Urinal Exchanges

[ericbear]

[quote author=Solis25 link=board=meetgreet;num=1067107507;start=20#34 date=10/29/03 at 03:34:41]Hmm, I think we in North America, the land of individualism, may be a tad too prude for our own good. I never knew this until I came to Germany, where partitions are pretty damn rare. [/quote]
Partitions in the USA seem to go in and out of style according to place and time. When I was a kid in New Jersey, most older buildings had the type that extend down to the floor, with no partitions. As I grew up, I began to notice that newer construction favored smaller urinals and partitions. But then I began to travel to other regions of the USA, and found that trough style ones were quite popular in some places, even in new construction. The picture below shows the men's room at Wrigley Field Stadium in Chicago, which certainly offer no individual privacy, even less than individual urinals without partitions. In my current home in California, such troughs are quite common.

For interesting pictures of many urinal installations, visit http://www.urinal.net

 

[13788]

ORCABOMBER: Woah, not bad Eric, not bad.

I have to admit though, I'm surprised, one individual trough for each person? That's luxury.

 

[13788]

da_blissmachine: hmm in India public toilets are sometimes just holes in the ground... ya hafta swat if you're going #2.... being spotted is ur least concern... there's hepatitis, leprousy, if you have an open wound AIDS, being mugged, drugs, rape............

even though my family left in the 1930s I still wipe down the entire stall in a public restroom before using it

 

[13788]

prepstudinsc: The only thing I ever do in a public restroom is pee.....I will hold anything else until I can get to a place I know is clean. Who knows what kind of germs are growing in those places, and when your penis hangs down enough to touch the toilet bowl, that's even more reason to avoid public toilets.

 

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ORCABOMBER: [quote author=prepstudinsc link=board=meetgreet;num=1067107507;start=40#43 date=11/03/03 at 10:46:02] Who knows what kind of germs are growing in those places, and when your penis hangs down enough to touch the toilet bowl, that's even more reason to avoid public toilets.[/quote]
Well my meat touches the bowl as well, the thought of little critters crawling up it is not reassuring!

 

[13788]

HUMONGOUS: i never understood why people mindlessly use public toilets to sit and move thier bowels. that is something that should be done in the privacy of your home. urination is something that occurs more frequently so it is excusable. but to sit ,relax on a public toliet and defectae is another story. totally disgusting ??? : ???

 

[Pecker]

[quote author=HUMONGOUS link=board=meetgreet;num=1067107507;start=40#45 date=11/23/03 at 16:57:38]i never understood why people mindlessly use public toilets to sit and move thier bowels. that is something that should be done in the privacy of your home. urination is something that occurs more frequently so it is excusable. but to sit ,relax on a public toliet and defectae is another story. totally disgusting ??? : ???[/quote]

Mindlessly? Sometimes there's no choice and you thank your lucky stars you found anyplace to go at all!

What would be great would be to find sample- or travel-size cans of Lysol that one could carry in case of emergencies. Sure you'll smell funny when you leave the restroom but at least all those cooties you picked up would be dead.

Pecker

Well, if I called the wrong number, why did you answer the phone?

 

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ORCABOMBER: Good idea Pecker.

There's this purple disinfectant Virkon, that'll kill practically anything (it's dangerous to humans in high dosages taken internally).

Of course, it turns water purple, so it could be interesting to see what the reaction of someone using it after you would be!