# Urinating in Sinks **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [June 16, 2003, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/urinating-in-sinks/182320 "2003-06-16T22:24:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Zenpea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Zenpea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zenpea)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2003, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/urinating-in-sinks/182320/1 "2003-06-16T22:24:37Z")
My friend recently surveyed 30 people on a night of 3 minute long blind dates. It turned out a large proportion of guys urinate in their sinks because they’re too lazy to go to the toilet. Maybe this is a Cambridge thing. Maybe it isn’t. Have you ever urinated in your sink, excluding childhood / old age mishaps? -James ---
**Author:** ![X\_Slayer\_ALE](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/bbe5ce/32.png) [@X\_Slayer\_ALE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/X_Slayer_ALE)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2003, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/urinating-in-sinks/182320/2 "2003-06-16T22:28:46Z")
Anyone unrinating into sinks because theyre too lazy to go to the bathroom has serious mental issues. Sinks are for food. I wouldnt put any caustic chemicals in there that might end up inside my system. I may tolerate that on my skin but I sure as heck wouldnt want to drink the stuff. ---
**Author:** ![porcupine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ac91a4/32.png) [@porcupine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/porcupine)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2003, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/urinating-in-sinks/182320/3 "2003-06-16T22:30:24Z")
:waits for someone to say "But urine is sterile!: ---
**Author:** ![Giraffe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giraffe/32/129_2.png) [@Giraffe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giraffe)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2003, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/urinating-in-sinks/182320/4 "2003-06-16T22:31:01Z")
I have never peed in my sink. I wish I could say that I had never peed in _any_ sink, but I was an unruly little kid in elementary school, where peeing in sinks or on the floor was the height of hilarity. ---
**Author:** ![X\_Slayer\_ALE](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/bbe5ce/32.png) [@X\_Slayer\_ALE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/X_Slayer_ALE)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2003, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/urinating-in-sinks/182320/5 "2003-06-16T22:54:15Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by porcupine \* > \*\*:waits for someone to say "But urine is sterile!: \*\* While urine is sterile, the fact still remains that urine is a waste product. The body has removed it from itself to keep itself from toxins. It would be illogical to think that a substance albeit free from bacteria is suitable to be injested. ---
**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 16, 2003, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/urinating-in-sinks/182320/6 "2003-06-16T23:04:35Z")
😕 I have never heard of such a thing. Perhaps someone’s leg is being pulled? ---
**Author:** ![porcupine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ac91a4/32.png) [@porcupine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/porcupine)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2003, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/urinating-in-sinks/182320/7 "2003-06-16T23:11:38Z")
From Cecil’s column on [Urine Therapy](http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a4_220.html)(scroll to the bottom - it’s not the main column) > [@](#): > > The stuff is fairly sterile, and if you do happen to have a urinary-tract infection or something, well, you’ve already got whatever germs you’re consuming. (Former Indian prime minister Moraji Desai, a daily urine drinker, lived to be 99.) > > On the other hand, Asplin said, UT isn’t likely to do you much good either. Listen to your body. Your body is saying, “I just got rid of this stuff, granola-brain. Are you nuts?” > > But if you want to try it, be my guest. Just don’t eat any asparagus first. ---
**Author:** ![porcupine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ac91a4/32.png) [@porcupine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/porcupine)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2003, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/urinating-in-sinks/182320/8 "2003-06-16T23:13:08Z")
Forgot to mention that “Urine Therapy” is drinking your own urine. ---
**Author:** ![MrTuffPaws](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f475e1/32.png) [@MrTuffPaws](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrTuffPaws)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2003, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/urinating-in-sinks/182320/9 "2003-06-16T23:22:53Z")
Oh come on, hasn’t anybody read “Gravity’s Rainbow” In the famous banana scene, they mention the British soldiers urinating in sinks while shaving. If one thinks about it, pissing in a sink (bathroom) is most likely cleaner that using the toilet due to toilets producing splash back. Not to mention it is damn hard to aim sometimes. Of course, one could just say, squat and be done with the whole mess. ---
**Author:** ![Zenpea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Zenpea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zenpea)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2003, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/urinating-in-sinks/182320/10 "2003-06-16T23:23:38Z")
Do not adjust your sets, it IS common practice. The guy next door to me frequently does it - I’ve heard him! (And he admitted it. The skanky ho.) -James ---
**Author:** ![Incubus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c68b51/32.png) [@Incubus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Incubus)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2003, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/urinating-in-sinks/182320/11 "2003-06-16T23:30:14Z")
My friend’s roomate (female) once pissed in mu friend’s bathroom sink to try to get his attention while he was making an important phone call :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Mith](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e36b37/32.png) [@Mith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mith)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2003, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/urinating-in-sinks/182320/12 "2003-06-16T23:33:00Z")
