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lunabee34 ([personal profile] lunabee34) wrote2011-02-17 03:47 pm
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Urination: A Rant

Do you know what separates humans from animals besides the opposable thumbs and insane credit card debt?

Manners, my friends. Manners.

I am sick and tired of going into a public restroom stall that looks like a hyena has been in there spraying her scent. I am tired of the fine misting of urine that coats every surface and the inch deep puddle of piss that pools around the base of the toilet.

For the love of all that is holy, ladies, sit on the freaking toilet to pee!

I don't care what urban legend your best friend told you in junior high--you cannot contract flesh-eating syphilitic gonnorhea from sitting on a public toilet seat. Unless you plan to scrub an open wound on the commode or clean it with your tongue, your body is pretty much an impenetrable fortress and safe from from the evil toilet germs.

I am tired of accidentally sitting in pee. I am tired of wiping up other people's pee. I am tired of stepping in pee and smelling pee. My vision of the ideal human condition does not involve hovering in a squat and releasing my bladder willynilly over a device which was designed To Be Sat Upon.

I have the opposable thumbs and the massive debt, and I sit on the toilet to pee instead of hosing down the stall for the next person. O. M. G. !!!!!!!!!

[identity profile] droolfangrrl.livejournal.com 2011-02-17 08:59 pm (UTC)(link)
If they just lifted the seat up they could hover all they like. What gets me is when there are those little paper seat covers and they STILL piddle all over the seat.
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[identity profile] lunabee34.livejournal.com 2011-02-17 09:02 pm (UTC)(link)
I KNOW! It's like some people look at the seat protectors and think, "That is so hygeinic. I'd rather squirt the back wall instead."

If you must balance over the bowl, there are a lot of things you can do to mitigate the disaster. Like wiping up your own pee!!!!!!!!!!

[identity profile] droolfangrrl.livejournal.com 2011-02-17 09:06 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm not shy about stuff like this. I will make a fuss about it in part hoping that one of the other gals in the bathroom is one of these people.
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[identity profile] lunabee34.livejournal.com 2011-02-17 09:08 pm (UTC)(link)
Good for you! Lorraine approves.

I work at a college, so the situation in the bathroom is often even worse than what you might find Britney Spears slogging through barefoot on the outskirts of Homa, LA.

Teenagers are the grossest people.
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[personal profile] spikedluv 2011-02-17 09:15 pm (UTC)(link)
OMG, public restrooms are the ~worst thing ever invented! I have to be ready to pee my pants before I'll use one at the mall and such. Restaurants are often a little bit better. Yet, even when the seat is too disgusting to contemplate sitting upon, I still manage to aim into the freaking bowl! *shudder*
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[identity profile] lunabee34.livejournal.com 2011-02-17 10:54 pm (UTC)(link)
Well, you have manners, my friend. I can't imagine you leaving a toilet stall looking like hazardous waste site. LOL

[identity profile] executrix.livejournal.com 2011-02-17 10:00 pm (UTC)(link)
Do you know what separates humans from animals besides the opposable thumbs and insane credit card debt?

The divinely given ability to accessorize? /Steel Magnolias
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[identity profile] lunabee34.livejournal.com 2011-02-17 10:51 pm (UTC)(link)
Bweeeeeeee!

Somewhere, [livejournal.com profile] crazydiamondsue is going, "She took my line!" LOL

Man, I love that movie. I'd like to see the play; I think they're doing it in Macon this spring.
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[personal profile] ariadne83 2011-02-17 10:01 pm (UTC)(link)
OMG ewwww!

We don't seem to have that problem down here. My biggest rant about the toilets at Cam's university is how FUCKING NARROW the cubicles are. The giant toilet-paper dispensers are always mounted in stupid, stupid places so that I have to sit down on the toilet before I can get the cubicle door shut.
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[identity profile] lunabee34.livejournal.com 2011-02-17 10:50 pm (UTC)(link)
OMG, I know exactly what you mean!

We have a stall in one of the buildings in which the giant toilet paper dispenser is so close to to the toilet, you kind of have to wedge your thigh between it and bowl just to sit down (or else sit sidesaddle WHICH IS AS RIDICULOUS FOR THE 21ST CENTURY WOMAN AS WAS FOR THE 19TH!).

You are very lucky that people don't pee like badgers with bladder infections all over the bathrooms where you are. I am envious.
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[personal profile] ariadne83 2011-02-17 11:10 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh trust me, I know how lucky I am. I've seen the men's bathrooms.
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[identity profile] lunabee34.livejournal.com 2011-02-18 03:23 am (UTC)(link)
Oh, man. The horror stories Josh tells me about the men's room are legion.
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[personal profile] ariadne83 2011-02-18 03:43 am (UTC)(link)
Basically, multiply the pee-flood in the ladies' room by drunkenness and/or competitiveness, factor in how much some guys love juvenile humor (which in this case means TPing everything in sight) and you have a fair approximation.
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[identity profile] lunabee34.livejournal.com 2011-02-18 03:47 am (UTC)(link)
What I don't get is the inexplicable turd in the urinal.

