• bluewing@lemm.ee
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    12 days ago

    This cartoon can’t exist. Urinal etiquette requires:

    That you should have one empty urinal between you and the next guy if at all possible. And always go to the nearest open urinal when you enter.

    And that you look straight ahead and never look to either side of you. You must stare solely at the wall straight ahead of you. Thoughtful establishments hang pictures or current sales flyers at eye level to look at while peeing.

    And most of all, you must never speak to anyone in there. So there is absolutely no way this cartoon can happen in the real world.

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      12 days ago

      if at all possible

      I hate that I’m arguing the reality of a comic world, but we can’t see the rest of the wall. We don’t know if there’s 2/3 urinals total, making it impossible to leave a buffer urinal between them.

      Also, without considering it a “rule” I leave an empty urinal between as well, but I don’t go as far as resorting to using a stall if I only have to pee. That’s just silly…

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        12 days ago

        A silly comic often leads to a silly discussion. Sometimes you just need to run with it. Or in the words-- Don’t hate the playa, hate the game.

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        In fact we do know that there’s someone else in the room - otherwise who is the old man talking to?

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        In the men’s bathroom, violating any of these rules of etiquette brings the death penalty.

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        I cover big public board meetings as part of my job, and when I go on breaks, I tend to use the bathroom, because I am a person. Without fail, someone will come in and talk to me while I’m pissing. I don’t personally care, I was in the Marines for a bit and they beat all of that out of you (i.e., a room with eight toilets and that’s it, no walls, nothing, just eight toilets, four on each wall so you can face each other). Regardless though, I never walk in and talk to someone randomly, so it’s strange to me that others do it to me. I guess I just look like a nice guy.

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      I agree with all of this except the “always go to the nearest urinal.” I don’t think it matters which you go to as long as you follow the pattern that allows for the maximum number of urinals to be filled while leaving a one-urinal gap between you and the next person.

      Let me explain:

      🚽 = urinal, 🚹 = person peeing

      You have the following setup:

      🚽 | 🚽 | 🚽

      Correct urinal to occupy:

      🚹 | 🚽 | 🚽 OR 🚽 | 🚽 | 🚹

      Incorrect:

      🚽 | 🚹 | 🚽

      Notice how the correct solution allows for a second urinal to be occupied while still maintaining the courtesy urinal between. The incorrect solution doesn’t.

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      12 days ago

      And always go to the nearest open urinal when you enter.

      I usually go to the one closest to the wall. It seems comfier

      And most of all, you must never speak to anyone in there.

      I’m not stopping the chat with my bro just because I have a dick in my hand I’m pissing. I have shit to say

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        And most of all, you must never speak to anyone in there.

        I’m not stopping the chat with my bro just because I have a dick in my hand I’m pissing. I have shit to say

        I’d also like to say that some of the funniest things I’ve ever heard have been uttered by a random at a urinal.