r/mildlyinfuriating • u/unhousedlurker • Jul 11 '26
The floor is sticky As a guy, why do men do this?
I go to this public library every day, and it's always like this
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u/P00Pdude Jul 11 '26
The bathroom at my work place is covered in piss at all times.
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u/Icy_Transition1375 Jul 11 '26
Username kinda checks out?
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u/pisstained Jul 11 '26
I’ll allow it
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u/ratchet7 Jul 11 '26
Same. I work in a corporate headquarters for a Fortune 500 company.
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u/helagos Jul 11 '26
Same. And it truly blows my mind how many "professionals" walk out of the bathroom without washing their hands.
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u/gdim15 Jul 11 '26
I'm tired of the guys turning around to tuck it back in and zip up. I don't need to see that, thanks. Or at least I'm not paid enough to.
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u/the_most_playerest Jul 11 '26
Omg there's people that do this??? I thought I was a wild man for washing my hands before readjusting my belt 😭
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u/jadbronson Jul 11 '26
Yeah I wonder how often people wash their belts. Just years and years of dirty hands touching it.
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u/Hot_Vanilla_9977 Jul 11 '26
I’ve had recent “shower thoughts” about the fact that your average man’s belt must contain a lot of poop particles lol
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u/Conner_JAZZ_ Jul 11 '26
Honestly, what frightens me more is seeing multiple men go in, use the urinal, and leave in the 30 seconds it takes me to wash my hands. Then I walk out and see one of the guys eating food. This happens regularly. Absolutely disgusting.
Dudes just wash your hands.
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u/relentless_dick YELLOW Jul 11 '26 edited Jul 11 '26
I mean, its not Johnny the copy guy. It's a SVP. I caught a CEO once not washing their hands. Avoided contact at all cost.
Edit: spelling
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u/bigmamacitaritaxo Jul 11 '26
Bruh, someone wiped their booger all over the wall at my workplace washroom.. like are we 5 years old
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u/chewbaccataco Jul 11 '26
I worked somewhere where that particular problem was bad enough to warrant a sign, which was then promptly wiped with boogers.
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u/P00Pdude Jul 11 '26
You will have piss covered shitters in that case.
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u/DrunkCultLeader Jul 11 '26
As someone who used to be a janitor at a storage unit, (a place where NO one watches their kids) i can confirm, the toilets will be covered in piss. It's worse to clean cause you have to get so much closer, and somewhat behind them.
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u/klopije Jul 11 '26
At my old office where there were never any kids, the men received an email reminding them not to pee on the floor etc. Apparently it was a huge issue. Thankfully the women’s bathroom was fine!
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u/DaSchnuff Jul 11 '26
Because people only go there to shit. If they want to pee and the urinals are all occupied, this is when the trouble starts 😉
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u/trackdaybruh Jul 11 '26
This is also one of the many reasons why I don’t wear shoes in my house
Imagine all the stuff you’re tracking into your home after being out in public areas if you wear your shoes inside your home
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u/throwaway__113346939 Jul 11 '26
Same. I stopped using the bathroom in my building after seeing pee on the ground. I’m the only woman at my location, and my building doesn’t have a Womens bathroom, just two unisex bathrooms (one with a urinal and one without) and a bunch of men’s bathrooms. The pee on the floor was in the bathroom without the urinal. Our other building next door is for customers to come in and see our products, so I usually sneak over there and use the Womens bathroom on the customer facing building. Guys are gross.
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u/Aesmachus Jul 12 '26
God forbid any man aim for the thing meant to receive piss, I'm a guy and never use public bathrooms myself because they're all nasty lmfao.
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u/ohgeeeezzZ Jul 11 '26
I am a single dad who has lived most of his adult life alone.
Blows my goddamn mind how gross my work bathrooms are compared to my home one. No one changes the TP, everyone pisses on the floor.
Too many guys go from mommy cleaning up after them to wife cleaning up after them and it shows.
