Urinal Diaries! Part Five!

[lagizma]

There is a Swedish museum toilet (Gothenburg, Västra Götalands Län) that attempts to save water by separating the different bodily functions into two different receptacles. The theory is that less water can be used to flush out liquid body waste. It's complicated enough that it requires instructions. Happy instructions, at least.

Comments

[court9]

When I have to pee really bad in my sleep, I have dreams about peeing that include specific scenarios:

1. I'm in a public bathroom and people won't leave or stop looking into the stall.
2. I can't stop peeing and it overflows the toilet and pours onto the ground.
3. I need to pee so badly that I don't care I'm sitting on the toilet seat with the lid down.
4. I discretely try to use a container such as a trash can or sink because I keep having to run back to the bathroom to pee so often that it's disruptive to whatever I'm doing (think UTI).
5. The toilet seat is so huge that I have to brace myself from my ass falling into the water in a pose eerily close to the bulging eye man shitting in the peehole pictured above.

[lagizma]

3 -- When drunk, I have sat on either the lid or the bowl with no seat, only to realize something was seriously wrong. I've never peed *on* the seat, but I have come close.

[court9]

I really had to go once and sat down on the lid. It was cold and for an instant I thought I fell in. Luckily the shock didn't cause me to pee before I could lift the lid and sit down again.

I was sober.

[lagizma]

Maybe you need to go to some kind of Toilet Trauma Anonymous group.

[zenithblue]

I *love* that picture. I like how the guy looks both stupid and unhappy in picture #2. Like: "Poo poo in the bad place?"

Speaking of public toilets, did I ever tell you about the time at Spartacus that a coworker had to unclog the most utterly disgusting toilet of all time and ended up just pouring lighter fluid along the top of the mess and tossing in a match?

Which, oddly enough, worked. But it fucking stunk to high heaven.

[lagizma]

I love that your lighter fluid story is not about any old place of employment (say, oh, the library) but about a sex toy store. It makes it all the more horrific.

[kathkelch]

oh crap. That "Poo poo in the bad place?" comment made me laugh so much.

[blozor]

I hope that Swedish toilet doesn't take on in America. People are assholes over here. There's no way in hell you'd convince Americans not to poop in the pee spot because they think it's funny. Restaurants and retail stores would have to hire extra staff for the express purpose of scraping poop out of the wrong part of the toilet.

[lagizma]

Restaurants and retail stores would have to hire extra staff for the express purpose of scraping poop out of the wrong part of the toilet.

Thus negating the water saving feature.

[zenithblue]

This was totally what I thought when I saw it too.

You can tell who works customer service around here.

[kathkelch]

Finally! A urinal for girls!

1. My middle school had weird ass looking toilets in the girls room. Well, they had some weird toilets and some regular toilets. The weird ones had regular toilet seats but the bowls were super elongated in the front... like you had to straddle part of it to sit down and pee. They were scary. I think I only used one once when I was in a hurry and there was a line for the regular toilets.

2. I too have recurring anxiety dreams about public restrooms. Scary overflowing toilets that are broken or difficult to use and stalls with no doors on them. I think it's a girl thing.