# Gentlemen of the SDMB - do you use a penis beaker?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gentlemen-of-the-sdmb-do-you-use-a-penis-beaker/670900
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion
**Created:** [October 10, 2013, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gentlemen-of-the-sdmb-do-you-use-a-penis-beaker/670900 "2013-10-10T18:11:05Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)
#### Post date: [October 11, 2013, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gentlemen-of-the-sdmb-do-you-use-a-penis-beaker/670900/61 "2013-10-11T02:45:10Z")
> [@Meatros](#):
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> my penis flashlight (in case we are having a lights out affair)
After all, without a flashlight you could accidentally in the dark.
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### Author:  [@RandMcnally](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RandMcnally)
#### Post date: [October 11, 2013, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gentlemen-of-the-sdmb-do-you-use-a-penis-beaker/670900/62 "2013-10-11T03:08:09Z")
> [@Mangetout](#):
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> Never heard of it. Please don’t anyone assume this is a British thing on the basis of one dubious example.
Nope. Too late. It is already added to my list of things that every British person does, such as line up for things (or “queue,” as they say) and drink tea.
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### Author:  [@johnpost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/johnpost)
#### Post date: [October 11, 2013, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gentlemen-of-the-sdmb-do-you-use-a-penis-beaker/670900/63 "2013-10-11T03:17:33Z")
best way to clean it is to put it back in.
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### Author:  [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)
#### Post date: [October 11, 2013, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gentlemen-of-the-sdmb-do-you-use-a-penis-beaker/670900/64 "2013-10-11T03:23:02Z")
Messy as some of y’all seem to be, could you be syphilitic or something?:dubious:
ETA: I’m not judging, understand.
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### Author:  [@TreacherousCretin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TreacherousCretin)
#### Post date: [October 11, 2013, 5:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gentlemen-of-the-sdmb-do-you-use-a-penis-beaker/670900/65 "2013-10-11T05:03:16Z")
> [@Battle\_Pope](#):
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> [Will a toaster suffice?](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=704348)
That would be a Penis _Baker_.
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### Author:  [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)
#### Post date: [October 11, 2013, 5:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gentlemen-of-the-sdmb-do-you-use-a-penis-beaker/670900/66 "2013-10-11T05:54:15Z")
> [@gracer](#):
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> Side question: is beaker only BrE for plastic cup?
It is British English for a re-usable plastic cup with no handle, but the word in this sense is sort of 70s-archaic, I’d say.
(The chemistry lab sense of beaker is also known here)
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### Author:  [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)
#### Post date: [October 11, 2013, 5:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gentlemen-of-the-sdmb-do-you-use-a-penis-beaker/670900/67 "2013-10-11T05:57:01Z")
> [@Meatros](#):
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> Hm…You are protesting might hard here… Let’s see some pics of your nightstand, post haste!
Also… I don’t have a nightstand (the UK term for nightstand would be ‘bedside cabinet’ BTW, but I don’t have one). I have no use for such.
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### Author:  [@bengangmo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bengangmo)
#### Post date: [October 11, 2013, 9:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gentlemen-of-the-sdmb-do-you-use-a-penis-beaker/670900/68 "2013-10-11T09:32:57Z")
Am I the only one who remembers this having been posted about before on the SD?
I do remember somebody asking exactly this question - whether you were “supposed” to dip your wick in a glass of water afterwards or whether he was having his leg pulled…
I seem to remember it was a guy, and a girl was doing the asking…
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### Author:  [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)
#### Post date: [October 11, 2013, 10:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gentlemen-of-the-sdmb-do-you-use-a-penis-beaker/670900/69 "2013-10-11T10:53:50Z")
> [@Mangetout](#):
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> Also… I don’t have a nightstand (the UK term for nightstand would be ‘bedside cabinet’ BTW, but I don’t have one). I have no use for such.
Considered counseling?
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### Author:  [@AaronX](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AaronX)
#### Post date: [October 11, 2013, 12:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gentlemen-of-the-sdmb-do-you-use-a-penis-beaker/670900/70 "2013-10-11T12:08:12Z")
> [@bengangmo](#):
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> Am I the only one who remembers this having been posted about before on the SD?
