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[–] njm1314@lemmy.world 73 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Hell when I was young you didn't even get urinals, it was just a trough.

Hell, in a lot of places they still have troughs.

Wrigley Park where the Chicago Cubs play still has troughs.

[–] Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca 54 points 1 week ago (6 children)

Lived in Australia for a couple years and those were super common in all sorts of public bathrooms. (schools, bars, libraries, clubs)

Basically just a wall covered in stainless steel, with a slope to a drain in the corner.

[–] Wiggles69@lemmy.world 21 points 1 week ago

Saw a girl at big day out get sick of the lineup for the women's toilets, so she lined up at the men's urinals, had better aim than half the blokes there and got a round of applause when she finished.

[–] moitoi@lemmy.dbzer0.com 19 points 1 week ago

Wait until you see the urinal in a rural fest made of just a 10m long pipe cut in half. Cheap and highly effective. Bonus point when they have a tablet at eye level to put your drink.

[–] anomnom@sh.itjust.works 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

There’s a gallery/cafe In Louisville that has a one way mirror wall you pee against with a trough and water running down it.

Outside the bathroom is the mirror side where my SO was adjusting her hair while waiting for me to pee.

It was a little weird.

[–] GreyEyedGhost@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 week ago

If I was looking for a more awkward bathroom experience than using a trough, this would be on the list.

Our bathrooms were like this at my shitty old American Catholic school.

[–] kux@lemm.ee 1 points 1 week ago

this is the only correct way, could still be improved with more trough along the back wall

[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml -1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)
[–] Aggravationstation@feddit.uk 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Those are still in a lot of places here in the UK. Apparently it used to be common in a lot of countries for bars in pubs to be surrounded by a gutter with a drain at one end so guys could just piss and spit without having to leave their stool. I suppose when everybody smoked indoors the smell wouldn't have been as much of a problem.

[–] brbposting@sh.itjust.works 4 points 6 days ago (1 children)
[–] Aggravationstation@feddit.uk 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Hmm, yea that does make sense. But you can guarantee at least a few guys tried it.

[–] fibojoly@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 week ago

They still have those in the Chinese school I was teaching in. Spotless, modern, but a trough. A really humbling experience, even after years of nightclub toilets in Ireland.

[–] HulkSmashBurgers@reddthat.com 0 points 1 week ago

Oh damn that's rough.