# Is this normal or disgusting? (Office men's room; gross) **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 10, 2011, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-normal-or-disgusting-office-mens-room-gross/584935 "2011-06-10T02:29:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 3
**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:** [June 10, 2011, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-normal-or-disgusting-office-mens-room-gross/584935/41 "2011-06-10T16:56:00Z")
> [@GameHat](#): > > Let’s say you’re in the men’s room at the office. You’re a man, at the urinal. A co-worker enters the men’s room and steps up to the urinal adjacent. I question the entire premise. According to urinal etiquette, no one would step up to the urinal adjacent to the one you’re using, at least not if there is an alternative. And if there is not an alternative, each urinator would keep his eyes forward and pretend not to see or hear what the other is doing. So the farting would officially not exist. Beyond that, I agree with **Diogenes**. ---
**Author:** ![billfish678](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7bcc69/32.png) [@billfish678](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/billfish678)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2011, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-normal-or-disgusting-office-mens-room-gross/584935/42 "2011-06-10T16:58:28Z")
Either he needed to fart or wanted to fart on purpose. If its the second thats crass when somebody is sorta trapped right next to you short term (your fart friends are different of course). If he needed to RIGHT THEN then making a big production of it is still rather crass/juvenille (and again its different with fart friends). Maybe he wants to be your fart buddy? ---
**Author:** ![Rachellelogram](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rachellelogram/32/8689_2.png) [@Rachellelogram](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rachellelogram)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2011, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-normal-or-disgusting-office-mens-room-gross/584935/43 "2011-06-10T17:06:30Z")
I’m laughing like a 10 year old at this thread, haha. I would be pretty pissed off if a chick walked up to the sink next to me after peeing and blasted a cheekslapper right there, but then I’m a woman and I imagine urinal etiquette is different… since we do everything in a stall every time, it just isn’t comparable. So to me, and I refer to women only, it’s really not at all appropriate to fart anywhere except in a stall. I do not think that walking over the tile threshold gives a woman free reign to let loose her ass-trumpet. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2011, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-normal-or-disgusting-office-mens-room-gross/584935/44 "2011-06-10T17:31:15Z")
> [@johnpost](#): > > it could have been aimed your direction and wasn’t. Yeah, but did he have his mouth open? ---
**Author:** ![TreacherousCretin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treacherouscretin/32/476_2.png) [@TreacherousCretin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TreacherousCretin)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2011, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-normal-or-disgusting-office-mens-room-gross/584935/45 "2011-06-10T17:43:38Z")
> [@Snickers](#): > > Hooray! This made me smile. I got it too. “What are you singing through?” also made me snort. ---
**Author:** ![billfish678](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7bcc69/32.png) [@billfish678](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/billfish678)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2011, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-normal-or-disgusting-office-mens-room-gross/584935/46 "2011-06-10T17:52:50Z")
> [@lieu](#): > > Flood tube #2 and plot a solution. Algebra. It actually does have real life uses. ---
**Author:** ![kath94](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/67e7ee/32.png) [@kath94](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kath94)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2011, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-normal-or-disgusting-office-mens-room-gross/584935/47 "2011-06-10T22:23:37Z")
OMG, I’m at work trying to hide my red face from laughing. How do I explain THAT?!? **GameHat** , thanks for making my Friday. ---
**Author:** ![combatko](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/cdc98d/32.png) [@combatko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/combatko)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2011, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-normal-or-disgusting-office-mens-room-gross/584935/48 "2011-06-10T22:47:47Z")
> [@Thudlow\_Boink](#): > > I question the entire premise. According to urinal etiquette, no one would step up to the urinal adjacent to the one you’re using, at least not if there is an alternative. And if there is not an alternative, each urinator would keep his eyes forward and pretend not to see or hear what the other is doing. So the farting would officially not exist. Believe it or not ladies, this is EXACTLY how it should have gone down. Male bathroom etiquette is as much of a priority to us as which shoes you can wear at what date is to you. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![TreacherousCretin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treacherouscretin/32/476_2.png) [@TreacherousCretin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TreacherousCretin)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2011, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-normal-or-disgusting-office-mens-room-gross/584935/49 "2011-06-10T23:00:18Z")
