# Stuff you just do NOT get... **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 7, 2006, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-you-just-do-not-get/375617 "2006-10-07T16:57:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 10
**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:** [October 11, 2006, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-you-just-do-not-get/375617/181 "2006-10-11T19:48:59Z")
[QUOTE=Priceguy] **Vinyl Turnip** , **silenus** , **UncleRojelio** : Are you kidding? You use the paper to wipe off the urine. [/QUOTE] From the toilet rim maybe. But otherwise it’s not needed. ---
**Author:** ![Dunderman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecb155/32.png) [@Dunderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dunderman)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2006, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-you-just-do-not-get/375617/182 "2006-10-11T19:57:45Z")
[QUOTE=UncleRojelio] From the toilet rim maybe. But otherwise it’s not needed. [/QUOTE] _stares blankly_ I guess this is why the thread is named “stuff you do not get”. ---
**Author:** ![bump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7c8e57/32.png) [@bump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bump)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2006, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-you-just-do-not-get/375617/183 "2006-10-11T21:14:17Z")
[QUOTE=UncleRojelio] Jealous? [/QUOTE] Actually, no. I have no reason to be interested in a 29 foot wide B-29 replica. It’s just a tad on the crazy side, IMHO. I didn’t say that some of it isn’t cool, or even useful. I didn’t even say it’s bad. I just said that I don’t get it. I don’t get that level of obsession with something that’s a hobby any more than I get suicide bombers, or why Andrea Yates did what she did. It’s kind of baffling to me, especially when the hobby isn’t at all groundbreaking (hence my brewing example). There’s not too much that a homebrewer is going to do technically that the large-scale breweries haven’t already figured out. The funny thing is that I expected more flak about the sci-fi fandom part, not the crazy hobbyist part. ---
**Author:** ![eleanorigby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@eleanorigby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eleanorigby)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2006, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-you-just-do-not-get/375617/184 "2006-10-11T21:22:49Z")
[QUOTE=Priceguy] _stares blankly_ I guess this is why the thread is named “stuff you do not get”. [/QUOTE] I lack a penis, but seriously, having helped any number of men with urinals over the past 20 years–just what is the toilet paper for? I can see a shake or two, but there is often not even a drop to be dabbed. 😕 ---
**Author:** ![monstro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba9def/32.png) [@monstro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/monstro)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2006, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-you-just-do-not-get/375617/185 "2006-10-11T21:32:14Z")
When I pee, I have to wipe. The paper blots up the remnants. I just assumed guys have remnants to. But apparently they do not. Am I the only person that has to wipe after they pee? ---
**Author:** ![The\_Swan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a87d85/32.png) [@The\_Swan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Swan)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2006, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-you-just-do-not-get/375617/186 "2006-10-11T21:46:30Z")
[QUOTE=monstro] When I pee, I have to wipe. The paper blots up the remnants. I just assumed guys have remnants to. But apparently they do not. Am I the only person that has to wipe after they pee? [/QUOTE] Evidently, there are two of you. Monstro & Priceguy. Though, I’m not sure why Priceguy would stare blankly. I’ve been in roughly 4 zillion public restrooms, and I’ve never seen anyone do this. I’ve never heard of another male doing this, nor have I ever considered doing so myself. ---
**Author:** ![eleanorigby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@eleanorigby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eleanorigby)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2006, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-you-just-do-not-get/375617/187 "2006-10-11T22:25:21Z")
[QUOTE=monstro] When I pee, I have to wipe. The paper blots up the remnants. I just assumed guys have remnants to. But apparently they do not. Am I the only person that has to wipe after they pee? [/QUOTE] Are you male or female? Females wipe, to dry off their labia, ostensibly. Males don’t have labia (there’s a sentence I never thought I’d type), so no need. ---
**Author:** ![Dunderman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecb155/32.png) [@Dunderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dunderman)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2006, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-you-just-do-not-get/375617/188 "2006-10-11T22:34:13Z")
[QUOTE=The Swan] I’ve been in roughly 4 zillion public restrooms, and I’ve never seen anyone do this. [/quote] Since there is usually no toilet paper at urinals, and stalls are usually hidden from view, you wouldn’t see it, would you? I know that many, many men don’t do this. I’ve assumed that they were extremely lazy, in a hurry (so they couldn’t wait for a stall), and/or simply didn’t care as much as I do about being clean and fresh. Never did it occur to me that they didn’t see the point. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2006, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-you-just-do-not-get/375617/189 "2006-10-11T23:14:22Z")
[QUOTE=bump] It’s kind of baffling to me, especially when the hobby isn’t at all groundbreaking (hence my brewing example). There’s not too much that a homebrewer is going to do technically that the large-scale breweries haven’t already figured out. [/QUOTE] They’ve figured it out, but they don’t do it. The second we get moved into a larger house, I’m setting up a 1 barrel RIMS system in the garage. The reason: So I can produce beer to my specifications, not somebody else’s. The big boys can’t produce unusual beers profitably, whereas I can. **Priceguy** , I think you are unique. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![The\_Swan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a87d85/32.png) [@The\_Swan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Swan)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2006, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-you-just-do-not-get/375617/190 "2006-10-11T23:35:44Z")
