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22 June 2011
So men usually splatter urine everywhere? I'm glad I didn't know this until now. How often do men clean the area? I thought issues of splatter had to do with hoverers.
Not interested in discussing this overmuch, but I have lived by myself, lived in single-sex environments, and lived with men, and I've noticed when cleaning the bathroom that it's only when I've lived with men that you have to really wipe down every cranny in the toilet base's outside surface because there is a smell.
And not all men - some are cleaner (=more accurate) than others.
Sometimes if I jack off before I go to bed it glues the edges of my pisshole together overnight and in the morning I manage to miss the toilet altogether, simultaneously pissing on my foot and the mirror above the sink.
Then I take a shit on the floor because, you know, men.
Ethylene, did you ever read the epic "men pee in the sink" Askme thread, and its subsequent Meta? I highly recommend it; I learned many, many things about men that day.
The toilet splatters. - Actually, this is the case for about 50%. No matter how precisely centered and accurate the stream, bowl water will always splash out. Any aim off center increases the chances of urine splatter.
I did a quick search for that thread but I don't think I found it. Found one about peeing in the shower, one about "if its yellow let it mellow", and another on the ultimate question: the toilet seat up or down. Scanning through those I realize that there are damn few people I could stand to live with.
It doesn't surprise me that some men would pee in sinks. They are penis height. I doubt they are ever filling the basin for things though.
This fine mist of urine is a revelation.
It seems like this is more or less of a problem depending on what country you live in, as it's dictated by the design of the toilet bowl. My understanding is that toilets in the US are shallower and have more horizontal surfaces than those here. If you can manage to aim accurately enough to get the stream anywhere inside the bowl of an Australian toilet, there should be little or (more likely) no splashback. Which is still too small a target under some circumstances, but it usually shouldn't be a problem.
Interesting to read in the thread about the targets some urinals have (bulls-eyes, little cakes, ice, etc.) My friend said that to teach his young son how to toilet train, they have these little sponges that expand when wet, and that it's fun to find cigarette butts in a urinal to saturate.
The conclusion I draw from all this is that for men, peeing, is, well, interesting. (Hence the expressions pissing contest, piss up a rope, etc.) Which is fascinating, because for me it's one of the most boring things in the world to do.
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