r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/uhohelle • 13h ago

Meme needing explanation i’m a girl i don’t get this

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like why wouldn’t this work. is it cause of the urinals so close to the sink?? or like.. cause idk

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u/Able_Experience_1670 13h ago edited 11h ago

Y'all missed the joke.

It's because all the stalls fall between urinals, and the mens bathroom code states that you never take an unoccupied urinal between two other guys.

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u/MiffedMouse 12h ago

If that is the joke, then it is a stupid one. Men only avoid taking adjacent urinals if they are just next to each other with no walls between them. As long as there is a wall between the urinals, most men are fine with taking adjacent urinals.

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u/AideInternal1045 12h ago

Even with the partition one still gets skipped and a 3rd person will fill it.

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u/MiffedMouse 12h ago

Depends. My office has three urinals, but the third one is lowered to a kid's height. Typically the first two urinals fill up first, because they are at an adult height, and the third one last.

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u/AideInternal1045 12h ago

Nah ill take the short one over going straight to being right next to someone. Unless there is no other option...

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u/Twin_Brother_Me 12h ago

Meanwhile my coworker got in trouble because he was commenting on the boss' fingernails when they were both using the divided urinals...

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u/ToastSpangler 8h ago

i genuinely don't care about standing next to someone at a urinal but i absolutely fucking hate when they (especially a stranger) drop a comment about your cock, it makes me feel very unsafe. wouldn't be surprised if people have been shot over shit like that

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u/SevenFootHobbit 4h ago

Wait, has that happened? I've been peeing for almost 50 years now and no one's said anything, nor have I taken a peek to see my competition.

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u/ToastSpangler 3h ago

yes several times, not saying anything but if ykyk

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u/Twin_Brother_Me 2h ago

Can't say that's ever happened to me (aside from the aforementioned coworker, but it's not like he actually ever looks at our "fingernails" when making those quips) but I can definitely see that being hella awkward if someone is staring down your junk and commenting on it

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u/Userdub9022 3h ago

I have to use the short one so my dick doesn't hit the bottom

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u/nico-ghost-king 18m ago

"usually"

he said "usually".

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u/AideInternal1045 3m ago

He said "typically". This is not typical, even if its two normal and one short, people typically skip the middle normal and take the short so there is a gap. Thats just from my 40 years of personal experience though.

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u/AuNaturellee 12h ago

You don't just hold it and risk wetting yourself cuz you and USAmerican men literally can't whip it out next to a man? Cuz this is uniquely USAmerican homophobia...

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u/BigDrunkLahey 12h ago

It’s not homophobia it’s just nice to have some personal space when your cock is out next to strangers. I’ll go next to someone if that’s all that’s left, but it’s definitely polite to take a further urinal if available.

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u/Decent-Treat-2990 11h ago

You’re arguing with a nudist about not wanting strangers to see your cock you guys have different priorities

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u/stop_poking_it 10h ago

A nudist obsessed with the USA for some reason

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u/AuNaturellee 11h ago

Are privacy walls between urinals common in countries that aren't spelled U-S-A? Welcome a global perspective here...

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u/nufohudis 10h ago

Nah man, I'm from africa, is same here...

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u/Vaanafroster 12h ago

I’d say it has more to do with the puritanical way most Americans view nudity. Nudity is far less accepted socially in the US than it is in many other places. I personally am a Queer American man, and avoid standing next to another person at a urinal if I can.

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u/AuNaturellee 11h ago

Nudity means without clothing. Pulling out your peen isn't nudity. Why do you have qualms about proximity to penises pissing?

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u/AideInternal1045 12h ago

Unless they are all full, why would i hold it. I clearly said if two are full ill take the free one.

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u/AuNaturellee 11h ago

r/whoosh

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u/AideInternal1045 11h ago

For it to be a /woosh there needs to be a joke to miss.

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u/theroha 11h ago

Less homophobia and more American attitudes around nudity in general.

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u/Royal_Cryptographer7 11h ago

Those are for little people and people with mobility issues iirc. They are nice to have around when bringing a kid to the bathroom though. Its part of Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), I've been told.

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u/EggForTryingThymes 11h ago

Nobody likes to take the middle, but if that’s the only one…

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u/TheRilesEffect 9h ago

How many kids frequent your office to need a lowered urinal? Always thought that was the strangest thing

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u/used-to-have-a-name 9h ago

People come in different sizes. I’ve got coworker who needs the shorter urinal, and it doesn’t hurt the rest of us to have one our kids can also use if/when they need it. There’s dignity in independence.

