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Think Outside the BOX!When I read Milan Kundera's The Unbearable Lightness of Being, I realized you can just pee in the sink.
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Think Outside the BOX!When I read Milan Kundera's The Unbearable Lightness of Being, I realized you can just pee in the sink.
Those cheap pension rooms in Germany that I've stayed in, the ones with a sink in the room but no toilet. Shared toilet down the hall. I'm sure those sinks had been peed in thousands of times.When I read Milan Kundera's The Unbearable Lightness of Being, I realized you can just pee in the sink.
In contrast: Back in the last millennium, I did some temporary duty at NASA in Houston. Next to the urinals in one men's room was a step stool with the sign:Since it's MLB spring training season...To those with short bats -- crowd the plate. . . .
My wife has that sign above the toilet in our downstairs bathroom.Hi. This bit of advice used to hang on a sign right above the toilet in my grandmas house. That's all I gotta say about that. Thanks for having me.
I had a dirt bike race somewhere in AZ a long time ago - don't remember where, I was around 10. The men's room looked like they built it up around a fountain - the whole wall for ~12ft long, maybe 4ft high, with little bubblers on top. 10 year old me was thrilled to take a piss on the fountain wall.The lack of accuracy, of course is a guy thing. Growing up, I had to listen to one of my grandmothers mention a brother-in-law whom she claimed peed on the floor on purpose just to make his sister clean it up. As a little boy, this was amazing to me. As an adult, I'm more inclined to think it was carelessness. My own missus has remarked about how her brother was a careless one. I've always been pretty careful and if an accident occurred, I'd clean it up. I'd feel too guilty otherwise.
Wall urinals are very common in public places. Not so common in residential homes. Yet I've always thought it would be a nice little luxury to have one. Yeah, I know, someone here will tell us they have one. Like those who have bidets. But I'll bet a home wall mount urinal is rather unusual.
These days, in commercial construction, wall mount urinals are just that, simply clamped to a wall. In days gone by or in older buildings, do you remember the full length urinals that had the lower portion set into the floor? Tiled all around the drain area? I'm sure much more expensive to plumb and do the concrete work around the base. It's always a treat for me to walk into an older men's room and see the full length fixtures. Circa the 1960's, there was a kind of intermediate wall mount design where the drain area was scooped way out to catch errant streams and more of the drips. But these are not often seen now.
Many years ago, one of the Ford dealers my dad worked at had an interesting men's room. It had a stainless steel gang basin and a long, gang urinal. Both were mounted at about the same height from the floor. My dad said any number of times he'd go into the men's room and see a confused person peeing into the sink by accident. Once again, as a lad, I thought this was hugely funny.
One more interesting bathroom fixture. The circular gang sink, some with the foot pedal faucet control. They have these in one of the buildings at the Puyallup fairgrounds. One time I went in there and saw a guy whizzing into one of these.
I've never heard them called a "shewee", but it's an age old idea. Back in the day just about anywhere you looked they were for sale right out in the open. Personally, I always thought they looked like they might be rather uncomfortable... but I'm not a woman so what do I know!?!As for lack of accuracy being a guy thing, have you heard of the "Shewee"? Equal opportunity mess making.
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Yes, I've seen a few places like that where the whole wall is a urinal. Some tiled, some not so fancy. I've seen some, to us here in the USA, strange ones in foreign countries. Like these I took a picture of in Scotland:The men's room looked like they built it up around a fountain - the whole wall for ~12ft long, maybe 4ft high, with little bubblers on top. 10 year old me was thrilled to take a piss on the fountain wall.
I'm not exactly sure where those are, but you know they aren't at all that uncommon. That exact design can be found all over.
Everybody needs a hobby. And TWO hobbies, even better.Yes, I've seen a few places like that where the whole wall is a urinal. Some tiled, some not so fancy. I've seen some, to us here in the USA, strange ones in foreign countries. Like these I took a picture of in Scotland:
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Cute little stainless steel sinks:
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Or these I snapped in France:
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This was minimalist bowl for number two, no seat:
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I only started taking pictures of fixtures like these with the advent of digital cameras; it was just too easy. But I wish I had some of terlits that I've seen and used in Germany when I was there. In older buildings, pre-WW2, they had these really old, round, squat things with a shelf toward the front, not a ramp. So that after you did your number two, it was sitting right there, not in the water.
Toilets in Asia. I used to see squat holes in buildings, basically a drain hole in the floor with two foot outlines for placement of the feet next to the hole. For urination, there was another drain hole against a wall. In many Saigon bars, there was no separation for men and women.
The squat hole with foot imprints wasn't necessarily invented in Asia. Recently, I was looking at online pictures of the old FB Radom arms factory in Poland. It showed a squat hole with feet for factory workers still extant but disused.
Residential toilets in the US didn't always have the water tank just behind the bowl. Older homes and buildings when I was a child, some had water tanks up high on the ceiling with a long chain that hung down for yanking when it was time to flush. These had wooden boxes with metal tank liners.
Water pressure in those days wasn't always great; before I moved to Wash. I lived in a 1926 house. It was one of the first built on its block. Mine didn't have one, it had been remodeled, but my neighbor had a metal cistern (water tank) built into his attic which originally had been to aid in water pressure.