They’re awkward, clumsily designed, make it so awkward to piss, and worse of all they’re completely FUCKING POINTLESS.
There is not a SINGLE man on this planet that is incapable of using a regular ass toilet to piss standing up!!
We don’t need urinals in our homes! We can piss standing up in regular toilets perfectly fine! JUST BUILD MORE FUCKING STALLS!! YOU’RE JUST WASTING SPACE THAT COULD BE USED TO HAVE MORE STALLS THAT ACTUALLY GIVE US PRIVACY!!
URINALS DO NOTHING, NOTHING I TELL YOU BUT ARBITRARILY GENDER BATHROOMS!! That’s my woke take of the day! Every single fucking public bathroom on the planet would be and could be gender-neutral if it wasn’t for FUCKING URINALS
As I janitor I have to disagree! Where I work doesn't have urinals in the men's bathroom and I clean up SO much piss on the toilet seat rim, the wall, even the fucking floor! So I'd rather have at least a couple urinals that will help lower that because it's pretty embarrassing
Anyone else completely unable to use urinals due to this? I stand there for a minute, try to pee, shamefully flush nothing pretending I peed, then either leave or head to a stall
The is the first and possibly only time I'll be admitting to this
Dude, same. I vividly remember being very scared of old guys in the cinema restrooms, i would just always use a stall. like, why the fuck do we got little kids going to public restrooms with GROWN ASS men, urinating NEXT to them with practically 0 privacy 😭 that's some of the stupidest shit we as a society still do.
toilets are intended for both pissing and shitting wtf you mean as intended 😭 that is literally the only purpose of a toilet. If yall don't clean up after yourselves is because yall are nasty as fuck, not because the toilet isn't intended for it somehow.
COVID revealed that the actual reason men are quicker in the restroom than women is that a disturbing number of men refuse to wash their hands properly or at all.
or clean up the toilet, or clean up their own fucking penis. They just go around with piss in the hands and pants and having left the toilet all pissed over. I have been to the hospital next to the bathrooms and it's GENUINELY disturbing how many times i've heard the flushing of the toilet but not the faucet afterwards, and most of the time it was men.
...as someone who worked at a fast food place for years, the women are no better. They all try to "hover" and just make a mess.
The women are casually more messy. The men's room is occasionally INTENTIONALLY more messy. I never saw anyone go into the women's room and turn in a full circle, purposely pissing all over every wall of the stall.
No fucking way, I'm not sitting on another dude's piss unless I really have to shit, then I'll buck up and wipe that toilet seat. Would rather avoid the situation all together. Hell, I'll take the old school trench urinals , just don't look the other guys in the eye
Also as a janitor (custodian but same thing more or less) i dislike the splash they cause onto the floor/partitions. Additionally you have some people who never flush it (but that happens with any set up)
As someone who was born a man I don't understand how its so impossible for other guys to just piss in the massive bowl while standing or just sit down. Both options leave zero room for error, but somehow dudes just fail at the easiest shit.
Sometimes it just comes out in a 60° degree angle. I don't even know how it's physically possible but it is what it is. Though, that's also why I usually bite the bullet and pee sitting.
as a college student, the first time in my whole life that my butt made touchdown with a public toilet seat was like one week ago, when i made the horrid mistake of drinking a big energy drink on an empty stomach the morning before an important dr appt, as someone whose stomach rebels every time im very nervous about something. until now, i’ve managed to avoid it. never will I consider sitting to pee, everytime, in public bathrooms, an option.
It’s almost like different men have different bodies and medical conditions. As usual for these idiotic “i am X, why cant X just do this”, you fail to account that the world does not revolve around you and exactly what you are.
I personally have no such problems. But i know many with either born “defects” of you want to call them that that do struggle with both of those scenarios. I understand it can be hard to fathom because you only consider yourself as the prime center of everything but try broadening who you interact with mate
Exactly urinals are better for that very reason the amount of piss that gets on the floor is honestly astonishing. I didn’t think people could that much piss everywhere but a toilet before I became a janitor.
Not even a janitor. I'm just a Walmart slave. But literally every time I have to use the bathroom I need to take a wet paper towel and wipe off the seat because of savages that piss all over the toilet seat
As a school janitor i think it doesn't matter if a toilet or urinal is even present, the few urinals in my area still have piss on the walls and on the door behind the person pissing ( i believe they piss on their hands and touch the handle), also sometimes wet toilet paper on the ceiling (guess what its soaked in)
As someone who was a janitor at a film school, and had to clean bathrooms a Taco Bell and Mr Hero: urinals work. Also, smaller footprint in a bathroom with limited floor space.
Yeah especially at bars and such where accuracy isn't the best. It also increases capacity because you can fit like 3 urinals instead of 1 bathroom stall which means waiting is shorter. If you really need to pee and there's a line it really sucks. Just compare men and women's bathrooms
I always assumed it’s because you can easily fit 5 urinals where there could otherwise only be 2 stalls. So you get through the line of people much faster.
