8 Responses to “Every Man’s Dream”

1. #1 |  Chance |  September 16th, 2008 at 1:25 pm

   You could sell this to the left as environmentally friendly for water savings, and to the right as the ultimate in manly bathroom accessories. I sense a growing market for these.

2. #2 |  Andrew Williams |  September 16th, 2008 at 2:26 pm

   You know, I was just going to waste that supplemental giveback check on something like food or gas, but fuck it—I want a urinal! I want to pee like a man in my own home!

   Feh.

3. #3 |  j.d. |  September 16th, 2008 at 2:30 pm

   hah! that’s great. i’ve already made the demand to the fiance that I have one in the house. Now I was having the traditional urinal in mind….but with a sea shell and other interesting ways to do it, I may get away with putting in two!

   http://www.urinal.net/naturescall/

   i do like the calla lilly myself

4. #4 |  Highway |  September 16th, 2008 at 3:57 pm

   A friend of mine put a non-decorative one in his house, but realized you need a good supply pipe. If you don’t have enough pressure, even though it uses little water, it needs a good whoosh through.

5. #5 |  James D |  September 16th, 2008 at 7:45 pm

   I saw a lengthy article once with a contractor (or realtor) about putting one in a personal house and he said “don’t do it unless you are a) going to be single for life and b) never plan to sell your house”. He said that women absolutely hate the idea. They’ll give multiple excuses as to why, but when they finally admit it … they say it “feels too much like a male-dominated dorm room” or something. So … build at your own risk. If only I could find that link …

6. #6 |  max |  September 17th, 2008 at 12:32 am

   I dunno about the sea shell or flower ones, I want one that goes down to the floor for the 2AM half asleep problem. But a color other than white would fit the bathroom decor better.

7. #7 |  KBCraig |  September 17th, 2008 at 1:06 am

   “James D” beat me to it. Women dominate house-buying decisions, and they hate urinals. (Whadaya expect, when the distaff sex is equally irate over leaving the seat up (proof that you raised it), and putting the lid down?)

   Now, if you have a “guy room”, a den set up for televised sports, the playing of poker, the burning of Cuba’s crops, the consumption of adult beverages, and other Manly Pursuits, then a pissoir would be very appropriate.

8. #8 |  David Chesler |  September 17th, 2008 at 12:26 pm

   I’ve always wanted one, for those reasons.
   There’s even a super-eco-friendly urinal out there that floats oil on top of the water, so the urine is covered and as more accumulates it just flows down the trap.

   I also wanted a drain in my bathroom floor, so when the kids take a bath the splashing goes somewhere good, like the laundry sink, and it would make cleaning the bathroom floor a breeze, but I was over-ruled.

   I had a urinal in one college suite bathroom. (The better dorms had private bathrooms – in this case Adams House A-41, Harvard.) The year before women had had that suite, and they used it as a planter. (This caused the plumbing to get clogged up with soil.)

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