Men are distance pee-ers; that's just a fact of life. I know Larry David lauded the joys of sitting when you pee in an episode of "Curb Your Enthusiasm," but I don't subscribe to that mantra. Sit when I pee? I consider it a luxury that I can stand. Who wants to be ina public restroom and find a reason to sit? That's just ridiculous. For that reason I respect the existence of urinals, which make life both easier and more efficient for men. I mean it's a simple unzip, zip, and you're done. Now I even have the motion sensor flushers which make the whole activity as effortless as possible. I don't even have to pull a handle! I just walk away! Now I'm not so lazy that I need that added element, but you wouldn't believe how many people are.
But I do have an issue with urinals - the splash-back problem. Inevitably, when a liquid smashes against a solid surface, it'll splash back at you, just like when you empty a water bottle on the street and water hits your feet. The only way to avoid the problem is by peeing into one of those annoying trough urinals where there aren't any sperations between the people and you feel like a damn animal. No thank you. So then you're stuck with the more convenient and privacy-friendly urinal design which has a pretty blatant engineering defect that causes the splash-back problem. This defect is that the urinal wall is just that, a wall. What happens when you spray a wall with water? It splashes-back. Ah, now you see. What I propose is that the design be changed to better "accomodate" the pee-er. Maybe a funnel shape, or more of a bowl shape? Something that ends further away from where you stand so that even if there some sort of splash-back effect, it doesn't reach you. I'm surprised this hasn't already been taken care of.
Monday, October 03, 2005
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Wait. Does it splash back onto your skin? Pants? How do you "clean up" or hide this problem? Enquiring female mind wants to know.
It splashes back at you but it's so minor, that if it actually hits you, it's not noticeable of anything, but you still know it happened. Obviously you can "clean up" if it's a big problem, but the best thing to do is to employ specific "techniques" to avoid it happening to begin with.
What really pisses me off about the urinals (which I always avoid using at all costs) is that there's no toilet paper around, and if you have a tissue, no means of discretely disposing of it. Why TP? To get rid of that omnipresent last drop that otherwise wets your boxers and irritates your member in the long run.
I was nervous, before I wrote the post, that I was going into a territory that should forever remain undiscussed. But at the end, I thought I had avoided "crossing the line" into the realm of "too much information." But Alex, thank you for crossing that line for me. Ah, I'll always remember your TP obsession. Good memories. I won't go into details here though.
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