r/SipsTea • u/Icy-Book2999 Fave frog is a swing nose frog • 5d ago

Urinal Code of Ethics Chugging tea

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u/Glimmertwinsfan1962 5d ago

Her mistake is she that asked “These are things you guys need to think about?” Guys don’t need to think about it at all, it comes instinctually.

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u/The_one_and_only_Tav 5d ago

Honestly, as a woman, if I was faced with the same options I would have made the same choices. It’s pretty obvious just from a personal space perspective. Yeesh.

Also would it really be that hard to like, put half a wall up between urinals? Like I feel like humanity could’ve solved this issue by now.

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u/badwhiskey63 5d ago

Some times there’s a partial wall between them, but the rules are still same.

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u/arbitrageME 5d ago

yeah, but why is the partial wall less than shoulder height? it blocks literally nothing

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u/KromatRO 5d ago

It's for spray accidents not for privacy.

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u/arbitrageME 5d ago

I have two responses:

  1. eww

  2. makes sense

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u/KromatRO 5d ago edited 5d ago

Don't imagine is deliberate. Sometimes, jet hiting the urinal wall will result in a big splash that the urinal margin may not hold. That separator is there to save the neighbor, or you from a neighbor. And with this in mind, the free urinal choice makes more sense and that is why is instinctively known to men.

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u/ObeseVegetable 5d ago

Some urinals are more splashy than others, too. 

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u/Chainsawd 5d ago

Some of those fuckers seem like they were designed with maximum splash-back in mind!

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u/613663141 5d ago

You gotta wave the stream around for a bit until you find that sweet spot which minimises splashback.

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u/CriticalLobster5609 5d ago

Just use your brain? You don't want to piss at a right angle to a surface. Look for a curve, it's like landing a skateboard in the transition on half pipe versus landing on in the flat.

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u/Bulldog8018 5d ago

No kidding. Sometimes you try and hit the urinal from different angles, naively assuming that there must be an angle that doesn’t splash back. But no. Apparently they’re designed with only two results: some spray back or a BUNCH of spray back. That’s why I go for a stall if they’re available and don’t look actively infectious. That way you get some distance from the strike zone. (Guess I’ve been holding these insights back for a long time. Thanks for hearing me out. ✌️)

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u/PrintableDaemon 5d ago

They will also make those partitions as narrow as humanly possible to fit more people in than should be acceptable, to the point you wonder when they'll just give you a funnel and hose. Bathrooms are seriously overcrowded in a way that only airlines are capable of appreciating.

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u/Kahlil_Cabron 5d ago

The piss pressure can be high enough that it will ricochet all over the guy next to you.

OG pissers know the spot to aim at to avoid any splashback, but dumb kids and whatnot (or just seriously dumb adults) may just blindly let lose anywhere in the urinal and it will go everywhere.

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u/Raccoon_Expert_69 5d ago

Remember, we’ve all been pissing right next to each other since a very young age.

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u/SenoraRaton 5d ago

Its so you can look over the wall and compliment your neighbor on their member.

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u/Diligent_Matter1186 5d ago

That's how you get unwanted dates.

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u/Lolkimbo 5d ago

Not everyone is the same height. And its usually to stop splash back.

Be greatful you americans don't have that urination pit/trough we have to deal with ._.

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u/Duckiesims 5d ago

They still exist here in some places, but aren't common anymore. Mostly older stadiums/arenas or outdoor park facilities. These were the bane of my existence as a child

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u/lminer123 4d ago

I’m 6’5 so those fuckers don’t block anything at all! Maybe they block people from seeing me if they’re shorter (like by a lot) but I’ll always keep eyes directly forward lol

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u/mytransthrow 5d ago

Depending on the size of the wall. But god help you if its a just a a pee sink.

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u/maboesanman 4d ago

And sometimes at baseball games you get a big ol’ shared trough urinal.

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u/Much_Interaction_528 4d ago

and sometimes it's not even individual urinals, it's just one big trough.

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u/FlintStriker 5d ago

There are walls in some, but they don't go up to the average eye height. Thankfully you can still peer over and look at the other dude's dick no problem.

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u/The_one_and_only_Tav 5d ago

What a time to be alive.

