Urinals for the home -> why not?

Urine is sterile.

Unless it isn't. Jesus, what a dumb thing to say.

Jim

It is a popular option in high end homes where they have a bunch of bathrooms. The one in the "man's room" has a urinal.

So your answer is - yes. ?

Bizarre.

I don't understand why it would have to be placed in a "mens room" in an affluent house, instead of having it as part of the normal set of fixtures in the main washroom of the average home(*)

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(*) By "average home", I mean a "modern" home - with a suitably large or spacious main washroom according to modern tastes and desires, or the renovation of an older home with the intent of enlarging the washroom.

I think the answer is it doesn't have to be. You can put it anywhere you want. There are plenty of houses that do have one. I knew someone who had one because they had lots of boys. But for the reasons I already mentioned it's a luxury because toilets do double duty. You're beating a dead horse.

Jim

Quite practical.

Is that relevant to this conversation?

guess you don't piss in the shower either. yeah right.

One of my buddies installed one in his "man cave". Most of the guys that are over think its great and he doesnt have to worry so much about his half crocked buddies missing the target. My fatherin law also had one in his bathroom, he didnt have to share it with anyone and he wasnt planing on reselling the house. They are much easier to clean than a toilet and since he had a toilet out in his shop ( much time spent there) the toilet in his bedroom was rarely used.

Jimmie.

It's true, it a purely scientific sense, not a practical one. From the wiki site:

As a teen I used to work in a stable in NYC with about 40 horses. If the hay wasn't mucked out daily the stench of ammonia would be so powerful it could knock you down. My folks made me change my work clothes before they'd let me back in the house. The cat I saved from the stable well stank of horse piss and ammonia for about a week after I brought him home. Put a horseshit covered 20p nail all the way through from the bottom of my boot out through the top. It's quite a surprise to look down and see something sticking up out of your boot top. Solved the problem of removing it by getting woozy and just falling off it. ER treatment consisted of a tetanus shot, an X-ray and a long, long soak in a bowl full of PhisoHex.

On the plus side, I didn't have any fleas, though! I did get ticks, which apparently are very fond of horses. Discovered one of them when I went to use the urinal, FWIW, attached to the end of my you-know-what and a few others making their way up my leg, even though I was wearing cowboy boots. Was naive enough to go to the ER where the nurse said "Didn't you have any Marlboros?"

-- Bobby G.

"Robert Green" wrote in news:jc0it3$8ac$ snipped-for-privacy@speranza.aioe.org:

Good stories!!

Uh, don't you already have a sink in the loo?

If, oh, 70% of American males report that they have, on occasion, used a sink as a urinal, we can safely conclude that 30% of American males lied.

Aside from not having to put the seat down, so doing saves water.

It's for the children.

...but have terrible penmanship.

...or into the wind. We never tug on Superman's cape or pull the mask off the old Lone Ranger, either.

Depends. Some handle the pen very well.

Bill Clinton steps out onto the White House lawn in the dead of winter. Right in front of him, on the White House lawn, he sees "The President Must Die" written in urine across the snow. Well, old Bill is pretty pissed off.

He storms into his security staff's headquaters and yells, "Somebody wrote a death threat in the snow on the front damn lawn! And they wrote it in urine! Son-of-a-bitch had to be standing right on the porch when he did it! Where were you guys?"

The security guys stay silent and stare ashamedly at the floor. Bill hollers, "Well dammit, don't just sit there! Get out and FIND OUT WHO DID IT! I want an answer, and I want it TONIGHT!"

The entire staff immediately jumped up and raced for the exits. Later that evening, his chief security officer approaches him and says, "Well Mr. President, we have some bad news, and we have some really bad news. Which do you want first?"

Clinton says, "Oh Hell, give me the bad news first." The officer says, "Well, we took a sample of the urine and tested it. The results just came back, and it was Al Gore's urine."

Clinton says, "Oh my god, I feel so ... so betrayed! My own vice president! Damn. Well, what's the really bad news?"

The officer replies, "Well, it's Hillary's handwriting."

You really are serious - aren't you?

My jaw dropped after reading that.

Hill billies and frat boys I would expect maybe to piss in a sink. I guess I know which group you belong to.

Forgot to add that although the nail didn't break any bones, that foot has become something of a barometer, aching when the weather's about to change. The horses came to mind because I had just read a news story about how the PETAn's and others are trying to have the NYC hansom carriage rides shut down because it's "cruel to horses." I'm all for treating animals decently but horses have been earning a living pulling things ever since there were things that needed pulling. Why do they need protection from something they were born and bred to do?

I learned a lot working at one NYC's only horse stables as I am sure those that care for the hansom cab horses do. At some point someone has to declare that animals aren't people. Next thing you know the PETAn's will be demanding the right to vote for horses. Cynical New Yorkers claim that the only thing driving this recently reignited protest is that a real estate developer wants the very valuable land the stables are situated on. An ASPCA doctor claims she was coerced into writing a negative report about their care.

When I drove hay wagons through the streets of Staten Island the horses didn't seem to mind - they would run the route themselves if we had let them. There was always a stream of little kids coming out to look at the Clydesdale teams we ran (Punch & Judy, Bonnie & Clyde, Jack & Jill and a few more my poor fading memory can't recall).

I am certain that for many, it was the only time in their lives they had ever been 10 feet away from a real horse. Yes, we had accidents. People got hurt, horses got hurt, cars got banged up but it wasn't often and it certainly didn't justify shutting the whole operation down as the PETAn's are trying to do to the cab drivers. The real irony is that if the hansom cab rides are forced to shut down, a lot of the horses running that route will likely be put down. Yeah, PETA, show us how much you love animals. Better dead than alive and doing what I think they clearly enjoy doing. I say that only because I know what it takes to get a horse to do something it DOESN'T want to do.

-- Bobby G.