Urinals are stupid.
I mean, yeah, they’re great for the peeer on the run. Unzip, fish around, pee, shake, stuff back in, zip up and you’re done. But there’s a big problem with urinals: splashback. I’ve heard of a magical urinal somewhere in Germany (I think) which is so deep that splashback is avoided. On the other end of the spectrum are these ones:
Look how shallow these fucking urinals are! Splashback city, huh? And if you stand far enough away to avoid the splashback you get pee all over the place unless you’ve got an abnormally tight stream. One common technique to avoid splashback is to angle the stream so it’s grazing the side of the urinal. This reduces the angle of incidence with the porcelain and reduces the amount of pee that reflects directly back at you. But these urinals have such a straight back it’s difficult to do that! All in all, a terrible design.
stay tuned for my next installment, “Large Toilets with Small Seats”
Update: the deep urinals I mentioned were not in Germany, they were in Minnesota.
