# I am a male, and I HATE urinals. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 23, 2007, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-a-male-and-i-hate-urinals/405235 "2007-05-23T16:09:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Shagnasty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9dc877/32.png) [@Shagnasty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shagnasty)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2007, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-a-male-and-i-hate-urinals/405235/21 "2007-05-23T23:39:55Z")
[QUOTE=recessiveMeme] Really? What if the trough has ice? IMHO, melting the ice is the second… no… third most fun thing you can do with it. 😃 [/QUOTE] I love communal pee troughs with ice. I would like it better if they used little ice sculptures made to look like action figures though. ---
**Author:** ![JohnBckWLD](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d6d6ee/32.png) [@JohnBckWLD](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnBckWLD)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2007, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-a-male-and-i-hate-urinals/405235/22 "2007-05-23T23:46:52Z")
> [@DudleyGarrett](#): > > Why do people like them? I can’t speak for all people, but I know of at least [one reason](http://www.urinal.net/american_legion/al2.jpg) why members of the American Legion & DAV like them. [QUOTE=Encinitas] Perhaps you would like them better if you had one of [these](http://www.clarkmade.com/). [/QUOTE] With a background wall covering like [this](http://riannanworld.typepad.com/my_weblog/images/mens_room_2.JPG) ---
**Author:** ![bbs2k](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e495f1/32.png) [@bbs2k](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bbs2k)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2007, 5:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-a-male-and-i-hate-urinals/405235/23 "2007-05-24T05:20:18Z")
I prefer urinals to toilets. Hell, I prefer sinks to toilets. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2007, 8:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-a-male-and-i-hate-urinals/405235/24 "2007-05-24T08:14:35Z")
[QUOTE=Dag Otto] Low flow water closet: 1.6 gallons per flush. Urinal: 0.5 gallons per flush. Urinals save water. Not only that, but since they use less water the piping to the rest rooms can be made smaller (copper, fittings, and valves start getting expensive above 1"). Partitions are smaller. Toilet paper dispensers are not required. These things add up when you are building a rest room. Retrofits are expensive too. You have to tear into floors and pipe chaces to change the drain lines. [/QUOTE] Also, urinals are generally quicker to use than stalls, so to cope with a given volume of use, you have to either build more stalls or accept that there will be a queue like there is outside the ladies’ room. BTW, for those of you claiming never to have experienced splashback, try using a urinal when you’re wearing shorts. Although I’m sure some of the splashback phenomenon is related to speed, volume and integrity of flow. I don’t intensively study these things, but I can tell just from the noise that some men are fast, voluminous, splattery pissers - at least more so than me. ---
**Author:** ![Rigamarole](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/77aa72/32.png) [@Rigamarole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rigamarole)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2007, 8:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-a-male-and-i-hate-urinals/405235/25 "2007-05-24T08:45:33Z")
There’s always the [trough concept](http://www.dearticulated.com/images/photos/starbar.jpg). Not much splashback on those. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2007, 12:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-a-male-and-i-hate-urinals/405235/26 "2007-05-24T12:10:10Z")
Has anyone mentioned a [trough](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marianas_trench)? ---
**Author:** ![Winston\_Smith](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e95f7d/32.png) [@Winston\_Smith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Winston_Smith)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2007, 1:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-a-male-and-i-hate-urinals/405235/27 "2007-05-24T13:00:33Z")
[QUOTE=Encinitas] Perhaps you would like them better if you had one of [these](http://www.clarkmade.com/). [/QUOTE] Those are nice. They remind me of vaginii. ---
**Author:** ![Martini\_Enfield](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/martini_enfield/32/11123_2.png) [@Martini\_Enfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Martini_Enfield)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2007, 1:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-a-male-and-i-hate-urinals/405235/28 "2007-05-24T13:05:32Z")
[QUOTE=Gundam\_Cricket] I can’t stand the things… maybe I’m just not trusting of my coworkers, but I feel especially vulnerable standing there, wang in hand, back to whoever comes in. [/QUOTE] You’re not taking the right attitude towards this. You see, you should be thinking: _“I’m getting paid to stand here with my dick in my hand!”_ And when your co-workers come in, they’ll be thinking: _“What a cool guy! He’s getting paid to stand there with his dick in his hand! I too shall also get paid to stand there with my dick in my hand, and then I’ll be cool too!”_ The edited highlights are that, when you’re taking a leak, you’re the coolest person at your work. Don’t you feel better about it already? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2007, 1:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-a-male-and-i-hate-urinals/405235/29 "2007-05-24T13:22:30Z")
[QUOTE=Winston Smith] Those are nice. They remind me of vaginii. [/QUOTE] Not something I usually pee into, vaginas. ---
