# When flies in the bathroom are a good thing

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [December 19, 2009, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-flies-in-the-bathroom-are-a-good-thing/521865 "2009-12-19T16:09:09Z")\
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**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\
**Post date:** [December 19, 2009, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-flies-in-the-bathroom-are-a-good-thing/521865/1 "2009-12-19T16:09:09Z")

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Story on NPR this morning: [There’s A Fly In My Urinal](http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=121310977)

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> “Apparently,” Berenbaum says, in males, “there is a deep-seated instinct to aim at targets,” and having a fly to aim at reduces what she politely calls “human spillage.”

_"Human spillage_", indeed. We could use **really** some of those decals where I work.

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**Author:** ![Asimovian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asimovian/32/172_2.png) [@Asimovian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asimovian)\
**Post date:** [December 20, 2009, 11:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-flies-in-the-bathroom-are-a-good-thing/521865/2 "2009-12-20T11:58:50Z")

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I tuned to NPR while they were in the middle of doing this story, and I had no idea WTF they were talking about. It makes so much more sense, now. 😃

I can’t speak for most guys, but since _I_ am certainly never guilty of any spillage, having something at which to aim makes absolutely no difference in terms of how messy I might be. _cough_ However, having a target makes the experience more…shall we say, fulfilling? Yes, I think we shall.

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**Author:** ![Mindfield](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mindfield/32/19759_2.png) [@Mindfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mindfield)\
**Post date:** [December 20, 2009, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-flies-in-the-bathroom-are-a-good-thing/521865/3 "2009-12-20T14:55:19Z")

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Bah. Forget flies. Turn it into [a game!](http://gizmodo.com/163207/on-target-urinal-games)