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Toilet Question #2 (inspired by Quick Toilet Question thread)

  • 01-01-2007 2:44am
    #1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 629 ✭✭✭


    I was just wondering... who uses the stall in public toilets? Personally, I prefer it. It offers more safety and privacy and you don't have to worry about standing there and not being able to go if you didn't actually have to go but just thought you'd empty the tank before you left or whatever.

    So... urinal or stall?

    Question 85 votes

    Urinal
    0% 0 votes
    Stall
    51% 44 votes
    Atari...
    48% 41 votes


Comments

  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,117 ✭✭✭✭MrJoeSoap


    Safety? What are you worried about? I'll use whichever is free.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,578 ✭✭✭Scraggs


    Ladies toilets generally don't offer the urinal option...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,584 ✭✭✭✭Creamy Goodness


    stall, i hate it when you get splashback.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 36,634 ✭✭✭✭Ruu_Old


    Japanese squat toilets ftw. :) Whichever is free really, doesn't bother me.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,784 ✭✭✭Dirk Gently


    cubical,

    there's always one sap who tries to talk to you while at the urinal and it puts me off doing my stuff but after I'm drunk enough I go to the urinal and become that sap and rant incoherently to who ever is unlucky enough to be beside me. I like having the urinal free to myself so I can aim at stuff and see how high up the wall I can go before it starts to lose pressure and fade away.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 629 ✭✭✭sterculelum


    clown bag wrote:
    cubical,

    there's always one sap who tries to talk to you while at the urinal and it puts me off doing my stuff but after I'm drunk enough I go to the urinal and become that sap and rant incoherently to who ever is unlucky enough to be beside me. I like having the urinal free to myself so I can aim at stuff and see how high up the wall I can go before it starts to lose pressure and fade away.

    You make a very valid point, sir. I have no problem using the urinal when my inhibitions are loosened. But the toilet is fun too cuz you can choose between making noise in the water or going silent on the porcelain. And then it's fun to watch the colour change like milk in tea. Love aiming at moths and flies in the water too.

    Safety is an issue because I just feel vulnerable. It is, after all, the only time when you really expose yourself to the world.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,048 ✭✭✭Amazotheamazing


    I view men who use stalls when there is a free urinal as weaker people, clearly self-concious about their ability to piss in public, probably lacking confidence in their ability full stop. They should be mocked from one end of the bar to the other.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,509 ✭✭✭✭randylonghorn


    As it happens, I already answered this in the other thread ...
    I understand the ducking into a cubicle all right ... I can find it a bit difficult to get started if I'm not absolutely bursting, even if I'm alone. If it's busy, and there's a queue, I feel under pressure, and it's even more difficult!!
    I have never experienced this self-consciousness about others being around while Junior was getting better acquainted with some hot lady ... e.g. in over-crowded houses after parties, sharing an apartment on holidays, etc. ... so I don't think your argument (ahem!) stands up, Amazo! :p:D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,384 ✭✭✭pred racer


    I view men who use stalls when there is a free urinal as weaker people, clearly self-concious about their ability to piss in public, probably lacking confidence in their ability full stop. They should be mocked from one end of the bar to the other.


    what he said.......


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 14,575 ✭✭✭✭FlutterinBantam


    Ruu wrote:
    Japanese squat toilets ftw. :) Whichever is free really, doesn't bother me.

    With you there Ruu,you can really build up the manifold pressure on those and you don't have to worry about spread due to the proximity of the " gun muzzle" to the target area.They are especially good to use after a very hot SE Asian curry,as the squat position enables one to empty the magazine more fully and with less strain.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,347 ✭✭✭daiixi


    stall.. but I'm a girl.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 27,857 ✭✭✭✭Dave!


    I'll usually opt for the cubicle if it's free... Dunno why, I just do.

    Have no problems with using a urinal though, in fact that's all I used last night.

    Oh well


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,668 ✭✭✭nlgbbbblth


    Urinal.

    Stalls should only be used if all the urinals are occupied or if you want to have a sh*t.