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> I do remember somebody asking exactly this question - whether you were “supposed” to dip your wick in a glass of water afterwards or whether he was having his leg pulled…
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> I seem to remember it was a guy, and a girl was doing the asking…
Yes, yes - I was going to post this: [A question I’ve been wanting to ask for years re: Post-coitus glass of water penis dip…](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=614493)
I read bReaker at first, and I was confused. What do you want to break? Break it in?
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### Author:  [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)
#### Post date: [October 11, 2013, 12:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gentlemen-of-the-sdmb-do-you-use-a-penis-beaker/670900/71 "2013-10-11T12:11:32Z")
> [@gracer](#):
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> Side question: is beaker only BrE for plastic cup?
It gets used in South Africa occasionally, probably reinforced because it’s similar to the Afrikaans for “mug” - _beker_. But mostly, it’s cup or mug.
ETA: and as **Mangetout** says, it’s specifically the handle-less reuseable kind, and it’s twee-ly dated. I associate it with kindergarten milk cups, personally.
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### Author:  [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)
#### Post date: [October 11, 2013, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gentlemen-of-the-sdmb-do-you-use-a-penis-beaker/670900/72 "2013-10-11T14:20:48Z")
Is a Penis Beaker anything like a Penis Mightier?
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### Author:  [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)
#### Post date: [October 11, 2013, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gentlemen-of-the-sdmb-do-you-use-a-penis-beaker/670900/73 "2013-10-11T14:28:52Z")
> [@kayaker](#):
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> Considered counseling?
I’ve as much use for a nightstand as I have use knowing what pattern fabric is on the pillowcases - it’s pitch dark when I go to bed; it’s still dark when I get up again.
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### Author:  [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)
#### Post date: [October 11, 2013, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gentlemen-of-the-sdmb-do-you-use-a-penis-beaker/670900/74 "2013-10-11T14:43:22Z")
> [@Mangetout](#):
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> I’ve as much use for a nightstand as I have use knowing what pattern fabric is on the pillowcases - it’s pitch dark when I go to bed; it’s still dark when I get up again.
Sorry,bad joke on my part. You having no need for a nightstand in a thread dealing with post-coital clean-up, well . . .
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### Author:  [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)
#### Post date: [October 11, 2013, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gentlemen-of-the-sdmb-do-you-use-a-penis-beaker/670900/75 "2013-10-11T15:24:50Z")
A beaker wouldn’t be big enough. I’d need a wheelbarrow or something.
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### Author:  [@Meatros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meatros)
#### Post date: [October 11, 2013, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gentlemen-of-the-sdmb-do-you-use-a-penis-beaker/670900/76 "2013-10-11T16:27:01Z")
> [@Mangetout](#):
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> Also… I don’t have a nightstand (the UK term for nightstand would be ‘bedside cabinet’ BTW, but I don’t have one). I have no use for such.
Besides, it would get in the way of the wheelbarrow, right?
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### Author:  [@Meatros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meatros)
#### Post date: [October 11, 2013, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gentlemen-of-the-sdmb-do-you-use-a-penis-beaker/670900/77 "2013-10-11T16:28:03Z")
> [@Cat\_Whisperer](#):
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> Has the word “penis” lost all meaning yet? 😃
There is entirely too little penis in your response.
😃
Chit, maybe it was the cold water…?
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### Author:  [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)
#### Post date: [October 11, 2013, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gentlemen-of-the-sdmb-do-you-use-a-penis-beaker/670900/78 "2013-10-11T16:46:05Z")
> [@Cinnamon\_Imp](#):
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> Gentlemen of the SDMB - do you use a penis beaker?
Mr. Happy likes this part too. In fact, put him near a beaker and he’s like an elephant reaching for a bag of peanuts.
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### Author:  [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)
#### Post date: [October 11, 2013, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gentlemen-of-the-sdmb-do-you-use-a-penis-beaker/670900/79 "2013-10-11T17:39:42Z")
No. I just walk to the bathroom (we have one each).
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### Author:  [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)
#### Post date: [October 11, 2013, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gentlemen-of-the-sdmb-do-you-use-a-penis-beaker/670900/80 "2013-10-11T17:57:40Z")
> [@Meatros](#):
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> Besides, it would get in the way of the wheelbarrow, right?
Exactly.
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