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Scaryduck LIKES EGG, Thu 15 Jul 2010, 13:23)
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Little did i know...I still remember using a urinal in the first bar I ever went into.
Being the oldest child in my family I didn't get the privilege of using an older brother's id to sneak into a pub/bar. So upon arrival in Australia, where the drinking age is a year lower than back home I practically kicked the doors down at the nearest bar. After many drinks were drank off I went to the men's room. Now I'm used to the stereotypical wrap around and give you privacy sort of urinal found in schools and libraries, so I was a little startled to see the trough. This one in particular was so bizarre to me i had to stop and think about how to operate it. Let me try to describe it to you... basically a wall of stainless steel with water flowing down it (I've since found that the water transfers the stream downwards to prevent splash back) and a grate that you stand on with more water flowing to the drain under it. Well I didn't want to muck up the pretty stainless steel trough by getting my dirty shoes all over it. So I stood well back, down the step, and basically pushed as hard as I could to get enough force to make it over the step, and over the grate and onto the back wall.
Fortunately there wasn't anyone in the room with me for all but the last trip of the night. There I was, like a red faced baboon, back arched, pushing for all I was worth when my buddy stepped up on the grate and looked over at me like wtf are you doing? I nearly died.
(, Mon 19 Jul 2010, 16:41, 1 reply)
I did the same!I just arrived in Melbourne and was fairly confused by the first of such urinals I came across. With no one else in the loo at that point I weighed it up and decided on a sort of half on/half off sort of balancing act where I tried not to stand on fully on the grate but was also close enough not to have to force it.
I've later discovered that although most people seem to stand on the grate that is by no means the norm. At the MCG it seemed to be about 75/25 in favour of the grate but the rest were manfully trying to piss over the grate from the floor. My dilema now is do I stand back and fire it or do I stand on the pissy grate. I've decided on the later as it's not as if I eat off my shoes and I quite like the water feature of the yellow swirling liquid below my feet
(, Tue 20 Jul 2010, 2:01, closed)
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