• bitwolf@sh.itjust.works
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    10 days ago

    I never got the point of urinals. You hamper the efficiency of a bathroom for what?

    To pee sideways instead of down? And to potentially wait twice as long to shit.

    I’d rather wait to pee than to wait for someone to finish shitting.

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      9 days ago

      I refuse to accept that you are too stupid to understand that a urinal takes up less space than a fucking bathroom stall

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        9 days ago

        Which is entirely lost when everyone follows the golden unwritten “minimum one urinal apart” rule.

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          9 days ago

          Surely that goes away once the bathroom is busy enough, no? Like on a bus once it’s full it’s not weird to sit next to someone, but if it’s empty yeah that’d be weird to sit next to a stranger

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        9 days ago

        Effectively they dont. The urinal stalls are the same width against the back wall.

        And you can’t build multiple urinals perpendicular to the back wall.

    • Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de
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      8 days ago

      i think urinals are only useful in places with LOTS of people with dicks who’ll need to take a leak, places like stadiums and such. It’s not really about them being more space efficient (it’s not a very big difference anyways) rather it’s about them only being for peeing and thus you can cycle a lot more people through them quickly. It just means that anyone there with a dick can at least feel reassured that they don’t have to wait ages to take a piss.