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[–] betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world 100 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I still don't understand the red urinals, they make such a mess when you use them.

[–] assassinatedbyCIA@lemmy.world 26 points 9 months ago (1 children)

They’re for faeces silly.

[–] betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world 24 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Obviously, yeah, I'm not a moron. Still doesn't make it any less of a disaster zone once the transaction is complete.

[–] assassinatedbyCIA@lemmy.world 10 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Which hand do you use to catch the turd? That might be the problem here.

[–] Dhar@lemmy.ca 7 points 9 months ago

What a terrible day to be literate

[–] Annoyed_Crabby@monyet.cc 51 points 9 months ago (3 children)
[–] Engywuck@lemm.ee 40 points 9 months ago (2 children)

It's my missing the "I use Arch, BTW".

[–] Engywuck@lemm.ee 17 points 9 months ago

Of course, I use Arch, BTW.

[–] LetterboxPancake@sh.itjust.works 1 points 9 months ago

Your LinkedIn profile looks promising, I'm trying to staff a senior Java developer position.

[–] samus12345@lemmy.world 10 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

At least he didn't turn to use the same urinal as the other guy. "Sword fight!"

[–] AmosBurton_ThatGuy@lemmy.ca 6 points 9 months ago (1 children)

All I got is a dagger at best, take it or leave it.

[–] samus12345@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago (2 children)

"No, I meant the pee streams, THE PEE STREAMS!!"

[–] AmosBurton_ThatGuy@lemmy.ca 3 points 8 months ago

Oh...... I knew that

[–] RickMoreanus@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago

Well according to your theory, one of us has been doing it wrong this whole time.

[–] taanegl@lemmy.world 5 points 9 months ago

The etiquette of pissoires must not be neglected. That's a quick way to either get decked or get slapped with a glove.

[–] threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 43 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

I can't believe no one has posted the xkcd writeup on the International Choice of Urinal Protocol (ICUP) in this thread yet.

[–] sleep_walker@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 8 months ago

Thanks for saving me few seconds - I needed this here!

[–] Jiggle_Physics@lemmy.world 27 points 9 months ago (1 children)

There is always that one dude who walks into a bathroom, sees a row of 20 urinals with only one person using them, and goes to the one right next to him. That guy also has a tendency to turn his head to look at you and try to strike up a conversation.

[–] Gigan@lemmy.world 27 points 9 months ago (1 children)

The bathroom at my work has 3 urinals. There's a guy that picks the middle one every time.

[–] Gnugit@aussie.zone 25 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Gotta assert that dominance.

[–] Gigan@lemmy.world 10 points 9 months ago (1 children)
[–] aubertlone@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Isn't it just closer to chaotic neutral?

What's evil about being in the middle of the urinal stalls?

Nothing I prefer to do that, just saying it's not evil.

[–] ButcherChin@lemm.ee 10 points 9 months ago

Chaotic evil would be peeing on the guy next to you.

[–] MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 16 points 8 months ago

Bluntly, those are not the same picture. As a dude, I see a couple of important things right away. Most importantly, there's dividers between the urinals in the second picture.

If there's room, I'll still leave a gap, but with no dividers, if there isn't room to leave a gap, depending on the spacing of the urinals, I might just want to wait until there can be a gap. With dividers, I probably won't. It's still not ideal, but dividers make it much more palatable.

[–] tdawg@lemmy.world 12 points 9 months ago (4 children)

Always curious about this: how do you guys feel about talking while washing hands? Acceptable? Not?

[–] Lmaydev@programming.dev 24 points 9 months ago

I think most people just want to get in and get out. No conversation needed.

[–] Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 16 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Don't see why it wouldn't be acceptable. But if you're a stranger then don't talk to me.

[–] tdawg@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Nah I had a coworker who would get weird about it. We shared a small office space with a couple of other coworkers but this guy in particular would always say "no talking in the men's room" if you tried to chat him up while washing/drying your hands. Always thought it was funny he cared that much

[–] Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 7 points 9 months ago

Maybe it was a really chatty office and he just needed a break? I could sympathize with that haha

[–] sangriaferret@sh.itjust.works 10 points 9 months ago

Acceptable. We are enemies on the battlefield but as we reenter civilized society we must behave as such.

[–] uis@lemmy.world 5 points 9 months ago

Default behaviour

[–] OneCardboardBox@lemmy.sdf.org 10 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

What are people's thoughts about the children's size urinal? Never use it if there's another option? Only use it if the other option would place you adjacent to another person? What about if you have a choice between adult and child's urinals next to each other, but using the child's urinal would allow space for another person to optimally avoid neighboring persons?