    If people use stalls / cubicles then they should have the decency not to p*ss on the toilet seat. Lift it up for f*cks sake!

    As this poll relates to public toilets, it should have been a public poll.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,624 ✭✭✭✭Fajitas!


    Urinal. Public stalls are usually filthy, flooded in piss, and generally mank. Worse still, you have those ones with the terribly planned doors, meaning you are squashed up against the toilet trying to get out. Or some idiot pissed against the door handle...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,228 ✭✭✭bluto63


    I view men who use stalls when there is a free urinal as weaker people, clearly self-concious about their ability to piss in public, probably lacking confidence in their ability full stop. They should be mocked from one end of the bar to the other.

    Agreed.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,925 ✭✭✭RainyDay


    Cremo wrote:
    stall, i hate it when you get splashback.
    Very true - if you've ever tried taking a leak at a urinal while wearing shorts, you'll always head for the stall in preference.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 68,317 ✭✭✭✭seamus


    Depends on the toilet. Some urinals are too close together, so to try to get to the free one between two guys, you have to push your way in. And nobody likes the guy who does that. Otherwise I would always use a urinal where available.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 16,165 ✭✭✭✭brianthebard


    daiixi wrote:
    stall.. but I'm a girl.

    How about you and I share a stall some time baby?:cool:


  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,110 Mod ✭✭✭✭Tar.Aldarion


    She's actually a dude! But I'll let the stall escapade do the talking.
    I use either, whichever I wander towards.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,347 ✭✭✭daiixi


    She's actually a dude! But I'll let the stall escapade do the talking.
    Shoosh! :mad: You're just jealous coz I'm getting the offers instead of you missy.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 16,165 ✭✭✭✭brianthebard


    daiixi wrote:
    Shoosh! :mad: You're just jealous coz I'm getting the offers instead of you missy.

    Missy? I thought tar was a herm??


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10,921 ✭✭✭✭Pigman II


    I view men who use stalls when there is a free urinal as weaker people, clearly self-concious about their ability to piss in public, probably lacking confidence in their ability full stop. They should be mocked from one end of the bar to the other.

    The technical term is a 'peemale' apparently. Yes, mocking is in order.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,648 ✭✭✭gyppo


    Urinal every time.
    Usually theres a "little beige jobbie" as Billy Connolly puts it looking up at you if you do go into a stall - it can be very offputting......:)
    If its a number 2, unless its very urgent, I'll wait till i get home .... avoid stalls unless absolutely necessary.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,340 ✭✭✭Nephew


    9 times out of 10 I piss on the Atari


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,245 ✭✭✭✭Fanny Cradock


    Generally I prefer the stall option.

    However, I enjoy pissing on the urinal cakes. Someday I hope to have such a massive piss that i'll manage to bore my way through it in one go.


  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,110 Mod ✭✭✭✭Tar.Aldarion


    Missy? I thought tar was a herm??
    Yes, I'ma girl that looks like Hermione from Harry Potter.
    I wish I got more offers, or less, I'm not sure.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 16,165 ✭✭✭✭brianthebard


    Yes, I'ma girl that looks like Hermione from Harry Potter.
    I wish I got more offers, or less, I'm not sure.
    Wanna cyber?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,552 ✭✭✭Steoob


    whats your favourite humming noise? is it hmmmmmmm or hhhhmmMMMMM

    the first one was the sound of a fridge, the second one was the sound of a man humming


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,598 ✭✭✭ferdi


    meh, some lads dont like others laughing at their small mickeys while they use a urinal.

    it dosnt bother me though.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,618 ✭✭✭Civilian_Target


    Urinal unless I need a stall! Aim for the base to minimise splashback and reduce unpleasantness for all concerned :)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,362 ✭✭✭the Guru


    I went to a Mexican restaurant in Detroit the other night, the cubicle doors were about 4 ft high, thank god I didn't have to do a deuce. Why would you have doors this small surely people would get offended seeing other patrons taking a dump,


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 641 ✭✭✭Gautama


    Usually the urinal, but if I'm going for a dump them always the stall.

