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Re: Bathroom Etiquette
« Reply #30 on: July 17, 2009, 09:16:52 PM »

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I work in a six-story office building that is 70-percent vacant so I get my pick of men's rooms and privacy options.

Thank God for the recession, at least from that standpoint. It's like I have my own little suite of 18 stalls, and if that doesn't work out I just walk up or down a floor.

Re: Bathroom Etiquette
« Reply #31 on: July 17, 2009, 09:26:51 PM »

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If I have a choice I'll avoid the public restrooms all together. All I can say is,"ladies, please unclog the toilet you use."

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Re: Bathroom Etiquette
« Reply #32 on: July 17, 2009, 10:20:26 PM »

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Having been raised on using the troughs at Fenway Park to pee in, I was confused years ago when I went to take a leak at a Patriots game at Rich Stadium in Buffalo.  They had these circular sinks with several faucets around them.  I thought they were troughs, and unlike the other places in the Men's room there were no lines.  So, I unzipped and whizzed away.  When I was done a random Buffalo fan with a big smile on his face said, "Dude, you just peed in the sink." and gave me a high five.  One of my finer moments of spontaneous male bonding.  Yessiree, I impressed someone by peeing in a sink. 

You had to love that he was totally willing to give my unwashed hand a high five.

As I said, one of my finer moments.  :D



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Re: Bathroom Etiquette
« Reply #33 on: July 17, 2009, 11:33:55 PM »

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Having been raised on using the troughs at Fenway Park to pee in, I was confused years ago when I went to take a leak at a Patriots game at Rich Stadium in Buffalo.  They had these circular sinks with several faucets around them.  I thought they were troughs, and unlike the other places in the Men's room there were no lines.  So, I unzipped and whizzed away.  When I was done a random Buffalo fan with a big smile on his face said, "Dude, you just peed in the sink." and gave me a high five.  One of my finer moments of spontaneous male bonding.  Yessiree, I impressed someone by peeing in a sink. 

You had to love that he was totally willing to give my unwashed hand a high five.

As I said, one of my finer moments.  :D



i officially nominate this post as an entry for the best post of the year  ;D

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Re: Bathroom Etiquette
« Reply #34 on: July 18, 2009, 12:48:39 AM »

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Having been raised on using the troughs at Fenway Park to pee in, I was confused years ago when I went to take a leak at a Patriots game at Rich Stadium in Buffalo.  They had these circular sinks with several faucets around them.  I thought they were troughs, and unlike the other places in the Men's room there were no lines.  So, I unzipped and whizzed away.  When I was done a random Buffalo fan with a big smile on his face said, "Dude, you just peed in the sink." and gave me a high five.  One of my finer moments of spontaneous male bonding.  Yessiree, I impressed someone by peeing in a sink. 

You had to love that he was totally willing to give my unwashed hand a high five.

As I said, one of my finer moments.  :D



i officially nominate this post as an entry for the best post of the year  ;D

lol.. hey DL we have to pull this post of the year thing together
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Re: Bathroom Etiquette
« Reply #35 on: July 18, 2009, 09:43:05 AM »

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Having been raised on using the troughs at Fenway Park to pee in, I was confused years ago when I went to take a leak at a Patriots game at Rich Stadium in Buffalo.  They had these circular sinks with several faucets around them.  I thought they were troughs, and unlike the other places in the Men's room there were no lines.  So, I unzipped and whizzed away.  When I was done a random Buffalo fan with a big smile on his face said, "Dude, you just peed in the sink." and gave me a high five.  One of my finer moments of spontaneous male bonding.  Yessiree, I impressed someone by peeing in a sink. 

You had to love that he was totally willing to give my unwashed hand a high five.