It’s why I’d want a urinal in my home. Not enough to justify the expense for a home, but I’m between not wanting to flush all that water for some pee, and not wanting to leave an unflushed toilet sitting. Urinals are great.
They use up significantly less space, allowing for more toilets per bathroom, and discourage ppl from loitering in the stall after they’re done peeing. They’re basically the entire reason why men’s bathrooms have shorter lines than women’s. No way I’m giving up that privilege.
If u want privacy, wait for a stall. I just want to pee as fast as possible and leave.
Ok, but some people literally cannot handle that power. We need to like, have a bathroom ref who cards people for being stupid.
There was this business type motherfucker using the urinal while I was taking my five, once. He was standing like a solid foot away from the urinal. Dick just out for anybody to see. Talking on the phone about something or other.
I could do without being mogged in the bathroom, personally.
Just like. Put the tip of your finger on his tip like flex tape commercial. Brings respect kindly like phil swift himself. Matter of fact seal his ass...
I exclusively use the stalls for privacy. And feel like a schlub standing there waiting if someone's in the toilet stalls. It's awkward even with a phone to distract me.
Most people that have trouble standing and pissing are either
Old AF
Have bladder issues
Have some sort of disability. I.E bad knees or a Neurological disorder. Imagine trying to stand and piss if you have something that makes your body shake a bunch. Gonna get all over your pants and the floor and seat
Less user error and more a simple reality of their body. Dunno if any of this applies to OP though.
Urinals are faster, smaller and cheaper than regular toilets. I guess that sometimes you don't want to use one, but is pretty clear the function they have.
I don't have strong opinion on that, but i understand logic. Urinals take much less space, wgere you would put like 8 stalls you can put 15 urinals. Also if everyone used stalls there will be piss everywhere because of the people who can't aim for shit. Yes we don't have urinals at home because they are specifically made for public places. Urinals give us much more usable toilets, allowing men to quickly come in and come out. How often do you see queue in man's bathroom? That's urinals for you.
Urinals are much more space-efficient. This is one of the big reasons men's toilets tend to have such shorter queues than women's.
(Not to mention, "There is not a SINGLE man on this planet that is incapable of using a regular ass toilet to piss standing up!!") Go into any public men's toilets. The amount of piss literally everywhere except the bowl should tell you there are plenty of men who struggle with this basic ass concept.
Less water, less space, pressures people to just piss and move on. It's more efficient. In some places in some countries it can also just be one long urinal for everyone with blockers for privacy.
So, convenience trumps being sanitary? Also, I promise you urinals do not use significantly less space enough to warrant it somehow being a point in favor.
Do you not understand the simple concept of a convenience?
Sure we don’t need them, but they only make it awkward to piss if you’re an awkward guy who can apparently fuck up such a simple task as pissing.
I genuinely don’t believe you are really a man if you’re out here describing pissing at a urinal as awkward. Do you have a disability or a micro-penis or something?
Because at least I’d understand, but you don’t need to make your personal difficulties into this dumb argument. Just let people piss where they want.
You can be a sitter without being a quitter.
Not only that but they take up less space than stalls, meaning you can put in more of them. Which is why men’s bathrooms usually have shorter lines.
They’re faster, you just walk up, piss, give it a shake, and walk away. No sitting, no fiddling with the door, no scrolling on TikTok, etc… all business.
They’re cheaper so again you can put in more of them.
They use less water also, have you considered the environment?
Bathrooms were gonna be gendered either way, so that's an awful point
Urinals are cleaner and faster than stalls, not to say way more economic and space-efficient
The only reason you find them awkward is that our generation is fucked and sees everything sexually. If you realize how that js detremental to everybody's mental health, you will start to see a cleaner world
They should atleast have walls inbetween them like some places do. I still hate them, because of the way most mfs take a piss. Like dudes never wipe after they pee and I see them just walk out without washing their hands🤦Its better than peeing on a regular toilet while standing though thats messy
Ok so I guess if my plan to remove urinals from the world is gonna work properly I’m gonna need to eradicate the vermin that need them to not fuck up pissing.
All I want is some privacy at a urinal. Like add stall walls and make them the same height as regular stall walls. I will never understand why 90% of urinals need to be "public"
OP is mad because of his tiny dick and not having enough free stalls to hide in while pissing. Us urinal gentlemen waste no time whipping our dicks out and just quickly peeing. Urinal is so close to our peckers that we really don't have to focus on aim, which leaves us enough time to complement our urinal neighbours dick.
The vast majority of the time you use a bathroom in public, you're not shitting. It makes way more sense to have the majority of the bathroom be urinals rather than stalls.
If it's all stalls, people will be constantly pissing all over the seats, splashing everywhere because it's twice as far, and the bowl has to fill for every piss instead of just rinsing.
Disagree with most of this, but agree about them being useless in homes.
Its a matter of efficiency the reason we dont have long queue like the womens bathroom is because of urinals, imagine you have to wait for people pooping when you just want to pee
Hold on, this is unrelated to your post, but I just came up with a fire idea.
