no barriers between urinals in public bathrooms

[Locutus of Bored]

^ Isn't there another new stadium (the Edmund Roski one) going up as well? IIRC, that one is already fully paid for, they just need a team to commit.

It was proposed in competition with Farmer's Field, but it was kinda eclipsed by it, and now I think it's dead in the water.

http://articles.latimes.com/2011/aug/12/sports/la-sp-dwyre-ed-roski-20110813

The idea for the location is not terrible in terms of bringing people from all around (it would be near the junction of LA, Orange, and San Bernardino Counties), but it's not really as appealing an area as downtown LA in terms of having synergy with other downtown businesses and events.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

Hmm. Well, whatever new stadia are built, I'm sure their urinals will all be state of the art.

 

[Captain Brylcream]

Be it grimy nightclub trough, chemical atmosphered public swill house, crowded train station urinal, or even the dank alley behind the takeaway whilst waiting for a kebab pizza, I had always felt at ease with both public and communal urination - admittedly usually under the heavy influence of alcohol - but even I have experienced the clenching and painful grasp of the shy bladder, it struck me at Changi airport in singapore, where they appear to have designed the toilets near the smoking area either to put people who are at ease with public peeing in their place, or to cater for a the more niche hobby traveller, their slash catchers are mounted in small plinths in front of a one way glass floor to ceiling window overlooking the departure gates. At least I hope to God it was one way glass, if not, apologies to the 19.15 Cathay Pacific flight to Manilla... I was pretending to put out a fire........

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

I'm old enough to remember the SNL "Under the Boardwalk" sketch...

 

[Gryffindorian]

As much as I am tempted to look sometimes, I have never glanced at other guys' junk when using the urinal (and I expect the same courtesy). Yes, I would prefer the partition, but no partition is fine with me too, especially if I can't hold it!

I just think it's very impolite to stare at people's private parts, but I can acknowledge that there are certain places (like the men's locker room in the gym) where frontal nudity is unavoidable.

 

[ngc7293]

Back in 1987 when I went to Paris with my art group, I stopped at a urinal that I had to pay for. No dividers and the doorway was right there and friends were waiting. Problems with Urinals without walls Nope!
I do remember when I worked at Ford there was a guy so paranoid about being seen in a stall that he packed the door seams with toilet paper.

Oh, one idea for you guys who can't "go" in the real world. How about leaning in? No one's going to see you and as long as you "admire the grout work", you can get things done and get out of this place!

 

[RoJoHen]

For me it has nothing to do with being seen. I have a hard time "getting started," for lack of a better term, if anybody else is in the room, even if they're in a separate stall. Once I've started, I'm good, but for some reason my body just doesn't like to relax enough if someone else is around.

 

[Starkers]

Come on gents...lets not complain too loudly about urinals. At least we have the option of using them. With motion sensors, we never have to touch the damn things. Women have it much worse. I've heard horror stories about some ladies rooms.

While closing down my bar last night, this is what I discovered in the women's room.

Awesome.

Had Daniel Craig been in there by any chance?

For me it has nothing to do with being seen. I have a hard time "getting started," for lack of a better term, if anybody else is in the room, even if they're in a separate stall. Once I've started, I'm good, but for some reason my body just doesn't like to relax enough if someone else is around.

This is exactly this, I don't actually have an issue with someone watching me (well I would but that isn't what causes me to tense up as it were) That said I'm more relaxed about it than I used to be, a partition does help though (and really if it was a case of being bothered about someone seeing, partitions aren't entirely enclosed anyway)

 

[Roger Wilco]

I don't particularly care, as long as we have a team again, though I'd rather have the Rams than the Raiders.

Wouldn't you feel a little bad about "taking away" another city's team? I understand it sucks for LA not to "have" a team of their own, but I don't think I could support them in that situation.

 

[Locutus of Bored]

I don't particularly care, as long as we have a team again, though I'd rather have the Rams than the Raiders.

Wouldn't you feel a little bad about "taking away" another city's team? I understand it sucks for LA not to "have" a team of their own, but I don't think I could support them in that situation.

Relocated teams are all that's being offered, so it's either root for one of them or root for none, which leads you right back into apathetic crowds, declining ticket sales, and losing the team.

That's why I said I would feel bad for San Diego if they lost the Chargers (though even they originally started out in LA, albeit only for one season in the AFL), or Jacksonville to a lesser extent (since they're a much newer team, relative to the others). The Rams and Raiders have moved back and forth a few times already, so I don't care about it with them as much, and as I said, they already have the existing fanbase here.