[QUOTE=Priceguy] Since there is usually no toilet paper at urinals, and stalls are usually hidden from view, you wouldn’t see it, would you? I know that many, many men don’t do this. I’ve assumed that they were extremely lazy, in a hurry (so they couldn’t wait for a stall), and/or simply didn’t care as much as I do about being clean and fresh. Never did it occur to me that they didn’t see the point. [/QUOTE] I don’t see the point because, when I get done, there is nothing left to wipe. ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2006, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-you-just-do-not-get/375617/191 "2006-10-11T23:43:09Z")
[quote = PriceGuy] Never did it occur to me that they didn’t see the point. [/quote] Whoosh??? ---
**Author:** ![Dunderman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecb155/32.png) [@Dunderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dunderman)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2006, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-you-just-do-not-get/375617/192 "2006-10-11T23:57:02Z")
[QUOTE=The Swan] I don’t see the point because, when I get done, there is nothing left to wipe. [/QUOTE] Explain to me how you get fluid off a surface without something absorbent. What do you use? ---
**Author:** ![The\_Swan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a87d85/32.png) [@The\_Swan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Swan)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2006, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-you-just-do-not-get/375617/193 "2006-10-11T23:58:42Z")
[QUOTE=Priceguy] Explain to me how you get fluid off a surface without something absorbent. What do you use? [/QUOTE] Why do you end up with fluid on a surface? Mine comes straight out of a tube. ---
**Author:** ![Dunderman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecb155/32.png) [@Dunderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dunderman)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2006, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-you-just-do-not-get/375617/194 "2006-10-12T00:11:07Z")
[QUOTE=The Swan] Why do you end up with fluid on a surface? Mine comes straight out of a tube. [/QUOTE] The rim of the opening of the tube? ---
**Author:** ![The\_Swan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a87d85/32.png) [@The\_Swan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Swan)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2006, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-you-just-do-not-get/375617/195 "2006-10-12T00:15:41Z")
[QUOTE=Priceguy] The rim of the opening of the tube? [/QUOTE] Hmm. Maybe. I’ll check next time. ---
**Author:** ![Shagnasty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9dc877/32.png) [@Shagnasty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shagnasty)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2006, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-you-just-do-not-get/375617/196 "2006-10-12T00:27:00Z")
Count me as another one that is confused about this whole male penis wiping thing. In my extensive experience, the pee comes out at the very end, it streams, and then it stops just like a facet. At worst there is one drop left and usually not even that and you can just shake it off quite easily. I don’t know how wiping would come into play. Is there some kind of anatomical divide here that I don’t know about? Circumcision? Personally I would more worried about irritating my urethra more than anything else. I bet you could get some kind of jungle STD via the paper given the right conditions. ---
**Author:** ![Anne\_Neville](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Anne\_Neville](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anne_Neville)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2006, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-you-just-do-not-get/375617/197 "2006-10-12T00:30:40Z")
[QUOTE=Shagnasty] I bet you could get some kind of jungle STD via the paper given the right conditions. [/QUOTE] :eek: What are you using for toilet paper? ---
**Author:** ![ILovCoffee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/e99b99/32.png) [@ILovCoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ILovCoffee)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2006, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-you-just-do-not-get/375617/198 "2006-10-12T00:34:06Z")
Monstro- Men just shake after they finish urinating. The beauty of having a hose-so to speak-is that it does NOt spray, it leaves in a stream. Aiming is important-yes-but that is why the blessed seat is up. TP is not needed as the last drop can be shaken off and it will go, usually, where it should. ---
**Author:** ![SkeptiJess](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea666f/32.png) [@SkeptiJess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SkeptiJess)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2006, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-you-just-do-not-get/375617/199 "2006-10-12T00:40:24Z")
**Priceguy** , are you my ex-husband? Because he was the only guy I’ve ever known who wiped after he peed. Or, more accurately, he _dabbed_. He’d sit on the toilet, aim his willie down into the bowl and do his business. Then he would take one square of toilet paper – always just one square – fold it into quarters and dab off the end of his snausage. His mother taught him to do this. So he wouldn’t make a mess. ---
**Author:** ![Shagnasty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9dc877/32.png) [@Shagnasty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shagnasty)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2006, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-you-just-do-not-get/375617/200 "2006-10-12T00:43:50Z")
[QUOTE=Jess] **Priceguy** , are you my ex-husband? Because he was the only guy I’ve ever known who wiped after he peed. Or, more accurately, he _dabbed_. He’d sit on the toilet, aim his willie down into the bowl and do his business. Then he would take one square of toilet paper – always just one square – fold it into quarters and dab off the end of his snausage. His mother taught him to do this. So he wouldn’t make a mess. [/QUOTE] You lost your husband to a dance troupe didn’t you? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-you-just-do-not-get/375617.md?page=9) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-you-just-do-not-get/375617.md?page=11)