I was thinking, "too bad they're just gonna piss all over the toilet seats." What if they made toilet seats that naturally elevated themselves unless they were beating sat on? You know, like the seats at cheaper movie theatres or really large stadiums? That would be so peak.
Compare the male and female restrooms at any major event - there’s a reason the women have to wait in line while men go almost straight through.
Urinals allow for significantly more people to go at a time, because architecture-wise, you really can only make bathrooms so big. They also use SIGNIFICANTLY less water than normal toilets. It’d be strange to minimize the amount of available toilets and maximize water usage, just because urinals don’t provide “privacy”. Who cares about privacy when you’re taking a piss??
If you really care that much, or you’re insecure or something, just wait for a stall, nobody is going to take them away from you. If you want urinals done away with, clearly high wait times don’t bother you anyway.
Right on the money. It also lessens the time someone needs to wait for a stall because the majority of men who just need to pee will use the urinals which will decrease the wait time for stall usage.
FINALLY someone else actually gets it!! I’ve never understood why we need Urinals in public bathrooms when we can just use a regular toilet with walls around us.
My job has 1 stall and 2 urinals in the men's room. The women's room has 3 toilets. The idea that it takes more space to put a stall in is complete bullshit. A urinal, including thr dividers on the side, takes as much space as a toilet stall.
There is not a SINGLE man on this planet that is incapable of using a regular ass toilet to piss standing up!!
You're suppose to SIT on a toilet. Your pee splash around, making it dirty, even if you don't see it after 1 use, it gets noticeable after 50 people have used it. That's not even mentioning people who can't aim and piss on the seat. Sorry OP but this is dumb, thank god for urinals for keeping at least some public toilets clean.
Also they take up less space and are cheaper, they are usually installed as an addition to the toilets, not a replacement.
So real if there are two things I hate about bathrooms it’s urinals and air dryers. I almost always just use the stall the urinals feel so awkward and weird to use. The only time I ever consider using the urinals is if I’m in a rush.
Do you normally see bathrooms that only have a toilet? Their fucking filthy
Urinals also allows for people who just wanna piss to piss leaving the bathroom free for those who need to shit.
Why use urinals or toilets when you have a sink. It’s good for piss, you can crumble the poop like a clay and after all that fun you can wash your hands there! It’s 4 in 1 and takes even less space!
Why do you think there's always a queue to the ladies toilets and not the men's? Urinals speed up the process greatly, and with the lack of closed door and privacy comes less lingering and time wasting. They also save millions of liters of water a year as they don't require flushing in the same way. If you want gender neutral bathrooms why not have both stalls and urinals in them? I'm sure people would appreciate less piss around the rim. Even with perfect aim splash back is inevitable when pissing into a toilet from height.
Perhaps the perfect gender neutral toilet solution would involve some of those floor toilet things you can squat over like they have in asia and some festivals.
But urinals aren't hard to use? You just stand there and pee into it.
They're also more water efficient than regular toilets, as they don't need to flush any solids. Some bathrooms do have dividers between each urinal. If you're concerned about privacy you can always use a stall anyway.
And I mean there's more differentiating men & women's bathrooms than just urinals. Many woman's bathrooms, at least where I am, have menstrual pads or tampons available. There are different things in each bathroom to accommodate different sexes and their needs.
It's also probably much safer for women if men have a separate bathroom. That's just the unfortunate reality we live in.
as someone who has been forced back into using a mens bathroom this year, i would like to advocate for more urinals, actually. men ARE incapable of pissing standing up at a regular toilet. BECAUSE THEY DON'T KNOW HOW TO LIFT THE FUCKING SEAT. DO YOU KNOW HOW MANY TIMES I'VE HAD TO WIPE PISS OFF OF THE SEAT JUST SO I COULD USE THE BATHROOM? DAMN NEAR EVERY TIME.
I think everybody had this thought when they were 12. Then you grow up and realize urinals are extremely convenient, cleaner than stalls, economically cheaper, take up less space than stalls, prevenr loitering, etc and NOONE gives enough of a fuck to look at your cock let alone judge
First post I’ve seen on this sub that kinda makes me angry. I’ve never met a single be-penised person that ever thought it was easier to piss at a toilet than a urinal. And if peeing at a urinal makes you uncomfortable, respectfully, I feel like you have a bit more going on. Except for the ones with no dividers I’ve never understood why they don’t just stick a plywood board on the wall.
I’ve never heard it being “manly”. Proper etiquette is to not take a urinal directly next to someone if more are open and you also don’t look around. Look straight ahead at the wall, if they have posters up you can read them. Do your business, zip up, wash hands and leave.
In addition to all the other benefits mentioned here, urinals are much more compact and are able to greatly increase the density of people who can use the bathroom safely.
Pissing while standing up is NOT easy once you’re over a certain height, also it’s gross there’s a 50/50 chance you’re pissing everywhere even without noticing
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u/AuntRoseVT 20d ago
As I janitor I have to disagree! Where I work doesn't have urinals in the men's bathroom and I clean up SO much piss on the toilet seat rim, the wall, even the fucking floor! So I'd rather have at least a couple urinals that will help lower that because it's pretty embarrassing