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u/AtheistState 7h ago

Nobody cares about kids, but at least one urinal must be mounted with the flood rim below 17" or you could be sued for noncompliance with section 605.2 of the 2010 Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). Don't ask why I know that.

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u/Nitr0b1az3r 9h ago

people pissin in this guys office

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u/Sad_Kaleidoscope_743 12h ago

I always pee next to anyone available. It brightens my day to see the look of horror in their eyes

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u/AideInternal1045 12h ago

Thats how you get peed on in self defense. If theres enough space to leave a free spot I can only assume you want me for my body.

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u/Sad_Kaleidoscope_743 11h ago

Look, I have my desires, but im not only interested in your body. I want your mind too 💦

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u/AboutRight1987 8h ago

Yeah, if there are 7 urinals and they all have partitions, I'm still not standing next to another guy if I don't have to.

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u/1405hvtkx311 7h ago

Exactly. I mean do you think women go just into the next stall? No! When there are more available you totally leave at least one out.

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u/AideInternal1045 7h ago

Stalls are different. I need to be close so I can hear us playing battleshits

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u/option-trader 3h ago

Exactly. We’d naturally just skip one urinal and head to the next one because some one was in the first one.

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u/Tephros83 11h ago

I don't think it's a joke so much as why you'd bother to do this in the first place. Yes, it would be nice not to pee next to another guy. I am not sure if being between two guys taking a dump is a lot better though, due to smells.

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u/used-to-have-a-name 9h ago

And the ratio is off. Proportionally, that’s twice as many stalls as you’d see in most men’s restrooms.

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u/Able_Experience_1670 12h ago

Eh it's still pretty common to not, in my experience.

My favourite bar has 3 urinals in a small space and if you take the middle you're gonna be rubbing shoulders. It's always empty.

Mostly depends on venue and spacing.

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u/BabyWithBathwatter 12h ago

But if the urinal is a trough, the most shy will use stalls and the rest just make sure we dont touch shoulders.

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u/Beefcrustycurtains 12h ago

Yea I'm not concerned about taking adjacent urinals, but I do avoid it if there are open non short urninal's available. Otherwise I just fill in between 2 guys. You just have to do the basic math when going into the bathroom about where you are going to pee. If everything except 1 is taken, you just take the open one and no one gets upset about that.

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u/Otto_the_rhinocerus 9h ago

Even when that have that tiny "wall" thing between urinals it's fine. The one that's just about 50 cm but perfectly covers the important areas.

Those walls are enough.

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u/DM_ME_YOUR_PET_PICSS 8h ago

My job has 3 urinals with no dividers, the far right one is broke, so we have 2 urinals, we have 1 uninal...

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u/BVOP83 11h ago

Nah, I don’t this is actually true. I absolutely always avoid standing next to someone at a urinal, regardless of whether there’s a partition there or not

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u/DrakonSpawn 11h ago

The partition makes it better, but you should still leave a courtesy gap whenever possible.

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u/jackofslayers 10h ago

That is definitely the joke. And you are right it is really fucking stupid.

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u/No_Advantage_3353 9h ago

Even then we will avoid taking adjacent urinals if possible

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u/elheber 9h ago

Nope, we take every other urinal whether or not there are partitions. With that said, partitions aren't the same as stalls, and this setup would mean there are no adjacent urinals.

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u/DiscoDiverDubois 9h ago

you should listen to this guy, he knows the opinions of all men everywhere, clearly…

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u/Tragobe 9h ago

No we do it with the small walks in-between urinals as well, because they hide jack shit.

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u/ShittyDBZGuitarRiffs 9h ago

Redditor discovers that people sometimes exaggerate to create humor

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u/Octyss 8h ago

Tell that to the fking boomee who got right next to me at a stadium urinal with 15+ open urinal

Fk this guy

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u/shaggy24200 7h ago

I just went to a ball game where I had to do this with 20 guys next to me on either side...

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u/Far_King_Penguin 5h ago

Yeah. Most blokes are ok hanging dong with other blokes to pee, its just etiquette to give someone space

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u/Free-Pound-6139 4h ago

OK professor.

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u/Economy-Maybe-6714 3h ago

Its a joke. Calm down, Doogie.

