Urinal vs. Toilet (Question and Poll)
 

My fellow men,

I was at school and had to avail myself of the facilities and while I was washing my hands afterwards, in walks a gentleman and into a stall he goes to urinate.

This even while there is a perfectly good urinal available.


Why do some of you do this?

I am really curious and I didn't think I could ask the guy at school...

I use the urinal. It is possible that he had to break wind, or didn't want to violate the universal urinal code, which is to try and leave at least one space between you and the guy next to you, unless dividers are present, or a game is in progress.

"This even while there is a perfectly good urinal available"

Well, there goes the theory of breaking the code, or a backed up / not flushed urinal.

Maybe hes just really wierd... dunno

Nope, nope, no reason not to use it.

No one beside him, not dirty, not backed up.

I like to feel like im at home, so i use the toilet if i can. The only bad thing is worrying about the right angle, so there is no splashing from the urinal.

I use the toilet, just as a preference.

It's just a matter of privacy for me.

I'm a pretty liberal guy, but I'm also pretty private. I never really feel "right" when I have to use the urinal.

Not only that, but I know some fellows get a little out of hand when they use the urinal. I've seen it. Backsplash, bad aim, et cetera.

Privacy, not to mention that urinals can splash if you're not careful.

Not that I CAN'T use the urinal....but why would you when there's something more private?

Yep. I have this "stage fright" thing so I gotta go in an enclosed space.

I too have have a mild form of paruresis. I have to take the stall every time as I can't use the urinals.

Some people have to actually catheterize (sp?) themselves to be able to urinate in public restrooms.

Google for paruresis for more information.

If the urinals don't have dividers that are high enough that the person next to me can't see my wang I won't use it and will opt for a stall instead. I like my privacy.

I use the urinal, pissing isnt something I feel the need to be private about. Maybe he was wanking it...

Toilet.

I really hate the urinals that go all the way to the ground. Why would someone want to piss on their shoes?

This is actually more common than you might think. Some people have it all their lives, for others it comes and goes. I had the problem in my teen years -- I could use a urinal, but I had to really force the piss out if anybody was nearby -- but it stopped afterwards and never came back.

These days, I prefer a urinal, mainly because it's just easier and also because I get a little disgusted stairing at all the piss splashed around by the guys who came before me who _didn't_ raise the toilet seat first.

The only time I'll use the toilet stall is if either the urinals are all taken, or if I also need to deal with a bad case of the dreaded Monkey Butt.

Oh yeah -- there are still a few old-fashioned multi-user urinals around, the kind that are nothing but a long flat-bottomed metal sink hanging at just below waist height. I won't use those. They smell -- because the bottoms are flat, they don't drain fast -- and frankly, your piss (or worse, somebody else's -- can splash back at you. Most of these are gone, like I said, but you still find them here and there -- at flea markets, old drive-in movie theaters, and such.

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Re: Urinal vs. Toilet (Question and Poll)
 

Uh, are you sure that was a guy?

Yes.

I use the toilet instead of the urinal a lot to urinate. I guess I just like the extra privacy...

depends
at my uni there's a urinal that you can see as soon as you open the door (very bad planning) so pretty much everyone just uses the stalls there. Otherwise I use a urinal unless I can't get my personal space around me

I piss with strong force and get splash back from urinals.

Honestly....I just want to get out of most public restrooms as fast as I can, thus the urinal.

urinal... its a bigger target.

the trick is to hit it at the correct angle so it curves around the shape of the urinal wall, and not splash back.

I never go in a urinal if there's an alternative available. I prefer my privacy, and don't really feel like I have to justify it.

Urinal: quicker, easier, bigger target.
Stall: more private, more time-consuming, long way to aim.

When I've been wearing pants for a long time, for some reason, I can't piss in a straight line. IT splits into two or three streams, completely soaking the area around the toilet. A urinal prevents this, and that's why I always sit instead of risking it when no urinal is available.

I need the stall...the privacy is better and I am "pee shy" :(

Bingo.

Err,

Are you feeling like I am saying you have to "justify" it, and if so, why then did you answer the thread?


In any event, thanks for the responses everyone.

I've never suffered from any type of shyness when it comes to peeing, so your responses gave me a new perspective.

You must obey the code. :D

I thought they were really like, you know, guidelines...

Well, it was this part of what you said that made me feel like that, yeah:
Seemed like you were suggesting there was something wrong with choosing a toilet over a urinal, which is what irked me a bit.

Good thread, all the same.

Urinal all the way, but I don't care much about privacy nor do I have much shame so....

My appologies, that was not my intent.

The toilet for me depends, wether the toilet is clean or not. Cause i like to sit down while taking a piss, i know it's slow and kinda like pissing like a woman. But it's more comforting, esp if it's one of those piss that takes forever.

Another thing bad about urinals is they tend to get my butt wet and the back of my shirt.
Whats with not haveing toilet tissue close by too?

Yeah, sorry about the confusion. Was having one of those days...

How in the world do you accomplish this?

Urinal for me. I don't think too many guys stand and look at other guys while peeing, so privacy isn't an issue.

