I enter, there is a late-30s/omewhere-40s guy standing at the urinal. I get to a stall, unzip, pee, zip, wash hands and get out while he's still standing at his urinal. It felt so damn good. I should've said something as I was leaving.
Oh fuck, so people do notice?
I find it near impossible to piss when other people are around, so when I go to a urinal I tend to stand there until the bathroom is empty. I always wondered if this stood out.
I thought everyone treated public peeing as a race. I thought everyone understood what is at stake.
Every day the internet finds new ways to affirm my fears and insecurities.
I enter, there is a late-30s/omewhere-40s guy standing at the urinal. I get to a stall, unzip, pee, zip, wash hands and get out while he's still standing at his urinal. It felt so damn good. I should've said something as I was leaving.
You know, not every 30/40-something dude who loiters around public urinals does so due to issues of urine velocity.
I enter, there is a late-30s/omewhere-40s guy standing at the urinal. I get to a stall, unzip, pee, zip, wash hands and get out while he's still standing at his urinal. It felt so damn good. I should've said something as I was leaving.
Oh fuck, so people do notice?
I find it near impossible to piss when other people are around, so when I go to a urinal I tend to stand there until the bathroom is empty. I always wondered if this stood out.
I thought everyone treated public peeing as a race. I thought everyone understood what is at stake.
See, I've always felt the opposite.
Some guy would come in, pee, and leave while I was still peeing and in my head I'd be all "Look at the guy with the tiny bladder."
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But with liquor, especially if you have a somewhat sensitive stomach like mine, you have to think about what's in each drink you have before your next drink.
I'd love to be more adventurous in my drinking but the results are rarely good when I do so.
I mix brown and clear liquor all the time never had a problem. I do understand though that I'm the exception not the rule.
that's a myth in my experience.
the bigger lesson is that if you are drunk while mixing drinks, you are apt to mix them too strong and your palate will be unable to discern that they are too strong
I mean more in the, I've had multiple types of liquor in the same night and never gotten sick. Where as my second beer I'm feeling queasy and a third would probably make me vomit.
I enter, there is a late-30s/omewhere-40s guy standing at the urinal. I get to a stall, unzip, pee, zip, wash hands and get out while he's still standing at his urinal. It felt so damn good. I should've said something as I was leaving.
Oh fuck, so people do notice?
I find it near impossible to piss when other people are around, so when I go to a urinal I tend to stand there until the bathroom is empty. I always wondered if this stood out.
there are basic men's restroom rules
you don't pull up next to another dude at a urinal. use a stall if you have to.
this assumes that the bathroom is not wicked crowded
The worst part isn't that my workplace only has two urinals. The worst part is that whoever stands at the other urinal starts making conversation.
I enter, there is a late-30s/omewhere-40s guy standing at the urinal. I get to a stall, unzip, pee, zip, wash hands and get out while he's still standing at his urinal. It felt so damn good. I should've said something as I was leaving.
You are proud of having a small bladder?
Um, no. I have no delay to my start-time and a lot of power to the stream.
maybe he had a prostate thing
for some reason if i have had a lot of caffeine that day i can't pee unless i have relative peace and quiet. like a loud noise will make me seize up and just ruin it
I enter, there is a late-30s/omewhere-40s guy standing at the urinal. I get to a stall, unzip, pee, zip, wash hands and get out while he's still standing at his urinal. It felt so damn good. I should've said something as I was leaving.
Oh fuck, so people do notice?
I find it near impossible to piss when other people are around, so when I go to a urinal I tend to stand there until the bathroom is empty. I always wondered if this stood out.
there are basic men's restroom rules
you don't pull up next to another dude at a urinal. use a stall if you have to.
this assumes that the bathroom is not wicked crowded
Sometimes if no one is there I pull up to the middle urinal
and then smirk at the affronted pauses and furtive turns into stalls
Speaking of urinals, I am utterly stunned at how often (roughly 99% of the time, not exaggerating) I will go into the Men's restroom at a bar and find a line of dudes waiting for the urinals when there is one available, but it is in between two other dudes.
