• cobysev@lemmy.world
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      4 months ago

      I rented a house in Germany when I lived there for a couple years, and for some reason, the owner decided to put a urinal in one of the bathrooms. I thought it was awesome having my own personal urinal, until I tried to use it while nude one day.

      No matter what angle I peed at, I always felt a light misting of urine sprinkling my legs and feet. Nowhere was safe.

      I realized, we don’t really notice it in public because we’re fully clothed. But use a urinal nude and you realize just how much misty backsplash there is. I don’t use urinals anymore.

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        4 months ago

        even with the toilet bowl i don’t pee standing up anymore because i can feel drops flying to my feet. i pee sitting down or in the sink or in shower.

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        4 months ago

        Must’ve been a badly shaped or indirectly positioned urinal. We had a urinal at home since I was 12 or something. Didn’t have this issue. But if yours is messed up, try finding those rubber urinal mats. They dampen the stream.
        Urinals are great; they save water.

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      4 months ago

      In LA’s Silver Lake, there used to be a gay bar that had a mirror above the trough urinal so you could look at anyone’s dick while they were peeing. That’s either your greatest fear or your greatest fantasy.

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        4 months ago

        I don’t have a problem peeing in front of other people almost all of the time. But I went to a bar once and the urinal was just a huge trough…and drunk dudes would literally just squeeze in between people to pee.

        That was a bit disturbing, I got the job done but it wasn’t easy. But your story reminded me of it.

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      4 months ago

      Urinals are fantastic if you don’t have stage fright. It’s so quick and easy. The more of you waiting for the stalls the better, imo, so I support your recruitment effort.

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      4 months ago

      Mainly because its more surfaces to touch.

      I don’t mind it so much on the way out because I’m washing my hands, but on the way in it’s just feels icky because people are generally disgusting.

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      4 months ago

      I have PTSD about stalls from when I walked into one that had been absolutely destroyed at a Walmart when I was like 4. Being in them stresses me out and that was a looooooong time ago.