To All Men:
There is one thing we must agree on--trough urinals are bad. Really bad. It makes little to no sense to have Men, who prefer to have a degree of space between them, line up shoulder-to-shoulder to piss into an elongated bowl. There are even worse situations that could arise with the trough urinal; imagine all X's are Men, and the series of dashes represent the trough:
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x x x x
Here, there are two facing eachother while peeing. What the hell, Men? This isn't right! True, all Men in this situation could simply look directly at the ceiling. The problem with this is that it reduces the overall comfort of the restroom environment. So, how do we go about remedying the issue?
There is one upside to the trough idea--it's efficient. Many Men can cram in to pee at the same time. This is not desirable in the aforementioned scenarios, but the fact of efficient processing remains. How do we get both?
While it is indeed the most comfortable to have enforce the 1:1 Man:Urinal ratio, one has to admit that it tends to be relatively inefficient. It may be best to have a combination of the trough and the 1:1 Man:Urinal ratio. How?
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Here, the trough has subdividers between all Men. The ideal ratio is maintained and efficiency is increased. Additionally, each Man retains sufficient privacy. However, it could be made more comfortable with doors for each Man. Agreed?
One final thing--there should be a slow amount of running water going at all times to maintain flow into a drain and to control the odor. Each stall should also come complete with an airfreshner for maximum comfort.
What are everyone's thoughts???? Any ideas or addendums? Is this the optimal state of affairs?
You bring a lot to the table in one shot regarding trough urinals. I personally hate the damn things and would avoid them at all costs. I personally would choose to go outside near a bush then use one of these bathrooms.
If your going to go through the trouble of splitting up the trough, why not just put in urinals?
Since everything is going green these days I don't see water running constantly as a good thing. Companies and people won't go for this. Unless it is recycled water, which could be very costly to remove all the bacteria.
Troughs suck! I agree with DrinkingTheory as you may as well just put in urinals.
Its weird to find out after all these years of peeing outside and having urinals y'all would be so concerned with having separators and what not might was well just have a bunch of stalls. I personally have been in a few womans bathrooms without wall barriers it is different not sure exactly what they are doing next to you eye contact awkward, walls are good! Do y'all just hide inside the urinal so no one can see ya? Why is the private thing so huge? is the attraction to look around that great walls make that easier to avoid?
the idea of the running water the hole time into a drain just sounds wrong you know they have the waterless urinal: http://greenlineblog.com/waterless-urinals-how-do-they-work/
check it out.
I do agree that troughs suck...
But why is the question. I believe that most guys hate these because of the length issue. Im not saying that i'm a huge guy or anything, but I think if i was a small guy I might be a little self conscious of the guy next to me looking over and seeing my small wienie.
The second issue is the time factor at these troughs... The start factor on me peeing is slightly if not drastically more when someone is standing in "my bubble" while i try to pee. So in turn created longer lines and creates a situation no one wants... more time in a nasty public bathroom...
Beer Master "the cause of and solution to all of life's problems"
Troughs suck because of the disgust of filth and the lack of appeal. It leads to the ability of someone being able to stand right next to you and rubbing elbows. There is no sense of space because in certain situations such as a football game, every inch of the damn trough can be taken, leaving no "bubble".
This has nothing to do with your members size (well maybe for some guys) because you shouldn't have to worry about that if every guy sticks to the code.
At least with urinals it forces guys to separate not allowing certain individuals to stand next to you.