There are so many people who have problems with homophobia or personal space or something that they completely refuse to use the middle urinal.
Nobody wants to look at your junk!
On the other hand this benefits me because I walk past the line of dudes and use the middle urinal.
I will use a middle urinal if it's the only one available. Otherwise, you gotta respect the rules.
Speaking of urinals, I am utterly stunned at how often (roughly 99% of the time, not exaggerating) I will go into the Men's restroom at a bar and find a line of dudes waiting for the urinals when there is one available, but it is in between two other dudes.
There are so many people who have problems with homophobia or personal space or something that they completely refuse to use the middle urinal.
Nobody wants to look at your junk!
On the other hand this benefits me because I walk past the line of dudes and use the middle urinal.
Those people are wusses.
Like Will said, there's appropriate etiquette, but if there's nothing available then I'm standing next to another dude. Even if it's to pee into the children's urinal.
Speaking of urinals, I am utterly stunned at how often (roughly 99% of the time, not exaggerating) I will go into the Men's restroom at a bar and find a line of dudes waiting for the urinals when there is one available, but it is in between two other dudes.
There are so many people who have problems with homophobia or personal space or something that they completely refuse to use the middle urinal.
Nobody wants to look at your junk!
On the other hand this benefits me because I walk past the line of dudes and use the middle urinal.
I will use a middle urinal if it's the only one available. Otherwise, you gotta respect the rules.
The urinal "rules" are the dumbest fucking thing, first of all. Unless it's all a joke but it seems to be taken seriously by many.
Second of all, I'm talking about when it is the only urinal available and there is a line of 10 dudes who refuse to use it.
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My prostate is in top shape. When I've got to pee, it's like holy shit niagara falls. I could star in golden shower porn. My name would be The Fireman.
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I enter, there is a late-30s/omewhere-40s guy standing at the urinal. I get to a stall, unzip, pee, zip, wash hands and get out while he's still standing at his urinal. It felt so damn good. I should've said something as I was leaving.
Oh fuck, so people do notice?
I find it near impossible to piss when other people are around, so when I go to a urinal I tend to stand there until the bathroom is empty. I always wondered if this stood out.
I thought everyone treated public peeing as a race. I thought everyone understood what is at stake.
See, I've always felt the opposite.
Some guy would come in, pee, and leave while I was still peeing and in my head I'd be all "Look at the guy with the tiny bladder."
He knows what he heard, as he slowly drip-drip-dripped.
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Speaking of urinals, I am utterly stunned at how often (roughly 99% of the time, not exaggerating) I will go into the Men's restroom at a bar and find a line of dudes waiting for the urinals when there is one available, but it is in between two other dudes.
There are so many people who have problems with homophobia or personal space or something that they completely refuse to use the middle urinal.
Nobody wants to look at your junk!
On the other hand this benefits me because I walk past the line of dudes and use the middle urinal.
I will use a middle urinal if it's the only one available. Otherwise, you gotta respect the rules.
The urinal "rules" are the dumbest fucking thing, first of all. Unless it's all a joke but it seems to be taken seriously by many.
Second of all, I'm talking about when it is the only urinal available and there is a line of 10 dudes who refuse to use it.
Wait, a 10 dude deep line for the bathroom? Where the hell are you that this is a common experience?
for some reason if i have had a lot of caffeine that day i can't pee unless i have relative peace and quiet. like a loud noise will make me seize up and just ruin it
Nervous bladder.
The secret is to only go to the bathroom when you have no other choice.
thom: yeah, i had the book thrown at me already. some folks saying i'm a piece of shit, others saying i'm an okay person but setting myself up for hurt and being stupid. damn you, 22 year old impulsivity!
I enter, there is a late-30s/omewhere-40s guy standing at the urinal. I get to a stall, unzip, pee, zip, wash hands and get out while he's still standing at his urinal. It felt so damn good. I should've said something as I was leaving.
