Tonight’s Top 10 Shows: Monday, June 4

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   Moli
   Posted June 4, 2012 at 10:22 am

   Ew, people really pee in the shower!!!!! I thought it was an urban legend…

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   itchy
   Posted June 4, 2012 at 11:00 am

   I started peeing in the shower fairly recently — saves a shit-ton of water. We have a septic tank, so it all goes to the same place anyway. And pee is sterile.

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   crankyguy
   Posted June 4, 2012 at 11:03 am

   Come on, Moli!!! I thought it was an urban legend that some people DON’T pee in the shower.

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   SuburBint
   Posted June 4, 2012 at 12:41 pm

   True story: When MisterBint was a police officer at one of our state universities (police officer, with all the rights and powers thereof, not a glorified security guard,) he had to investigate The Case of the Shower Pooper — in the communal showers of the campus fitness center, someone was defecating on a regular basis and then just walking away from it. They finally caught the culprit and IIRC, it was a professor of philosophy. So gross!

   My son likes to pee outside. He’ll be playing out there and I’ll hear him shout, “Mom, I’m going to pee!” and then he drops trou and waters the tumbleweeds. His little sister is still trying to figure out how to pee standing up and doesn’t understand why it works for him and not for her. Ah, the innocence of youth!

   I may or may not pee in the shower, and it may or may not depend entirely on whether or not I am showering alone. Urine is sterile, they hammered that fact home but good in nursing school. Pee. Is. Sterile. Unless you have a bladder or kidney infection, of course. And as itchy says, it does save water, and is way less icky to my mind than the whole “if it’s yellow, let it mellow” school of thought.

   And now you all know way more than you ever wanted to about the urinary habits of the BintHaus. You can try to blackmail me, but I’m pretty shameless. Although I could probably be persuaded to send you some form of candy, because I like to give people candy.

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   snowshoecat
   Posted June 4, 2012 at 12:53 pm

   When we lived up north on acres and acres of trees, we called the outside “the men’s room”. I hope hubbycat doesn’t forget now that we are in the city.

   Calling out names? When I met hubbycat I was dating completely unsuitable €£¥><. When hubbycat proposed, I answered…

   Yup.

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   sarcasatire
   Posted June 4, 2012 at 1:05 pm

   When I was living in a volunteer house in Brazil, we went one weekend without running water in all but one bathroom. So that was the one we used. We couldn’t, for the life of us, figure out why our ensuite bathroom started to smell like piss since none of us used it. Well, our only guy roommate kept going in there and leaving after a minute of so. When we asked him why he would pee in a non-flushing toilet, he said, “I wasn’t peeing in the toilet. I was peeing in the shower.” Eeeeeeeeeek! Since it was a shower stall, my friend’s shampoo bottles were on the floor of the shower the whole time he was using it as a toilet. And since there was no water…the pee just dried in residual droplets over everything. Sterile, my foot!
   We made him scrub that thing down before the rest of us would use it..
   But I would definitely let someone pee on my jellyfish sting, so there’s that. lol

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   itchy
   Posted June 5, 2012 at 12:37 am

   Oh, it’s only sterile until the bacteria get ahold of it. One of the big adjustments to life here in France is learning how to piss outdoors, since it’s considered a perfectly natural thing to do (not, of course, in the city). There is nothing –NOTHING– finer than a morning pee watching the sun rise over the fields.

   Also, I’ve had many jobs that have included janitorial duties. Nothing human beings do surprises me. Especially the female half. Nothing nastier than a public ladies’ room. You’d think, with all the time you spend in there, you’d keep it a little bit clean?

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   sarcasatire
   Posted June 5, 2012 at 1:32 am

   @itchy: I can see the appeal of pissing outdoors, for some. In London, men spent so much time peeing outdoors that “pissoirs” were erected (rubber urinals placed on city streets to stop drunken men from peeing in corners and curbs.) I did note that no such thing existed for women.

   While in Brazil, I had to resort to the “When in Rome” mode of thinking. My bestie laughed at me because when she had to go, she went, no matter the time nor place. I, however, was reluctant to cop a squat anywhere that lacked a commode and papel higienico. Once, I was at concert in a hall and when I wanted to use the bathroom. My boyfriend walked me but was stopped by security and I had to walk the grassy hill alone. In the dark. I didn’t know what to expect and as my eyes adjusted to the moonlight, I looked for a structure that resembled a porta-potty. I saw nothing of the sort. Hearing women’s voices close by, I followed the sound until I found several young girls peeing beneath a tree. Many of them didn’t even bother removing their undergarments; they hitched up their skirts and pushed their thongs to the side. It was a sobering moment for me because my only choice was to do as the locals do or leave the party early.

   I adapted.

   Maybe I’m too uptight. Maybe peeing against a tree is how one bonds with nature. Either way, I made sure to stand away from the sodden mud and to cuff my pants just in case. And if nothing else, I now have a funny anecdote to share with my grandkids.

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   lindaw205
   Posted June 5, 2012 at 2:10 am

   Ew to the mud. Actually, it sounds pretty sophisticated when you compare it to Jersey Shore and those “ladies” peeing on the wooden floors at the club.

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    itchy
    Posted June 5, 2012 at 2:46 pm

    I learned everything I needed to know about true love at a Dead Boys concert, when I witnessed the girlfriend of a very very wasted Stiv Bators aim for him so he wouldn’t pee all over himself.