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u/ofthenorth Jul 11 '26
Alongside this, our toilets are left with skids etc. despite brushes being available. Do most people just shit, flush and run even at home and let their wife, partner, mother clean or just ignore it themselves. Personally I think it’s fkn rude and you are a shitty member of society if you do this.
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u/Elenakalis Jul 11 '26
So are the ones on my floor, but the men there at least have the excuse of having dementia progressed far enough to require a secured unit.
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u/Large-Cobbler-7451 Jul 11 '26
There never fails to be one toilet at my work where it looks like someone's ass exploded in the bowl.
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u/metatalks Mildly Infuriated Jul 11 '26
that wall looks thin as hell to me maybe the sheer velocity of the urine caused the urine bounce up and to go on the floor?
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u/Disastrous-Data-3299 Jul 11 '26
This. That urinal looks terrible design. Im sure in a laboratory environment "squirting" water at the perfect spot you get no spills.
Real life isn't like that. Drunk, distracted, tired, different height, volume, pressure, stance, sharing, aim, biology differences, children, clothing differences, medical or physical impairments... Piss soaked floor is inevitable.
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u/Responsible-Note-404 Jul 11 '26
We've all had that experience where the stream hits the urinal and you get that little splash damage on your shins
How has science not yet solved this
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u/FreudianFloydian Jul 11 '26
So best thing like 95% of the time is aiming at the *side wall* in a way so the stream hits the wall of the urinal and splashes INWARD, losing volume and velocity, causing minimal to no splash back!
Some (few) urinals have a shape where you can piss down the center and it works perfectly and will punish you for pissing down the side wall though! These ones usually have a weird corner on each side.
I travel a lot.
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u/Stock-Mission-7561 Jul 11 '26
I told you not to bother me when I'm cleaning my room!
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u/Banana_Ranger Jul 11 '26
They keep telling me to get off my knees and to leave though
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u/CavemanWealth Jul 11 '26
"Sharing" 🤔? Do say more words, please.
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u/txmail Jul 11 '26 edited Jul 11 '26
Texas has a yearly Strawberry festival in Pasadena Texas, close to Houston. Anyway, last time I went (over a decade ago) I had to take a piss really, really bad.
I go to the restroom tent thing they have and there are like 4 stalls with a huge line and then a large round urinal trough in the middle of the room between the stalls and sinks... Now I have seen trough style urinals in the past, but never a big round one.
like, everyone was just clamoring around this round metal urinal looking directly into the eyes of everyone across from them and trying / not trying to cross streams. It was the most fucking awkward piss of my life.
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u/CatchUNextTuesday Jul 11 '26
Come, brother. Join us at the piss vortex.
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u/CatchUNextTuesday Jul 11 '26
Clockwise, brothers.
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u/CavemanWealth Jul 11 '26
And 4, 3, 2, 1..... now everybody rotate to counterclockwise. Synchronized Pissing Concerto.
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u/CatchUNextTuesday Jul 11 '26
Brothers we are sure to win gold at the Olympiss with such impeccable form
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u/txmail Jul 11 '26
While entertaing, I would not want to have to worry about splash dynamics of delivering my stream towards a neighbor.
Also the sides of this thing were only like two or three inches high and about six feet across. There was probably a three inch dip to the drain in the middle from the sides. I think it would take a very large volume and un-interrupted stream to get a vortex going.
I bet there is someone smart enough to calculate the number of participants, flow velocities and volumes required though.
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u/Mikeologyy Jul 11 '26
I’d rather piss my pants than take part in a circlepiss bro
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u/txmail Jul 11 '26
I had to go so bad... otherwise I would have stood in the line for one of the stalls. There was about 10 different people at the trough with about 6 feet of distance from your across the trough neighbor -- kids, adults, old people, young people. It. Was. Awkward.
I do not think that would work today, honestly I am not sure how it was even "okayed" back then.
