How do you use the urinal in the Berkeley?

Hitchhiker's Guide to... · 05-09-2005 2:01pm #1

a bit random, i know, but it isn't since the age of 3 that i have had to think about how to use a urinal!

Has anyone seen the urinal in the men's bathroom just inside the Berkeley library? Maybe it has been there for ages... It is a wide urinal with a metal case over it. I seriously had no idea how to use it. Are you meant to stand at the side as usual and direct your pee into it? Are you meant to stand on top of the metal case and direct downwards? Why was there a need to reinvent the urinal?

Yours, in curiousity!

Zynks · 05-09-2005 2:09pm

You could have saved yourself from the embarassment of this question by spending some extra time "washing your hands". The people using that loo are probably more likely to know how to use it than the people who were never there in the first place... :cool:

fade · 05-09-2005 2:36pm

Roundtower2 wrote:

a bit random, i know, but it isn't since the age of 3 that i have had to think about how to use a urinal!

Has anyone seen the urinal in the men's bathroom just inside the Berkeley library? Maybe it has been there for ages... It is a wide urinal with a metal case over it. I seriously had no idea how to use it. Are you meant to stand at the side as usual and direct your pee into it? Are you meant to stand on top of the metal case and direct downwards? Why was there a need to reinvent the urinal?

Yours, in curiousity!

wow, just wow, im totally speechless tbh

wayfarer · 05-09-2005 2:43pm

Or you could just use the cubicle!

Ive always just stood on the grate but now that I think of it, there are probably loads of people who have suffered through the same dilemma and opted for the floor, leaving the grate covered in piss.

Kappar · 05-09-2005 2:47pm

It was something that I wasn't sure about when I first seen it- So I just used the cubicles.

Nietzschean · 05-09-2005 2:50pm

lol i'm going to have to go into the arts block some day just to see this....

snorlax · 05-09-2005 3:00pm

urinals/ mens toilets are very dodgy places, i had to wonder into the fellas toilets in foster's place because it was the only source of drinking water, never again, there was mould/ fungus growing down the urinals and the porcelin had a nice yellow hue off it, and i thought the ladies was bad! im sure it would be fun trying to aim into one of those things once you'v had a few pints.

is it true men never wash their hands after doing it?

Roteiro7 · 05-09-2005 3:06pm

good question... i usually take long shots from the floor... hahaha...

LovelyHurling · 05-09-2005 3:48pm

snorlax wrote:

urinals/ mens toilets are very dodgy places, i had to wonder into the fellas toilets in foster's place because it was the only source of drinking water, never again, there was mould/ fungus growing down the urinals

THE ONLY source of drinking water?! What were you doing at the urinals?!

TerrorFirmer · 05-09-2005 3:51pm

LovelyHurling wrote:

THE ONLY source of drinking water?! What were you doing at the urinals?!

Exact same question here....

snorlax · 05-09-2005 4:36pm

there was a drinking tap with fresh water in it, the only place in the building with drinkable water. don't worry i made sure there was no fellas when i went in!

05-09-2005 4:52pm

Roundtower2 wrote:

a bit random, i know, but it isn't since the age of 3 that i have had to think about how to use a urinal!

Has anyone seen the urinal in the men's bathroom just inside the Berkeley library? Maybe it has been there for ages... It is a wide urinal with a metal case over it. I seriously had no idea how to use it. Are you meant to stand at the side as usual and direct your pee into it? Are you meant to stand on top of the metal case and direct downwards? Why was there a need to reinvent the urinal?

Yours, in curiousity!

I have pondered this myself. If you go too near to the metal sheet, you run the increasing risk of additional spashback, whereas standing before the grate is just odd. I'd go for a middle-distance shot, but I wouldn't like to be in that situation when other people are lining up to take a shot...there's the possibility of friendly fire.

What I've always wanted to know is why there isn't something interesting (laminated probably) at eye-level when you're using the urinal. Yeah, I remember those STI pieces in that frame-yoke...

cuckoo · 05-09-2005 4:57pm

Could somebody post a picture? I'm really curious as to what it looks like....

