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Researchers have come up with two new urinal designs to prevent the spillage of "ill-aimed pee."

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 12 hours ago

I recall one place I worked. There was a "ofd" older gentleman. I was in the restroom with him at a urinal. He went to the paper towel holder, grabbed about 5 pieces, folded them, and then proceeded to wipe the inside of the urinal out. After he finished, he put the paper towel into one of his back pockets and peed, I think. I didn't stay to watch him finish. I just exited the bathroom and didn't look back.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 12 hours ago

Been in a pub toilet when a drunk guy came in, whipped it out half way across the room and the dirty fucker started pissing while staggering to the urinal. Just a fucken animal.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 16 hours ago (4 children)

Just thinking how many times I use a urinal a year, multiply by population, the only way this makes sense is with some number of people just pissing onto the floor.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

THIS IS WHY

https://youtu.be/ejl7vrDUIcs

If we could all be civil and just sit down to pee, the world would be a better place.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Yes I've been saying this for at least 20 years. Toilets are for sitting and urinals are for standing. My wife also appreciates this.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 hours ago

The problem is: This only works if EVERYONE does it. The second anyone breaks and gets a few drops on the toilet seat, it’s over. Because that is part of the reason we stand in the first place. We know how gross we are, and if you can see the gross it validates that.

I hate society 😔 lmfao

[–] [email protected] 7 points 15 hours ago

I can't speak for the whole country but where I work people really do just piss on the floor.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 14 hours ago

You never worked in a school I guess.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago) (1 children)

It's 0.003 liters per day per person

you suck at math

[–] [email protected] 2 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (2 children)

So you think the average person uses a public urinal more than 365 times a year? Also about half the population sit.

[–] howrar 1 points 9 hours ago

About three times per day during the work day makes for ~800 times per year. Seems to be on the right order of magnitude to me.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

I didn't write the article :)

If you're angry about the math comment, bust out a calculator. You could have reached that verdict yourself.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago

A calculator isn't going to tell me how many times a year I use a urinal.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Just... Sit down. Shit in the urinal.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 18 hours ago

Gotta paint some faces on there, with puckered lips.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (2 children)

Seems like a complete lie. Men might lose a few drops due to the shape of the bowl tops. It's certainly not worth anyone tearing out urinals in the hope some hypothetical piss splashage goes down.

And personally a better goal for urinal design is water reduction. i.e. urinals that use no water, or the bare minimum to flush the piss through.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago

a better goal for urinal design is water reduction. i.e. urinals that use no water

Don't get me started on those "zero water" urinals. They start to stink and accumulate all kinds of nasty in a matter of weeks. There's a reason we flush all of that stuff down the toilet and into the sewers.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 12 hours ago

It’s a little more than 1/2 a teaspoon, per person. Not exactly hard to believe.

[–] Perhapsjustsniffit 6 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) (1 children)

As someone who used to work in huge hockey arenas. Piss everywhere. All the time.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

Before it was rebuilt in the 90s, the MLB stadium in my part of town just had an open trough along a wall with water constantly trickling down it. No dividers.

I can't remember if the toilet stalls still had doors or not, just that it was the foulest rest room I'd ever used until I started working at music festivals.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

They are fixing a problem that has already been solved. There are already urinals that take this into consideration. The problem is not in the design, it is the implementation. For some reason everybody everywhere installs those awful American Standard urinals that are specifically designed to splatter pee onto your pants.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 18 hours ago

For some reason

$$$

[–] [email protected] 9 points 22 hours ago

Most of it is in my bathroom when my father-in-law visits.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 22 hours ago

I personally estimate 85% is from the troughs at Fenway.

[–] PeriodicallyPedantic 7 points 23 hours ago (8 children)

I'm skeptical about this.

There are like 170M dudes
And say each pee is about 300ml
Then 1 in 50 dudes needs to have a full pee on the floor every day.

Ok maybe that's a bit more believable

[–] [email protected] 3 points 19 hours ago

If you include the outliers that are incontinent, it makes up for the folks who skip a day or two of floor-pissing.

Lol there's a sentence I never thought I'd type.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 19 hours ago

Seeing the amount of micro penis compensating trucks in the US, I'm not surprised

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