You are a guest in someone's home. You go to pee at 2am in the bathroom adjacent to your host's bedroom. Do you flush and risk waking your host or leave the pee in the toliet til morning.

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The answer here is quite fucking obvious but apparently there are significant numbers on both sides of this issue.

wanko ergo sum, Thursday, 31 January 2008 04:01 (eighteen years ago)

you fucking flush

please

Surmounter, Thursday, 31 January 2008 04:03 (eighteen years ago)

like say my roomate across who considers it a courtesy that i be welcomed to a bowl of yellow and reeking peewater every morning. Good lookin out!! xp

Surmounter otm

wanko ergo sum, Thursday, 31 January 2008 04:03 (eighteen years ago)

across the hall

wanko ergo sum, Thursday, 31 January 2008 04:04 (eighteen years ago)

yeah flush. i have never been woken up in the night by someone flushing the toilet

electricsound, Thursday, 31 January 2008 04:04 (eighteen years ago)

Flush, because I can't see a reasonable host getting annoyed that you went to the bathroom (if they wake at all), but I can definitely see them getting agitated the next morning by non-flushing.

Hurting 2, Thursday, 31 January 2008 04:04 (eighteen years ago)

Basically it's a choice between something that might be slightly annoying versus something that's definitely really annoying.

Hurting 2, Thursday, 31 January 2008 04:05 (eighteen years ago)

Of COURSE you flush!!!!!! what the shit

HI DERE, Thursday, 31 January 2008 04:05 (eighteen years ago)

Of course I don't know much about the customs of Greenland, which is where I assume you must be staying if it's 2am

Hurting 2, Thursday, 31 January 2008 04:07 (eighteen years ago)

I don't have much to compare our customs to as I've never been off this block of ice.

wanko ergo sum, Thursday, 31 January 2008 04:08 (eighteen years ago)

My girlfriend yells at me when I flush when I pee in the middle of the night, actually whenever. Flushing is reserved for shits apparently.

Mr. Goodman, Thursday, 31 January 2008 04:11 (eighteen years ago)

So are you actually posting from the bathroom? Whatever you decide, take a cell phone picture and send it to us!

Hurting 2, Thursday, 31 January 2008 04:13 (eighteen years ago)

just tell her you're hanging a fat hairy turd

xposts

electricsound, Thursday, 31 January 2008 04:15 (eighteen years ago)

Jim if your turds strip hair I dont wanna know what you've been eating.

Trayce, Thursday, 31 January 2008 04:19 (eighteen years ago)

What if it's weak water pressure and you end up having to flush 3 times or more to get all the piss down? NOW how do you feel?

roxymuzak, Thursday, 31 January 2008 04:23 (eighteen years ago)

i had a girlfriend that lived with two other chicks. One was of the "if it's yellow, let it mellow" school of thought. the other two (incl the gf) felt differently.

will, Thursday, 31 January 2008 04:28 (eighteen years ago)

You pee in a Snapple jar that you brought with you in a suitcase.

Pleasant Plains, Thursday, 31 January 2008 04:28 (eighteen years ago)

Yeah an ex of mine was of that persuasion too. Ewch. xpost

Trayce, Thursday, 31 January 2008 04:28 (eighteen years ago)

That "let it mellow" adage is completely unforgiveable. Let it MELLOW?! It's not honey mead we're talking here, it's fucking urine.

roxymuzak, Thursday, 31 January 2008 04:29 (eighteen years ago)

The relative mellowness of the stuff is not really a concern.

roxymuzak, Thursday, 31 January 2008 04:29 (eighteen years ago)

we do have drought concerns in my part of the country, but still eww.

wanko ergo sum, Thursday, 31 January 2008 04:31 (eighteen years ago)

honey mead pee you say *rubs chin*

electricsound, Thursday, 31 January 2008 04:31 (eighteen years ago)

this guy's getting ideas!!

roxymuzak, Thursday, 31 January 2008 04:32 (eighteen years ago)

anyway, the answer here is clearly "piss in the sink"

roxymuzak, Thursday, 31 January 2008 04:33 (eighteen years ago)

wait, WES, what do you mean by "significant numbers on both sides of the issue"?

