You may have noticed that this-here blog isn’t really being updated anymore. That’s the bad news. The good news is that the ICBE has undergone a complete site redesign (it’s about time), and Porcelain has been wrapped up into the main site, where you’ll find new blog posts still being added.
Larry writes:
What about the men who do not lift the toilet lid when urinating?
Honestly, I don’t have an issue with the act of urinating with the seat down itself. The problem is with men who have bad aim, and then refuse to clean up after themselves. Seat down or seat up, if you get pee droplets on the seat or the rim or the floor, you really ought to wipe those up!
It’s definitely bad etiquette to leave pee anywhere in the bathroom other than properly inside the toilet.
S writes…
I work in an office with 8 other women. We have two unisex bathrooms with no automatic closers on them. I sit within sight of the open door and hate seeing the toilet. I have expressed this concern to all other co-workers and the door is still open most of the time. Naturally, every so often there are personal feminine items in the bathroom in plain sight. We are having a lot of visitors from within our company here soon (more than 100) and I have expressed to my boss the need for automatic closers on the doors. By the way all other bathrooms have automatic closers, including the ones adjacent to my boss’s office door.
What is your take on this? To close or not to close?
My response:
I absolutely agree that bathroom doors should be closed at all times in the workplace. If automatic closers can’t (or won’t) be installed, then I think everybody should be encouraged to close the doors when they leave the bathroom.
I wish I could offer some strategy to help with your boss or coworkers, but I can only wish you good luck.
Consider yourself warned. Next time you launch a few swear words at your toilet (don’t we all on occasion?), you might just find yourself facing a ticket. That’s right, a woman from Scranton (Home of The Office?!?!) let her toilet know just how she was feeling - potentially to the tune of $300 and 90 days in jail.
If you can believe it, a neighbor heard her, and Dawn Herb was cited for disorderly conduct! I am never moving to Scranton!
Sim Jae-Duck was born in a toilet (though the article is woefully short on details there). It seems this may have propelled him towards his current life of toilet fanaticism. The Korean man has started the World Toilet Association which he hopes will work alongside the World Toilet Organization (confused yet?) to promote cleaner toilets in poor and developing countries across the globe.
Good on him!
And to cap off his career, he plans to live out his days in a brand-new toilet shaped house. This is where Mr Sim and I stop agreeing on things…
Especially not if you happen to be using a public bathroom when Mariah Carey and her cronies decide to enter. Apparently Mariah’s lackeys tried to kick a couple of girls out of the bathroom when Mariah wanted to use it. Refusing to leave, and apparently looking quite a bit like peeping toms (pun fully intended), they were warned against ogling Mariah during the act.
FYI: It’s piss-poor etiquette (again, pun fully intended) to kick people out of a public bathroom just because you have a shy bladder.
Apparently dunny is what those crazy Australians call an outdoor toilet. Why is this relevant? Because the Australian Dunny Derby is upon us! 20 teams will race around the 250 m track vying not only to be fastest, but also to have the best looking dunny. Winner of that receives the ass wipers trophy, naturally. It all takes place at the Winton Outback Festival.
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I don’t get it either. We’ve got Alyssa Milano in what must be the most boring female-in-the-shower photoshoot ever. Maybe the studio stills from a print campaign for a shower fixture company?
Well, at least don’t pee outside. A Croatian motorcyclist was taking a pee by the side of the road, when he was struck by lightning. The doctors seem to think that since he was wearing rubber boots, the lightning grounded itself via his urine stream… (which is rather different than actually being struck in the penis by lightning, like the article title claims).
Anyways, the good news is that his penis was not blasted into oblivion…
Jeremiah Hansen doesn’t think men should pee standing up. He cites the rather disgusting amount of pee splash and the general aiming inaccuracy of the penis as good reasons not to pee standing up. And honestly, I have trouble disagreeing with him. Peeing while sitting down seems a whole lot cleaner, making it a lot harder to get pee outside the toilet (but not impossible - more on that another time).
I have to say though, if he’s experiencing a lot of splashback from his home toilet while standing, he might be doing something wrong. I rarely if ever get splashback at home, noticing it mostly in poorly shaped urinals (which ironically is the one place he advocates peeing while standing). Maybe Jeremiah’s just got better water pressure than I do though.
I should also point out that peeing while sitting is way easier in the dark, and is my preferred mode when I get up to pee in the middle of the night.
Finally, if you ever need to pee and are given the option between a toilet and a urinal, please choose the latter - they require significantly less water to flush.
Seriously, did they need a study to figure out that men wash their hands less often than women? Because I could have told them, or pretty much anybody with half a brain.
PS: Check out the clever Fark-embedded code in the URL…