DrIndy · 05-09-2005 5:37pm

Roundtower2 wrote:

a bit random, i know, but it isn't since the age of 3 that i have had to think about how to use a urinal!

Has anyone seen the urinal in the men's bathroom just inside the Berkeley library? Maybe it has been there for ages... It is a wide urinal with a metal case over it. I seriously had no idea how to use it. Are you meant to stand at the side as usual and direct your pee into it? Are you meant to stand on top of the metal case and direct downwards? Why was there a need to reinvent the urinal?

Yours, in curiousity!

I was seriously confused too so I just peed in the sinks instead.

Pet · 05-09-2005 7:52pm

My god! I remember that place actually, and I was so ****ing baffled by it that I never went back. They should write instructions on the wall above it, or some kind of cartoon-diagram (for the non-English-speakers).

PHB · 05-09-2005 9:05pm

Its quite simple.
Why would they have a grate?
Its not just for show, so standing below the step would be just stupid.
The idea is to stand on the grate, and that way if anybody isn't particuarly skilled at no dripping, it doesn't require a disgusting clean up operation.
Infact the whole thing is self cleaning, and requires only monthly or so scrubbings, compared to normal bathrooms, in which urinals normally have a puddle under them.
It also deals with the possibility of someone getting sick at the urinals, since it all goes down the grate.

ApeXaviour · 06-09-2005 12:40am

Serenity wrote:

lol i'm going to have to go into the arts block some day just to see this....

Second that..

snorlax · 06-09-2005 9:18am

DrIndy wrote:

I was seriously confused too so I just peed in the sinks instead.

euwww:(

ApeXaviour · 06-09-2005 12:13pm

snorlax wrote:

euwww:(

Meh it's all drains and pipes no? Urine doesn't contain any micro-organisms, ie you could drink it fairly safely. And the tap washes it down quite well anyway.

If you want to go euwww at something, make it rational like: people keeping their cat-litter in the kitchen, or their toothbrushes near the toilet. These are ACTUAL disgusting health risks which are common practice..

John · 06-09-2005 3:17pm

snorlax wrote:

is it true men never wash their hands after doing it?

I normally have a shower after doing it. As for urinating, I wash my hands. If you don't it'll attract bears.

snorlax · 06-09-2005 4:27pm

ApeXaviour wrote:

Meh it's all drains and pipes no? Urine doesn't contain any micro-organisms, ie you could drink it fairly safely. And the tap washes it down quite well anyway.

If you want to go euwww at something, make it rational like: people keeping their cat-litter in the kitchen, or their toothbrushes near the toilet. These are ACTUAL disgusting health risks which are common practice..

it contains ammonia which is toxic in large amounts ,NH3 (same stuff in nail polish remover), i guess it depends on the concentration eg how much water you'v had to drink, besides if you wer'e on drugs and had cystitis/ a UTI (bladder/ kidney infection- you' might have blood in your urine, and micro organisms like Staphylococcus saprophyticus or E.Coli would be present, UTI's aren't necessarily obvious at the begining of the infection as it begins with just inflamation of the Urethra), also if you had an STD like Chamlydia (symptoms aren't obvious so you mightn't know you have it, has an incubation period of 1-3 weeks) you may risk spreading it. even Syphilis if the lesion came into contact with the sink and someone else washed their hands at the sink ( even if the odds are really low of spreading it) .

also Diarrhoea, which i think is some symptom of a virus, bacteria is passed via the faeces. Some forms of hepatitis can also be passed on via urine and blood.

my god what a load of waffle.

!

cuckoo · 06-09-2005 6:42pm

I'm still waiting for someone to post a photo of this confusing urinal...

Nietzschean · 06-09-2005 6:46pm

cuckoo wrote:

I'm still waiting for someone to post a photo of this confusing urinal...

we don't usually bring/take photo's in toilets....

the_syco · 06-09-2005 6:59pm

Serenity wrote:

we don't usually bring/take photo's in toilets....