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u/guacotaco4349 2h ago

Probably varies in areas, cause this still happens in my school for the most part, to the point where people will take a shorter urinal over one someone's standing next to

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u/TheRealPhilFry 11h ago

Hate to break it to you, but you're the guy your coworkers complain about.

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u/bobo1618 8h ago

This is like saying knock knock jokes aren't funny because most people would use the doorbell. The suspension of logic combined with absurdity is what makes the joke work, just like this comment thread kills it dead.

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u/Snoo-73243 7h ago

i found the not a man

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u/Fingers154 12h ago

If there is a divider between the urinals, the etiquette is relaxed.

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u/orangeyougladiator 8h ago

Etiquette is also relaxed depending on blood alcohol level

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u/Fearless-Poet-4669 7h ago

"Whatever you do, DON'T CROSS THE STREAMS!"

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u/actionmanv1 3h ago

The introduction of a piss trough against one wall would relax it further.

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u/Ok_Audience1666 13h ago

mmmm nah, it's because you cant find out what happened at the game last night from your straight friends.

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u/TrendNation55 12h ago

Okay I think the “men don’t like to piss next to each other’s urinals” joke has been taken too literally by women. It’s funny and it’s a minor inconvenience, not something we need to redesign the entire bathroom over.

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u/Able_Experience_1670 12h ago

I think you might be taking this meme a little too seriously.

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u/_Midnight_Haze_ 11h ago

I think you might be taking that comment too seriously

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u/UrpleEeple 11h ago

I don't know how Reddit is so dense sometimes, lol

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u/Able_Experience_1670 10h ago

I just got 9 notifications and 6 were responses personally explaining how they don't abide urinal code and would never piss otherwise and blah blah fucking blah.

I regret explaining the joke.

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u/sanctum-inspiration 11h ago

Yea, i just don't like touching shoulders of the guy pissing next to me.

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u/OpposingPug 11h ago

"yall all" aka "you all all" lol

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u/Able_Experience_1670 11h ago

Haha I missed that. Whoops. Morning coffee hadn't quite kicked yet.

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u/prehensilemullet 10h ago

I thought the joke is no glory holes with privacy for both participants

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u/awezumsaws 10h ago

I have no idea where this code could have possibly come from. I don't know if I have ever witnessed a man in a public bathroom not using an available urinal.

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u/Able_Experience_1670 9h ago

I have, maaaany times.

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u/queerkidxx 4h ago

I love it when folks do that because I can cut and rake the middle one

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u/Equivalent_Pear_3423 7h ago

I mean it makes sense that if theres space to skip a urinal, its like not sitting next to the only other person in the subway car. That being said I havent seen someone wait when there is an open urinal since middle school. 

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u/JackPoe 6h ago

The rule is you leave a space if you can but the rule goes out the window to be more efficient. You only have to leave space when it makes sense

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u/UncleR1chard 12h ago

No, we get it, it’s just a stupid joke and we’d rather come up with a funnier one

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u/Able_Experience_1670 12h ago

Then please do

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u/miotch1120 12h ago

Y’all already is a contraction of you and all, you don’t need the second all.

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u/Able_Experience_1670 11h ago

Listen yo; I was on my first coffee and 4 hours of sleep.

I live in Calgary I don't need a lesson on it lmao

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u/miotch1120 10h ago

lol! This was the correct response to my grammar Nazi pedantry. Carry on good sir!

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u/wesleepallday 11h ago

Close. No one would wash their hands because the sinks are between urinals.

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u/purplenapalm 10h ago

Whack. Bring back the piss troughs!

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u/Able_Experience_1670 9h ago

No thanks. My own piss backspray is plenty, thanks.

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u/SSMage 9h ago

That only applies to other urinals. If there are stalls that have toilets around them then there is privacy between every urinal and thus no one to peek at your cock or make you feel weird, thus this lay out is the ultimate privacy design

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u/Cacafuego 9h ago

The only true violation of the code is to take a urinal right next to someone when there are properly spaced urinals available. Nobody wants to be your peeing buddy, pal.

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u/mtmp40k 9h ago

You can do that if you are short and say “room for a little one?”

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u/Turbulent_Monk3307 9h ago

It’s not never, it’s only take one between two men if no open ones are available

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u/bestworstbard 9h ago

I thought it was because you cant have glory holes with this setup.

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u/Substantial-Hour-756 9h ago

Ah, it was so simple and I didn't even figure that out. My mind went straight to the "Oh yeah that's solves the old code issue" and missed the joke completly!