As I said, one of my finer moments.  :D



i officially nominate this post as an entry for the best post of the year  ;D

lol.. hey DL we have to pull this post of the year thing together

i will post an idea in the comments section

Re: Bathroom Etiquette
« Reply #36 on: February 08, 2021, 04:05:40 PM »

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Not sure how I ended up down this rabbit hole in the forums archives, but I thought it might be fun to see how things have changed since 2009 or since the outbreak of COVID.  I know, I for one, barely use public restrooms anymore, unless it's an emergency.
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« Reply #37 on: February 08, 2021, 04:11:37 PM »

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Not sure how I ended up down this rabbit hole in the forums archives, but I thought it might be fun to see how things have changed since 2009 or since the outbreak of COVID.  I know, I for one, barely use public restrooms anymore, unless it's an emergency.
understandable. my solution was to stop peeing all together. going on 10 months now.  ;D
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« Reply #38 on: February 08, 2021, 04:58:45 PM »

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Here is an etiquette challenge for you.  Went to a university of PA football game.  No urinals.   No troughs.    Just two walls with a small gutter on the floor.   What is the proper distance that allows a crowd to get through.

Re: Bathroom Etiquette
« Reply #39 on: February 08, 2021, 05:40:52 PM »

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Seeing this topic in the Latest Discussions section, I'm thinking, "heck ya, this is why I come here, for these types of random, off topic discussions!" 

Ha, turns out I was the one who started this thread 10+ years ago.  Before even re-reading my old post (which made me cringe), I specifically remembered one of the reasons that made me write it in the first place.  In an office with a 3 urinal setup:

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I was walking right behind a guy into the bathroom, he knew I was there because he held the door open for me, we both walked up to the urinals, all open, and with his first choice took urinal 2.  What's up with that?  You're leaving me no choice but to go right next to you.  Complete lack of bathroom etiquette in my book.


Now with Covid, I hate when people hold the doors for me when entering any building, I'm trying to leave appropriate space, just go in I can open the door myself.  But at the same time, I feel rude when not holding the door for someone (especially if they have their hands full, are elderly, or a mother with young kids).  Years of proper etiquette training are at odds with our current Covid reality.

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Re: Bathroom Etiquette
« Reply #40 on: February 08, 2021, 07:02:17 PM »

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From Dave Barry's Complete Guide to Guys.

https://www.angelfire.com/pa/bluelifesavers/pee.html

This is a problems that guys face when they go into a public rest room. When women go into a rest room, they have the privacy of stalls, but guys have to do it while standing pretty much out in the open, sometimes with many other guys standing around.

This can be tricky, because peeing is very much associated, in guys’ minds, with masculinity. Consider the behavior of guy gods, who spend their lives in a ceaseless quest to establish their masculine dominance by peeing on everything in the entire world. Scientists believe that the reason dogs howl at the moon is because they (the dogs) (also some of the scientists) are upset they can’t get up there and pee on it.

As noted, I own two dogs: a large main dog named Earnest, and a small emergency backup dog named Zippy. Earnest, a large female, pees only when she has to pee. Zippy, a tiny fluffy male, basically never stops peeing. He is like a small walking wad of cotton with urine constantly dribbling out of it. Sometimes he encounters the next-door neighbors’ dog, Prince, and the two of them engage in a pee-fest. They'll sniff each other of a moment, rush off in a purposeful manner to squirt various bushes, then rush back together to sniff each other some more, then rush to the bushes again, back and forth, a pair of leaking, low-IQ testosterone tornadoes, each one firmly convinced that he is the biggest, baddest stud on the planet.

My point is that peeing has significance for guys that goes way beyond the mere elimination of bodily fluids. It is an important territorial statement. This is why, every time a guy enters a public rest room, he must confront a critical guy problem; namely: Which urinal should he use? His goal is to avoid, at all costs, peeing right next to another guy, because they would be infringing on each other’s territories.

