The Middle Urinal

[Orpz]

It's common knowledge that you should never, ever use the middle urinal in a restroom with no dividers. As per the man code.

So then why was the middle urinal even invented?

Simple, there are circumstances where you might be pushed to the extreme. These are cases that test your faith in the man code.

You are in a restroom with 3 urinals. The urinals on each side are occupied.

Consider the following different scenarios:
1) Your bladder is at maximum capacity, you've barely made it to the restroom. You can't do the pee-pee dance much longer and you know it.
2) There is a queue for the urinals. 5 people at the minimum, but none of them seem to want to use the middle urinal. You may cut in line and pee if you choose to use the middle urinal.

Would the tenets of avoiding the middle urinal still be valid?

Discuss.

[Slaol]

No. That is what it is there for.

[Mateo]

Yes, the middle urinal is only there to provide spacing. In reality, the middle urinal should be the midget urinal.

If u have to go taht bad, man code states u must push someone out the way and start peeing in either left or right urinal

[Orpz]

Reminds me of the time when some underclassman thought he was alone. He decided to use the middle urinal, therefore invalidating the surrounding two.

I was the next in line and had to wait for him before commencing my piss, causing me to be late to class. I accepted my detention.

Another point to consider:
do dividers justify the use of the middle urinal?

[Mateo]

u shoulda peed on him so he would be late

[Orpz]

u shoulda peed on him so he would be late

Serious discussion, Mateo

This topic has plagued me and my friends since elementary school. Insight from other areas of the US would help our understanding.

[Mateo]

obv u use whatever is available if u have to go bad

[Admiral]

Only if you go skiing.

[Helz]

I really hate the ones they put in bars that go to your feet. First it is totally impossible to piss that far down without splashing a bit which really sucks if you are wearing sandles. Then some places take the the devider situation a step too far with the trough. Its one giant sink with a never ending waterfall going down the back and not a devider in site. Add drunk people and what does this mean for your personal space? There no longer is any. So while you use this great facility splashing piss all over your feet you are now joined by other drunks who are also splashing piss on your feet and not a single guy is aiming because your dicks are so close together it would be Wang watching just to try to aim.
Yeah.. Public restrooms are awesome.

[Muso]

Wow this must be why I got so many funny looks when I always used the middle urinal in america

[oops_ur_dead]

I really hate the ones they put in bars that go to your feet. First it is totally impossible to piss that far down without splashing a bit which really sucks if you are wearing sandles. Then some places take the the devider situation a step too far with the trough. Its one giant sink with a never ending waterfall going down the back and not a devider in site. Add drunk people and what does this mean for your personal space? There no longer is any. So while you use this great facility splashing piss all over your feet you are now joined by other drunks who are also splashing piss on your feet and not a single guy is aiming because your dicks are so close together it would be Wang watching just to try to aim.
Yeah.. Public restrooms are awesome.

Who the fuck just stands there and pisses downwards. You're supposed to hit the urinal wall at a steep angle to minimize splashback.

Anyway, as for the original question. The man code states that no two men are to piss in adjacent urinals unless a divider is there. Therefore the middle urinal is there so that this rule can be honored. If it wasn't there, then even though there's a massive space, the two men would still be pissing next to eachother, therefore breaking the man code.

If anyone ever goes into the urinal right beside me, I always just turn over and start pissing on them until they leave.

do dividers justify the use of the middle urinal?

Yes.

Another question: if you decide to piss in a stall instead of a urinal, is it mandatory to close the door, or can you just leave it open?

[Mateo]

i dont understand closing doors if not going boom boom, whether public or private

[Slaol]

Another question: if you decide to piss in a stall instead of a urinal, is it mandatory to close the door, or can you just leave it open?

You should close it to show that someone is in there before they have to get right up on you.

[Bunny]

Stalls are where its at. Theres so much stuff you can do in there. Like if you're bored at work you can just go take a leisurely tinkle sit back, relax and post on sc2mafia.com. Or you could change your socks. So many more possibilities in a stall that don't exist with a urinal.

[Mateo]

You should close it to show that someone is in there before they have to get right up on you.

but then u hav to lock it so they dont barge in, and then u gotta touch more surfaces *shudders*

[Slaol]

but then u hav to lock it so they dont barge in, and then u gotta touch more surfaces *shudders*

I stopped caring when I learned that my school desks had more germs than the average public toilet.
I figure less people use them than you think, all of them assuming that they are nasty.

I also heard that Women's bathrooms are sometimes far more nasty. This because far more women actually use them. Not entirely sure how correct this is though.

[oops_ur_dead]

You should close it to show that someone is in there before they have to get right up on you.

Yeah but what if you leave it wide open so they can clearly see that you're taking a piss

[Slaol]

Yeah but what if you leave it wide open so they can clearly see that you're taking a piss

I suppose both are better than the half-open-'is-someone-in-there-?' option. But I think closed conveys it better.

[Orpz]

I close the stall doors. Barbarians at my school pull their dick out before they actually go in the stall. Not down to be accidentally humped.


Hooray 100th post.

[Mateo]

im not a prude so i always use the urinal right next to someone else, love to feel their tension

[Helz]

Who the fuck just stands there and pisses downwards. You're supposed to hit the urinal wall at a steep angle to minimize splashback.

Anyway, as for the original question. The man code states that no two men are to piss in adjacent urinals unless a divider is there. Therefore the middle urinal is there so that this rule can be honored. If it wasn't there, then even though there's a massive space, the two men would still be pissing next to eachother, therefore breaking the man code.

If anyone ever goes into the urinal right beside me, I always just turn over and start pissing on them until they leave.



Yes.

Another question: if you decide to piss in a stall instead of a urinal, is it mandatory to close the door, or can you just leave it open?

Closed so nobody has that weird walk in moment.

And I will see if I can find a picture so you understand what I mean. You are really better off pissing in the sink

[Apocist]

Open, the stall toilets that Apo normally use are so close to the door it's quite easy to tell someone is using it. Apo just thinks of it as an extra large divider.