Hurting 2, Thursday, 31 January 2008 04:33 (eighteen years ago)

1 and 2

electricsound, Thursday, 31 January 2008 04:34 (eighteen years ago)

Ok, do NOT do number 2 in the sink.

roxymuzak, Thursday, 31 January 2008 04:35 (eighteen years ago)

i mean > 1% of the population thinks it's cool to leave pee in the bowl

hey emily good idea! xxxp

wanko ergo sum, Thursday, 31 January 2008 04:35 (eighteen years ago)

use a houseplant

will, Thursday, 31 January 2008 04:36 (eighteen years ago)

Thanks, wanko!

roxymuzak, Thursday, 31 January 2008 04:38 (eighteen years ago)

I feel a swell of pride.

roxymuzak, Thursday, 31 January 2008 04:39 (eighteen years ago)

SO YOU CAN DRINK YOUR OWN URINE ON A DATE!!!!

gershy, Thursday, 31 January 2008 04:39 (eighteen years ago)

not a good idea gershy sorry :(

wanko ergo sum, Thursday, 31 January 2008 04:41 (eighteen years ago)

you'll just have to pee again in an hour

wanko ergo sum, Thursday, 31 January 2008 04:43 (eighteen years ago)

i could see maybe if you're staying with conservationists and you also are very hydrated so your pee is pretty innocuous AND you'd wake their colicy infant therefore keeping them awake for the next 2 hours.

beware the tides of marchy asparagus piss.

one of my ex-roomies who was hardcore earth first vegan water/trees before roommates would leave big gnarly floater turds in our toilet. my gf at the time would, not notice, pee, drop tons of toilet paper in there, flip out upon realizing her screw up and/or totally being grossed out at the proximity of it all and then inevitably end up flushing like 4 times to get the beaver to stop bobbing and actually begin it's species' nightly migration into the sewage chutes.

nowadays my wife flips out cause my boys are pretty quick to take a piss and move on without flushing. (they're too young and still kind of new to the whole affair...) i keep telling her, "dude, i told you we should've got that place with the stand up jon.... but no!!!"

msp, Thursday, 31 January 2008 05:05 (eighteen years ago)

'the beaver'????

mookieproof, Thursday, 31 January 2008 05:12 (eighteen years ago)

platypus
weasel

electricsound, Thursday, 31 January 2008 05:13 (eighteen years ago)

oh, you mongrels and your platypi

mookieproof, Thursday, 31 January 2008 05:26 (eighteen years ago)

all poisonous and shit

electricsound, Thursday, 31 January 2008 05:32 (eighteen years ago)

you know what i hate? people who have signs in their bathroom reading

"IF IT'S YELLOW LET IT MELLOW"
"IF IT'S BROWN FLUSH IT DOWN"

remy bean, Thursday, 31 January 2008 05:36 (eighteen years ago)

PEOPLE DO THIS?!?!

roxymuzak, Thursday, 31 January 2008 05:37 (eighteen years ago)

and a sign on the door that says "here 'tis"

electricsound, Thursday, 31 January 2008 05:37 (eighteen years ago)

OH MY GOD, WHAT?

roxymuzak, Thursday, 31 January 2008 05:45 (eighteen years ago)

when i was at a sleepover birthday party, age ten, the parents had a yellow/mellow brown/down sign. nobody flushed all night long, and come morning we all crowded into the room to look at the radioactively-tinged water.

friggin gro-a-ss

remy bean, Thursday, 31 January 2008 05:47 (eighteen years ago)

Yeah, that doesn't sound very mellow.

roxymuzak, Thursday, 31 January 2008 05:53 (eighteen years ago)

I never understood the "Here 'tis" signs, wtf do they mean?

Also, furry toilet LID covers. WTF people. It gets all skanky and gets pee on it.

Trayce, Thursday, 31 January 2008 06:03 (eighteen years ago)

Its so Kath and Kim.

