At San Dimas City College, they teach us to wash our hands after we urinate…
Just pee in the sink, or the tub (if applicable). A quick rinse and you’re on your way. No standing urine and no wasted water.
Regarding the jar of rocks in the toilet tanks:
Toilets are designed to use the height of the water in the tank to provide the force to push the waste through the toilet. Once it is out of the toilet, gravity takes over.
When someone wants to save water, I always tell them to take a spaghetti sauce jar and put it in the tank. No lid is needed, just set it in there with the top open. The water in the jar will hold it in place. This allows you to keep the water level in the tank high enough to provide enough force to get the waste out while saving water with every flush. If you have 3 or more people in the house, you’ll see a savings on your water bill by doing this.
A lot of people try to save water by lowering the water level in the tank (mostly by bending the rod going to the toilet float). This is the worst thing you can do, as it means you’ll have more double flushes due to the lower force associated with the lower tank level.
No, you only think you’ve noticed that: there’s an obvious selection bias in your sample, i.e., you only notice when someone *has *pissed on the seat, not when they haven’t.
I prefer to use the stalls – I have a shy bladder, what can I say? It’d take me three times as long to use a urinal in an occupied bathroom. That said, you’re right that there’s no excuse for leaving urine on the toilet seat, which is why I always wipe it off after I’m done, even if none of whatever urine is there is mine.
OTOH, while it’s obviously not your job to clean other people’s urine off of the toilet, nor should it be that big of a deal to you. It’s urine, so it’s sterile: just wipe it off and sit down. And even if it’s somehow not sterile, it really doesn’t pose any risk to you unless you have abrasions on your cheeks, or are in the habit of cleaning your ass with your own tongue. Like they say: You fucking pussy! Be a man!
That’s been pretty standard here for quite a while. We’re all very water conscious.
The urinals at my workplace have been flushless for a number of years now.
How are those working out for you? They are starting to be more common in the Western US. I am hearing the same sort pissing and moaning that happened when low flush toilets were introduced. They don’t work etc.
They work fine. They don’t smell and they obviously save heaps of water.
Is that the same as the waterless urinals that hroark2112 mentioned, or something else altogether?
I always flush a toilet cause I can use my foot. I never flush a urinal cause I have to use my hand. YMMV.
The same, I expect.
Except for those of us who are unable to balance on one foot to use the other one to flush with. Or the person who uses the toilet after it has finally decided it can no longer take the abuse of being kicked to flush.
There are no magical germs on the toilet handle that are worse than most of the stuff out there - use your dang hand!
Or if you must, use a piece of TP or tissue between your hand and the handle. But not your foot, dammit.
“Sterile” does not mean “free of smell”. I know my piss smells. I’m sure the piss of the barely tolerable sub-humans who piss on the seats smells also. Sorry, but people who have not been potty trained should not be allowed out in public.
Yeah I occasionally piss on a seat. I wipe it off when that happens though.
You seem inappropriately angry about this. Were your parents, perhaps, murdered by a man who peed in stalls? Did you lose a promotion because your boss falsely believed you were responsible for some urine splatter? The psychology behind this is fascinating.
More seriously, if you just take a few seconds to wipe off the toilet seat, then your ass will be neither stinky nor wet. Again, obviously you shouldn’t *have *to wipe off the seat, but it’s a minor inconvenience, not an occasion for rage.
I take it you have never had the occasion to have to hurry to a toilet stall with an urgent need to shit, only to find the seat saturated with piss, a turd (or even worse, diarrhea) announcing it’s immediate arrival? You’ve never had that happen, your treacherous bowels having decided that they’ve waited long enough and shits gotta happen right fucking now? And you have to clean up after some motherfucking piece of human refuse has pissed all over the seat?
If that has never happened to you, your life has truly been blessed.
Why not lift the seat before you piss?
People who were raised in a barn. Or under one. And sadly, that seems to be at least 2/3 of the population these days.
People who do that should kindly wipe the edge of the bowl before putting the seat back down, please. The cleaning lady or janitor will appreciate it.
It takes less time to left the seat, so why don’t you do that?