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u/blahhhhgosh 9h ago

I think its bc men secretly like looking at eachothers dicks

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u/phillibl 8h ago

Not true, I do it all the time

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u/BoRnIn2aTiTuDe 7h ago

Tell that to the annoying weird pricks at my job who choose to sit next to you with 6 other open toilets to choose from lol

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u/Ric0chet_ 7h ago

Australian here. We use troughs a lot. The rule is null and void at a footy game. You see a gap, you stand there

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u/sovalente 7h ago

This ^

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u/SomeScienceMan 7h ago

Yup, I believe it’s in the official municipal code for my county.

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u/IcanSEEyou_IRL 6h ago

Yeah, that what I thought but I’d actually be okay with this.

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u/Kerensky97 6h ago

I thought it was because it would make it harder for us to setup Glory Holes.

And seriously: It's because the urinals fit together closer than the stalls. These stalls would have to be super narrow to work for this scenario.

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u/ObviousReplier99 6h ago

It's not a joke, it's plumbing, this meme comes up every few months and its a plumbing thing, not a joke.

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u/Far-Let-8610 6h ago

I don’t think you quite got it either.

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u/Creative-Air-6463 5h ago

Curious. Why?

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u/freekorgeek 5h ago

There is no such code. Wtf? Only time that is remotely true is when there are other unoccupied pissers you can use. Otherwise. Piss where available 

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u/Cool-Engineering-748 5h ago

I always pick the middle urinal and I always piss with my pants clear down to my ankles. Been that way since I was about 3. 35 years later still the only way I will piss.

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u/Jesus_of_Redditeth 5h ago

the mens bathroom code states that you never take an unoccupied urinal between two other guys

That's not the code. The code is that you don't do that if there's another urinal available. You simply maximize the distance between other users whenever you can.

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u/Conquered_Majesty 3h ago

Except this solves that issue because of the walls, right?

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u/Venusgate 3h ago

I think it's more i would definately feel uncomfortable with someone walking behind me, my back turned, and the is no right of left escape route.

Even if it's tactically no different than open urinals, this would just be my paranoia every time

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u/Otherwise-Offer1518 3h ago

And see I just thought it was glory holes. But I forget the kids dont have to hide who they are as much anymore.

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u/DroneRtx 3h ago

I always go to a urinal right next to someone and start up a conversation with them. Because people hate it and I think it’s funny something so stupid can upset someone.

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u/pnw_sunny 44m ago

it is amazing how many dudes seem to not know or forget this one basic and required rule.

my rule is i will wait until the right config is there - in other words if there are three pee places in a row and the one on the far left is being used along with the far right - i will not take the center spot. i wash my hands until the coast is clear.

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u/EarlyXplorerStuds209 12h ago

Someone got it finally!

Seriously though, why are people giving some people talking about stuff like it makes plumbing easier lol.

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u/Last-Roll7819 12h ago

Lol what? You'd never be able to piss at a ckncert ever if that was the code. Shit, plenty of venues still have pig troughs. Look at only your dick is the only code that matters.

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u/whalesum 12h ago

I never understood it lol. Like are yall really afraid that you'll turn gay if you piss next to someone?

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u/Last-Roll7819 11h ago

Seriously. So called "masculine alpha males" are really fucking fragile.

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u/whalesum 10h ago

Honestly I don't even think it's just "masculine alpha males." It's just toxic masculinity in general and a fear of vulnerability

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u/Bulky-Apple3744 7h ago

I need to know that you understand that they were talking about your “  Look at only your dick is the only code that matters.” comment

You are talking about “masculine alpha males” while spewing manosphere bullshit.

They are asking if YOU, Last-Roll7819, are afraid that you’ll turn gay, based on your own bullshit comment.

Please tell me you understand that.

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u/Last-Roll7819 5h ago

And you misunderstand me, it's not manosphere bullshit. It's just common courtesy. If we all.gotta line up at a pig trough to piss at a music venue, it's just plain rude to be eyeing other peoples dicks. Has nothing to do with "ohh seeing another dick is gonna change me, I can't have that." It's just basic decency.

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u/Able_Experience_1670 11h ago

It's a fucking meme/joke. Settle down.

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u/Able_Experience_1670 10h ago

I didn't say I cared I just explained the joke.

Fuckin' hell this sub is thick.

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u/thatfuckedupgrill 11h ago

that's what the walls are for

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u/Naoto_kun6 12h ago

Glad someone gets it! The lack of humor in this reply section is disappointing