So in the ideal guy restroom, urinals would be located a minimum of fifty feet apart. Unfortunately, in the real world, they’re right next to each other, which means the guy often must make split second strategic urinal decisions. To illustrate this process, let’s imagine a public restroom in an airport. Lets assume the restroom has a row of five urinals, which are represented in the following scientific diagram:


|   |   |   |   |   |
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 |
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Let’s further assume that nobody is in the room when Guy A walks in. He is almost always going to choose one of the end urinals -- either no. 1 or no. 5 -- because he knows this will put him as far as possible from the next guy who comes along. Let’s say Guy A chooses urinal no.5, which means our situation is now this:

|   |   |   |   | A |
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 |
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When Guy B walks in, he will always take no. 1. He would never, ever, in a billion years, take no. 4. To do such a thing would cause Guy A to become alarmed to the point where he might zip up his fly so fast that he risks wetting his pants and possibly even injuring his manhood, rather than remain there. But Guy B will always take the far urinal; he may be a decent, secure, open-minded, non-judgmental person with absolutely no prejudice whatsoever toward gay people, but he nevertheless would rather poke both of his eyeballs out than have Guy A think he is one. So he will go to the other end. If the line of urinal were a mile long, Guy B might very well choose to hike the entire distance, even if this meant he would miss his plane. So now the situation is this:


| B |   |   |   | A |
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 |
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When Guy C comes in, he will clearly choose urinal no. 3. He is not crazy about it, but he still has a one-urinal buffer on each side:


| B | * | C | * | A |
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 |
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*=buffer urinal
But now in comes Guy D, and he has a real guy problem, because whatever urinal he picks, he’ll be right next to two other guys. This is very upsetting. Some guys in this situation will choose to be in an enclosed stall, or wait until there’s a buffered urinal available, or go way off to the side and pee against the wall, as follows:

                        D
| B |   | C |   | A |
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 |
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If guy D does go to one of the available urinals -- say no.2 -- he and Guys B and C will stand rigid, staring intently straight ahead, as though the wall tiles were inscribed with a secret formula for turning Grape Nuts into platinum. DEATH BEFORE EYE CONTACT, that is the motto of a guy at a public urinal.

I realize that you women out there think I’m making all this up. But ask the guy in your life to read this section, and I bet he’ll nod in recognition. He’s been there, and he knows the behavior I’m describing. But he has never felt comfortable about discussing this subject with you, because this is an extremely sensitive area for him. Also he knows it’s stupid.
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Re: Bathroom Etiquette
« Reply #41 on: February 08, 2021, 07:21:45 PM »

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I never laughed so hard from the guy peeing in the sink because...

I took a job at a chemical company after my discharge in the Army. At this point in time my barracks also used a trough system.

Met a VP while whizzing in the the circular sink that I thought was a trough on my first day. Was escorted out of the building.

ok fine

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« Reply #42 on: February 08, 2021, 08:41:02 PM »

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Best thread ever!
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« Reply #43 on: February 08, 2021, 08:59:26 PM »

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I never laughed so hard from the guy peeing in the sink because...

I took a job at a chemical company after my discharge in the Army. At this point in time my barracks also used a trough system.

Met a VP while whizzing in the the circular sink that I thought was a trough on my first day. Was escorted out of the building.
that's hysterical

reading that one reminds me of my college days and recounting the various non-standard places I've relieved myself (needless to say, I had been drinking and couldn't wait for an appropriate place to go). My top 3 favorites.
1. middle of an intersection (waved to the car of girls driving in the opposite direction who were offering mostly positive feedback).
2. off a bridge that connected the campus to town where the bars were (twice)
3. the grate in the bathroom floor of a bar.

have to say the most awkward was peeing in a trough at a castle in Europe with my father in law who didn't provide quite enough room to not make it really awkward (which would have been the other side of the trough room)

Re: Bathroom Etiquette
« Reply #44 on: February 08, 2021, 09:13:20 PM »

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The lack of complete and utter self awareness people have for themselves sometimes amazes me.

Ill second the disgust and annoyance for people on their phones in the stalls.  I’ll say that besides the disgust of the obvious sanitary issues, knowing someone’s texting in the stall doesn’t bother me.  But people taking phone calls, and especially watching youtube videos with no headphones in drives me nuts. 

You’re stinking up the bathroom, taking the loudest noisiest crap you’ve ever heard all while loud ass videos are playing on your phone.  Just no shame whatsoever.

People annoy me watching videos and listening to music with no earbuds in any public setting.  This is just a whole different level.

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