You are proud of having a small bladder?
Um, no. I have no delay to my start-time and a lot of power to the stream.
maybe he had a prostate thing
for some reason if i have had a lot of caffeine that day i can't pee unless i have relative peace and quiet. like a loud noise will make me seize up and just ruin it
I can't help but think that everyone has something that bothers them about their parents.
I mean, as a whole, I think my parents are pretty great people, but there are definitely some traits (especially from my father) that I think aren't admirable at all and I would not like to inherit.
Yeah, but at a certain point you start running out of meaningful traits to be upset about.
"Oh no I say 'eh' like my Canadian father oh god I hate my parents!" doesn't really compare to "Man I hope I don't start threatening to cripple people at work when they upset me."
Well, I wouldn't be concerned about it if they were trivial things. The particular bad traits I'm talking about are not exactly trivial.
I know of a disturbing amount of ways to kill myself. Not because I ever tried, but one day I kind of stumbled across this big list of things that'll do it. Some fascinating ones on there, actually.
Speaking of urinals, I am utterly stunned at how often (roughly 99% of the time, not exaggerating) I will go into the Men's restroom at a bar and find a line of dudes waiting for the urinals when there is one available, but it is in between two other dudes.
There are so many people who have problems with homophobia or personal space or something that they completely refuse to use the middle urinal.
Nobody wants to look at your junk!
On the other hand this benefits me because I walk past the line of dudes and use the middle urinal.
I will use a middle urinal if it's the only one available. Otherwise, you gotta respect the rules.
The urinal "rules" are the dumbest fucking thing, first of all. Unless it's all a joke but it seems to be taken seriously by many.
Second of all, I'm talking about when it is the only urinal available and there is a line of 10 dudes who refuse to use it.
Wait, a 10 dude deep line for the bathroom? Where the hell are you that this is a common experience?
A super crowded bar here that only has 3 urinals. I actually don't like that bar but a number of my friends do.
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Speaking of urinals, I am utterly stunned at how often (roughly 99% of the time, not exaggerating) I will go into the Men's restroom at a bar and find a line of dudes waiting for the urinals when there is one available, but it is in between two other dudes.
There are so many people who have problems with homophobia or personal space or something that they completely refuse to use the middle urinal.
Nobody wants to look at your junk!
On the other hand this benefits me because I walk past the line of dudes and use the middle urinal.
Those people are wusses.
Like Will said, there's appropriate etiquette, but if there's nothing available then I'm standing next to another dude. Even if it's to pee into the children's urinal.
i won't use the midget urinal because it splashes pee all over your trousers
I know of a disturbing amount of ways to kill myself. Not because I ever tried, but one day I kind of stumbled across this big list of things that'll do it. Some fascinating ones on there, actually.
I try to focus on ways to kill other people.
It's hard to get bored with suicide methods if you're any good at them.
Speaking of urinals, I am utterly stunned at how often (roughly 99% of the time, not exaggerating) I will go into the Men's restroom at a bar and find a line of dudes waiting for the urinals when there is one available, but it is in between two other dudes.
There are so many people who have problems with homophobia or personal space or something that they completely refuse to use the middle urinal.
Nobody wants to look at your junk!
On the other hand this benefits me because I walk past the line of dudes and use the middle urinal.
I will use a middle urinal if it's the only one available. Otherwise, you gotta respect the rules.
The urinal "rules" are the dumbest fucking thing, first of all. Unless it's all a joke but it seems to be taken seriously by many.
Second of all, I'm talking about when it is the only urinal available and there is a line of 10 dudes who refuse to use it.
Wait, a 10 dude deep line for the bathroom? Where the hell are you that this is a common experience?
The trick to those situations is to form a human centipede where one person pees in the second guys mouth who then pees in the third guys mouth and so on and so forth until the last guy pees into the urinal.
