I recall one place I worked. There was a "ofd" older gentleman. I was in the restroom with him at a urinal. He went to the paper towel holder, grabbed about 5 pieces, folded them, and then proceeded to wipe the inside of the urinal out. After he finished, he put the paper towel into one of his back pockets and peed, I think. I didn't stay to watch him finish. I just exited the bathroom and didn't look back.
Just thinking how many times I use a urinal a year, multiply by population, the only way this makes sense is with some number of people just pissing onto the floor.
THIS IS WHY
If we could all be civil and just sit down to pee, the world would be a better place.
Yes I've been saying this for at least 20 years. Toilets are for sitting and urinals are for standing. My wife also appreciates this.
The problem is: This only works if EVERYONE does it. The second anyone breaks and gets a few drops on the toilet seat, it’s over. Because that is part of the reason we stand in the first place. We know how gross we are, and if you can see the gross it validates that.
I hate society 😔 lmfao
I can't speak for the whole country but where I work people really do just piss on the floor.
You never worked in a school I guess.
It's 0.003 liters per day per person
you suck at math
So you think the average person uses a public urinal more than 365 times a year? Also about half the population sit.
I didn't write the article :)
If you're angry about the math comment, bust out a calculator. You could have reached that verdict yourself.
A calculator isn't going to tell me how many times a year I use a urinal.
About three times per day during the work day makes for ~800 times per year. Seems to be on the right order of magnitude to me.
Been in a pub toilet when a drunk guy came in, whipped it out half way across the room and the dirty fucker started pissing while staggering to the urinal. Just a fucken animal.
Ultimate solution:
Gotta paint some faces on there, with puckered lips.
Just... Sit down. Shit in the urinal.
Seems like a complete lie. Men might lose a few drops due to the shape of the bowl tops. It's certainly not worth anyone tearing out urinals in the hope some hypothetical piss splashage goes down.
And personally a better goal for urinal design is water reduction. i.e. urinals that use no water, or the bare minimum to flush the piss through.
a better goal for urinal design is water reduction. i.e. urinals that use no water
Don't get me started on those "zero water" urinals. They start to stink and accumulate all kinds of nasty in a matter of weeks. There's a reason we flush all of that stuff down the toilet and into the sewers.
It’s a little more than 1/2 a teaspoon, per person. Not exactly hard to believe.
As someone who used to work in huge hockey arenas. Piss everywhere. All the time.
Before it was rebuilt in the 90s, the MLB stadium in my part of town just had an open trough along a wall with water constantly trickling down it. No dividers.
I can't remember if the toilet stalls still had doors or not, just that it was the foulest rest room I'd ever used until I started working at music festivals.
They are fixing a problem that has already been solved. There are already urinals that take this into consideration. The problem is not in the design, it is the implementation. For some reason everybody everywhere installs those awful American Standard urinals that are specifically designed to splatter pee onto your pants.
Most of it is in my bathroom when my father-in-law visits.
Seeing the amount of micro penis compensating trucks in the US, I'm not surprised
I'm skeptical about this.
There are like 170M dudes
And say each pee is about 300ml
Then 1 in 50 dudes needs to have a full pee on the floor every day.
Ok maybe that's a bit more believable
If you include the outliers that are incontinent, it makes up for the folks who skip a day or two of floor-pissing.
Lol there's a sentence I never thought I'd type.
I personally estimate 85% is from the troughs at Fenway.
I'm doing MY part!!!
"Would you like to know more?"
Who the heck has counted this?
Hey, America. If you are going to ignorantly continue to use your obsolete and impractical system of measurement in spite of the rest of the would moving on to an objectively superior system generations ago, could you at least spell litres correctly when you fucking use the word?
Liter us how it's spelled in American English. Like centre becoming center, fibre to fiber, etc. Language changes, neither is incorrect.
Americans can decide how to spell gallons. They don't get a say in how to spell litre.
Well, here's the thing with language, it is whatever people who use the language use. If you can spell litre as liter and it's widely accepted, welp, liter is a correct and valid form then.
Also, you spell tire as tyre, you lunatics lol
Litre is an international scientific standard. It's spelling is not up for debate. Why don't you just change It's volume as well, and completely fuck up all scientific communication while your at it.
If we're talking about the order the sounds are made, "liter" is more correct. I never understood why Europeans spell the "er" sound as "re". It's just now how the sound works.
My take is that spelling should reflect the sound. In any language. For every word, every time.
American English makes a ton of errors in this regard, you'll get no argument from me there (for example any word with "ough" or "augh" is automatically spelled wrong).
I'm sure tons of other examples in pretty much every language make the same mistake. But as far as I can tell, there is no good reason the spelling shouldn't be a representation of the exact order of sounds that make up the word.
All that to say, even when hearing people who speak all manner of different languages use the word "liter", not one has ever pronounced it "litre".
Honestly it should be more like "ledur" for most Americans. We don't have a habit of the actually making the proper "t" sound very often. But I'm getting into a whole different argument, so I'll leave that kinda rant for a different time.
The spelling of the word, much like any and all words, changes based on how it is used by the people. Standards and definitions follow the usage. It's not about debate, that's literally just language. You can already see this reflected in many sources, such as Wikipedia here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_System_of_Units#Unit_names
The English spelling and even names for certain SI units, prefixes and non-SI units depend on the variety of English used. US English uses the spelling deka-, meter, and liter, and International English uses deca-, metre, and litre. The name of the unit whose symbol is t and which is defined by 1 t = 103 kg is 'metric ton' in US English and 'tonne' in International English.[4]: iii
or here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Litre
The litre (Commonwealth spelling) or liter (American spelling) (SI symbols L and l,[1] other symbol used: ℓ) is a metric unit of volume.
Dammit, Kevin
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