That said, there's nothing like peeing outside:D

Urinal. I don't care if some guy tries to check out my wang, because i don't think that really happens all that much. I don't worry about splatter because i wash my hands afterward.

On a side note, why has no one designed a urinal with sprayback minimization in mind? It would be so fucking easy.

You know. When you have to go #2.

Simple really, when I REALLY have to go I couldn't care less where I piss as long as I do it.

When the tank is half empty so to speak I can get put off by things like someone entering the toilets or washing their hands... then thinking about it just makes the problem worse.. so then its the old u-turn into an empty stall.

Honestly when I can't take a gamble or in am in a hurry the stall is always the best option, privacy is an unbeatable cure for "stage fright" imo.

Sometimes the urinal is just not set low enough, if you know what I mean. wink, wink - nudge, nudge. :D

/has short legs

And the urinal water is so cold and somewhat deep...

/rim shot

Amazing... it appears TFP has a thread on everything... you just search 'paruresis' and you find this thread.

Anyway, I always go to a toilet when possible, because of mild paruresis as well...
I tell ya, that stuff can mess up your clubbing too... I always avoid clubs that don't have an actual stall...
Many is the night I have made an excuse and gone home simply because I was in a crappy club... :(

The urinal. I have no fear of peeing in public. Especially after using a restroom in mexico. More like a trough. "Restroom" is probably giving it a bit too much justice.

rofl

I hadn't heard the "game in progress" sub-clause. :)

Hehe.. either noone cared, or didnt see the humor here. :) Good movie. :)

Anyways onto the subject at hand, there are certain occasions when you non-urinal using ppl make me mad. Such as after a movie lets out, you ppl go into the stalls to simply piss when certain others are forced to wait that actually need the stalls while you could be using the urinal. And so on..

I use the urinal like its ment, if you have to piss, you use it and not the stall.

Supose I'd have a diff perspective if I had a fear of pissing in public restrooms.

I just prefer the extra privacy that comes with a toilet. I have a pretty low pressure spray so splashback isn't an issue and I have no problems using a urinal, I just don't like it.

I only use the toilet when I am in danger of breaking the universal urinal code.

Never really thought about it, but I go for the toilet if the urinal's not clean. No preference, really.

I'm all about the urinal. Though I have a friend who never uses them because he gets stage fright.

Given the choice I prefer to use a stall. Call it a privacy thing but just a preference.

My first choice would be to pee off a bridge or a pier, but if there are none handy I'll use a bathroom. ;)

I would tend to believe that the individuals that go into the stall when there is a perfectly good urnial available, tend to be on the shy side.

They might have a Prince Albert.

Urinal. Easier to unzip and lit it rip without having to aim.

I'm a stall user myself...

Though, if "the tank is half full", sometimes I have trouble uh pulling the trigger. :p And then its awkward standing around there with no flow..

Re: Urinal vs. Toilet (Question and Poll)
 

He could have been doing crack, although chances are that he wasn't...but never know for sure.

I prefer the urinal.

I tend to use the toilet just out of habit. When I was a young boy I grew up a lot faster than the other kids & for several years I was actually too tall to use the "kid-sized" urinals at school.

That, and pulling myself through my fly is just uncomfortable. If I go in the stall I can drop trou just a bit so I don't have to untuck & tuck again.

Though I find I'll typically give a courtesy flush to mask the noise. Some people don't like hearing the sound of urinating in the toilet.

I use the trash can!

Toilet, because urinals are wrong.

I've never understood the point of urinals. They really are disgusting... who likes pissing out in the open where other people can see?

Divider or not, still screwed up.

Some say the toilet takes longer... aside from the fact you gotta open/close a door, it's not that much longer. A few seconds or so?

Okay then, since a good 31.7% of you seem to be on what I would call the odd ones. FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, fucking lift the lid if it has one and if not use some fucking aim when you piss.

It is far more disgusting to see dried piss on a seat when you are in a rush to drop some bombs. I'd love to just take the person who pissed on the seat (I dont mean on purpose, but enough to be noticable if you want to sit down.) and smear thier tounge all over it to clean it up.

I feel better now...

Forget the Urnial and the toilet go for the sink.:D





Just messin

What are trees for if not pissing? :D

Pissing outside where people might see you is more fun.

Growing up, my bedroom had a door to the balcony. I lived way out in the sticks, and used to regularly piss off a certain spot.

To this day, some ten years after I moved out, there is still a place where the grass won't grow...

I am a man. I piss standing up. I don't need no stinking toilet for little boys (unless you have a medical condition.) Stage Fright? It's your own damn body. Are you afraid of pissing in front of your wife or girlfriend? I follow the code unless nor more spaces are available. Then move over.
And for the enviro-geeks, urinals tend to use less water, so I am protecting the environment.

I go to whatevers available. I'm not shy. I do like for there to be an empty urinal between me and the other dudes though. Don't want some dude checkin' out my shit.

I do not pee in the "trough" I also have a problem with no dividers. I will go if there is nobody close.

In college I had someone come up behind and kick me in the ass while I was peeing at a urinal. If you have had this happen you know that piss gets everywhere. If I am urinating near someone I know I will go to the stall and close the door just for this reason. Call it a bad experience with a urinal. ;?