**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:** [May 24, 2007, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-a-male-and-i-hate-urinals/405235/30 "2007-05-24T13:29:41Z")
I hate them too but I still use them. It’s the quickness of the whole affair. I don’t want to bother lifting a toilet seat nor do I want to pee on the seat. They can be more fun the less clean it is- nailing dead flies or cigarette butts with your urine stream is great sport. ---
**Author:** ![UncleRojelio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/unclerojelio/32/3160_2.png) [@UncleRojelio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleRojelio)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2007, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-a-male-and-i-hate-urinals/405235/31 "2007-05-24T13:41:37Z")
[QUOTE=Martini Enfield] “I’m getting paid to stand here with my dick in my hand!” [/QUOTE] I’ve been known to wait a whole weekend so that I can go to work to take a dump and get paid for it. ---
**Author:** ![Winston\_Smith](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e95f7d/32.png) [@Winston\_Smith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Winston_Smith)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2007, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-a-male-and-i-hate-urinals/405235/32 "2007-05-24T13:44:39Z")
[QUOTE=Mangetout] Not something I usually pee into, vaginas. [/QUOTE] But nice to look at, nonetheless. ---
**Author:** ![Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/96bed5/32.png) [@Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Patty_O_Furniture)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2007, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-a-male-and-i-hate-urinals/405235/33 "2007-05-24T13:53:29Z")
[QUOTE=Ludovic] Has anyone mentioned a [trough](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marianas_trench)? [/QUOTE] Dude, stop peeing in the Mariana Trench. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2007, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-a-male-and-i-hate-urinals/405235/34 "2007-05-24T13:55:47Z")
> [@](#): > > Quote: > Originally Posted by Encinitas > Perhaps you would like them better if you had one of these. > > Those are nice. They remind me of vaginii. I dream of vaginii. Actually, I don’t like peeing into vaginas, either. Nor into some other things, which is why I don’t care for these: > **[The Urinals of St. Christopher's at the Winston](https://www.urinal.net/st_christophers_winston/)** ---
**Author:** ![Lynn\_Bodoni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e47c2d/32.png) [@Lynn\_Bodoni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lynn_Bodoni)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2007, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-a-male-and-i-hate-urinals/405235/35 "2007-05-24T14:57:07Z")
[QUOTE=Encinitas] Perhaps you would like them better if you had one of [these](http://www.clarkmade.com/). [/QUOTE] Wow. Now I want to have a penis, just so I could get one of those. My husband, who does have a penis, wouldn’t appreciate one. ---
**Author:** ![Winston\_Smith](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e95f7d/32.png) [@Winston\_Smith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Winston_Smith)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2007, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-a-male-and-i-hate-urinals/405235/36 "2007-05-24T14:57:44Z")
[QUOTE=Lynn Bodoni] Wow. Now I want to have a penis, just so I could get one of those. My husband, who does have a penis, wouldn’t appreciate one. [/QUOTE] You can’t have mine! ---
**Author:** ![TokyoBayer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tokyobayer/32/13989_2.png) [@TokyoBayer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TokyoBayer)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2007, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-a-male-and-i-hate-urinals/405235/37 "2007-05-24T15:02:17Z")
[QUOTE=BooBoo316] After fifteen years of marriage, I am thoroughly programmed to lower the seat. I’m so brainwashed, I will raise and lower the seat even if my wife is away for the weekend and I have the house to myself. [/QUOTE] If it were only that easy. ☹ My wife has me trained to wipe the rim afterwards.. ---
**Author:** ![control-z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@control-z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/control-z)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2007, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-a-male-and-i-hate-urinals/405235/38 "2007-05-24T15:33:16Z")
[QUOTE=BobLibDem] I hate them too but I still use them. It’s the quickness of the whole affair. I don’t want to bother lifting a toilet seat nor do I want to pee on the seat. They can be more fun the less clean it is- nailing dead flies or cigarette butts with your urine stream is great sport. [/QUOTE] That’s true plus, unlike stalls, you don’t have to worry about an overpowering stench or looking at someone elses crap. Urinals are the next best thing to peeing outside. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2007, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-a-male-and-i-hate-urinals/405235/39 "2007-05-24T15:42:56Z")
[QUOTE=Encinitas] Perhaps you would like them better if you had one of [these](http://www.clarkmade.com/). [/QUOTE] I too hate the ones that resemble _Sarracenia_, a North American species of carnivourous plant. :mad: ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2007, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-a-male-and-i-hate-urinals/405235/40 "2007-05-24T15:48:19Z")
[QUOTE=DudleyGarrett] I am a male, and I HATE urinals. [/QUOTE] It looks like urine the minority. 😃 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-a-male-and-i-hate-urinals/405235.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-a-male-and-i-hate-urinals/405235.md?page=3)