Peeing in front of other men.

Daveysil15

Something I've never been comfortable with. It doesn't help that the urinals in my workplace are ridiculously close together either. Maybe I have Paruresis (shy bladder), but I just find the idea of men standing beside each other holding their things, talking about the football to be really weird. Anyone else like this?

Sauve

Mod

Let's leave the smart-ass replies and any medical advice out of this thread please, remember where you're posting

awec

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Arawn

I opt for te you space them rule. I don't stand shoulder to shoulder. No problem pissing in the same jacks just don't wanna be rubbing off them. Just like showering ha

TheBody

I try keep a free urinal between me and the next guy. I'll use a cubile otherwise.

ZeitgeistGlee

TheBody wrote: »

I try keep a free urinal between me and the next guy. I'll use a cubile otherwise.

Always followed this rule.

Morf

Unless I'm really bursting to go I find it hard to "relax" enough to pee with company around. Just one of life's trials.

Fat Nav

I get stage fright so aim for the cubicles but when well shot no bother doing it at all.

7ofBrian

I once wore flip flops at a stainless (yeah right) steel urinal trough. never again.

aujopimur

Do you ever take a sneaky peek at the next guys pecker ?.

awec

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Panthro

TheBody wrote: »

I try keep a free urinal between me and the next guy. I'll use a cubile otherwise.

Ever have an awkward situation where the place is practically empty and a guy comes in and pees at the urinal right next to you? It's just not right!
Also, on a similar vein, the amount of places that have the urinal on the same wall but a few feet down as the wash hand basin, who the bloody hell designed some of these places?!
IMO, nothing more uncomfortable than standing there, having a pee, looking at the wall in front of you, when a few mere feet to your left/right is a guy looking at himself in the mirror.
I find it strange!
And awkward pishing conversations. Lads, if ye go for a pee and there's a lad at the urinal who you don't know...Please..oh please..don't be making polite conversation!!

awec

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Panthro

awec wrote: »

I had a guy come in, use the urinal right beside me despite there being about 5 others free, and then proceed to talk to me.

Talk about weirding me out!

That was me!:pac::pac:

Daveysil15

Panthro wrote: »

Also, on a similar vein, the amount of places that have the urinal on the same wall but a few feet down as the wash hand basin, who the bloody hell designed some of these places?

Good question. Whoever designed these urinals had the right idea. Urinals.jpg Lots of space with a board in between each one.

This is what the urinals look like in my workplace. Only 3 of them and so close together. http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:3_urinals.JPG

irritablebaz

never really bothered me tbh apart from one specific time. i'm a spurs fan and got a ticket for the chelsea end in a game we were playing them. obviously the loo's that end were packed with chelsea fans and when i eventually got a free urinal i just could not go. i was not feeling overly nervous considering my situ so not sure why i got the mental block.

aujopimur

I was in a bar in Queensland, walked up to the urinal, peeing away when I looked up, the whole urinal was one way glass, pretty freaky.
When I returned to the bar I kept my eye on the wall to see how many others checked out the wall from the other side.

king rhus

I think that they should put posters on the wall over the urinals at least then you are looking up and not down....

mccannf

Test it out:

http://www.urinalman.com

TheBody

I hate the way some urinals are REALLY close together. They might as well put one on the wall and have a few fellas share it.

DazMarz

I used to never get shy kidneys at all... until one time at an AC/DC concert in Punchestown. There were about 2 toilet cabins for the entire male contingent of the 80,000+ crowd, so everyone basically started peeing against a long advertising hoarding at the edge of the spectator area.

I needed to pee, so up I went. For some reason, nothing happened. I was stood there, holding my jammed penis, getting more humiliated by the second as I thought "COME ON!!!" over and over again! In the end, I could do nothing but slink away, embarrassed and trying not to look like a pervert.

Ever since then, I've "suffered" from shy kidneys and it sucks. I hate using urinals now, as sometimes nothing happens. It's a nightmare, especially in pubs or stadiums.

Daveysil15

These.jpg are gas. Presumably they're to make people laugh which will relax them and enable them to pee freely.

listermint

No, I just go in pee and leave.

Thats what the toilet is there for.

Aint Eazy Being Cheezy

I always leave 1 free urinal between me & the next guy (if possible) and I never make conversation, even if I know them! Hold your peace while you hold your piece!!!

KD11

Fat Nav wrote: »

I get stage fright so aim for the cubicles but when well shot no bother doing it at all.

You could at least aim for the urinal instead.

cantdecide

What I hate is when you're in mid pee and the only other guy in the place initiates small talk... which you try to evade... and then he makes some remark querying the size of your package. This is exactly what happened to me just last night!!

MagicMarker

My work is the worst, one urinal in the toilet on my floor and it's right next to the sink...

Daveysil15

cantdecide wrote: »

What I hate is when you're in mid pee and the only other guy in the place initiates small talk... which you try to evade... and then he makes some remark querying the size of your package. This is exactly what happened to me just last night!!

:eek: Now that is disturbing. Thankfully I've never experienced that. The worst I've encountered was a fellow workmate talking about Wayne Rooney's bicycle kick.

krudler

I hate when there's only three urinals, and someone is standing at the middle one, some men just want to watch the world burn.