I think my desire for a trim quote tree obfuscated my point. I was responding more to everything you have said so far - which I think does lead to that. I think if a person - Will, or whomever - doesn't enjoy witnessing or partaking in a certain act, it does not follow that he is reinforcing his dominance over a subjugated class. Equating distaste with oppression strikes me as incredibly convenient.
If I said that I can't stand the sight of two men kissing, and that such a thing disgusts me, even though the sight of a man and a woman kissing does not disgust me in any way, would you find it absurd to surmise homophobia?
I wouldn't think so. Tolerance of a lifestyle doesn't necessarily preclude a personal revulsion.
I personally have no problems seeing two dudes being casually affectionate, but it doesn't mean that i wouldn't be revolted at watching them bone.
Okay, from my perspective there are two possible responses to this feeling of revulsion.
One is to think, "Man, that's revolting, I didn't want to see that."
The other is to think, "Why do I find that revolting? People do that all the time, what is causing my revulsion?"
The former isn't an unconscionably immoral act; I'm not revoking "permission" to react that way. However, I do see it as closed-minded, and I do see it as a form of stereotypical thinking. It's a tacit acknowledgment effectively stating, "I have a stereotypical idea of what sex is, and I don't want to bother stepping out of that stereotype."
I understand that this comes across with moralizing language. I recognize that not everybody can be totally open-minded on every subject all the time. There are plenty of subjects on which I have no interest in challenging my own stereotypes. Human sexuality happens to be a subject I'm passionate about, so I'm sure this is coming through.
What I see is a culturally dominant schema of sex that is mostly heteronormative (with a little bit of license given to cute lesbians), mostly monogamous (with a little bit of license to cute girlfriends going at it), and mostly focused on the glorification of the young and the "beautiful" (with a media-reinforced standard of beauty).
This schema is itself a stereotype; it holds up this particular type of sex - heterosexual sex between two young pretty people - as beautiful, and all other forms of sex as akin to using the toilet. (In that people do it, and people will never stop doing it, but it should be done in the dark with the blinds closed and for god sake don't make too much noise.)
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every person who doesn't like an acquired taste always seems to think everyone who likes it is faking it. it should be an official fallacy.
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
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Speaking of urinals, I am utterly stunned at how often (roughly 99% of the time, not exaggerating) I will go into the Men's restroom at a bar and find a line of dudes waiting for the urinals when there is one available, but it is in between two other dudes.
There are so many people who have problems with homophobia or personal space or something that they completely refuse to use the middle urinal.
Nobody wants to look at your junk!
On the other hand this benefits me because I walk past the line of dudes and use the middle urinal.
Those people are wusses.
Like Will said, there's appropriate etiquette, but if there's nothing available then I'm standing next to another dude. Even if it's to pee into the children's urinal.
i won't use the midget urinal because it splashes pee all over your trousers
You have to angle it proper.
Christ you know my usual leg wear, I'm not using that thing if I didn't know how to do so properly.
I know of a disturbing amount of ways to kill myself. Not because I ever tried, but one day I kind of stumbled across this big list of things that'll do it. Some fascinating ones on there, actually.
I try to focus on ways to kill other people.
It's hard to get bored with suicide methods if you're any good at them.
I think one of the more interesting ones is English and Japanese Yew trees - apparently, ingesting the bark is potentially deadly.
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It's a suppository.
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thom: that is good advice. thank you. i am just going to finish my bagel
yeah, same
Needles are scary yo
You know, not every 30/40-something dude who loiters around public urinals does so due to issues of urine velocity.
See, I've always felt the opposite.
Some guy would come in, pee, and leave while I was still peeing and in my head I'd be all "Look at the guy with the tiny bladder."
I mean more in the, I've had multiple types of liquor in the same night and never gotten sick. Where as my second beer I'm feeling queasy and a third would probably make me vomit.
The worst part isn't that my workplace only has two urinals. The worst part is that whoever stands at the other urinal starts making conversation.
