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WTF moment: Bathroom Etiquette

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way to amend your OP because the thread was backfiring. good show 😛


Hey, someone asked, I thought it was relevant so I amended it, has nothing to do with backfiring, I still think I have good reason to be a bit miffed since that's the stall I use and I've had to wipe it down on several occasions which should not be happening at all in a bathroom with 4 urinals and 5 stalls. Especially at a time when they were all empty and I were leaving but if people think I'm being stupid then I have nothing to say, that's just how I feel.
 
If you think that's bad etiquette, I've seen a guy walk into a bathroom with urinals open, stalls open, dividers everywhere, and choose to relieve himself in one of the middle sinks. Granted, I'm sure he was just looking to show off or something, but early afternoon in a NYC Barnes & Nobles probably isn't the best time or place for that.

Remember, no matter how bad things are, they could always be worse.
 
The real question is this: are there dividers in between the urinals, and are they good dividers? By that I mean, do they actually come up about to shoulder level and stick out a bit from the wall?

Urinals without appropriate dividerfication are useless.

WTF. Who cares? Someone at work was talking about this a couple weeks ago and I didn't say anything but in my mind I'm thinking 'there's dividers between the urinals?'

I check it out the next time I'm in the bathroom, and sure enough, there's like a 1'x2' piece of formica between the two urinals. I'd never noticed them before in all my years of pissing.

Are guys really that bashfull? Jesus Christ. Honestly, I woudn't even care if some dude wanted to check out my hose while I peed. Not my thing, but hey, if I can make someone else's day... right?
 
WTF. Who cares? Someone at work was talking about this a couple weeks ago and I didn't say anything but in my mind I'm thinking 'there's dividers between the urinals?'

I check it out the next time I'm in the bathroom, and sure enough, there's like a 1'x2' piece of formica between the two urinals. I'd never noticed them before in all my years of pissing.

Are guys really that bashfull? Jesus Christ. Honestly, I woudn't even care if some dude wanted to check out my hose while I peed. Not my thing, but hey, if I can make someone else's day... right?

what if someone has a medical condition which makes their wizz come out really slow and weak... then when they are done peeing they have to shake it 20 times to get all the drips out... it might look like they're just standing there tuggin' it. so they might not be bashful per se but maybe just want a little privacy.

i think it's more jacked up that people care about what others do in the can, but i'm just saying that is a possible explanation (among hundreds) that someone might want to use a stall or urinals with dividers.
 
what if someone has a medical condition which makes their wizz come out really slow and weak... then when they are done peeing they have to shake it 20 times to get all the drips out... it might look like they're just standing there tuggin' it. so they might not be bashful per se but maybe just want a little privacy.

i think it's more jacked up that people care about what others do in the can, but i'm just saying that is a possible explanation (among hundreds) that someone might want to use a stall or urinals with dividers.

I guess. I personally have a strong stream, but I do have to shake quite a bit. I never really cared. Maybe if theres some mutilation or something, I could understand that.
 
Wow, you guys are geniuses. I never said anything about them pissing on the seat. I don't know what your problems are that you apparently think no one can manage to not piss on the seat, but I'd recommend getting some help with that.

You really are weird that you're paranoid that someone doing this is doing it just to piss on the seat in the event that you're going to want to use it.

Actually, it would be possibly the funniest thing if they were doing just that. If they were, you know its because they've dealt with people like you guys.

I don't think someone's out to get me, I just think it's rude. Like people who don't take their shoes off when they come in the house (it's a Canadian thing I hear?). I realize they do it at everyone's house, doesn't change the fact that the practice itself is rude.

I have no idea how easy/hard it is to not get piss on the seat, because I lift the seat when pissing in a toilet, but I do know that piss is left on the seat...and frequently (worked as a janitor for a summer at a fast food place).
 
Get into a routine in which you don't shit at work anymore. Hold it for a day and let it out at night, before bed. Or get on a first-thing-in-the morning routine. Then you don't have to worry about using a urine-sprayed toilet seat.
 
Get into a routine in which you don't shit at work anymore. Hold it for a day and let it out at night, before bed. Or get on a first-thing-in-the morning routine. Then you don't have to worry about using a urine-sprayed toilet seat.

Do people honestly plan out when they shit so they don't have to do it in public. I just go in and do it. Its a bathroom for christs sake I use it to shit in.
 
Do people honestly plan out when they shit so they don't have to do it in public. I just go in and do it. Its a bathroom for christs sake I use it to shit in.

oh hell yes. i don't, but i know a lot of people that do.

personally i can see how one's own private commode would provide a much greater comfort and relaxation level... especially if you are the type that sits there for a while or if your dumps take long 🙂
 
Do people honestly plan out when they shit so they don't have to do it in public. I just go in and do it. Its a bathroom for christs sake I use it to shit in.

If I have to go, I'll go in a public bathroom (or a work bathroom) no problem. But some people can actually get into a good regular routine where they're clearing out with their morning coffee instead of crapping in the afternoon after lunch. To me, it's worth it to be on a schedule in which I can crap and then shower and not have to deal with it during the day. Based on the smells and utter destruction i encounter in my work bathroom every week, I know for a fact some dude is on a religious huge-dump-at-noon schedule. Honestly, I wish he'd just hold it so we all don't have to hold our breath walking by the door every day. Then maybe he'd get into a nice routine like me and get to enjoy all his dumps in the comfort of his own bathroom.
 