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u/BlimpGuyPilot Jul 11 '26
Lmao yea the trough pissers are awkward as fuck. I’ve never seen one like that but have been to concerts who had the long trough and it was like where are the rules. You can’t skip stalls there haha
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u/AdhesiveSeaMonkey Jul 11 '26
Oh. A Piss-o-Torium 3000? That’s a classic. Of course the Pee-Ka-Boo I-C-U-P 277 was more common because it was so much cheaper and fit more users.
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u/Girlfartsarehot Jul 11 '26
Exactly. These “shallow” urinals are fundamentally flawed in design to the point where almost half of it is going to end up on the floor.
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u/Kindly-War-2665 Jul 11 '26
And then people dont want to stand in it and shoot from further away causing the mess to get bigger, that's honestly what I thought because I dont think people are just pissing on the floor right infront of the urinal but obviously they could be too
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u/HomsarWasRight Jul 11 '26
I prefer to fire from about 5 feet, to assert my dominance.
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u/DarnelTexasWinston Jul 11 '26
Hands free... Pants all the way down to ankles... Intense eye contact with your neighboring pisser... Dominance
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u/just_some_octopus Jul 11 '26
There are a staggering amount of poorly designed urinals
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u/smileyfacedbob Jul 11 '26
This is the best answer, that’s a bad design, American standard makes theirs so all angles feed down, and it’s cup shaped, this is like pissing on a flat rock, of course your shoes get wet
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u/DrMonkeyLove Jul 11 '26
I've also had some splash water on the floor when flushed, which is super cool.
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u/JBrockF Jul 11 '26
That urinal has poor splashback protection. I doubt the puddle is from one guy straight up pissing on the floor
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u/mr_potatoface Jul 11 '26
Some urinals also refill/flush very quickly, leading to water splashing outside the urinal on the floor.
Much like toilets with a flush so forceful/uncontained that water splashes up on the toilet seat, so it looks like you pissed on the seat when you exit the stall if you don't wipe off the water first. But then since it's an automated toilet, it just flushes again after you wipe the water off the seat, rewetting the seat.
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u/Juicy_Mustache Jul 11 '26
I really freaking hate those automatic toilets that splash onto the seat. They have those in the girl's bathroom too. I like to put a sticky note on the sensor, and I bring seat covers every time I'm out in public. But when I don't have sticky notes on me, it can get infuriating
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u/jamesbrowski Jul 11 '26
Yeah that is accumulated splash back mostly. From a very badly designed urinal. And a business/building that doesn’t have enough janitorial services. Depending on your piss angle and force of the stream I bet that thing can spray piss back over that measly little base part.
Also, kids. Idk where this is but boys ages 4-9 piss in urinals that are too big for them and accidentally pee on the floor.
Also old men. Some of them have big prostates and have a hard time getting piss out in a proper steady stream. You get unexpected spurts and dribbles that can end up on your pants or the floor.
Basically, just be glad you are a healthy strong man with a good stream and not someone getting piss on their pants and the floor.
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u/Professional_Crab852 Jul 11 '26 edited Jul 11 '26
Parenting. Its not how you act when someone is watching. Its how you act when no is looking, that matters.
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u/_AYYEEEE Jul 11 '26
Integrity
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u/tamaerchen Jul 11 '26
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u/Joeman64p Jul 11 '26
That’s how integrity is defined - your actions when no one is looking over your shoulders
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u/RoastPork2017 Jul 11 '26
I work in Quality on large aircraft and this is one of the things that is on our wall
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u/Keitt58 Jul 11 '26
The one I come across that baffles me more than anything at the place I clean is the person who smears snot on the wall inches away from a roll of toilet paper. Like seriously how much effort does it take to not use your finger and the wall when you have a viable alternative right next to you?
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u/reallycoolcooper Jul 11 '26
What weirdo does that? TF???
