"If it's yellow, let it mellow. If it's brown, flush it down."

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Emveach

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Originally posted by: Howard
God damn, if your urine isn't clear, you're freaking dehydrated. A nice little tidbit of info: our senses of thirst are so weak we often mistake it for hunger.

Most people drink while they eat, so it works out.:D
 

Looney

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Originally posted by: hdeck
i flush at home and in other private residencies. in public i'd rather not touch the toilet.

You don't wash your hands after your go to the washroom? What does it matter then?
 

Howard

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Originally posted by: Emveach
Originally posted by: Howard
God damn, if your urine isn't clear, you're freaking dehydrated. A nice little tidbit of info: our senses of thirst are so weak we often mistake it for hunger.

Most people drink while they eat, so it works out.:D
Then again, if we only drink when we eat, we don't drink enough.
 

Howard

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Originally posted by: feralkid
Originally posted by: Howard
God damn, if your urine isn't clear, you're freaking dehydrated. A nice little tidbit of info: our senses of thirst are so weak we often mistake it for hunger.
Have you never taken a vitamin pill? Or eaten beets?
Obviously I meant 'natural' urine.

 

Encryptic

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Depends. If I take a dump, it gets flushed. Sometimes if I pee clear and it doesn't look like anything is in the bowl (which is most of the time), I'll just leave it be since it doesn't smell or appear that I used the toilet at all.
 

Looney

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Originally posted by: Howard
God damn, if your urine isn't clear, you're freaking dehydrated. A nice little tidbit of info: our senses of thirst are so weak we often mistake it for hunger.

Damn, there must be some really dumb people if you can't tell the difference between thirst and hunger. Thirst... my throat is dry or my mouth is parch... hunger, my stomach is eating itself alive.
 

Usually the little saying you used in the title, applies to people who have Well Water.
 

Wallydraigle

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Originally posted by: Moralpanic
Originally posted by: Howard
God damn, if your urine isn't clear, you're freaking dehydrated. A nice little tidbit of info: our senses of thirst are so weak we often mistake it for hunger.

Damn, there must be some really dumb people if you can tell the difference between thirst and hunger. Thirst... my throat is dry or my mouth is parch... hunger, my stomach is eating itself alive.


Yeah, it's an urban legend.
 

ScottyB

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Originally posted by: SammySon
Usually the little saying you used in the title, applies to people who have Well Water.

We have always had a well and I never had heard that before until my friend moved to town from Baltimore and we used the bathroom without flushing. I yelled at him and then he said that stupid rhyme and I told him that it was disgusting and to flush the toilet from then on.
 

Eli

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Oct 9, 1999
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Nope, I see no need to waste water by flushing the toilet everytime I pee.

 

HiTek21

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I always flush after going. My brother on the other hand doesn't and it stinks. :disgust::eek:
 

Conky

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My father doesn't flush anymore for yellow anymore since he had city water piped into his house. With the old well water it was essentially free. Now that he must spend $2 per thousand gallons he is not willing to waste the 2-3 gallons it would take to remove his urine.

I believe I will give him $2 and tell him the cost is covered for a year and that I won't come visit him anymore unless he starts flushing again. His bathroom reeked of urine before he stopped flushing, yes I know that is gross. Man, I know I'm gonna get old, I just hope I don't get old and disgusting. :disgust:
 

Lonyo

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I want to flush every time, but sometimes I have a seriously bad memory and forget to :/
 

Eli

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If you let it sit in there for a day, yeah.. it's going to stink. But it doesen't smell after half a day, so flushing the toilet for pee twice a day isn't so bad.

Don't you guys have those tablets in your tank?
 

Anubis

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i dont always flush when i go #1 because it wastes water which wastes money. always flush #2

and i pee in the shower every day also
 

DurocShark

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Originally posted by: TheEvil1
i dont always flush when i go #1 because it wastes water which wastes money. always flush #2

and i pee in the shower every day also
I heard an old wives tale / urban legend that if you pee on your feet it cures athlete's foot.

Sooo... Who's walking around with squishy socks? ;)

 

Looney

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Originally posted by: TheEvil1
i dont always flush when i go #1 because it wastes water which wastes money. always flush #2

and i pee in the shower every day also

Wastes money? How much is a flush? $0.10 at the most?