Urination, or Don't You Eat That Yellow Snow!

[wally wonder]

Been reading Delillo’s, Underworld, and I’m back with Cotter Martin, the black kid who skipped school and grabbed the baseball in Pafco at the Wall, the prologue of the story, and a separate novella, available where books are sold. Cotter has made it home, the baseball tucked in his pocket, and shortly after arriving, his old man gets home and he takes a leak, thin walls. Cotter hears it, the leak, and “the all-time king leak. It was quickly becoming funny, the time span and force of the leak.”

Urination, also known as micturition, voiding, peeing, and more rarely, emiction, is the process of disposing of urine from the urinary bladder through the urethra to the outside of the body.

Quote Wiki.

Uncle Stephen, who’d a thunk it, also covers the matter of urination in one of his shorts, “The Night Flier”
I don’t think I’ve ever seen something like this portrayed on the silver screen, but SK’s visual is enough. The reporter, Dees, was there for the scoop: “I am, he thought dimly, watching a vampire take a piss.”

But before that, SK sets it up w/this:

That was when he heard the sound.
It was a sound he had heard at least a thousand times before, a sound that was as commonplace in any American man’s life…but now it filled him with a dread and a creeping terror beyond all his experience or belief.
It was the sound of a man voiding into a urinal.


I’m curious about what other members think about the matter, urination. Have you ever listened to the sound of someone in the bathroom, say you’re in the kitchen w/friends or family, and somebody says, “Niagra Falls.” And everyone laughs.

Did you hope to acquire the ability to pee like a racehorse? I guess this only applies to the male members of the board. Or maybe not just them? That reminds me of another story…involving an animal, but it’s the human touch that interests me. How has the matter of urination affected your life?
Is there anything as inherently comical as driving along the highway and seeing another human standing on the passenger side of his car in the classic pose? What has been your experience?

[Becks19]

Not to be gross here but You cannot live with a man and not know that all too familiar spashing sound. ( even with the door closed) I have always envied my husband for his bladder capacity..........On trips I'm asking my husband to stop AGAIN, and he's still holding it from yesterday..... lucky him, he's stuck with three girls and has to wait endlessly on long trips for us to um complete our business. He's always speedy and wonders what takes us so long....I tell him we're girls it can't be helped.

[JohnDalglish]

Hio,

Hmmm - Frank Zappa wrote a song about it.

In Britain it is still legal to urinate over the rear left hand wheeel of your vehicle.

Long days and pleasant nights

[Srbo]

I`m sorry, I`m not sure I`m understanding this.
You are asking us what we think about urinating?

Nothing. When you have to go, you have to go, end of story.

So, what`s next on the board?
So far we had the paper roll poll, then flatulance, now urinating...well, lets explore all the bodily functions, shall we?


J/K, Bluey, no offense.

[Bryan James]

I have nothing...other than appreciation for the Zappa reference.

~BJS

[Doc Wilson]

Who's Next is the greatest album cover (and maybe the best album) of all time.

[Cowboy]

I never thought urination deserved its own thread....not sure I want to post here because of that. Would that lessen or cheapen my posts in other threads? To ponder on such an issue is very perplexing....... (seriously?)

[kyhottie]

I was driving home from work one day whan I came upon an accident. Just a simple single car sitting in the ditch. The man who had been driving the car gets out and urinates in front of the car into the ditch. All the while traffic is moving slowly past the accident and he acts as though he either doesn't see anyone or he doesn't care. I don't know I didn't ask. I was too busy laughing. Maybe it scared the piss out of him...

[fushingfeef]

Depending on your personality, you might find this gross, or you might find this funny. Keep in mind we were teenagers:

My friends and I used to buy a couple 2-liter bottles of soda pop and drink it quickly while hanging out in our school's parking lot. We would try to hold it as long as we could. Then when no one was looking, one at a time, we would try to urinate as far as we could, while slowly turning in a circle. The person who made the largest diameter circle would win bragging rights!

The funniest part was that the stains left by these circles could remain for days if it didn't rain. I remember us laughing at our cheerleading team as they practiced in the parking lot, completely unaware that they were standing on our giant pee circles! Another time a cop car came by and asked us what we were doing. We just said "drinking pop" with a straight face. Meanwhile the squad car had stopped right over a couple urine circles!

[Spideyman]

Once saw an early childhood center that had a red firetruck painted on the inside of the toilet bowl so the "little boys" could learn to hit the spot.