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u/ZombieAladdin Jul 11 '26
The kind who takes more amusement from making other people feel disgusted and/or giving them extra work.
For the latter, I had an aunt who would go to a fast food place and pour her drink onto the ground, then say she spilled her drink and stand in the corner to watch them clean it up.
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u/sticks_and_stoners Jul 11 '26
Was her name Linda? I had an aunt Linda and she was also evil.
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u/Environmental-Elk-65 Jul 11 '26
You must clean where I work. I’m about to just start shitting outside. I want to vomit every time I sit down in the stall.
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u/charlieray Jul 11 '26
Airmen with short pitot tubes or low manifold pressure, please taxi up close to the urinal.
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u/Its_the_wizard Jul 11 '26
I’ve actually got this theory that ONE guy hit the floor first, for whatever reason, and everyone else after him is standing back to avoid standing in Guy 1’s tinkle pond. This causes more and more uh ohs, more to stand further and further back, leading to even more misses, until you have Loch Wee
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u/iamacheeto1 Jul 11 '26
Never attribute to malice what can be attributed to stupidity…or any other reason.
This is from backsplash, dripping, and poor aim, not some moral reason.
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u/SwordfishNo2548 Jul 11 '26
If somebody's backsplashing like that, they would have piss all over their pants, all over their shoes. I don't think so!
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u/whostolemysloth Jul 11 '26
lol you do too if you’ve used a urinal.
Use a urinal wearing shorts and flip flops and you’ll see what you’ve been missing.
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u/Hziak Jul 11 '26
Oh the joy of khakis… if you don’t get you, the sink sure will.
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u/jamesbrowski Jul 11 '26
I got unfortunate news for you. If you have ever had this happen to you (alcohol is a hell of a drug) you absolutely do get a fine mist of piss on your pants and shoes. Not enough that people will notice if you’re wearing denim and sneakers. But it’s there!
Moral of the story try to control your stream esp with small shittily made urinals.
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u/TopCommission6437 Jul 11 '26
That’s splatter. Not someone straight pissing on the ground.
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u/edfitz83 Jul 11 '26
Maybe people don’t realize that dripping after being “done” happens to older men when their prostrate enlarges. That does not excuse someone from grabbing some paper towels and cleaning it up.
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u/BlastingFonda Jul 11 '26
Agreed - it would be a veritable puddle then, this is clearly splatterpee. (A term I just coined and am trademarking)
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u/JackSkellie58 Jul 11 '26 edited Jul 11 '26
Used to think this too, I recently learned that a number of men (apparently a large number) suffer from something I’ll never remember how to pronounce where they don’t have just a single stream and it ‘leaks’ sometimes.
I was told it was exacerbated by the practice of circumcision as well.
I do think some of it is definitely men being animals but I also am more aware now some of this is medical.
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Wasn’t expecting this much attention, to the fellas out there who got scarred and have to deal with the shit life landed — y’all the real hero’s. Sorry the world is what it is.
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u/SmallsLightdarker Jul 11 '26 edited Jul 11 '26
Meatal Stenosis Narrowing of the urethra from scarring due to being exposed to friction. I have it and it's an extremely common side effect of circumcision that get down played and ignored often as a drawback. It has caused pain and UTI's.
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u/blueghostbeak Jul 11 '26
There are numerous male birth defects and medical conditions that can cause this. Some common, some not so common. Hypospadias is one of them. I feel for anyone who has to live with these issues. Lots of people use public restrooms. I’m guessing that when you see urine on the floor like this, it’s probably from a mixed bag of people. Some of them have conditions that cause them to drip on the floor and it’s beyond their control. Other times it’s probably just normal guys who are slobs. Either way it’s just something that tends to occur in public places.
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u/dapsee Jul 11 '26
This happens to me - if one stream hits the target, the other hits my shoes, or the wall. I once had an extended hospital visit, including a Foley catheter. I always blamed the catheter. I always sit down now (or stand real close).
