21T09:42:24Z")
> [@Rodgers01](#): > > What the hell? Don’t they end up dribbling on their pants without a hand to guide the stream?? Not if it’s a torrent, mate. Remember _Chinatown_? This thread could well be the sleeper hit of 2005. Threadspotting beckons… ---
**Author:** ![roger\_thornhill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/d9b06d/32.png) [@roger\_thornhill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/roger_thornhill)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2005, 5:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopermen-confirm-the-psychology-of-urinal-selection-please/331878/42 "2005-11-22T05:04:10Z")
Okay, so you’re all waiting for me to submit it to **Ed/Cecil**. Consider it done. ---
**Author:** ![Rodgers01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b19c9b/32.png) [@Rodgers01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rodgers01)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2005, 5:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopermen-confirm-the-psychology-of-urinal-selection-please/331878/43 "2005-11-22T05:17:16Z")
> [@roger thornhill](#): > > Not if it’s a torrent, mate. Remember _Chinatown_? Not that part I don’t. “She’s my sister! \ she’s my daughter! \” – _that_ I remember. ---
**Author:** ![Walloon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/fbc32d/32.png) [@Walloon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walloon)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2005, 10:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopermen-confirm-the-psychology-of-urinal-selection-please/331878/44 "2005-11-22T10:55:28Z")
I’m with **saoirse** : I love to flout urinal etiquette. I stand wherever I damn please. Don’t like it? Go use a stall, _ya big girl_. ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2005, 11:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopermen-confirm-the-psychology-of-urinal-selection-please/331878/45 "2005-11-22T11:32:43Z")
I always try to get as far away as any other men there. If enough urinals are occupied to make having a neighbor necessary, it’s off to the stall. We have a three urinal arrangement at work and one chowderhead ALWAYS uses #2, even if the other two are free. We have a movement afoot to get dividers installed between the urinals, which makes the whole experience more comfortable. Our motto: Divided We Stand. ---
**Author:** ![Dead\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9fc29f/32.png) [@Dead\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dead_Cat)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2005, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopermen-confirm-the-psychology-of-urinal-selection-please/331878/46 "2005-11-22T16:41:39Z")
> [@roger thornhill](#): > > But surely he was using the kiddies’ urinal. Better explain for you women that that’s the one they install much lower. (Okay, some places provide a stool-like thing to stand on, but I guess they’re easy to nick, so don’t get too mnay of this type.) Sometimes when I’m feeling skittish. or bored, I’ll fire into the urinalette (or Children’s Bathroom Comfort Zone, as you guys probably call it) for the different kinds of challenges it offers angle- and washback-wise. Anyone else heard of the designation “paedorinal” for the one next to the kiddie one :). Further question: when using the stalls just to pee: shut the door or not? ---
**Author:** ![Ass\_For\_A\_Hat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ec9cab/32.png) [@Ass\_For\_A\_Hat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ass_For_A_Hat)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2005, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopermen-confirm-the-psychology-of-urinal-selection-please/331878/47 "2005-11-22T18:01:57Z")
> [@Dead Cat](#): > > Further question: when using the stalls just to pee: shut the door or not? I’d say it should be closed. Walking into an occupied stall is much worse than unnecessarily taking a spot next to an occupied urinal. The exception to this would be if there’s a line. If there’s a backlog to pee, everyone will be watching to see which spaces are available. As such, there’s really not much chance of being interrupted while in the stall. Plus, leaving the door open will also help the line to move somewhat more quickly in this situation. ---
**Author:** ![phungi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/phungi/32/395_2.png) [@phungi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/phungi)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2005, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopermen-confirm-the-psychology-of-urinal-selection-please/331878/48 "2005-11-22T18:10:33Z")
What about when one of the urinals is kid-sized? Is there any ethics about taking a kid’s urinal, akin to taking the handicapped stall? On a side-note, when standing at a kid’s urinal, I often think "so, this is what it’s like to be an NBA player… ---
**Author:** ![roger\_thornhill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/d9b06d/32.png) [@roger\_thornhill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/roger_thornhill)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2005, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopermen-confirm-the-psychology-of-urinal-selection-please/331878/49 "2005-11-23T02:05:04Z")
> [@phungi](#): > > What about when one of the urinals is kid-sized? Is there any ethics about taking a kid’s urinal, akin to taking the handicapped stall? Gee, are you guys blind? You the ones who spray it around the seat and the floor, aren’t you? We done the paedUrinal and the paedOrinal already. Talk about pearls before frigging [swine](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=346024). Don McLean and Vincent van Gogh were right. They - YOU - would not listen, you’re not listening still. Perhaps you never will. I honestly don’t know why I bother. ---
**Author:** ![phungi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/phungi/32/395_2.png) [@phungi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/phungi)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2005, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopermen-confirm-the-psychology-of-urinal-selection-please/331878/50 "2005-11-23T04:00:27Z")
> [@roger thornhill](#): > > Gee, are you guys blind? You the ones who spray it around the seat and the floor, aren’t you? We done the paedUrinal and the paedOrinal already. > > Talk about pearls before frigging [swine](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=346024). Don McLean and Vincent van Gogh were right. They - YOU - would not listen, you’re not listening still. Perhaps you never will. > > I honestly don’t know why I bother. Nearing 4000 posts, can you offer one that serves as translation? ---
**Author:** ![roger\_thornhill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/d9b06d/32.png) [@roger\_thornhill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/roger_thornhill)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2005, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopermen-confirm-the-psychology-of-urinal-selection-please/331878/51 "2005-11-23T04:11:18Z")
> [@phungi](#): > > Nearing 4000 posts, can you offer one that serves as translation? My dear chap, one should never act as one’s own translator. But allow a man whose post count is in inverse proportion to all other counts that matter - or so he tells us - [post=6823872]AndyPolley[/post] to wax hermeneutic on my behalf. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopermen-confirm-the-psychology-of-urinal-selection-please/331878.md?page=2)