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they're literally just worse toilets. you can't shit in a urinal but you can both shit and piss in a toilet. therefore urinals are complwtely redundant. just use the urinal space for more toilets

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[–] vertexarray@hexbear.net 59 points 2 days ago (5 children)

consider this: the trough style of urinal where one wall is just a large continuous urinal allows for an incredible amount of simultaneous pissing if those with the stronger streams stand back one rank and piss in between their comrades in the fore

[–] john_brown@hexbear.net 35 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

IF THE ~~MAN~~ PERSON IN FRONT OF YOU FALLS, PICK UP ~~HIS~~ THEIR PENIS AND ADVANCE FORWARD

[–] SteamedHamberder@hexbear.net 16 points 2 days ago

Look to the left. Look to the right. One of you three will fail this piss.

[–] happybadger@hexbear.net 37 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Under communism, there will be one international urinal running the length of the planet and all workers will pee as one united class.

[–] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.ml 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

And the pipe will end in Margaret Thatcher's grave.

[–] happybadger@hexbear.net 5 points 1 day ago

The bodies of right-wingers will line the piss aqueduct like a mausoleum, but it ends in a wastewater reclamation plant to provide sustainable fertilisers and monitor public health. You WILL walk to the equator to piss in the urinal of the proletariat. You WILL reunify town and country.

[–] spudnik@hexbear.net 29 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Then when the one rank runs out of piss, they retire behind their comrades to kneel and chug water. With enough ranks of pissers it is possible to maintain a steady stream of well disciplined piss to overwhelm the enemy

[–] Dessa@hexbear.net 18 points 2 days ago

Mens rooms should install stadium style bleachers so that multiple rows of people can piss over each other

[–] infuziSporg@hexbear.net 15 points 2 days ago

Each guy is protected by the piss from the guy on the left and the guy on the right. A true piss phalanx

[–] someone@hexbear.net 12 points 2 days ago

I've been to several bathhouses with a group trough arrangement.

you can't shit in a urinal

Sweet summer child, go ask any school janitor.

[–] queermunist@lemmy.ml 30 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

Ah, but does the toilet come with a delicious complimentary cake? Didn't think so. 😏

[–] SteamedHamberder@hexbear.net 11 points 2 days ago

Let them eat [urinal] cake

[–] woodenghost@hexbear.net 6 points 1 day ago

Those are often scented hazardous waste. It's legal and cheap to dispose of it this way, because it's so insoluble, that every splash only flushes toxic waste amounts below the legal threshold in our water ways. But in the end everything ends up in the environment just the same.

[–] jackmaoist@hexbear.net 23 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It's like pissing in a sink but socially acceptable.

[–] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.ml 8 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

That's the most Italian thing i read today

[–] SteamedHamberder@hexbear.net 29 points 2 days ago (1 children)

You can probably fit a row of 5 urinals in the same space as two standard toilets. So turnover for upright pissers is significantly faster in the same bathroom.

[–] Lisitsyn@hexbear.net 11 points 2 days ago (5 children)

how many shits can you fit in 5 urinals

[–] lil_tank@hexbear.net 13 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Bars typically have a very disproportionate shit to piss ratio because alcohol makes you piss a lot, so in this case it's totally worth it to use urinals for pissmaxxing

[–] booty@hexbear.net 11 points 2 days ago

ill shit my pants before i sit on a public toilet

[–] Abracadaniel@hexbear.net 8 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

How many shits does a bathroom need to be able to turnover at once, compared to piss?

[–] SteamedHamberder@hexbear.net 6 points 2 days ago

biden-alert at least 3.

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[–] happybadger@hexbear.net 27 points 2 days ago

you can't shit in a urinal

Maybe I'm just built different but that isn't a challenge for me. I was probably a warrior in past lives.

[–] ConcreteHalloween@hexbear.net 16 points 2 days ago

People need to piss more than they need to shit, so urinals save time. You don't have a bunch of people standing around waiting for a stall to open up.

If you notice what venues often have a lot of urinals, its often music venues and sports stadiums, i.e. places people drink a lot, so they piss a lot.

[–] Bolshechick@hexbear.net 22 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Pissing into a urinal just hits different. I wish I had one at home

[–] Kopfrkingl@hexbear.net 35 points 2 days ago

You probably do. It's called a sink chad

[–] LaughingLion@hexbear.net 11 points 1 day ago

"you can't shit in a urinal"

news to me

[–] neo@hexbear.net 16 points 2 days ago (1 children)

One little benefit is urinals take less water to flush. It’s like tricking dudes into using low flow toilets but without any griping and without the actual drawbacks of low flow toilets when they fail to properly carry away solid waste

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[–] Wertheimer@hexbear.net 18 points 2 days ago

If you can think of a more efficient way to flavor urinal cakes I'm willing to listen.

[–] WashedAnus@hexbear.net 12 points 2 days ago (1 children)

how did you find this picture of me

[–] Acute_Engles@hexbear.net 17 points 2 days ago

Faster, no door. Not everyone has to speedrun the public washroom but some of us do

[–] Evilphd666@hexbear.net 13 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Pissing together builds community and brotherhood.

[–] FlakesBongler@hexbear.net 16 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Cheaper, easier to clean, fulfills the inherent male urge to hit a target with their stream

[–] Lisitsyn@hexbear.net 9 points 2 days ago

it wont be easy to clean once i am done with em

[–] GeckoChamber@hexbear.net 14 points 2 days ago

The trough-type urinals do create a sort of solidarity between drunken pissers, but I don't think it's worth the psychic damage from seeing one of those clogged (with shit, I assume, though I did not take a closer look) and filled to the brim

[–] tombruzzo@hexbear.net 9 points 1 day ago (2 children)

What other toilet allows you to piss all over the floor then other people step in your piss and then everyone else thinks it's OK to piss all over the floor as well

Hate to break it to you but people do that with regular toilets too

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[–] puppygirlpets@hexbear.net 13 points 2 days ago

nah put a couple of urinals in the ladies' so i don't have to wait so long to take a slash

[–] Dessa@hexbear.net 12 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Nah, let's install urinals in the women's room. Just little leaners you can scooch over to have a quick wee

[–] ChaosMaterialist@hexbear.net 11 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Or just put them on the floor, like Japan or China. Under gay space communism there will be one giant Workers' Trough where everybody equally can piss and shidd themselves as one united proletariat!

[–] Dessa@hexbear.net 8 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (4 children)

But they're still in seperated chambers. I want a fully public experience where you're forced to stare determinedly at a point on the wall and resent chatty neighbors like the mens room gets

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[–] Homer_Simpson@hexbear.net 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It should just be one big trough, this is the future tankies want!

[–] huf@hexbear.net 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

some urinals are big troughs, they're awful

[–] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I think those are specifically Brit invention, i never seen them outside anglo countries.

[–] huf@hexbear.net 3 points 1 day ago

i've seen some here in hungary, so i doubt it. there are the newer ones made of some kind of metal trough but i think i also saw a really old stone/tile one too, that was even more splashbacky.

[–] chgxvjh@hexbear.net 13 points 2 days ago

And they don't provide the same sense of community as a urinal trough.

[–] Euergetes@hexbear.net 10 points 2 days ago

no door no lid = faster throughput

you're right though, the even more streamlined form is the piss trough, which can double the concurrent piss capacity

[–] KnilAdlez@hexbear.net 10 points 2 days ago

Competitive Speed Pissing

[–] altphoto@lemmy.today 5 points 1 day ago

Before urinals, everything was a urinal.

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