# Men...why do you pass up urinals to pee in the toilet?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-why-do-you-pass-up-urinals-to-pee-in-the-toilet/742383
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion
**Created:** [January 7, 2016, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-why-do-you-pass-up-urinals-to-pee-in-the-toilet/742383 "2016-01-07T01:28:04Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Uncommon\_Sense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uncommon_Sense)
#### Post date: [January 7, 2016, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-why-do-you-pass-up-urinals-to-pee-in-the-toilet/742383/1 "2016-01-07T01:28:04Z")
I notice this alot. I’m out and about often so I make frequent use of public restrooms. Ill see another guy walk past a bank of open urinals just to duck into a stall and pee (loudly) into the toilet.
I would understand, for privacy, if you passed on the open one if you’d be book ended…so to speak.
What’s the deal guys? Stage fright?
I don’t get it.
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### Author:  [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)
#### Post date: [January 7, 2016, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-why-do-you-pass-up-urinals-to-pee-in-the-toilet/742383/2 "2016-01-07T01:33:58Z")
I’ve run across a lot of urinals lately where those plastic things in the bottom just splash back right at me no matter where I aim. That’s one reason I’m about to adopt the policy that you question.
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### Author:  [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)
#### Post date: [January 7, 2016, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-why-do-you-pass-up-urinals-to-pee-in-the-toilet/742383/3 "2016-01-07T01:34:10Z")
I’ll generally take a stall over a urinal if I’m also going to be breaking wind.
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### Author:  [@Defensive\_Indifference](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Defensive_Indifference)
#### Post date: [January 7, 2016, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-why-do-you-pass-up-urinals-to-pee-in-the-toilet/742383/4 "2016-01-07T01:34:14Z")
I always use the urinals myself, but I do find that some tend to splash back a little. Maybe I just stand too close. Maybe the guys who prefer the stalls are trying to avoid splashback?
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### Author:  [@Uncommon\_Sense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uncommon_Sense)
#### Post date: [January 7, 2016, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-why-do-you-pass-up-urinals-to-pee-in-the-toilet/742383/5 "2016-01-07T01:41:32Z")
> [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](#):
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> I’ll generally take a stall over a urinal if I’m also going to be breaking wind.
Yes. Didn’t occur to me. Good reason.
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### Author:  [@Uncommon\_Sense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uncommon_Sense)
#### Post date: [January 7, 2016, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-why-do-you-pass-up-urinals-to-pee-in-the-toilet/742383/6 "2016-01-07T01:43:00Z")
> [@Bayard](#):
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> I always use the urinals myself, but I do find that some tend to splash back a little. Maybe I just stand too close. Maybe the guys who prefer the stalls are trying to avoid splashback?
I pee against the back wall. I’ve not noticed backslash ever.
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### Author:  [@Tom\_Tildrum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_Tildrum)
#### Post date: [January 7, 2016, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-why-do-you-pass-up-urinals-to-pee-in-the-toilet/742383/7 "2016-01-07T01:45:13Z")
I don’t want to be intimidating to others.
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### Author:  [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)
#### Post date: [January 7, 2016, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-why-do-you-pass-up-urinals-to-pee-in-the-toilet/742383/8 "2016-01-07T01:46:34Z")
I only do that in the airport, when I am carrying a bag or a laptop. There is a hook on the door to hang it on. You don’t expect me to set it on the floor next to a urinal?
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### Author:  [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)
#### Post date: [January 7, 2016, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-why-do-you-pass-up-urinals-to-pee-in-the-toilet/742383/9 "2016-01-07T01:56:05Z")
Lots of us are shy, and like the privacy of a closed door, even when just taking a whiz.
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### Author:  [@the\_diego](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/the_diego)
#### Post date: [January 7, 2016, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-why-do-you-pass-up-urinals-to-pee-in-the-toilet/742383/10 "2016-01-07T02:00:26Z")
We can imagine women in toilets, not in urinals.
