# Would you want your own urinal in your home, guys? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [May 2, 2011, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-want-your-own-urinal-in-your-home-guys/580422 "2011-05-02T00:27:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Cyberhwk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7993a0/32.png) [@Cyberhwk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cyberhwk)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2011, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-want-your-own-urinal-in-your-home-guys/580422/61 "2011-05-04T03:43:13Z")
Absolutely I’d put one in. No better solution for when you’re still only half conscious yet have to head to the bathroom to clear the pipes. It can be quite an adventure trying to hit a target in the morning fog. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2011, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-want-your-own-urinal-in-your-home-guys/580422/62 "2011-05-04T17:03:24Z")
> [@Zsofia](#): > > Me too, but haven’t you ever stumbled into the bathroom in the wee dark hours of the morning, not wanting to ruin your night vision, and fallen in and gotten kind of stuck in the toilet with your ass in the cold water? Worse – ever have a [cat fall in the toilet](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=290260)? In our house, not only is the seat down, but so is the lid. (The bathroom window is up behind the toilet – it’s higher on the wall, so no, you can’t see someone using it unless you get on the porch and press your face right up against said window. The cats like to sit on the window and look out) ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2011, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-want-your-own-urinal-in-your-home-guys/580422/63 "2011-05-04T17:16:17Z")
Got a urinal. A bush at the end of my deck. 😃 It ain’t died yet. ---
**Author:** ![lindsaybluth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/90db22/32.png) [@lindsaybluth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lindsaybluth)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2011, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-want-your-own-urinal-in-your-home-guys/580422/64 "2011-05-04T17:58:42Z")
> [@drastic\_quench](#): > > Yes, from time to time, and it usually autocorrects after a few startling seconds of pissing on the wall - or worse a basket of your mother-in-law’s magazines. God that’s the best thing I’ve read in a long time. I actually assumed men preferred urinals. My SO does not, would not want one built into a bathroom or even built in a new home. ---
**Author:** ![Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troy_mcclure_sf/32/4150_2.png) [@Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Troy_McClure_SF)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2011, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-want-your-own-urinal-in-your-home-guys/580422/65 "2011-05-04T18:37:31Z")
Well, urinals don’t require any water, so that’s a nice way to save water without having a pool of urine just hanging out in the bathroom, and having multiple people’s urine splash up. ---
**Author:** ![johnpost](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f17d59/32.png) [@johnpost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/johnpost)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2011, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-want-your-own-urinal-in-your-home-guys/580422/66 "2011-05-04T18:42:32Z")
large potted plants about the house will work. could use the cat litter box, with the clumping stuff, as well. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2011, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-want-your-own-urinal-in-your-home-guys/580422/67 "2011-05-04T21:41:05Z")
> [@johnpost](#): > > large potted plants about the house will work. > > could use the cat litter box, with the clumping stuff, as well. One of my cats is so fussy, she’ll go in and clean up after the other cats, even if she doesn’t have to use the litter box herself. So double bonus! ---
**Author:** ![Jaledin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Jaledin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jaledin)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2011, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-want-your-own-urinal-in-your-home-guys/580422/68 "2011-05-04T22:14:32Z")
Hell yes I’d want a urinal. Doesn’t matter what kind. I hate pissing in the toilet – I prefer to leave the seat down and don’t like to have to touch the seat when not necessary. It’s fine if the seat’s up, and even fine when the seat’s down, but I don’t like sitting in piss, and there’s always a few drops even though I’m an excellent cocksman. Don’t tell anyone, but I usually just micturate into the sink at my place (and maybe others?) – seems perfectly sanitary to me, and a lot better than touching the underside of a filthy toilet seat. My bathroom is clean, too – but who knows where germs lurk? I know. ---
**Author:** ![Balthisar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/balthisar/32/2825_2.png) [@Balthisar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Balthisar)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2011, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-want-your-own-urinal-in-your-home-guys/580422/69 "2011-05-04T23:14:13Z")
> [@Troy\_McClure\_SF](#): > > Well, urinals don’t require any water, so that’s a nice way to save water without having a pool of urine just hanging out in the bathroom, and having multiple people’s urine splash up. Just, gross. Even those water-free urinals with the special cartridges stink. They _do_ need water, especially the non-water-free ones. ---
**Author:** ![Nzinga\_Seated](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b5ac83/32.png) [@Nzinga\_Seated](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nzinga_Seated)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2011, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-want-your-own-urinal-in-your-home-guys/580422/70 "2011-05-05T00:01:47Z")
> [@Jaledin](#): > > …I usually just **micturate** into the sink… Come get your [nerd-punch](http://dubsism.files.wordpress.com/2009/10/nelson-muntz.gif?w=170&h=210), nerd. ---
**Author:** ![Jaledin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Jaledin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jaledin)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2011, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-want-your-own-urinal-in-your-home-guys/580422/71 "2011-05-05T02:22:16Z")
> [@Nzinga\_Seated](#): > > Come get your [nerd-punch](http://dubsism.files.wordpress.com/2009/10/nelson-muntz.gif?w=170&h=210), nerd. That’s sweet, but you can have the fruit punch back, now that I’m done with the sink – I did take it with, though. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-want-your-own-urinal-in-your-home-guys/580422.md?page=3)