# "Gentlemen" - Restroom behavior...WTF? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [January 14, 2014, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gentlemen-restroom-behavior-wtf/678808 "2014-01-14T20:07:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2014, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gentlemen-restroom-behavior-wtf/678808/81 "2014-02-05T23:09:12Z")
> [@handsomeharry](#): > > Quite simply, this is it. And like I said, it doesn’t splash on you. You splash on you. You don’t plash back from the puddle, you’re just peeing on your own leg. Sorry. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2014, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gentlemen-restroom-behavior-wtf/678808/82 "2014-02-06T01:38:16Z")
> [@handsomeharry](#): > > Believe me, if somebody rubbed my shoulder while I was taking a whiz, they would most definitely get something in the top basket! That was supposed to be “tip” basket. :o > [@Lowdown](#): > > 1.) Talking on the phone, especially in the stall. Why would you do this?! Dave Berry mentioned this during a column. Said he had to keep from busting a gut one time when a guy was on the phone while pissing next to him could be heard to say: “I’m handling it.” ---
**Author:** ![ZenBeam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/3ab097/32.png) [@ZenBeam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZenBeam)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2014, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gentlemen-restroom-behavior-wtf/678808/83 "2014-02-06T01:56:37Z")
> [@DrDeth](#): > > And like I said, it doesn’t splash on you. You splash on you. You don’t plash back from the puddle, you’re just peeing on your own leg. Sorry. I have no idea why you’d think that if you pee into a pool of someone eles’s piss, only your piss will splash back on you. ---
**Author:** ![j666](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9de0a6/32.png) [@j666](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/j666)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2014, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gentlemen-restroom-behavior-wtf/678808/84 "2014-02-06T02:22:46Z")
> [@Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](#): > > OK I have to ask, how do you know women do this too? Flush an empty toilet before using it. Unlike in the Men’s room, you can’t see what they are doing in the stalls, so why would you think they are flushing clean water instead of that the previous occupant left the bowl full of piss and/or shit? Women do not flush unknown toilets that are not empty. It is possible they (the toilets) are broken and will back up and overflow and their (the women’s) shoes will be ruined. Occasionally, women flush abandoned toilets with only liquid waste. However, I have never noticed a woman flushing an empty toilet. This could be a regional thing. Except the Hoverers. They are everywhere and deserve death. (Unless, of course, any are in this thread, in which case they deserve scorn and mockery.) ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2014, 5:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gentlemen-restroom-behavior-wtf/678808/85 "2014-02-06T05:07:28Z")
> [@ZenBeam](#): > > I have no idea why you’d think that if you pee into a pool of someone eles’s piss, only your piss will splash back on you. As I have posted many time, we actually did an experiment with a unused urinal, some food color and a squirt gun. Filling the bowl to the right level with blue color and squirting in, with legs covered in tissue paper= no blue splash. Fill the bowl with clear water, squirtgun with blue= legs with blue splashes. The fluid already in the bowl doesn’t splash, that’s the way they are designed. However, unless you aim very precisely, your urine hitting the back and even side of the urinal, plus dribbles means you urinate on yourself. Just a little, but on the tissue paper it’s there. If you aim is exact and your stream perfect, no splash, but few have that straight a stream or aim, not to mention the start and stop where pressure is not full. So, there is no worry about someone else’s urine splashing on you. ---
**Author:** ![Doug\_K](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b5ac83/32.png) [@Doug\_K](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doug_K)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2014, 5:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gentlemen-restroom-behavior-wtf/678808/86 "2014-02-06T05:33:11Z")
> [@DrDeth](#): > > As I have posted many time, we actually did an experiment with a unused urinal, some food color and a squirt gun. Filling the bowl to the right level with blue color and squirting in, with legs covered in tissue paper= no blue splash. > > Fill the bowl with clear water, squirtgun with blue= legs with blue splashes. If shooting a squirt gun actually mimics the way you pee you might want to see a urologist. ---
**Author:** ![the\_diego](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7bcc69/32.png) [@the\_diego](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/the_diego)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2014, 5:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gentlemen-restroom-behavior-wtf/678808/87 "2014-02-06T05:55:19Z")
Water-free urinals, or those with sensors. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2014, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gentlemen-restroom-behavior-wtf/678808/88 "2014-02-06T18:04:40Z")
> [@Doug\_K](#): > > If shooting a squirt gun actually mimics the way you pee you might want to see a urologist. Not a normal squirt gun, one of those with a pressure tube, and yes, we compared it to 'the real thing". ---
**Author:** ![Orwell](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/dfb087/32.png) [@Orwell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Orwell)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2014, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gentlemen-restroom-behavior-wtf/678808/89 "2014-02-06T21:37:59Z")
> [@Lowdown](#): > > I like this thread! Here’s two that baffle me: > > 1.) Talking on the phone, especially in the stall. Why would you do this?! My BIL has the best story about this. He was in public restroom using the toilet. While attending to his business, he hears a cell phone ring and the guy in the next stall answers it and goes on to have a long, loud business conversation. During the long conversation, he thought the same thing you did… who has a business phone conversation in a public lavatory? After a few minutes, another cell phone goes off. My BIL assumes it’s yet another guy in the lavatory. Then he hears the guy next to him say into the phone he’s been talking into, “can you hold on for a second? I have to get the other line.” My BIL comes back, laughing, and says he just discovered the busiest man in the world. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gentlemen-restroom-behavior-wtf/678808.md?page=4)