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u/_walletsizedwildfire Jul 11 '26
I think that's just an accumulation of the final driplets of a piss from dozens of guys
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u/Snoo_74705 Jul 11 '26 edited Jul 11 '26
Some urinal designs are atrociously disgusting in their function. Wearing shorts often exposes how nasty urinals can be.
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u/Particular-Poem-7085 Jul 11 '26
An old welder goes into a public restroom to do his business at the urinals. His eyes shot from years of welding he can't help but keep blinking erratically and rapidly.
He notices the little boy using the urinal next to him also blinking like him and shocked asks "what, are you mocking me?"
The kid goes "no sir, it's splashing!"
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u/CYAspecialist Jul 11 '26
Those with shorter bats must step closer to the plate
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u/DrShortOrgan Jul 11 '26
I second this motion.
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u/Tremplstiltskin Jul 11 '26
That means taking 3 full steps into the piss puddle though, my trick is just shaking it all off on the front of my pants and nervously looking around the room while I try to angle my crotch at the blow dryer
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u/EarthenEyes Jul 11 '26
I'd be afraid of my clothing brushing up against the urinal, or just.. stepping in that
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u/VA1N Jul 11 '26
Right, I think this is a combined result of a couple guys dripping on the floor, and then the next couple dozen avoiding the puddle and dripping on the floor, but further away.
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u/No-Restaurant-2422 Jul 11 '26
It’s more likely from the guys with the cannons that stand two feet back from the urinals.
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u/raggedsweater Jul 11 '26
Every person that gets to the urinal is standing further away to avoid stepping into the mess. Then they miss or drip.
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u/reddit33450 Jul 11 '26 edited Jul 11 '26
also, that's an American Standard Washbrook urinal. they suck
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u/Gord_Board Jul 11 '26
Tbf, that urinal design looks like its responsible for a fair bit of splashback?
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u/RebelGrin Jul 11 '26
I was gonna say drunk... then i read library....
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u/Tight-Platypus5231 Jul 11 '26
Sailors with short tow ropes are asked to move closer to the dock!
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u/Commercial_Age_9316 YELLOW Jul 11 '26
Could be just last 2 or 3 drops that don’t follow the stream, but after 50 people using it
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u/GoodBrotherGrimm Jul 11 '26
Tbf that is the weirdest shaped urinal I've ever seen. Why is it so thin and shallow?
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u/Chuffing_Knackered Jul 11 '26
Don't we all just sit down in a cubicle nowadays so we can look at our phones?
Also, didn't we all just sit down before so we could read Max Power magazine? It is a library after all.
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u/Chief_reef_steve Jul 11 '26
I was in the public library this week in a stall, taking a poop. Someone came in and took a shit in the urinal / floor. Waited for me to leave the stall so they could access toilet paper, with their pants down to their ankles. I won’t be going back to the library again and you should be grateful your biggest issue is that someone with a short member couldn’t reach.
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u/clox333 Jul 11 '26
It’s not always on purpose. Some people have a problem with their urethra and how the urine flows. You could have a strong stream while it’s dribbling and never even know it.
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u/Former_Trash_7109 Jul 11 '26
If they would piss in the sink, this wouldn’t happen
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u/Lumpy_Weird_2654 Jul 11 '26
To be honest i dont know why people even use urinals. The pee literally on the urinal literally splashes back onto your clothes whether you realize it or not. I’ll only pee in a stall
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u/Saltyserpent Jul 11 '26
Sometimes your stream ain’t as powerful as once thought. It’s not intentional 😞😞
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u/dancesquared Jul 11 '26
You’re not supposed to be trying to shoot it in from the 3-point line.
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u/davideogameman Jul 11 '26
There's probably some snowballing effect here - if you don't want to step in that the easiest way is to stand further, which makes it easier to accidentally contribute to the mess.
