[QUOTE=Oredigger77]
Because that would be rude or homophobic both of which call for taunting of the person who moved. It is similar to the penis game depicted in the movie Waiting; the person showing their penis to another man is not **guy ** just the person who looks.
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Isn’t it funny how easy it is to mix up “guy” and “gay”?
May I just add that as a gay man I heartily concur with these rules. I have no interest in meeting men in shower rooms for any purpose. I don’t care if someone thinks I’m gay (if they know me well enough to ask, they already know); I just don’t want anyone in the shower to think I’m interested in cruising them. I mean, the idea!
The other day, while pissing at a urinal, my boss came in, came to the one NEXT to me, and, while we were both pissing, clapped me on the back with his “free” hand and said, “you’re doing a great job, buddy.” (in reference to our work)
[QUOTE=levdrakon]
In Army basic the shower room was kinda like this:
1…2
3…4
5…6
with partitions in between but no shower curtains. Partitions, you say? What a luxury! Except we were at least 30 guys with maybe 30-45 seconds for the whole lot of us to shower and you DID have to shower so that’s like 5 guys/shower head. Personal man space? Not so much.
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Ooh, cozy!
I wonder what the OP would do in the steam room. Sit across from each oether, so that you’re staring at each other’s glistening naked firm bodies? Or sit side by side which increases the chances of bare knees touching. I get all tingly just thinking about it.
I’ve been in a lot of gang showers and most of the guys seem to get along OK, joking and chatting like normal non-boar killing guys. Once in a while a guy will walk in who is clearly uncomfortable with the situation and he really sticks out (so to speak). But at least I applaud him in that his interest in personal hygene trumps his fear of other guys seeing his pee-pee.
[QUOTE=Bearflag70]
So it’s ok for breakdancer to be rude to the OP by infringing on the OP’s manspace, knowing that the OP may likely perceive breakdancer as gay, but it’s not ok for the OP to move to another shower head because breakdancer might perceive the OP’s appreciation of manspace as rude and/or homophobic?
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Hey I just live by the man laws I don’t write them.
[QUOTE=Patty O’Furniture]
Ooh, cozy!
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Yeah, it was kinda hilarious actually. If your group was organized you could form a rotating circle of wet-lather-rinse but if you’re group wasn’t organized it was more like nude twister while trying not to bump into each other too much.
Sounds like a gay porno fantasy but the reality is anything but[del]t[/del].
[QUOTE=levdrakon]
Yeah, it was kinda hilarious actually. If your group was organized you could form a rotating circle of wet-lather-rinse but if you’re group wasn’t organized it was more like nude twister while trying not to bump into each other too much.
Sounds like a gay porno fantasy but the reality is anything but[del]t[/del].
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Quit trying to spoil the nice image I had going on!
[QUOTE=Autolycus]
A+ OP by the way. The shower-spacing rule is lesser known but equally as important as the urinal-spacing rule. Although, for some reason, talking is permitted in the shower but not in the bathroom.
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This is because one of the Man Rule amendments states, “The greater the level of nakedness, the more, and louder, the conversation shall be should it be required.”
The level of nakedness at a urinal is insufficient to warrant any conversation at all, despite the quality of the nakedness. (See Urinal Etiquette Rule #3)
[QUOTE=Patty O’Furniture]
Ooh, cozy!I wonder what the OP would do in the steam room. Sit across from each oether, so that you’re staring at each other’s glistening naked firm bodies? Or sit side by side which increases the chances of bare knees touching. I get all tingly just thinking about it.
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Steam rooms require towels around the waist, and cigars and scotch if you can swing it. The only permissible topics are sex, money, and golf.
[QUOTE=Bearflag70]
5 military guys at one shower head? Simultaneously? There must have been interesting dancing going on to avoid “incidental” contact.
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It’s a lot easier than you think. When I was in Basic, you didn’t have that much time to worry about that. Get in, get showed, get out. And it’s somehow genetically programed into us how to avoid another guy in a shower.
Once there was I think a good fifty guys in a showering area with about ten shower heads. Towards the end of the shower I dropped my little shampoo bottle. Time slowed as I watched it slowly fall to the ground. The echo of it hitting the ground resonated in my ears.
Some customer brought a drink in our bathroom and set it on the top of the urinal. So here I am taking a leak and another employee comes it REACHES THEIR HAND OVER THE LITTLE PRIVACY DIVIDER and picks the drink up off the urinal. :eek:
[QUOTE=Bearflag70]
5 military guys at one shower head? Simultaneously? There must have been interesting dancing going on to avoid “incidental” contact.
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I dunno that if the naked thing really relates to being seen as gay, or not, maybe its just not wanting to be seen naked, period. There are usually a very small number of people you want to see you naked, and usually only one at a time.
[QUOTE=elucidator]
I dunno that if the naked thing really relates to being seen as gay, or not, maybe its just not wanting to be seen naked, period. There are usually a very small number of people you want to see you naked, and usually only one at a time.
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[QUOTE=Cyberhwk]
Some customer brought a drink in our bathroom and set it on the top of the urinal. So here I am taking a leak and another employee comes it REACHES THEIR HAND OVER THE LITTLE PRIVACY DIVIDER and picks the drink up off the urinal. :eek:
I was in mid STREAM!
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See, this is the kind of Man Code violation that pisses me off. Though clearly a face-punch offense, you can’t just turn around and deck him in the middle of doing your business. Besides the mess, intentionally turning around to face a man with your junk hanging out, even for the purpose of inflicting grevious bodily harm, is itself a violation of both Man Code and urinal etiquette. And you can’t go after the guy once he’s left as the punishment must be administered heat-of-the-moment, as it is not severe enough to warrant anything harsher.