Trayce, Thursday, 31 January 2008 06:04 (eighteen years ago)

Also the cushioned vinyl seat covers. They are a) comfy and b) not so cold as porcelain or plastic, but seem... yes skanky. (more porous I guess?)

wanko ergo sum, Thursday, 31 January 2008 06:06 (eighteen years ago)

pee in an arc over your hosts bed and out the window (open)

burt_stanton, Thursday, 31 January 2008 06:08 (eighteen years ago)

I have pictures of pleasant serene things and fluffy fluffy towels in my bathroom. Adages about the evacuation of waste are TOTALLY unwelcome in my home.

kenan, Thursday, 31 January 2008 06:40 (eighteen years ago)

but seem... yes skanky. (more porous I guess?)

i don't know that there's hard science behind it, they're just white trash as hell.

kenan, Thursday, 31 January 2008 06:41 (eighteen years ago)

I have funker vogt posters and arthouse cinema posters.

Trayce, Thursday, 31 January 2008 06:42 (eighteen years ago)

In the toilet that is, we have seperate loos in homes here (much of the time). I hate bathrooms with the toilet in the bathroom. Icky.

Trayce, Thursday, 31 January 2008 06:42 (eighteen years ago)

as long as it's a clean toilet, i have no worries about that. Also, I have no choice in the matter, because I'm not much the custom-building-a-house type.

kenan, Thursday, 31 January 2008 06:43 (eighteen years ago)

we have seperate loos in homes here (much of the time)

I really didn't know that... how does that work, exactly? Are they adjoining rooms, maybe with one door leading to another, or are they totally separate rooms both coming off the hallway?

kenan, Thursday, 31 January 2008 06:47 (eighteen years ago)

The latter :)

Trayce, Thursday, 31 January 2008 06:49 (eighteen years ago)

Well, often. Sometimes the former.

Trayce, Thursday, 31 January 2008 06:50 (eighteen years ago)

Or the loo will be off the laundry room.

Trayce, Thursday, 31 January 2008 06:50 (eighteen years ago)

well that just sounds like excessive shame, in the last case there. Like, here, you get to poo over near the cat box, you dirty creature.

kenan, Thursday, 31 January 2008 06:51 (eighteen years ago)

for a real treat, go in the cat box

remy bean, Thursday, 31 January 2008 06:54 (eighteen years ago)

srsly, though, the toilet being in a totally separate room makes perfect sense. Anyone who has ever lived in a home with more humans than bathrooms knows how irritating it is to have wait for someone to finish showering before you can pee.

kenan, Thursday, 31 January 2008 06:59 (eighteen years ago)

and occasionally you'll have to shower in a cloud of your own stank which feels like toiling in vain.

wanko ergo sum, Thursday, 31 January 2008 07:02 (eighteen years ago)

?

dude, flush it down. we've covered this. ;)

kenan, Thursday, 31 January 2008 07:07 (eighteen years ago)

Zactky! lol xpost

Trayce, Thursday, 31 January 2008 07:08 (eighteen years ago)

Mind you its fun when you flush and someones in the shower and you hear AAAAAAAAAAAAARGH OWWWW.

Trayce, Thursday, 31 January 2008 07:08 (eighteen years ago)

that only happens in movies and Australia

wanko ergo sum, Thursday, 31 January 2008 07:12 (eighteen years ago)

I mean, I've made some stinkies in my day, but never to the point that a steamy shower and shampoo and soap didn't totally trump it inside of a minute.

kenan, Thursday, 31 January 2008 07:13 (eighteen years ago)

eight years pass...

uhhh this is flush and it's not even close

Neanderthal, Tuesday, 18 October 2016 02:54 (nine years ago)

yeah seriously

maura, Tuesday, 18 October 2016 03:21 (nine years ago)

I like these d&d/Zork style second-person thread titles

Inspired by an argument in the Stereogum comment section (brimstead), Tuesday, 18 October 2016 03:46 (nine years ago)


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