Ah school...
My friends and I dared a mutual friend to take a dump in a phone box. Never thinking for a second that a. she would or b. would go back on three subsequent occasions to repeat her glory.

O Birmingham, so much to answer for.

What are the blue cakes in a urinal by the way. I am a lady (well...kind of) and have never seen one.
(Siouxfan I'm not staring at you, I am just short sighted, Mon 5 Nov 2007, 14:06, 7 replies)

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They are also known as trough lollies.
(oneinthepink is at your cervix m'lady, Mon 5 Nov 2007, 14:11, closed)

Blue cakes
They're just those little disinfectant blocks like you get to hang on the side of the toilet bowl. They dissolve slowly and keep the urinal free of nasties.

Actually, that's not true. All men's toilets stink. The blue cakes are just there for show and to tempt people to dare their friends to eat them.
( K2k6 has a proper job these days, Mon 5 Nov 2007, 14:12, closed)

All mens toilets stink..
.because the less educated amongst us usually micturate on the floor. Sometimes for a dare, sometimes for their own amusement.

Also men's cocks are particularly unpredictable. On opening the taps, the stream is not always guaranteed to flow straight ahead. Sometimes it will spray to one side or the other, thus landing on the floor.
(Vic Flange, Mon 5 Nov 2007, 14:23, closed)

O Birmingham, so much to answer for?
Are you misquoting The Smiths?

Urinal cakes make tasty treats when coated with chocolate according to the book American Psycho.
( abefroman skating on the thin life of modern life on, Mon 5 Nov 2007, 14:28, closed)

Urinal cakes
Have no effect, apart from a slight cleaning product smell (only on the day they're put in). The actual purpose is to give men something to aim at, in the hope that they will point it vaguely toward the urinal instead of pissing all over the floor for pointless amusement.

A better idea came from the Netherlands (don't they all?!) where at Schipol airport, the urinals have little black flies painted beneath the glaze. Apparently the slight distraction of having a target to aim at reduced pissy floor moppage by XX? litres per day....
(Greencloud Wanted to go fishing on, Mon 5 Nov 2007, 14:48, closed)

A picture of a bee appears on some urinals;
Supposedly this is a joke on the Latin word for bee, "apis".
( benryves Now I'm radioactive! That can't be good!, Mon 5 Nov 2007, 14:53, closed)

blue cakes
You wanted to know what the blue cakes are for? Lets just say you should get some for that phonebox in Brummy land.
(Miggyman, Mon 5 Nov 2007, 17:11, closed)