Urinals: Past Best Before Date?

They are more efficient when you have a long queue of people. I like the pee-ing walls in the U.K. many are on timers and sensors so they only flush when required.

Most use much less water then toilets and there are some waterless ones in use today.

I don't see any reason to get rid of them...

Drew K

I think a lot of people like peeing on the walls when in the UK too!

That depends on what day of the week, and location of the wall, my friend.

So THAT's why I noticed so many UK's smelling of pee over there. Must be bouncing off the walls and floors onto their clothing. Is that really great or what. Just because it is "popular" doesnt mean its still a good idea.

Some of the modern urinals that I have seen (in several countries) are waterless (and don't smell when maintained) and have a target.

If you arepositioned right and aim at the target the splatter is contained within the urinal. Toiltets are often too far from a standing male and you get splatter on your legs and walls.

In my opinion, urinals can be more sanitary than toilets with the added benefit that almost all of them use less water.

Here is a waterless one with the target.

Drew K

This is the pee-ing wall that I was thinking of. There are some very nice ones in some of the older public loos.

Drew K

Yup, arsenals are definitely the way to go...!

I thought Arsenals were football players - - -

Hmmm...do they have any players from the Ur(in)als??

Not a pee wee league, to be sure.

The world is falling down around or heads and we are worried about peeing into some hole. Weather is is filled with water, a flat wall to pee on or just some *&%$# hole, Who cares! Get on with it. Lets solve some hunger issue, stop the wars, something that would feed the staving kids. But a hole to pee in? really!

Just my thoughts.

Fixitorelse

I appreciate and agree with your sentiments, but for the sake of cleanliness and a few less places for MRSI and Ecoli to be, doesnt that help the world be a cleaner, healthier place as well ? Would you prefer some hardy germ to find you at the wall and spread itself by your assistance, who would you be helping then. Of course we all wash our hands, dont we, its the few who do not that risk us all of contagious diseases. The Urinal, or open sewer, or pee wall are all great places for contagions. Just because there is an odor block in there does not mean it is sanitary. I would like to save the world too, maybe this is one place we can start.

I think it's more the frequency with which the restrooms are cleaned, more than the receiving device actually used.....besides most urinals are auto flush nowadays....it's faster to use a urinal...

If you ask me, it depends on culture really. There are places in Africa where people pee on the street and NOT for a lack of urinals, mind you. So, peeing on an oversized porcelain urinal is in a way a sign of our affluence. Think about it..

Not more than 50% of washrooms have them now, so they must be in the decline.

Do they really exist only because we are too lazy to drop and squat ?

Yes.

How would they enforce a "drop and squat" law?

Besides, the modern "auto-flush" urinals might use a pint of water, while a "drop and squat" would use a minimum of 1.6 gallons per flush.

There are still large portions of the world where (if there is an actual public restroom), the facilities have no urinals or toilets, only a hole in the floor with a footprint on either side. And you are worried about the sanitary condition of what we use? IMO, a toilet is no more sanitary than a urinal, because the splashing of the water while flushing often can spray up as much as a urinal would. And you are not physically in contact with a urinal the way you would be on a toilet seat.

Oh well.....to each his own....

"Do they really exist only because we are too lazy to drop and squat ?"

They exist because we don't want to - drop and squat.

Urinals also have reduced cycle times thus quicker ROI ....and .....you can drop a charged capacitor into one at a bar.....objects in urinals are irresistible.

We males are basically idiot starter kits - just add alcohol.........

Fastest I ever heard of was a bar in the Phillipines - urinal was a folded piece of gal iron UNDER the BAR.

No need to interrupt drinking, conversation, eating - tho not sure about the girls

Anyway, in the bible - human males were defined as "wall pee'er"!

you are extracting the urine, ain't ya?

too lazy to drop and squat

Obviously you don't have an enlarged prostate that prevents you from voiding completely unless you are standing.

Old age sucks.

I agree totally

Urinals must help reduce time.They also seem to take up much less space. And if they are the trough type instead of individual type they allow even more users at one time.

Have you ever been to a public venue with long lines. The mens line moves much quicker than the womens. So therefore urinals must be much more efficient.

Urinals are twice as fast as sit down toilets and take up a lot less space.

Especially the 'horse troughs' they used to have at Fenway Park.

I've heard they're gone now. Too bad, it was a rite of 'passage' when 'going' to the game.

I don't know about that.

I still have a shy bladder. I don't know why...just have a hard time peeing with people standing next to me. I've pretty much been able to overcome it, by imagining myself somewhere else, and alone.

By nature women stop and squat, men stand and write their name in the snow or water a tree. So, the question is which gender would you rather be, or perhaps the problem is that some men really have to belly-up to the urinal to keep from urinating on their shoes?

The benefits of the urinal guarantee it is here to stay.

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Greater speed; less water; less space; less splashing; less contact; all in a fecal-free area: for urinating, it has the toilet beat, pants up!\

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Apparently women have a few versions of their own now as well, so perhaps their lines will be getting shorter soon.

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Not unrelated, some years ago a lady invented a plastic thing about 6" long, hollow, open at each end, tapering from around an inch at one end to around 1/2" at the other, which would allow fems to use a urinal.

I emailed her & suggested she could call it a 'NOPE'

Short for 'No mOre Penis Envy'

She didn't even say thank you.

Oh no they're not

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=638329939521259

Mine is better

Drew K

it's a draw.. so far....

I will see you one urinal and raise you this one.

certainly different

I do like this one, didn't see a soap dispenser though...

As for your other link, I just wasted way too much time looking at toilets!

Drew K

and finally...

Urinals help prevent long ques at the kitchen sink.

or at the window on the third floor!!

I prefer the windows too, there's normally a curtain conveniently at hand......

Why is it with long flights (especially to/from Asia) by the end of the flight the washroom is a stinking swamp? Are people standing on the seat to pee? I have seen footprints on the seat. I assume they where not tying their shoe laces. Perhaps urinals on airplanes would be more sanitary!

Why urinals when there are so many windows?

and finally....