 

[Captain Ice]

I don't particularly care, as long as we have a team again, though I'd rather have the Rams than the Raiders.

Wouldn't you feel a little bad about "taking away" another city's team? I understand it sucks for LA not to "have" a team of their own, but I don't think I could support them in that situation.

Relocated teams are all that's being offered, so it's either root for one of them or root for none, which leads you right back into apathetic crowds, declining ticket sales, and losing the team.

That's why I said I would feel bad for San Diego if they lost the Chargers (though even they originally started out in LA, albeit only for one season in the AFL), or Jacksonville to a lesser extent (since they're a much newer team, relative to the others). The Rams and Raiders have moved back and forth a few times already, so I don't care about it with them as much, and as I said, they already have the existing fanbase here.

I think i agree with you generally. If they move either the Rams or the Raiders, I'm in with it. Both of these teams have very established fanbases. Of the two, I think a move by the Raiders would be far more likely as the Rams are playing in a pretty new stadium (1995) already. I would not be in support of moving either Jacksonville or San Diego though. Yes, the Chargers need a new stadium badly, but I think it should be somewhere closer to San Diego. Moving the Jaguars across country is pretty pointless to me as there is a reason the Rams and Raiders both moved out of LA when they did, and the Jaguars don't have near the fanbase of the other three period.

 

[Gary Mitchell]

For me it has nothing to do with being seen. I have a hard time "getting started," for lack of a better term, if anybody else is in the room, even if they're in a separate stall. Once I've started, I'm good, but for some reason my body just doesn't like to relax enough if someone else is around.

I had no idea that so many guys had this problem. I guess I'll have to stop making fun of my dad when he has to check every restroom.

 

[RoJoHen]

It's not exactly a debilitating condition.

 

[cooleddie74]

Here's a convenient solution. Just drink so much beer, soda or water that you'll have to go no matter what. Pound enough bottles of Bud or suck down enough cans of Coke and I doubt some of you would care if Senator Larry Craig were standing right next to you checking out your junk as you took a piss.

Once my bladder hits maximum capacity I wouldn't care if a Walking Dead walker were hovering over my shoulder as I unzipped myself. I'm going, dammit.

 

[Amaris]

Here's a convenient solution. Just drink so much beer, soda or water that you'll have to go no matter what. Pound enough bottles of Bud or suck down enough cans of Coke and I doubt some of you would care if Senator Larry Craig were standing right next to you checking out your junk as you took a piss.

Once my bladder hits maximum capacity I wouldn't care if a Walking Dead walker were hovering over my shoulder as I unzipped myself. I'm going, dammit.

The best thing you can do at that point is attempt to take him out with your mighty stream of justice.

 

[cooleddie74]

Best. Walking Dead deleted scene. Ever.

Damn you, AMC censors.

 

[trekkiedane]

I had no idea that so many guys had this problem. I guess I'll have to stop making fun of my dad when he has to check every restroom.

The term Paruresis was coined by Williams and Degenhart (1954) in their paper "Paruresis: a survey of a disorder of micturition" in the Journal of General Psychology 51:19-29. They surveyed 1,419 college students and found 14.4% had experienced paruresis, either incidentally or continuously.

(My emphasis)

And, yes, after enough beer the problem subsides somewhat (for me anyway). Whether this is because of the liquid in the bladder, or due to the alcohol in the blood I couldn't say.

 

[B.J.]

Here's a convenient solution. Just drink so much beer, soda or water that you'll have to go no matter what. Pound enough bottles of Bud or suck down enough cans of Coke and I doubt some of you would care if Senator Larry Craig were standing right next to you checking out your junk as you took a piss.

Once my bladder hits maximum capacity I wouldn't care if a Walking Dead walker were hovering over my shoulder as I unzipped myself. I'm going, dammit.

I've been in that kind of situation, and no, it won't work. Many years ago, my wife & I were on the interstate with our 1st baby and managed to run into a massive traffic jam in the middle of nowhere. It was several miles back to the last exit, and several to the next, and I already needed to go and was looking for an exit when we hit the jam. Unfortunately, there were just big fields of grass and no trees on the interstate side of the fences, and the median was such that I wouldn't be able to get our car across it, so I was stuck. So we sat there for a very painful *two hours*. It got to the point that I asked my wife for one of our son's diapers to relieve myself. As much as I wanted and needed to go, it wasn't happening. Just about blew a hole in the Burger King urinal at the next exit!

 

[cooleddie74]

Well, it works like magic for me. But then I can let go like a racehorse after two and a half glasses of Diet Coke.

Maybe I'm not the best example.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

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