Aye, but some appear time to time (mainly after them balls you people have)...

Nietzschean · 06-09-2005 7:04pm

the_syco wrote:

Aye, but some appear time to time (mainly after them balls you people have)...

usualy for much stranger reasons than this, but yes true.

cuckoo · 06-09-2005 7:52pm

i was hoping someone would take advantage of this quiet time in the libraries to assuage my curiousity.

or, would someone walking in on a guy with a camera out standing beside the urinals be one of those man world bad things?

Boston · 06-09-2005 10:28pm

Am I the only one htat had no problem using this thing.

Calm Horizons · 06-09-2005 11:22pm

Who cares? If you act nonchalantly enough while doing it, everyone else will think that the way you do it is the correct one.

Trust me; everyone else thinks they're doing it wrong. They're not going to judge how you do it, they'll just try to emulate you (assuming you're not pissing in the sink, of course

)

the_syco · 06-09-2005 11:32pm

cuckoo wrote:

or, would someone walking in on a guy with a camera out standing beside the urinals be one of those man world bad things?

Don't mind me: I'm just photographing the loo for the people on the net...

=-=

"Hey... see him... yeah, well I caught him trying to photograph the urinal.. for people on the net..."
"Fooking weirdo"

Yeah. Its a guy thing. Could be seen in the wrong light.

Gazza22 · 06-09-2005 11:44pm

Myth wrote:

What I've always wanted to know is why there isn't something interesting (laminated probably) at eye-level when you're using the urinal. Yeah, I remember those STI pieces in that frame-yoke...

Intel do this...in all their toilets there is a little notice board at eye level above each urinal...they put company information/deadlines/targets/staff social nights ect on it

polar_bear · 06-09-2005 11:50pm

Virgin cinema did this too. There were little things over the urinals with bits of screen plays from films. the jaws one was very memorable.

The woolshed do something a little similar too.

fade · 07-09-2005 7:25am

polar_bear wrote:

Virgin cinema did this too. There were little things over the urinals with bits of screen plays from films. the jaws one was very memorable.

The woolshed do something a little similar too.

oh, yea yea yea! the best one was from clerks, "all they know is killing and white uniforms". class

Nietzschean · 07-09-2005 7:50am

i best one i've seen has been in a few pubs where they get the daily news papers n put em behind a glass panel, can have a read while yer relieving yerself...

fade · 08-09-2005 12:47pm

Dead Ed wrote:

Yeah, that aussie place that was on parnell street had those. As for the urinal: Remove knob from trouser, aim in a half arsed fashion and piss. It's a urinal ferchrissakes it doesn't need a user manual. Honestly, I'm beginning to be baffled about the quality of education in our fine establishment when people don't know how to use a bloody urinal, are you guys really ucd students or something?

bravo good sir, tis a fine evenin

godtabh · 08-09-2005 1:02pm

Dead Ed wrote:

Honestly, I'm beginning to be baffled about the quality of education in our fine establishment when people don't know how to use a bloody urinal, are you guys really ucd students or something?

Arty farty fcukers is all I can say.

Head up to the Hamilton and you won't hear any one ask how to piss into a urinal

Nietzschean · 08-09-2005 6:35pm

hrmm arn't we the two new people or what, nearly everyone on this forum is from the hamilton end.

snorlax · 08-09-2005 7:43pm

well the only lectures ill havein TCD next next year will be in Regent's house where i get my own group of first years to train up !

ISAW · 08-09-2005 11:41pm

I was in the asia market with a child and bought several jars of curry paste. I had thenm tied to the back of a push chair and passing through Trinity was caught short. I brought the kid into that gents urinal. I had to move the kid and for any students of physics:

Guess what happens when one removes a child from a push chair which has several jars of curry paste tied to the handle?

I told the guy at the Library entrance about it. I have no idea if he relayed it to the cleaning people. I did try to clean up some of it. when I was washing my hands after dumping the broken jars in the bin the people coming in must have thought i had a very dirty baby! there were brown stains all around several of the wash basins and lumps of it on the floor.