I mean who does that? And how? In a regularly frequented restroom, how does one go about crapping into the urinal? Is it the thrill of possible discovery? *flaily hands* IDK.

And absolute yes to the drunkness. At least drunk ladies actually do sit on the toilet because they just don't have the control to hover. LOL Drunk dudes turn into automated sprinkler systems.
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[personal profile] ariadne83 2011-02-18 03:57 am (UTC)(link)
Let me set a scene for you: a bunch of drunk dudebros go to the bathroom together before they plan to move on to the next club. One of them suggests the awesome prank of crapping in the urinal. One is drunk enough to take up that dare. The other dudebros stand sentry while he takes his dump, and then they all high-five each other, and have giggle fits when they get outside, because, hell yeah, dude, they didn't even get caught!

ETA: or more concisely, see above comment RE: drunkenness + competitiveness + juvenile sense of humour ;-)

Can you tell I have older brothers? And that I hung out with dudebros when I was a teenager?
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[identity profile] lunabee34.livejournal.com 2011-02-18 04:25 am (UTC)(link)
Wow.

I just. Wow.

Somehow the fact that they're standing guard for the Urinal Dumper makes this even worse. LOL

I do not have older brothers. And while as a teenager, I kinda wished I did so he could bring his hot, older friends home to sex me up, now I am grateful. Thank you for helping me to put that childhood dream to rest.

:)
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[personal profile] ariadne83 2011-02-18 04:38 am (UTC)(link)
Somehow the fact that they're standing guard for the Urinal Dumper makes this even worse. LOL

It's written in the Bro Code: Thou shalt stand sentry for stupid pranks. Corollary: the stupider the prank is the more crucial that it shall be carried out in its entirety.

ETA: for evidence of this rule and its corollary see the entirety of Jackass.
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[identity profile] lunabee34.livejournal.com 2011-02-18 01:28 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, Jackass. I love those movies because they involve two-dimensional people that I don't know and will never have to spend time with. LOL I'm ashamed of myself for loving them, but I do.
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A list of "pranks" my brothers have played

[personal profile] ariadne83 2011-02-18 04:51 am (UTC)(link)
AKA The Many Reasons Why I Give People The Side-eye When They Say A Friend Is So Close They're Like A Brother (they make you miserable a lot of the time but for some reason you love them anyway???)

- Farting in your sister's face (note: there are two boys and three girls in my family, so this was a mix-and-match prank)
- Filming themselves playing table tennis with my mother's guitar
- Flushing my baby sister's head down the toilet
- At a 21st, encouraged one of their (really, really drunk) friends to drink a cocktail that included curdled milk
- Made Still make constant poos-and-wees jokes. They're now *both* in their thirties, JSYK. One of them lists The Simpsons as the best show ever made
- When my mother isn't around, make constant dick/pussy/fag jokes

Basically, my brothers are douchebags. I love them, but they are total douchebags. And I would never make friends with guys who act like them.
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Re: A list of "pranks" my brothers have played

[identity profile] lunabee34.livejournal.com 2011-02-18 01:30 pm (UTC)(link)
I have seen the head flushing thing on the TV but thankfully never experienced it. Wow. That seems horrible.

My brother has mostly grown up past that kind of stuff. I am still haunted by memories of his teenage self, but he mostly is not a gross idiot. Mostly.
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[personal profile] tabaqui 2011-02-17 10:47 pm (UTC)(link)
CHRIST, THIS.

Times about a billion.

Can i link you?
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[identity profile] lunabee34.livejournal.com 2011-02-17 10:48 pm (UTC)(link)
Yes. Yes, you may.

Get the word out!

We won't take it anymore!

LOL
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[personal profile] tabaqui 2011-02-17 11:12 pm (UTC)(link)
Heeee! Thank you. :)
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[identity profile] decynthus.livejournal.com 2011-02-18 03:03 am (UTC)(link)
I think it was Robert Heinlein who said the way to tell whether a civilization is flourishing or declining is to observe how well its public spaces are maintained.
I guess we have our answer...
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[identity profile] lunabee34.livejournal.com 2011-02-18 03:24 am (UTC)(link)
Ahahaahahahahahahahahaha.

YES!

I love it.

[identity profile] cityphonelines.livejournal.com 2011-02-18 08:10 am (UTC)(link)
Seriously! Ladies if we want to gloat to men about how pristine and proper we are, then we need to not mark our territory like over excited pups. It's gross. Stop it. Because it's really gross.
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[identity profile] lunabee34.livejournal.com 2011-02-18 01:30 pm (UTC)(link)
LOL

You said it, sister!

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[personal profile] lyr 2011-02-21 08:25 am (UTC)(link)
Word. I was brought up to do the spread-paper-over-the-seat thing, which I still do. Take heart, though. I've seen the men's bathroom, after all, and that usually makes ours look better by comparison.
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[identity profile] lunabee34.livejournal.com 2011-02-21 08:47 pm (UTC)(link)
Ooooooh, and now I get to unveil a new icon.

Ta da!
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[personal profile] lyr 2011-02-23 01:55 am (UTC)(link)
Fun icon, and very true!