I'm assuming you already got a lecture. Alas, some lessons need to be learned the hard way. Oh well, scars are character building.
Never ever mention those words again. It will only remind me of horrible D&D shenanigans.
maybe he had a prostate thing
for some reason if i have had a lot of caffeine that day i can't pee unless i have relative peace and quiet. like a loud noise will make me seize up and just ruin it
Sometimes if no one is there I pull up to the middle urinal
and then smirk at the affronted pauses and furtive turns into stalls
I will use a middle urinal if it's the only one available. Otherwise, you gotta respect the rules.
Oh heya there VH.
When you coming back to civilization?
About 50-60% of the time I've drank liquor I've ended up getting sick.
That's good enough for me to just drink beer.
Those people are wusses.
Like Will said, there's appropriate etiquette, but if there's nothing available then I'm standing next to another dude. Even if it's to pee into the children's urinal.
The urinal "rules" are the dumbest fucking thing, first of all. Unless it's all a joke but it seems to be taken seriously by many.
Second of all, I'm talking about when it is the only urinal available and there is a line of 10 dudes who refuse to use it.
I can pee long enough to get bored.
I've also held a full bladder for about 8 hours once.
Damned old people and their sleeping on planes.
My life of regular urine tests would ruin this moment for you.
Pro tip: When you drink liquor your supposed to drink less than when you drink beer. :P
He knows what he heard, as he slowly drip-drip-dripped.
Wait, a 10 dude deep line for the bathroom? Where the hell are you that this is a common experience?
Nervous bladder.
The secret is to only go to the bathroom when you have no other choice.
it's called "old", will, however you dress it
Well, I wouldn't be concerned about it if they were trivial things. The particular bad traits I'm talking about are not exactly trivial.
Movie theater is my guess.
A super crowded bar here that only has 3 urinals. I actually don't like that bar but a number of my friends do.
i won't use the midget urinal because it splashes pee all over your trousers
I try to focus on ways to kill other people.
It's hard to get bored with suicide methods if you're any good at them.
The trick to those situations is to form a human centipede where one person pees in the second guys mouth who then pees in the third guys mouth and so on and so forth until the last guy pees into the urinal.
Okay, from my perspective there are two possible responses to this feeling of revulsion.
One is to think, "Man, that's revolting, I didn't want to see that."
The other is to think, "Why do I find that revolting? People do that all the time, what is causing my revulsion?"
The former isn't an unconscionably immoral act; I'm not revoking "permission" to react that way. However, I do see it as closed-minded, and I do see it as a form of stereotypical thinking. It's a tacit acknowledgment effectively stating, "I have a stereotypical idea of what sex is, and I don't want to bother stepping out of that stereotype."
I understand that this comes across with moralizing language. I recognize that not everybody can be totally open-minded on every subject all the time. There are plenty of subjects on which I have no interest in challenging my own stereotypes. Human sexuality happens to be a subject I'm passionate about, so I'm sure this is coming through.
What I see is a culturally dominant schema of sex that is mostly heteronormative (with a little bit of license given to cute lesbians), mostly monogamous (with a little bit of license to cute girlfriends going at it), and mostly focused on the glorification of the young and the "beautiful" (with a media-reinforced standard of beauty).
This schema is itself a stereotype; it holds up this particular type of sex - heterosexual sex between two young pretty people - as beautiful, and all other forms of sex as akin to using the toilet. (In that people do it, and people will never stop doing it, but it should be done in the dark with the blinds closed and for god sake don't make too much noise.)
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
Wednesday, I think early evening. So we'll still have some of your spring break to do stuff.
I think I'm becoming a bit obsessed with SC2. I've switched to Zerg. Nydus canals are awesome!
You have to angle it proper.
Christ you know my usual leg wear, I'm not using that thing if I didn't know how to do so properly.
I think one of the more interesting ones is English and Japanese Yew trees - apparently, ingesting the bark is potentially deadly.