I feel like this is a variant of the trolley problem that's woefully unexplored.

[–] funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 7 points 9 months ago

love it. me and my tall friends can double-decker

[–] Thcdenton@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

None of the above. I'm pee shy so I piss in stalls 😁

[–] Wanderer@lemm.ee 10 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Americans are funny about this. Sure you don't go next to someone if there is space but you wouldn't not use one.

I was talking a piss in a bar in America and cracked up a conversation with the guy next to me and realised he found it very unusual. I said (at the sinks) that doesn't happen here much does it? He goes no does it happen back home? I was like yea sure if you're drunk. Americans seem too worried if you're gay but who doesn't love a bit of straight guy on straight guy homoeroticism every now and then (not that pissing next to someone is).

Also trough is the best when there is a fuckload of people like at a stadium otherwise it takes for ever. The guys that use the cubical for a piss and hold everyone up are wankers. Though I once called a guy out on it at work and he said "I don't know what it is! I just can't pee around people! I've tried, it's not like I'm embarrassed. I'll show you my ddick if you want, I don't care I just can't pee next to someone." I almost pissed over myself I was laughing so much.

[–] Raiderkev@lemmy.world 9 points 8 months ago

I used to get piss shy at troughs, but I can tell you exactly why. 6 or 7 year old me was using one probably for the 1st time, and some cunt decided to say "quit looking at my dick kid!" I fuckin wasn't, but when your head is at dick height, like maybe it would appear that way. I was focused on my own dick n trying to piss, and then couldn't . Thanks to that fuck, for ~ the next 12 years of my life I was not able to squeeze a drop at a trough unless I had the corner, or ample space. Had a complex for years over it. Eventually, alcohol would solve that problem... If I'm drunk, I can piss fuckin anywhere. Now it doesn't really bother me anymore, but fuck that guy. I'm, definitely glad troughs have mostly gone the way of the dodo because of said complex, but at times when I'm at sporting events, I wouldn't mind if they still had them because men's rooms never had lines before.

[–] WashedOver@lemmy.ca 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

My new favourite is people talking on the phone while letting off absolute bomb in public washroom stalls, some even on speaker phone.

My second are those that come in playing their music on phone speaker for all of us to hear their jams.

Not sure if this is better than those that do it on a nature trails but all groups should be forced to have music speaker phone battles while bears and wolves eat them all...

[–] dingus@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Also wild to me are people that bring their drinks into public bathrooms like WTF

[–] Angry_Maple@sh.itjust.works 1 points 8 months ago

Free seasoning

[–] jol@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)
[–] peopleproblems@lemmy.world -1 points 9 months ago (1 children)
[–] Thcdenton@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago

Obviously you're not a golfer

[–] MalReynolds@slrpnk.net 4 points 9 months ago (2 children)

This is an American thing, right? what the hell are those? i.e. context plz

[–] KnightontheSun@lemmy.world 7 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Men typically do not want to urinate right next to another. The proper format is every other urinal. Men want that extra space for their own shenanigans.

[–] MalReynolds@slrpnk.net 1 points 9 months ago

Yeah, spray and all.. Sorry, thought that was a real thing, not a metaphor.

[–] Bondrewd@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)
[–] MalReynolds@slrpnk.net 1 points 9 months ago

Nice, worthy watch, up there with bidets.

[–] Kase@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

This is a little random but I just gotta get it off my chest lmao.

The other day I walked into a small restroom at school and saw two there was one stall left open. I couldn't see inside the stall, as it was parallel to the doorway I was standing in. Anyway, I walked over to the stall and nearly ran into the guy who was standing there peeing with the door open. Of course, the guy heard me approach and looked over his shoulder at me like I had two heads, and I retreated, embarrassed.

Anyway, if that guy is reading this, I'm sorry lol. Believe me, it won't happen again. You've instilled a deep fear in me and I will forever approach bathroom stalls slowly and carefully, leaning forward just enough as I approach to see if anyone is lurking inside. It won't happen again. It won't.

[–] turkalino@lemmy.yachts 1 points 8 months ago

When there's barriers and a line of guys are waiting cuz they're obeying the gap rule, I love seeing their looks of confused frustration as I walk right up to one of the free urinals. Not my fault yall are fragile and insecure