Why are bathroom urinals made in such a way that they cause urine to splatter out?
You pour a cup of water from a high point to a low point and it splatters off the ground and onto everything in sight. So why do they make urinals this way? Are there other styles of urinals that prevent this from happening?
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youre supposed to stand a certain way and hold it a certain way but i forget the details ewwwwww
You might need to use a taller urinal, or a shorter one, depending on your height. I’ve noticed that you get the same splatter effect in a toilet, it just isn’t as noticeable. Try aiming for the drain.
It’s part of the fun. If a man didn’t want to make a mess when he takes a piss he’d sit on the toilet like a woman.
@Lightlyseared but sometimes, sitting on the toilet you find out how cold that water is.
I bet you’re talking about one of these horrible things (luckily I’ve never encountered one in my life). Try guiding the stream to hit the porcelain so it will break the fall and slide down along the porcelain (simulate a stone water wall ornament).
I never realized how much thought has to put into peeing standing up (this kind of reminds me of the episode where beavis or buthead forgets how to pee)..
It’s ok to get a bit of your own splash back. It’s Sterile. But what i hate is standing in the crowded urinal at the train station, and getting someone ELSES splash back! hahaha It’s like one of those big trough ones with no barriers in between users. I always leave a comfort zone between me and the next user (as stated in the man code) and low and behold some dude comes in and breaks it and slashes all over my feet. Terrible!
Don’t worry about splashback too much. The vikings washed their clothes in urine, and it worked out for them. A little pee pee never hurt anyone.
I pee to the side of the urinal so it does a curve around to the front and down the drain.
I’m a bit of a germaphobe
@erichw1504 You’re a guy? I always had you figured for a girl.
@janbb don’t feel bad, so did I. See, we really need to put one of those gender signs on our profile page, circle with an arrow for a guy, circle with a + for a girl and a circle with both for the transsexuals.
@Psychedelic_Zebra Even better. Start branding the avatars. Like so. (and to anyone who disagrees with gender guidelines, I say phooey on you!)
What I hate are men’s rooms troughs. I like these though.
@Sarcasm great idea, but smaller, so it doesn’t hide my pretty eyes.
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