> [@combatko](#): > > Believe it or not ladies, this is EXACTLY how it should have gone down. Male bathroom etiquette is as much of a priority to us as which shoes you can wear at what date is to you. 😛 Yep. Cracked me up to see it written out in black and white. . ---
**Author:** ![The\_Conqueror\_Worm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@The\_Conqueror\_Worm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Conqueror_Worm)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2011, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-normal-or-disgusting-office-mens-room-gross/584935/50 "2011-06-10T23:32:13Z")
Next time tell that asshole to shut up. ---
**Author:** ![GameHat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ed655f/32.png) [@GameHat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GameHat)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2011, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-normal-or-disgusting-office-mens-room-gross/584935/51 "2011-06-11T01:53:25Z")
> [@Thudlow\_Boink](#): > > I question the entire premise. According to urinal etiquette, no one would step up to the urinal adjacent to the one you’re using, at least not if there is an alternative. And if there is not an alternative, each urinator would keep his eyes forward and pretend not to see or hear what the other is doing. So the farting would officially not exist. > > Beyond that, I agree with **Diogenes**. LOL 😛 The men’s rooms at our office have only two urinals. This backfires regularly. In keeping with urinal etiquette many male co-workers will forgo the urinal if one is occupied, and go to a stall. But then they’ll piss standing up and spray all over. Yes, they do this. And this isn’t some rough barracks, this is a building filled with professionals and PHDs. Now I’m not sure which is worse - the r(ass)pberry, or piss all over. ---
**Author:** ![Ibanez](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/a4c791/32.png) [@Ibanez](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ibanez)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2011, 7:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-normal-or-disgusting-office-mens-room-gross/584935/52 "2011-06-12T07:59:29Z")
The only behaviour I find offensive in men’s bathrooms are people that don’t lift the toilet seat when they go for a piss, and piss all over the seat and leave it there. It’s bad enough they refuse to use the urinals for some reason but for god’s sake lift the seat, it can be done with a foot it doesn’t even have to be touched. I once left a sign in our men’s washroom at work: “Dear Urinator, please stop pissing all over the god damn toilet seats” As far as farting goes when your in the washroom let’r rip, anywhere in the washroom. ---
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2011, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-normal-or-disgusting-office-mens-room-gross/584935/53 "2011-06-22T18:48:13Z")
> [@corkboard](#): > > It’s a bathroom. Fire at will, for Pete’s sake. That’s not going to make Will very happy. mmm ---
**Author:** ![SnakesCatLady](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4af34b/32.png) [@SnakesCatLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SnakesCatLady)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2011, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-normal-or-disgusting-office-mens-room-gross/584935/54 "2011-06-22T19:09:59Z")
“Speak on, sweet lips that nev’r told a lie!” ---
**Author:** ![Machine\_Elf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/82dd89/32.png) [@Machine\_Elf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Machine_Elf)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2011, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-normal-or-disgusting-office-mens-room-gross/584935/55 "2011-06-22T19:41:50Z")
> [@Ibanez](#): > > The only behaviour I find offensive in men’s bathrooms are people that don’t lift the toilet seat when they go for a piss, and piss all over the seat and leave it there. It’s bad enough they refuse to use the urinals for some reason but for god’s sake lift the seat, it can be done with a foot it doesn’t even have to be touched. > > I once left a sign in our men’s washroom at work: “Dear Urinator, please stop pissing all over the god damn toilet seats” I used to think we had the same problem where I work. Then one day I discovered that it was the violent flushing of these pressure-flushed institutional toilets that caused water droplets to splash up onto the seat. If the seat is absolutely splatterpasted, then yeah, you work with some cavemen. But if it’s just a few small droplets, possibly your coworkers are innocent? You might want to flush one of your toilets while standing, and see whether the same phenomenon is happening there. ---
**Author:** ![EvilTOJ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee59a6/32.png) [@EvilTOJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EvilTOJ)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2011, 5:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-normal-or-disgusting-office-mens-room-gross/584935/56 "2011-06-23T05:53:17Z")
Maybe he was trying to turn Super Saiyan and farted instead. ---
**Author:** ![Hampshire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hampshire/32/4887_2.png) [@Hampshire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hampshire)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2011, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-normal-or-disgusting-office-mens-room-gross/584935/57 "2011-06-23T14:22:17Z")
Why do I always end up in the stall next to the guy that sounds like he’s giving birth? The huffing, puffing, and grunting I could do without. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-normal-or-disgusting-office-mens-room-gross/584935.md?page=2)