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### Author:  [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)
#### Post date: [January 7, 2016, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-why-do-you-pass-up-urinals-to-pee-in-the-toilet/742383/11 "2016-01-07T02:00:58Z")
I try not to because most people can hold their water, but someone who Really needs a “sit down” bowl fast is SOL if they are all full.
I will if the lines behind each urinal is as long as a train of guys in a Static Ramp Jump Line of a C130…
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### Author:  [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)
#### Post date: [January 7, 2016, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-why-do-you-pass-up-urinals-to-pee-in-the-toilet/742383/12 "2016-01-07T02:01:42Z")
People get really annoyed when I shit in the urinals.
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### Author:  [@snowthx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snowthx)
#### Post date: [January 7, 2016, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-why-do-you-pass-up-urinals-to-pee-in-the-toilet/742383/13 "2016-01-07T02:09:29Z")
I need privacy if I am going to rub one out.
😃 Just kidding.
I prefer the urinal for number one, actually. I suspect a lot of guys learned to pee in the middle of the toilet and never broke the habit. Jeez, at least aim for the sides so it’s quieter.
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### Author:  [@ReticulatingSplines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ReticulatingSplines)
#### Post date: [January 7, 2016, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-why-do-you-pass-up-urinals-to-pee-in-the-toilet/742383/14 "2016-01-07T02:10:53Z")
In my office, I have learned through extensive testing that there are only two ways to avoid splashback:
1. Restricting flow
2. Getting very close and peeing off the side of the urinal
Number 1 makes each visit an excruciatingly long affair because I drink a lot. Number 2 looks weird. There you have it.
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### Author:  [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)
#### Post date: [January 7, 2016, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-why-do-you-pass-up-urinals-to-pee-in-the-toilet/742383/15 "2016-01-07T02:21:30Z")
> [@Joey\_P](#):
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> People get really annoyed when I shit in the urinals.
I thought that cake looked a little old.
(It was Way too easy to write my name in it with pee too…)
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### Author:  [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)
#### Post date: [January 7, 2016, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-why-do-you-pass-up-urinals-to-pee-in-the-toilet/742383/16 "2016-01-07T02:55:37Z")
I do when when I need to sandwich between two other guys. I get stage fright.
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### Author:  [@wolfman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfman)
#### Post date: [January 7, 2016, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-why-do-you-pass-up-urinals-to-pee-in-the-toilet/742383/17 "2016-01-07T03:26:37Z")
> [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](#):
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> I’ll generally take a stall over a urinal if I’m also going to be breaking wind.
Or if I need to get a good scratch, or resettle the whole gang.
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### Author:  [@GreenElf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GreenElf)
#### Post date: [January 7, 2016, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-why-do-you-pass-up-urinals-to-pee-in-the-toilet/742383/18 "2016-01-07T03:29:08Z")
Sometimes, I can only pee if there’s no one else immediately around, unless I start peeing before they arrive. Primitive defense mechanism? Also, when you pull up next to a stranger, some of them will talk to you while you’re doing your business. Does it need to be a social event? And doing the post-pee penis shake along with others is something I’d rather miss out on.
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### Author:  [@Doug\_K](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doug_K)
#### Post date: [January 7, 2016, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-why-do-you-pass-up-urinals-to-pee-in-the-toilet/742383/19 "2016-01-07T03:38:50Z")
> [@GreenElf](#):
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> Also, when you pull up next to a stranger, some of them will talk to you while you’re doing your business. Does it need to be a social event?
When I am king of the world men will be required to watch this video and pass a test over it before allowed in public restrooms:
[ ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IzO1mCAVyMw)
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### Author:  [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)
#### Post date: [January 7, 2016, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-why-do-you-pass-up-urinals-to-pee-in-the-toilet/742383/20 "2016-01-07T04:00:06Z")
You don’t have to be as accurate so I can practice my belly dancing without being judged by uncultured swine.
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