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I've heard of this malarkey before greedoniz, I didn't like it then and I don't like it now. I'll admit to sitting down one night but that was because I kept falling into the bath every time I tried to stand over the toilet.

We also got the likes of Britney Spears out losing her mind and doing all sorts of things caught in the media. Things that you'd expect Ozzy Osbourne to do.

Times are changing.

If we're not careful we'll soon have all the girls telling us to get back into the kitchen and cracking jokes about the ironing needing done.

I'm normally a splash-n-dash man...but occasionally i do treat myself to a sit-down piddle...

i gather my thoughts, dont have to put up with stray smells of coffee or asparagus; and i can send abusive texts all while having a tinkle...

plus if you're tipsy, it lets you work out whether to have another drink...

if you're at a urinal, it's strictly business...and certainly no eye-contact of either kind hopefully

Craig Browning wrote:I couldn't find the link but I just found a thing whilst stumbling about the net the other night, about a Urinal company that deliberately embeds a fly into a spot on their devices. The reason being the fact that most males have a tendency to want to hose off such things e.g. the fly improves their accuracy and lessens the amount of "spillage" typically found around Urinal locations.

Back in the day, a urinal company in the UK used to put a bee design on urinals for much the same reason.

The Latin for 'bee' is 'apis'...

(True story, by the way.)

Some 25 or so years on, I remember a friend of mine asking me if I sat down, or stood up to go to the toilet. For some completely inexplicable reason, I thought he mean solids, to which there is only one possible answer, of course. Then I realised what he had actually meant (at that age, I'd have expected something a bit more graphic about having a pee), I thought he must think I was a bit odd. Tehn I realised that he wouldn't have asked the question unless either he or his father sat down too.

Back to the original question, I am not a dabber, and am not aware of anyone I know being either.

Part-Timer wrote:...I thought he mean solids, to which there is only one possible answer, of course...

Not so, my good man. Not so at all. But that's a whole new thread and one that I, quite frankly, will not be starting.

Don't ask. Trust me, just don't go there.

I was pretty horrified when I walked into a public toilet and found some "solid matter" as you put it, in a urinal.

Replicant wrote:Not so, my good man. Not so at all. But that's a whole new thread and one that I, quite frankly, will not be starting.

Don't ask. Trust me, just don't go there.

Presumably that's the problem...someone did go there (as Wild Card mentioned).

What I should perhaps have said is that there is only one sensible, decent answer.

Gah, Part Timer, you beat me to the "apis" trivia!

I would say that in the scenarios put forth by Marvo Marky, the first is five, and the second is five or six. The reason being that yes, you want to go as far away as possible, BUT... you don't want to imply that you're actually afraid for him to catch a glimpse of your tinkle by choosing the very furthest. However, a gap of at least one should remain either side at all times.

Let me put it this way: That scene in Trainspotting when Ewan McGregor's character is dying for the loo and he finds a cubical that is, er... in need of a good squirt of Toilet Duck, shall we say.

Imagine that in a urinal.

I had nightmares for days after witnessing that horrific scene of carnage. I'm still not right.

Quick comments:-

1. In 10 years at male-only boarding school (in the 60s) and since, I never heard about a dabber, not that this was a regular topic of conversation.

2. Part of the fun is waving it about (ie aiming at this and that)

3. The bees in the urinals are a Dutch thing, the object being to avoid unpleasant splashback. Visit Schiphol Airport. I have always thought that whether this worked or not depended on your height.

Part-Timer wrote:

Craig Browning wrote:I couldn't find the link but I just found a thing whilst stumbling about the net the other night, about a Urinal company that deliberately embeds a fly into a spot on their devices. The reason being the fact that most males have a tendency to want to hose off such things e.g. the fly improves their accuracy and lessens the amount of "spillage" typically found around Urinal locations.

Back in the day, a urinal company in the UK used to put a bee design on urinals for much the same reason.

The Latin for 'bee' is 'apis'...

A bee when you pee!

There was a company doing the bleech block things set up so that they hung suspended from the top of a little football goal in the urinal; there was no possible way for you to resist the urge to score.

Try the Urinal game:

http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/urinal

Craig Browning wrote:I couldn't find the link but I just found a thing whilst stumbling about the net the other night, about a Urinal company that deliberately embeds a fly into a spot on their devices. The reason being the fact that most males have a tendency to want to hose off such things e.g. the fly improves their accuracy and lessens the amount of "spillage" typically found around Urinal locations.

How 'bout this, then?
http://www.webehave.com/ttTargets.htm

Robbie wrote:

Craig Browning wrote:I couldn't find the link but I just found a thing whilst stumbling about the net the other night, about a Urinal company that deliberately embeds a fly into a spot on their devices. The reason being the fact that most males have a tendency to want to hose off such things e.g. the fly improves their accuracy and lessens the amount of "spillage" typically found around Urinal locations.

How 'bout this, then?
http://www.webehave.com/ttTargets.htm

Yea... years ago I had a set of battle ships that were gifted to me... I think it was supposed to be the battle of midway or some such and using either your "light fighter" or "heavy bomber" you nailed this or that loo safe targets...

In number 1 you should go for number 4 as it does not break the splashback rule and allows room for another in number six as obviously if you chose number 6 someone can not go in the middle of two men already peeing.

In number two you have to choose number six.

If they are all empty someone will always choose number 1 because it is furthest from the door it's simple psycology really