The OP's title reminds me of this classic video 😀

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IzO1mCAVyMw

I'm a stall pisser too...but I put up the seat with my foot. Like someone else mentioned, I hate the splashback. At home, I sit and pee...why? So I don't have to clean the piss residue off the seat. Less work = good.
 
At times I've gone into a men's room, quickly entered a stall, kicked up the seat, and let loose my strong yellow stream.

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh.

Does it need to be said that not only have I used a urinal on many other occasions, but also a porcelain trough?

I guess here in post-pussified America it does. 🙁

Dayum, young-uns, dayum.

I have this very specific memory of entering the men's rooms @ the old Connie Mack Stadium in North Philly as a nine year old:

Rough and woefully uneven concrete floor, inclined from both sides towards the middle, the length of which ran an open gutter, with a big drain in the very center.

On either side, two long porcelain troughs, men peeing shoulder to shoulder, about ten to each side. As one left, one of us waiting took his place.

It was the floor that I remember most. It was . . . awash . . . completely fucking soaked . . . in God only knows what foul mix of effluvia. You could not avoid sloshing through it, not if you wanted to pee.

Epic!

Welcome to the City of Brotherly Love!

Connie Mack predated the Vet which predated our current pristine and beautifully appointed stadium.

Did I mention that when you parked on the nearby North Philly streets you gave the cheerful local black youths a fistful of change or a buck or two to "watch your car" for you?

And that it was all very civil and orderly and . . . accepted . . . and that nobody batted an eye?

The times, my friends. They have most certainly changed. 🙂

Now excuse me, my delicate flowers, but I'm going to go out into my backyard and pee . . . because I CAN. 😀
 
Bathroom has 5 stalls and 4 urinals, all empty.

I'm washing my hand... guy walks in, proceeds to walk to the end of the room and into the last stall, unzips and pees standing up into it. D:

Whh.. whaaaat, why... why would you do that? 😕

edit for clarification on the seat: It's was really none of my business other than taking notice of it so I didn't go check but assuming the seat was down, he didn't put it up. He just walked in and went.

you should be happy people use the toilets where you live. i live in downtowm san francisco and the homeless people here just piss and crap on the street. i went to my favorite deli this morning and there was a homeless lady with her pants down blowing diarrhea next to the garbage can. someone had already stepped in it and tracked it all over the sidewalk. yuck, i wont be getting my sub sandwich any time soon.
 
At times I've gone into a men's room, quickly entered a stall, kicked up the seat, and let loose my strong yellow stream.

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh.

Does it need to be said that not only have I used a urinal on many other occasions, but also a porcelain trough?

I guess here in post-pussified America it does. 🙁

Dayum, young-uns, dayum.

I have this very specific memory of entering the men's rooms @ the old Connie Mack Stadium in North Philly as a nine year old:

Rough and woefully uneven concrete floor, inclined from both sides towards the middle, the length of which ran an open gutter, with a big drain in the very center.

On either side, two long porcelain troughs, men peeing shoulder to shoulder, about ten to each side. As one left, one of us waiting took his place.

It was the floor that I remember most. It was . . . awash . . . completely fucking soaked . . . in God only knows what foul mix of effluvia. You could not avoid sloshing through it, not if you wanted to pee.

Epic!

Welcome to the City of Brotherly Love!

Connie Mack predated the Vet which predated our current pristine and beautifully appointed stadium.

Did I mention that when you parked on the nearby North Philly streets you gave the cheerful local black youths a fistful of change or a buck or two to "watch your car" for you?

And that it was all very civil and orderly and . . . accepted . . . and that nobody batted an eye?

The times, my friends. They have most certainly changed. 🙂

Now excuse me, my delicate flowers, but I'm going to go out into my backyard and pee . . . because I CAN. 😀

baseball stadiums are the absolute worst. the bathroom at the oakland colliseum during a's games is the absolutely most filthy disgusting bathroom ever
 
Ford Field is pretty bad.

someone walked into a stall and sprayed green shit from one wall to another...

must have been a Packers fan :hmm:
 
I think I made a thread on something similar to this a while back. :hmm:

KT
 
Stop whining and getting worked up over other people's pissing habits. Its a fucked up thing to do. Well unless they are pissing directly on you, in which case, what the fuck are you doing so close to the other person in the first place?

No, fuck you.

I am tired of every single fucking toilet seat in the men's bathroom having piss all over it. WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH PEOPLE.

If people a) peed in urinals, or b) sat down/learned to lift the seat then this wouldn't be a problem. IT IS NOT THAT HARD TO DO.

So fuck you for telling me not to care about what people do in a public bathroom. I have to deal with the consequences of their lazy stupidity, so I am going to fucking care.
 
Meh, I'm a proud stall pee'er, Lift the lid too. Thats just rude not to. (Don't know why all men must pee in front of each other, I personally like my privacy/hate public toilets)
 
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