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Old May 28th 2010 | 11:11 pm
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Having been here a week now - I'm baffled by the urinals.

Thy're a foot wide with a steel grate on to of them, with a little ceramic darts ocky.

Do you stand full square on the grate, stand on your tip toes on the tiles or behind the ceramic ocky like a darts player (hopefully with just as good an aim).

Normally you just do what everyone else does, but people must be too scared to go to the loo when I do, as I always seem to be alone

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Old May 28th 2010 | 11:39 pm
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Originally Posted by TakenThePlunge
Having been here a week now - I'm baffled by the urinals.

Thy're a foot wide with a steel grate on to of them, with a little ceramic darts ocky.

Do you stand full square on the grate, stand on your tip toes on the tiles or behind the ceramic ocky like a darts player (hopefully with just as good an aim).

Normally you just do what everyone else does, but people must be too scared to go to the loo when I do, as I always seem to be alone

These are the difficult cultural issues you have to engage with when moving to a new country
Like in darts, I do a full 180 and piss on the guy waiting behind me
 
Old May 28th 2010 | 11:44 pm
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Originally Posted by Broad Shoulders
Like in darts, I do a full 180 and piss on the guy waiting behind me
Look at what ya coulda won!
 
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Originally Posted by TakenThePlunge
Having been here a week now - I'm baffled by the urinals.

Thy're a foot wide with a steel grate on to of them, with a little ceramic darts ocky.

Do you stand full square on the grate, stand on your tip toes on the tiles or behind the ceramic ocky like a darts player (hopefully with just as good an aim).

Normally you just do what everyone else does, but people must be too scared to go to the loo when I do, as I always seem to be alone

These are the difficult cultural issues you have to engage with when moving to a new country
And there was me thinking that this was going to be which urinal you pick.
There was a FLASH game about ten years ago doing the rounds..
Convention has it, that you pick in this order...

i) Urinal furthest away from the door.
ii) Fill in, furthest away from the door not taking a place immediately next to someone else - unless you have to.

Failure to take the right place marks you out as instantly GAY - no exceptions, as does taking a cubical.
 
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Originally Posted by BadgeIsBack
And there was me thinking that this was going to be which urinal you pick.
There was a FLASH game about ten years ago doing the rounds..
Convention has it, that you pick in this order...

i) Urinal furthest away from the door.
ii) Fill in, furthest away from the door not taking a place immediately next to someone else - unless you have to.

Failure to take the right place marks you out as instantly GAY - no exceptions, as does taking a cubical.
I always thought taking a cubicle meant you had a small penis?
 
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Originally Posted by BadgeIsBack
And there was me thinking that this was going to be which urinal you pick.
There was a FLASH game about ten years ago doing the rounds..
Convention has it, that you pick in this order...

i) Urinal furthest away from the door.
ii) Fill in, furthest away from the door not taking a place immediately next to someone else - unless you have to.

Failure to take the right place marks you out as instantly GAY - no exceptions, as does taking a cubical.
you must mean this.
 
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Originally Posted by kporte
I always thought taking a cubicle meant you had a small penis?
Or you're Japanese...


http://www.japanator.com/a-farewell-...ee-11417.phtml
 
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Originally Posted by TakenThePlunge
you must mean this.
I got 60/60 = 100%
 
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Originally Posted by BadgeIsBack
And there was me thinking that this was going to be which urinal you pick.
There was a FLASH game about ten years ago doing the rounds..
Convention has it, that you pick in this order...

i) Urinal furthest away from the door.
ii) Fill in, furthest away from the door not taking a place immediately next to someone else - unless you have to.

Failure to take the right place marks you out as instantly GAY - no exceptions, as does taking a cubical.
Bugger convention, it's the first available place for me when I need a piss. I don't walk past a couple of spaces just because there's someone pissing in the first one. Urinal etiquette pah walk in find the nearest space that's me
 
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Originally Posted by cresta57
Bugger convention, it's the first available place for me when I need a piss. I don't walk past a couple of spaces just because there's someone pissing in the first one. Urinal etiquette pah walk in find the nearest space that's me

That's a sign of inebriation.
 
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Originally Posted by Alfresco
That's a sign of inebriation.
You don't say I knew there was a reason I drank alcohol
 
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Originally Posted by cresta57
Bugger convention, it's the first available place for me when I need a piss. I don't walk past a couple of spaces just because there's someone pissing in the first one. Urinal etiquette pah walk in find the nearest space that's me
I took the quiz and got one wrong. I was rushing it though!

It was the one where you had no choice but to stand next to another punter.

However my choice meant I had inadvertently 'coupled' myself up with someone.

Another place would have put me next to three people.
 
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I pick the one where the level of the distilled yellow water on the floor is lower than my sandals.
 
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I pick the one where the level of the distilled yellow water on the floor is lower than my sandals.
So your white socks don't go yellow?
 


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