Tangatagamadda Chaddabinga Bonga Bungo

From 24 minutes in for about a minute this is discussed.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2aFRBF7QE4

My technique is somewhat similar to Graham Linehans. I just think of something really insane (I'm already quite insane) like 'as soon as I start I'm going to act like a helicopter and spin around in circles and make helicopter noises...' and I'm going before I know it.

Amirani

Really doesn't bother me. I'd never really be one to initiate conversation, but wouldn't have a problem if the guy beside me started chatting (providing the chat isn't penis related).

vibe666

Always preferred cubicles, if for no other reason than no splash back and getting to use a bit of jacks roll to dry myself off rather than shake it around like a lunatic and splash pish everywhere.

I had a guy at work last week looked like he was trying to do the helicopter with it and he managed to splash the wall with a drop right in front of my face whilst I was standing at the next urinal! :eek:

Morf

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ju-tjcUKVzI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qTddBiNEPPw

Daveysil15

I think this would be a slight distraction too. :pac:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QC1h-1A0pJg

Barna77

Never minded urinals. Ok, you walk in, place is busy and you play mental tetris to figure out how not to stand next to other guy. But it's kind of funny when you see guys queuing to get in the cubicles and half the urinals are free

7ofBrian wrote: »

I once wore flip flops at a stainless (yeah right) steel urinal trough. never again.

Jaysus....

Neeson

Barna77 wrote: »

Never minded urinals. Ok, you walk in, place is busy and you play mental tetris to figure out how not to stand next to other guy. But it's kind of funny when you see guys queuing to get in the cubicles and half the urinals are free


Jaysus....

Some people like privacy. Some people have to take a sh1te and they aren't going to do it in a urinal!

Do not think I have ever once used a urinal. I moved from Nappys to sitting on pottys and I have been sitting on toilets ever since. Never felt any compulsion to change.

Panthro

Deleted User wrote: »

Do not think I have ever once used a urinal. I moved from Nappys to sitting on pottys and I have been sitting on toilets ever since. Never felt any compulsion to change.

you sit down when you pee?
well alrighty..each to their own I guess!:pac:

elefant

I had no idea this was a prevalent thing!

Doesn't bother me; don't see any reason why it should either.
Wouldn't go starting a conversation though- unless I was walloped.

Panthro

Panthro wrote: »

you sit down when you pee?

Yes. Always have since I was about 2. Can not think of a single reason not to. Your surprise seems to suggest you can?

old gregg

Deleted User wrote: »

Do not think I have ever once used a urinal. I moved from Nappys to sitting on pottys and I have been sitting on toilets ever since. Never felt any compulsion to change.

Apparently, in Germany men nearly always sit and pee so nothing unusual.

Personally, as an Aussie I'm pretty much ok with whipping it out and peeing at will (especially in the garden as all Aussies are supposed to do).

Panthro

Deleted User wrote: »

Yes. Always have since I was about 2. Can not think of a single reason not to. Your surprise seems to suggest you can?

as I said earlier, each to their own.

Panthro

Panthro wrote: »

as I said earlier, each to their own.

Which I wholly agree with. I just thought from the tone your post seemed to give off that you were surprised by this in some way. I can not think of a reason why so was curious what one might be.

eisenberg1

On hols, when wearing flip flops and you got the gents.............and remember (again) why its not a good idea to wear flip flops in a public jacks.

o1s1n

[Deleted User] wrote: »

Yes. Always have since I was about 2. Can not think of a single reason not to. Your surprise seems to suggest you can?

Because you dont have to drop your cacks?

Because public toilet seats arent exactly clean?

Because it's far quicker?

Because it's one of the handier aspects to being a man?

Because you're noy a woman?

Sam Kade

awec wrote: »

I had a guy come in, use the urinal right beside me despite there being about 5 others free, and then proceed to talk to me.

Talk about weirding me out!

Weirding you out WTF is that?

Ciaran_B

Can't go at a urinal, never could. Should probably get hypnotherapy or something but I just live with it.

popepaisley1

i cant help myself. whenever i see i guy going into the cubicle when there are plenty of urinals free, when you know he's having a slash, i always bang on the door and say 'alright there small c0ck'.

Starscream25

Ya never been 100% comfortable with it! I'm dreading the day I get married (if I ever) when I must take a leak and everybody or anybody I happen to meet in the jax will want a chat.
Remember coming across a drunkard in the jax in a nightclub once, he started rambling to me, I got frustrated, couldn't pee, got pissed off (no pun intended) without being able to piss so told him to get lost I'm trying to piss here.
Was fair proud of myself, luckily he didn't knife me or smack me in the head.

Neeson

popepaisley1 wrote: »

i cant help myself. whenever i see i guy going into the cubicle when there are plenty of urinals free, when you know he's having a slash, i always bang on the door and say 'alright there small c0ck'.

How would you know what he's doing in the cubicle?

Daveysil15

Panthro wrote: »

you sit down when you pee?
well alrighty..each to their own I guess!:pac:

I almost always sit down when I pee. Sometime when I do it standing it comes out in two different directions and I get some on the floor or toilet seat. Plus when I take a piss, its often accompanied by a bowel movement, so I can do both at the same time. There's no point in siting down and then standing back up again.

old gregg wrote: »

Personally, as an Aussie I'm pretty much ok with whipping it out and peeing at will (especially in the garden as all Aussies are supposed to do).

I've heard that in certain parts of Australia the pubs have a kind of gutter system that runs under the bar, so you don't have to get up and walk to the jacks. You can just whip it out and pee while you drink your pint.