hahaha, I was just mentioning this to a friend earlier today. One time at a house party my friend Rachel and I had to go to the bathroom at the same time. THe line up was long… and by the time we made it to the bathroom, she swore she couldn’t hold it any longer (she had been drinking). So, I took the toilet and she took the sink. Crude… yes. ---
**Author:** ![Padmaraga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f07891/32.png) [@Padmaraga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Padmaraga)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2003, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/urinating-in-sinks/182320/13 "2003-06-16T23:45:19Z")
Yes, once, a long time ago. I was on a long distance call which I didn’t want to interrupt, and the phone cord (this was before cordless phones) wouldn’t reach to the toilet - I could only make it as far as the sink. I cleaned the sink thoroughly after the phone call. Mind you, I don’t do much food prep in my bathroom, so it didn’t bother me too much. ---
**Author:** ![doctordoowop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecc23a/32.png) [@doctordoowop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/doctordoowop)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2003, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/urinating-in-sinks/182320/14 "2003-06-17T02:45:09Z")
Well, Lenny Bruce said once , “Even President Johnson has pissed in the sink.” Not sure what inferences can be drawn from this, otrher than it wasn’t unheard of back then. ---
**Author:** ![raisinbread](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8491ac/32.png) [@raisinbread](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/raisinbread)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2003, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/urinating-in-sinks/182320/15 "2003-06-17T02:59:12Z")
I’ve pissed in a sink but it was the utility sink down in the basement of my old house. Pissing in the other sinks, like bathroom and kitchen sinks, is just plain gross. I knew someone who’d piss in those big slurpee cups while watching TV. They weren’t a friend or an acquaintance just someone peripheral to my former social circle. Also I used to whiz while I was letting the dogs out at night, ended up making a dead patch of grass too and I’d pretend that it was a wee, tiny Carthage salted by the Romans in a most unwholesome fashion. Sometimes I still whiz outside late at night just to be in the open air, looking up at the stars with a cool breeze caressing my three piece set. ---
**Author:** ![Jervoise](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d2c977/32.png) [@Jervoise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jervoise)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2003, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/urinating-in-sinks/182320/16 "2003-06-17T03:03:58Z")
It’s pretty skanky, but I’ve done it before. Never in my own house or anyone else’s place, but I’ve pissed in sinks at certain pubs/clubs and at concerts. One pub which springs to mine is a student bar near my old uni. The upstairs toilet had no urinal, just a single disabled toilet. Guys would form two queues: one outside the toilet cubicle and one beside the sink. At some outdoors concerts, pissing in the sink is ultra-common. The urinals are usually shoulder-to-shoulder so the sink becomes a valid option. In all these places, no one is washing their hands anyway, so I don’t think it’s too bad. I’d never piss in a kitchen sink or proper bathroom sink. ---
**Author:** ![KarmaComa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e36b37/32.png) [@KarmaComa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KarmaComa)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2003, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/urinating-in-sinks/182320/17 "2003-06-17T03:06:11Z")
There’s a sink in the main UBC pub/club that my friend pissed in. He thought it was a urinal. It’s semicircular, about 6’ in diameter, and the rim of it is about 2.5’ off the grount. There’s a bar on the floor going around it that you step on to turn on the water. I’ve nearly been fooled myself. ---
**Author:** ![zen101](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c68b51/32.png) [@zen101](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zen101)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2003, 7:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/urinating-in-sinks/182320/18 "2003-06-17T07:54:36Z")
what the shit else do you do when you and your roomie/lover/wife/whatever have just rushed in the door after a long road trip on a hot day? You both have to piss like mad so one of you has to piss in the bathroom sink. bfd. rinse it well afterward. not like you are crapping in the disposal. ---
**Author:** ![Badtz\_Maru](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e36b37/32.png) [@Badtz\_Maru](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Badtz_Maru)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2003, 8:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/urinating-in-sinks/182320/19 "2003-06-17T08:24:57Z")
One time a few years ago I urinated in my bathroom sink. I was half-asleep and didn’t realize what I was doing until the urine stream was already going. I washed the sink thoroughly afterwards. Oddly enough, drugs and alcohol had nothing to do with this - I think I was not fully conscious. ---
**Author:** ![Tansu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/67e7ee/32.png) [@Tansu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tansu)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2003, 10:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/urinating-in-sinks/182320/20 "2003-06-17T10:12:59Z")
In a single dorm bedroom with a basin (bathroom sink) in it, and the toilet way way down the corridor (or in some cases only accessible by going outside and in again through another door\*), I can quite see how a young student type might piss in the basin. Is it a Cambridge thing? Well, it’s probably a “single dorm room without ensuite facilities” thing, coupled with a “lazy student” thing. \*seriously, in the older parts of my college, there were a couple of staircases with no bathrooms at all. Anyone living in rooms on those staircases had to go out into the cold night air in order to reach a bathroom (and the cold night air in Cambridge in the winter comes straight off Russia without passing go. OK, it’s not Minnesota, but it’s frigging cold to us Brits). This isn’t meant to excuse anyone, I’m aware that we piss in the toilet in our society, not the basin. I’m just presenting an interesting fact about the bathroom arrangements in some parts of some Cambridge colleges. Jammy bastards at John’s had ensuite bloody shower rooms, though. Gits. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/urinating-in-sinks/182320.md?page=2)