Urinal Design
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- Lt_Jack_Hammer
For a society as advanced as we are it's amazing to me that we still can't seem to come up with a urinal design that doesn't allow the urine to splash back out onto one's shoes and pants. No matter how I try to position or aim for the little puddle of water or shoot behind the urinal cake (so that the spray bounces up onto that instead of me) it never fails to make its way out of the urinal and on or around me.
Sometimes, when I'm alone in the bathroom, I'll stand back like 4 feet from the urinal so that any splash back hits the floor in front and not me...but, if someone walks in while I'm doing that I have to do the quick shuffle up to the urinal to be within the 1-2ft non-weirdo range of it...as opposed to my 3-5ft total-weirdo range...all the while maintaining stream and accuracy. It sucks.If someone could just design a urinal that eliminated splash back then we could all get on a bit easier...not to mention cleaner.
Any industrial designers on here? Wanna make millions? Design a waterless, splash-back preventing urinal and you'll be a freaking millionaire overnight.
- ornj0
downward angle towards the back, don't hit the water or the cake.
- sherman0
I always thought it was cool how the holes in some urinals are shaped liked a penis.
- JG_LB0
i want cake
- cannonball0
every time i sit on the shitter i wonder "taking a dump would be so much more awesome for me if this toilet were shaped like a la-z-boy/ducatti"
- arthur0
You must have one vicious stream, dude
- ephix0
so you're the fucking asshole who makes that mess on the floor!
- cannonball0
plus, i really hate it when my junk hits the water when i sit
- Lt_Jack_Hammer0
no, I'm not the one who makes a mess on the floor...but, that mess tells me I'm not alone in my need for a better urinal. I'm a very clean person and always avoid those dribbles in front of the urinal (avoid making them and stepping in them).
- I try to avoid making them as much as possible.Lt_Jack_Hammer
- Llyod0
maybe a midget with his mouth open?
- dirtydesign0
Yeh. I don't have this problem.
I know people use a toilet to avoid the splash back.
I go right for the water, or try to break apart the cake.
- Lt_Jack_Hammer0
@ arthur: I do have a pretty vicious stream sometimes...I drink a lot of liquids throughout the day.
- a problem i wish i had. damn prostate problems. hate getting older.arthur
- PonyBoy0
- nicelumedia
- they have those urinals at the V&A museumBaskerviIle
- _niko0
- drunken fap fest waiting to happen if you ask me...PonyBoy
- < those look perfect!Lt_Jack_Hammer
- mikotondria30
Many old Victorian urinals used to have a little picture of a bee on that exact point that when aimed at would not produce splash-back.
The reason it was a bee ?
The Latin for bee is Apis.
- Mojo0
Haha, dude, pee at an angle that is almost parallel to the edge of the urinal. Yes, stand almost sideways at the urinal, and allow everyone to see your schlong, schmedium or schlort.
Or, just, be more careful!
Did you grow too fast or something? Someone told me once, that pubescent teenagers suddenly can't aim so well, because they've gained height relatively quickly, and their perspective has been altered!
- detritus0
Great name for a small agency or studio.
- monNom0
According to some random show I watched, they actually design them to reduce splashback.... when it doubt, try to increase the angle of incidence.