Re:The Unfortunate Physics of Male Urination
by banachtarski on Wednesday August 17, 2016 @01:56PM
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At home, I sit always. People think I'm weird for doing it but honestly I hate the mess more than the slight inconvenience.
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Re:The Unfortunate Physics of Male Urination
by takk309 on Wednesday August 17, 2016 @02:05PM
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I too sit at home. I have done it for most of my adult life, basically as soon as I had to start cleaning my own bathroom.
Re:The Unfortunate Physics of Male Urination
by tzs on Wednesday August 17, 2016 @03:54PM
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If you ever do that somewhere other than home, be careful. I ran into a toilet at an office where some idiot had installed an elongated seat on a regular sized bowl. It was not difficult to end up in a position where you felt properly positioned based on previous elongated toilets, but in fact your penis was in front of the bowl, aimed right down into your pants.
Re:The Unfortunate Physics of Male Urination
by mywittyname on Wednesday August 17, 2016 @02:57PM
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The one trick urinal physicists don't want you to know about!
Re:The Unfortunate Physics of Male Urination
by ekianjo on Wednesday August 17, 2016 @02:03PM
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In Japan a large proportion of men also sit at home (based on a recent survey) for the very same splashback complaints from their wives.
Re:The Unfortunate Physics of Male Urination
by microcolonel on Wednesday August 17, 2016 @02:11PM
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I find that when I sit down to pee, my penis can touch the rim of the toilet if I'm not careful, it's kinda uncomfortable. It's also very space-inefficient in an office environment. My office is mostly full of men, and we would have serious problems if we didn't have the urinal in addition to two toilets on every floor. A urinal can relieve twice or three times as many people in the same time it takes for a toilet stall to relieve one.
Re:The Unfortunate Physics of Male Urination
by BurningFrog on Wednesday August 17, 2016 @05:06PM
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> People think I'm weird for doing it
I only think you're a little weird for telling them.
Re:The Unfortunate Physics of Male Urination
by banachtarski on Friday August 19, 2016 @03:45AM
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I think if you have roommates or housemates at some point, or live with a girlfriend or wife, it isn't entirely out of the question. This isn't something I'd open with at a bar or something.
Re:The Unfortunate Physics of Male Urination
by mercer on Friday August 19, 2016 @05:02AM
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Sitting for a pee was one of most unexpected and difficult cultural barriers I had to deal with when I lived in Germany.
My German flatmates were very serious about it, and most houses I visited, most of them multi-nationality, had signs imploring visitors to always sit. Took me a while, and quite a bit of 'public shaming' to remember to sit.
The weirdest part was that whenever I'd have non-German male visitors, we'd usually end up in an argument about the practice because it was perceived to be emasculating! And more than once my guests, otherwise perfectly polite, would just pee standing up anyways.
Re:The Unfortunate Physics of Male Urination
by hourislate on Wednesday August 17, 2016 @02:04PM
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A lot of men don't like to admit to sitting down to piss but as you age your hydraulic pressure seems to decrease and you wake more during the night to piss. Sitting down while half asleep prevents a mess and empties your bladder more thoroughly.
Re:The Unfortunate Physics of Male Urination
by arm on Wednesday August 17, 2016 @02:30PM
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Back when I was a kid, on some mornings, I did try sitting down to urinate a few times (basically whenever I was feeling too tired to stand), but I stopped doing that after a while since it would usually hurt (I’m guessing due to the force of all the urine coming out (quite a bit does accumulate after sleeping for 8 – 10 hours) combined with my sitting posture). Since it never hurt while I was standing, I ended up just sticking to that after a while.