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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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[–] Heikki@lemm.ee 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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.

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 1 points 9 hours ago

You mean "OCD?". Because that a pretty brutal example of the reality versus the fiction of it.

[–] Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 16 points 1 day ago (8 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.

[–] Crikeste@lemm.ee 6 points 1 day 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.

[–] slaveOne@reddthat.com 3 points 1 day 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.

[–] Crikeste@lemm.ee 4 points 1 day 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

[–] fartemoji@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago

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

[–] tikifire@lemm.ee 5 points 1 day ago

You never worked in a school I guess.

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[–] voodooattack@lemmy.world 16 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)
[–] exasperation@lemm.ee 8 points 1 day ago

Gotta paint some faces on there, with puckered lips.

[–] kaprap@leminal.space 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

[–] WhatYouNeed@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day 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.

[–] arc@lemm.ee 10 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day 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.

[–] Threeme2189@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day 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.

[–] Crikeste@lemm.ee 3 points 1 day ago

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

[–] Pulptastic@midwest.social 10 points 2 days 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.

[–] Cryophilia@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

For some reason

$$$

[–] Perhapsjustsniffit@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

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

[–] ZeffSyde@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day 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.

[–] BoxOfFeet@lemmy.world 9 points 2 days ago

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

[–] magnetosphere@fedia.io 95 points 2 days ago (5 children)

I have to imagine that a fair amount of that is intentional. Some people are just pigs.

[–] Photuris@lemmy.ml 62 points 2 days ago (5 children)

100%.

Fun fact: intentionally leaving pee on floors and toilet seats is a lesser-known but frequently-observed associated trait of Narcissistic Personality Disorder (NPD).

I guess it’s some kind of primal lizard brained “territorial” thing, I dunno.

[–] apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world 69 points 2 days ago (4 children)

Two things that rattle around my brain constantly:

  1. Leave it better than you found it.
  2. Be mindful of the work you leave for others.
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[–] MECHAGODZILLA2@midwest.social 7 points 2 days ago

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

[–] Crumbgrabber@lemm.ee 38 points 2 days ago (2 children)
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[–] PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca 7 points 2 days 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

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[–] Alpha71@lemmy.world 14 points 2 days ago (1 children)
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[–] huppakee@lemm.ee 60 points 3 days ago (6 children)

The waste (╯°□°)╯

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[–] troed@fedia.io 45 points 3 days ago (27 children)

Sit and pee.

Urinals are disgusting.

/European man

[–] Photuris@lemmy.ml 40 points 2 days ago (2 children)

At home, absolutely.

Out and about, I ain’t sitting on that nasty seat, thank you very much.

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[–] xploit@lemmy.world 15 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Anyone, whether it's man or woman, who pisses or shits or whatever all over a toilet (i.e. not inside) has quite likely never cleaned a fucking toilet in their life.

Source: Have cleaned toilets, not just my own, before - it has changed me.

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