Flush the fucking urinal, asswipe!

[lawoot]

hey opal - see:

http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=58782

for a rather thorough discussion on just this topic

[Cheesesteak]

Just goes to show ya, no matter how odd a conversation you’ve had with someone, they’ve done it at the SDMB first!

[black_rabbit]

*Originally posted by spooje *
**On the toilet, it flushs as soon as you stand up, which wastes a bit of water if you wipe standing up.
**

I also rise for the National Anthem… ahem…

But about %75 of my appointments end up being two-flushers anyway. That’s why I hate low-flow toilets. If I miss my scheduled time by any more that 12 hours, I’ll need a plunger every time.

You’re welcome.

[Kamandi]

The urinals im my office seem to be populated by an especially fecund strain of microorganism. If water (yellow or clear) stands in them for more than a couple of hours, it turns green, cloudy and rank. Obvoiusly, the cleaning staff is skimping on the bleach.

I agree with the OP. I hate pissing into a dirty urinal. I don’t want to be inadvertently splashed by someone else’s liquid gold while I’m doing my business. Sometimes I see guys flush an already clean urinal before they begin. Guess they want the water to be extra fresh. Then again, it always surprises me when someone flushes during a long piss. WTF? It’s not like the urinal is going to overflow.

Also, to add my vote to the hijack, I’m a skinny guy, and I always stand to wipe. You have to give these acts the respect they deserve.

[AwSnappity]

*Originally posted by OpalCat *
**You wipe standing up? That seems like it would be fairly ineffective unless you had no butt cheeks whatsoever… **

I wipe standing up. Well, actually, it’s more of a squat above the can, really. Cheeks still spread, but there’s no risk of touching your hand to the seat or water (ew). Very effective.

That being said…
The few times I’ve been in a guys’ restroom, I get great fun out of flushing the urinals. “Whee! And again…Whee!”

[Cartooniverse]

*Originally posted by Argyle *
**In my office bathroom, the urinal handle sticks in the flush position. People walk away, and the thing continues to flush itself until someone (me, usually) STOPS it.

Now, a urinal usually only runs for a few seconds. Anyone who even pauses long enough to wash his hands should be able to hear the thing is still running. (It’s pretty loud, as these things go.) I’m not sure I want to follow that train of thought through to its conclusion… **

Yes, but it’s a terribly cycle. Imagine.

1.You leave the meeting of your career because your bladder, she’s a fickle thing.
2. You void.
3. You hit the handle.
4. You move to the sanitization portion of the event.
5. You are sanitizing, when your feral hearing detects a secondary water running sound.
6. You investigate, and realize that it’s the urinal flush knob. You jiggle it, and return to the sink.
7. You begin to RE-WASH your hands.
8. You hear another secondary sound.
9. One hour and thirteen minutes later, you return to the Meeting Of Your Career. Which has adjourned without you.
10. You are fired.

Me, I see this as a totally plausible scenario

Cartooniverse

[Cartooniverse]

[QUOTE]
*Originally posted by FireUnderpantsBoobs *
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The few times I’ve been in a guys’ restroom, I get great fun out of flushing the urinals. “Whee! And again…Whee!” **

I wanna PARTY with you !!!

[DRY]

*Originally posted by FireUnderpantsBoobs *
**That being said…
The few times I’ve been in a guys’ restroom, I get great fun out of flushing the urinals. “Whee! And again…Whee!” **

Hijack:

One of my enduring memories in elementary school (yeah, I know–I’ve a pathetic life) was a toilet that temporarily gave off a loud “honk” every time it was flushed. Being the bunch of elementary school brats that we were, we had great fun spending the better part of our recess flushing that toilet. Over and over and over, until they fixed it (which wasn’t long in coming–I think it only honked for a week or two).

I’ll never forget the time that two of my (female) teachers were monitoring the school yard and happened to be near the bathroom in question. (I happened to be not in the bathroom, but outside, a few feet away from them, at the time) The teachers quite clearly heard the toilet flush, the “honk”, and a bunch of pre adolescent males laughing our asses off. One of the teachers said to the other: “Jesus, that things sounds like a fog horn!”