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u/PilotsNPause 5d ago

Wait until you see the floor to chest level urinals that are all connected together: https://www.reddit.com/r/nostalgia/comments/ilh1p2/floorlength_urinals_the_best_design_imo/

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u/Antique-Management49 5d ago

My starting five.... At Urinal #1: short, stubby, big belly, Bubba who drives a diesel and always gets a 44oz Cup. At Urinal #2 just your every day, ordinary, easy to draw, generic NPC at average height. At Urinal #3 the tallest black dude you've seen in-person and this close together noticeably taller than Bubba At Urinal #4 another randomly plain white bread guys nothing new but to be expected. At Urinal #5 338lbs of carne asada, and Modelo... -_- ... You know his name.

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u/icebraining 5d ago

I think I still prefer those to the single extra-wide urinal, though: https://i.pinimg.com/originals/32/53/f3/3253f36bf2a37e8cb3d444f130306e3e.jpg

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u/Vhadka 5d ago

What about the piss trough that's circular so you can face the guy across from you?

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u/CriticalLobster5609 5d ago

You'll almost never see these in new buildings unless the client insists. More expensive in every way.

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u/CatButler 5d ago

The worst is when you can see the dudes dick in your peripheral vision even though your staring straight ahead

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u/AndyNextDoor 5d ago

His dick has abs?!

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u/metalshoes 5d ago

In the moment it comes down your dick and hands being as far away from the nearest pair of dick and hands as possible, it’s all intuition. Even in the last one it’s easy as both center people get to stand further away from each other.

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u/Critical_Concert_689 5d ago

half a wall up between urinals

Old-school urinals were basically just long troughs with a single drain. So "half a wall" would literally be half-a-divider, around shoulder height, not enough to block vision, but enough to get urine on your shoulders if you bumped it accidentally.

It's a lose-lose.

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u/The_one_and_only_Tav 5d ago

TIHI

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u/Lolkimbo 5d ago

Then you'll love this..

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u/The_one_and_only_Tav 5d ago

:(

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u/Lolkimbo 5d ago

Not a fan of the urination pit? We were lucky to have that at the time.

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u/Wise-Definition-1980 5d ago

You just stare at the tile work and grout.

....and judge the fuckers who installed it.

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u/Myrdok 5d ago

The other part that wasn't addressed is, when faced with equal options, you choose the one as far from the door as possible.

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u/The_one_and_only_Tav 5d ago

Also quite logical!

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u/Technical_Benefit_31 5d ago

As a woman, this is etiquette I wished women followed in the bathroom. I adhere to it. Theres 4 stalls. I'm in the back. I'm shitting, thats why I'm in the back. You skip all 3 decent stalls and come sit next to me Why???? I've tested it doing the opposite and sat in the very front, and the only other woman STILL picks to sit next to me. I hate public restrooms.

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u/DeadSeaGulls 5d ago

if there's a wall, it generally only comes up to chest height anyway. it's pointless. But a far cry better than the trough style urinals back in the day. We still had a few public buildings in my home town that had those when I was a kid. Absolutely brutal.

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u/El_Chairman_Dennis 5d ago

Sometimes it's just one long trough that all the dudes pee into

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u/dudersaurus-rex 5d ago

now this is messed up.. these are some urinals with little walls between them. and 9 times out of 10 those little walls are covered in little holes from where the acid in the years of pee has bored holes into it

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u/phido3000 5d ago

You don't understand the psychology involved.

Why would you want a wall? Do you have something to hide? You might as well use a stall!

You see, it asks deep questions of who you are and how comfortable you are around your junk and other peoples junk. Who you are an how you operate.

Its a performance. The way you stagger up, the unzip, the flow, the assertion of dominance, the whistle, the drip shake, the rezip and the handwash. Do you take a beer in there?

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u/Mateorabi 5d ago

"Good" well-designed bathrooms will have dividers. But lots of places are cheap and DNGAF. Etiquette is only SLIGHTLY relaxed when there's a divider though as they're usually short enough someone could peer over if they tried. Don't try. Stare at that wall like the cure to cancer is written on it.

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u/HornyBrownLad 5d ago

Anything Level 5 and up, I'd wait for it to clear out down to Level 4 or lower. 

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u/Shot_Worldliness_979 5d ago

What if I told you there're stadiums where it's just one long trough.

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u/The_one_and_only_Tav 4d ago

I do not enjoy this knowledge

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u/CriticalLobster5609 5d ago

As a plumbing/pipefitting BIM detailer the trend is to have dividers between urinals in the trim out in high use facilities. It improves usage throughput. Helps the shy pee-ers. I typically don't look at those details, because we don't install them usually but it seems to be the case.

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u/trolejbusonix 4d ago

How would you know who's dick is bigger with a wall between? /s

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u/Zaurka14 4d ago

Men really fall for that cheap acting... Eh. Whatever makes her money though, good for her.