Wednesday, July 26, 2006

HC? Physics!!

I seem to be reading a lot about urinals lately. First, an endorsement of home urinals by Barry Sonnenfeld in his monthly Esquire column. Then, this tidbit about advertising on (or actually in, I guess) urinals that not only shows you a flashy ad on the urinal filter, it talks to you, too. This led to a question I posed a couple of days ago about urinals and splashback, as it seems it's nearly impossible to prevent pee from splashing back onto your legs when using these contraptions for all those who pee standing up. Below is Wild Willie's solution to the problem followed by some extra thoughts about terminology:

Splashback is going to occur when urine is angled improperly into the urinal with too much force. As a matter of fact, force is your major enemy in this problematic situation, but we are not in our sixties where things seem to dribble out. Rather we are all still spry young men, and the force at which we urinate is still going to be a little too much. So to solve our problem, we need to decrease the angle at which the urine hits the urinal, thus in turn decreasing the perpindicular force vector into the urinal. Where this tends to be a problem is on the urinals that are much shorter and elevated off the ground. The way to solve this problem is similar to above. You must aim for a curved portion of the urinal. This involves adjusting yourself to the side a little so that your urine is hitting the urinal wall at two angles effectually creating a decrease in the x-axis force and the z-axis force. Decreasing these forces greatly reduces the amount of splashback. Of course these scenarios are only good for situations not involving the urinal cake, because if a urinal cake exists then follow [ScootyPuff Jr.'s] instructions.

Finally, while I like the name "splashback," I would like to create a new word to describe a situation where you purposefully create splashback to land on the guy next to you because you don't like him. This is called "peeback," because there is nothing like a little good peeback for the chode next to you. Just imagine the scenario ... You do what you can to scare the guy walking into the bathroom from approaching the adjacent urinal. Heck you even whip out your pirate talk to make him think you are a little crazy. "Arrrrgggghhh its cold schwabbin the urinals with mee pecker." Yet the chode decides to use the stall next to you at which time you say, "Arrrggghhhh, careful matey or you might be asking for some peeback."

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