How come I can never find a urinal that I can use without piss or water splashing out and onto my feet? Either it’s too shallow or angled in a way that creates maximum splashback, or the water pressure on the flush is too high. I can’t remember the last time I used one that didn’t have drops of pee water on the floor surrounding it, and they didn’t get there because of bad aim.
I’m right there with you. In our new building, it’s as if the urinals specifically designed to moisten my knees with splashback.
And don’t get me started on those urinals placed at a height appropriate for midgets and little boys. Sometimes they’re the only ones available.
Yep. At my job there is a single urinal and because of that fact they situated it perfectly for those stray six-year olds we always get out here :rolleyes:. We call it “the goat feeder” and it is impossible not to splatter on the floor. We finally had to order urinal pads to place beneath it.
Heh heh heh…peeeeeve. Tell me, does it piss you off?
I’d rather have the low urinals than the really high ones. I’m 5’8", but some urinals are so high up that I feel like I have to stand back and arc my urine in if I don’t want to have to rest my junk on the lip of the urinal and end up with some kind of Singapore dick slug crawling into me.
Perhaps you might prefer using one of these.
http://hubpages.com/hub/Most-Unusual-Urinals-Ever You couldn’t miss these ones either.
I was always a fan of those really large, multi-user, troughs that they put in sleazy bars and some concert venues. It is difficult to miss even if you are piss drunk and you get to interact more closely with other people if the place is really crowded. If the staff fills them with ice for drainage purposes, that is really pretty and fun too if you like first-person shooters. I think they should have more of those around.
It is called an ADA urinal and they are mandated.
I’d say it’s pretty difficult to miss the urinal, unleash you’re drunk and collapse backwards. Aim is not the issue for me, it’s the splashback.
As for the trough, there might not be splashback, but you have to contend with the guy next to you crossing streams or otherwise invading you territory. Normal people don’t do that, but it only takes one nutcase to think he’s Egon Spengler.
I was in a trendy bar in town once (once!) – all fitted out in smart steel and glass. Visiting the Gents, I found that the urinals were in the form of broad, shallow, almost vertical stainless steel bowls. Very smart. Very trendy.
Very like a parabolic dish, with the focal point at my groin.
There was simply no way to use these things for their intended purpose without getting soaked.
Today, I am glad I am a girl. I had no idea…
Ditto.
There’s the phrase “better pissed off than pissed on,” but in this case it’s both.
I prefer the built-in, all-the-way-to-the-floor type myself.
Shagnasty, I hate the man-trough, but in one case it’s cool.
That one is pretty. One advantage of troughs is that they also serve as vomitoriums which regular urinals and toilets don’t handle nearly as well. It is an even more gross form of splashback. Most of my experience with that is in New Orleans though it probably isn’t needed as much in other places. The beauty is that the more people that pee in it, the cleaner it gets in that case.
Nope. Sorry. It’s the whole “it can fit two people” that makes it a no-go. That’s way too romantic for me and reminiscent of an SNL ad.
Unfortunately, the only ones around here are in gay bars, and there are angled mirrors on the wall above them.
I would go see a band called Singapore Dick Slug.
The Main Street Station in Las Vegas allows you to piss on a piece of the Berlin Wall. Now they have urinals mounted on it, but the first time I visited it years ago, you could piss directly on the wall.
From an engineering perspective, your stream of urine should be hitting the surface at an oblique angle - like pissing into the bell of a trombone (not that I’ve ever done so, but I have a vivid imagination). Instead, urinals are designed to minimize material usage, be easily manufactured, maximize floor space and a dozen other objectives that have nothing to do with being an effective receptacle for urine.