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

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    9 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.

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    8 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.

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    12 hours ago

    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.

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        8 hours ago

        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.

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          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

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      12 hours ago

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

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        9 hours ago

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

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          5 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.

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          9 hours ago

          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.

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    16 hours ago

    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.

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      8 hours ago

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

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      3 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.

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    18 hours ago

    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.

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    19 hours ago

    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