TCD just isnt child friendly (or is that Chile friendly?)

Pet · 09-09-2005 12:50am

ISAW wrote:

I was in the asia market with a child and bought several jars of curry paste. I had thenm tied to the back of a push chair and passing through Trinity was caught short. I brought the kid into that gents urinal. I had to move the kid and for any students of physics:

Guess what happens when one removes a child from a push chair which has several jars of curry paste tied to the handle?

I told the guy at the Library entrance about it. I have no idea if he relayed it to the cleaning people. I did try to clean up some of it. when I was washing my hands after dumping the broken jars in the bin the people coming in must have thought i had a very dirty baby! there were brown stains all around several of the wash basins and lumps of it on the floor.

TCD just isnt child friendly (or is that Chile friendly?)

Hehehehe, good story.

Well I'd imagine it isn't child friendly, very few people at university have children, due to the nature of a university course (unless it's part-time).

cuckoo · 09-09-2005 1:41am

Pet wrote:

Hehehehe, good story.

Well I'd imagine it isn't child friendly, very few people at university have children, due to the nature of a university course (unless it's part-time).

Or, do very few ppl have children because the college isn't child friendly? There should be high chairs and play pens in all the science labs!

Actually, are there any baby changing areas anywhere in the college? That would seem like a pretty basic thing to have - especially given the huge number of tourists who visit.

Pet · 09-09-2005 1:50am

There should be high chairs and play pens in all the science labs!

Oooh, I like it..and we could tell visiting Americans that we use the children in our experiments..

Nietzschean · 09-09-2005 7:03am

well there is only the one creche on campus which is more or less impossible to get into from what i understand(lecturers i know with kids) , so i can't imagine any students bring their kids if they have them anywhere near campus during term...you can't exactly bring a screaming baby into a lecture

Pet · 09-09-2005 9:54am

you can't exactly bring a screaming baby into a lecture

And if you did, I'd have to dissect and/or eat it; screaming babies are the last thing you need when trying to concentrate..

Edwardius · 09-09-2005 10:10am

Amen. Damn kids. And before somebody says "but you were one once" I have this to say: no I wasn't, I've been 21 since the day I was born!

Pet · 09-09-2005 10:51am

Dead Ed wrote:

Amen. Damn kids. And before somebody says "but you were one once" I have this to say: no I wasn't, I've been 21 since the day I was born!

Well I'm sure there was a time when I drooled like a lobotomised spaniel, shat myself on an hourly basis, and generally screamed bluearsed ****ing murder all day long in a madness-inducing manner, but at least my parents didn't ****ing bring me into restaurants and shops and public transport and cinemas (yes cinemas, you can't even try to watch a ****ing ****ty chickflick now without some little bastard child screaming haemorrhoids upon itself up at the back, and some doped-up teenage scumbag parents arguing loudly over Whose Turn It Is to stifle the creature. And I don't care that it was Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants (keyword: pants, exactly what that load of ****e was), I didn't need to listen to that crap behind me). Anyways forgive me, I have yet to sleep and I'm a ****ing cranky mood, male PMS if you will.

pseudonym · 10-09-2005 8:50pm

this is a classic thread, admittedly the first time i saw it i was confused, but i figure its all goin da one way no matter where u piss...

DublinWriter · 10-09-2005 9:00pm

Pet wrote:

Oooh, I like it..and we could tell visiting Americans that we use the children in our experiments..

When I was at the commencements for my MA (yes, the fake one!) a couple of years back, I was all gowned up and popped around the back of the 1937 for a crafty smoke.

A couple of elderly American tourists spotted me and insisted on taking my photo a couple of times, once on my own, and twice with either of them.

I told them that the wearing of the full-gown regalia was an everyday occurrence. I also pointed to a few areas of neglect in the masonry of the 1937 and told them that they were bullet holes from our 'glorious' revolution.

How do you use the urinal in the Berkeley?

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