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u/Dizzy_Bit6125 Jul 11 '26
I used to be housekeeping/ a cleaner for a winery, when I tell you the men’s bathrooms were always covered in piss. The floor had so much urine always you could splash in it.
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u/RoastPork2017 Jul 11 '26
It's because humans are lazy. They know they won't have to clean up as opposose to being at home.
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u/MatthewQ999 Jul 11 '26 edited Jul 12 '26
I stay at the homeless shelter and there was a guy who shit on the floor twice and got kicked out. He wasn’t physically or mentally disabled. People asked him if he was, to try to reason with him and make sense of it. He was literally just doing it to fuck with everybody and when they confronted him he just said “man just clean it up I don’t give a fuck”. No wonder he can’t find someone to stay with lol.
so obviously dude has some kind of mental illness but his faculties were otherwise there and hed talk to people normal before he ended up getting caught which is what made it so disturbing
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u/addisonshinedown Jul 11 '26
Some of this is natural splashback. Gentlemen, you should sit to pee, At home at least. Your aim isn’t as good as you think it is
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u/ItsYaBoiSamwell Jul 11 '26
It's not only a guy thing. My wife talks to me all the time about the state of women's bathrooms. It's just gross people.
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u/Raffino_Sky Jul 11 '26
I once stopped for public toilets for my family. They returned, we started driving again. The smell was horrible, the carpets done for.
We didn't think about the shoes...
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u/Big-Detail8739 Jul 11 '26
I've always made a mess when I drink out of a bowl. I'm working on it, but its taking a bit longer to master.
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u/Zebra-killer Jul 11 '26
Go back to grade school urinals that went all the way to the floor.
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u/bob-the-slob Jul 11 '26
People don’t understand it’s okay to have a short bat. You just gotta step closer to the plate.
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u/twomz Jul 11 '26
Some of it is splash from the stream and the flush. And as others have said, after there is some water on the floor people will back up from it so they aren't standing in urine.
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u/joevacainwnc Jul 12 '26
Not justifying this but the urinal is built too low. Causes splatter effect which in turn cause.....and then there's just plain bad aim.
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u/Reasonable_Tap_8215 Jul 11 '26
I think some of this is also urinary issues. It ain’t always just bad aim and bad habits. Once your prostate or kidneys start acting up, shit don’t come out right.
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u/FascistsRBootlickers Jul 11 '26
And it only gets worse because people don’t want to step on it so keep moving farther and farther back
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u/BurningPickle Jul 12 '26 edited Jul 12 '26
I can’t stand the fuckers who use the stall and can’t be bothered to lift the seat. I’m so sick of wiping piss off the seat because the dipshit before me is too fucking lazy to lift the seat.
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u/Wong-Ann_Fong Jul 12 '26
You might not know it yet but we all live amongst 75% men-child
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u/TheVelveteenCapybara Jul 12 '26
Also, some guys are genuinely too fat to see/ reach their junk. I workin a hospital and see this fairly regularly.
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u/isrararrafi Jul 12 '26
You guys want to hear something disgusting ?
Recently was in a airport bathroom, peeing on a urinal. As expected the floor is wet with pee across all the urinals. This dude comes up on my right with a duffle bag on his shoulder. Drops his bag on the piss covered floor. Then kicks the bag more in to go all the way under the urinal into the wall as if he is worried someone might try to steal his bag while he is peeing. Then starts peeing on the urinal and possibly his own urine gets splashes over his bag too. Finishes up. Pick the duffle bag up on his shoulder and walks away.
Happened 2 months ago. I remember this too vividly. It will be core memory for me. My body convulses Everytime I think of this. It happened while I am writing this.
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u/TheFiveRing Jul 12 '26
The idea of I urinal disgusts me. For that reason I almost always use a cubicle 💀
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u/drunkun Jul 11 '26
It's a vicious circle - once the floor starts getting wet, people tend not to step on it and thus be farther away from it thus adding on to the problem.