    Twice ever have I had the pleasure of seeing a urinal being used for defecation, not a pleasant sight. But hey, that's San Francisco for you. You hear all about the cable cars and the bridges, but never the truth.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10,921 ✭✭✭✭Pigman II


    One could always don a poncho & sombrero for such an occasion. No one would be able to see one sending Senor Brown off to the seaside.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 16,165 ✭✭✭✭brianthebard


    the Guru wrote:
    I went to a Mexican restaurant in Detroit the other night, the cubicle doors were about 4 ft high, thank god I didn't have to do a deuce. Why would you have doors this small surely people would get offended seeing other patrons taking a dump,

    Could you actually see other people in them? Maybe you wandered into a midget bar by mistake.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10,921 ✭✭✭✭Pigman II


    Could you actually see other people in them? Maybe you wandered into a midget bar by mistake.

    There's midget bars now? :confused: Do they only serve shorts?


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 16,165 ✭✭✭✭brianthebard


    Pigman II wrote:
    There's midget bars now? :confused: Do they only serve shorts?

    Well done that man.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,691 ✭✭✭david


    Ill hit the old pisstrough normally. I dont like public toilet seats, ive never taken a dump in a public trap, not even at school.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,498 ✭✭✭iFight


    Urinal is grand, dont like stalls


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,598 ✭✭✭ferdi


    Ill hit the old pisstrough normally. I dont like public toilet seats, ive never taken a dump in a public trap, not even at school.
    Jesus Sh1tbreak, i didnt think people like you existed.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,509 ✭✭✭✭randylonghorn


    Wasn't there a character like that in AMERICAN PIE?


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 102 ✭✭madhitchhiker


    stall or urinal, whichever is available.so long as it gives that short 'shrug' as a relief..no problemo!:cool: heheh!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,723 ✭✭✭empirix


    I only use the urinal when theres a big crowd/queue in the toilets, otherwise i'll wait for the stall, checking first to see if anybody has had a bad dump etc, the splash back on the urinals is not for me, i also question the hygiene with some of em


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,723 ✭✭✭empirix


    some of the toilets in bars on Oxford st in Sydney(Gay strip -no i'm not gay, girlfriends mates) have no wall at the back of the cubicle's, people can just look in and see everything, i did not ask why this was, i was already feeling nervous in the establishments as it was, just blocked the thoughts out!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 55 ✭✭Charm Offensive


    empirix wrote:
    some of the toilets in bars on Oxford st in Sydney(Gay strip -no i'm not gay, girlfriends mates) have no wall at the back of the cubicle's, people can just look in and see everything, i did not ask why this was, i was already feeling nervous in the establishments as it was, just blocked the thoughts out!

    To stop guys getting their freak on in them, I'd guess.

    I'm generally a urinal man, more because I get the heebee jeebees from having to touch the filthy door and flusher in some manky piss-drenched cubicle than because I like waving my member around in front of other guys. That and the fact that it's a lot handier and quicker... just a simple in-slash-out job rather than having to fiddle with aforementioned door and flusher, or god forbid, a toilet seat. Oh, and to be perfectly honest, I tend to assume that guys who say stuff like this:
    I view men who use stalls when there is a free urinal as weaker people, clearly self-concious about their ability to piss in public, probably lacking confidence in their ability full stop. They should be mocked from one end of the bar to the other.

    ... are the ones who have real insecurities. :)

    Oh yeah, and what's the story with people who go mental at guys for not washing their hands in the toilets, when all they're touching (presuming they're using a urinal) is their knob, which is just a piece of anatomy not that unlike any other? How many of the guys here actually wash their hands after taking a slash at home!? It's not like guys piss all over their hands, and piss is sterile anyway. The tokenistic splash-'n-dash handwash thing that I constantly see guys doing is ****ing stupid, why bother? If you want to wash your hands, be my guest, but don't pretend to because of some moral code.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,145 ✭✭✭DonkeyStyle \o/


    If you want to wash your hands, be my guest, but don't pretend to because of some moral code.
    Sometimes I don't even turn on the tap... instead making a loud "psshhhh" sound as I wring my hands over the basin.


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