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What is the purpose for that nasty little mat in the urinal?

Asked by Dutchess_III (46813points) November 19th, 2016

At work there is a unisex bathroom that I don’t use often. It’s just icky. We have an actual “girls” bathroom which I usually use.

There is a wall urinal in the icky bathroom, and I noticed that there was some sort of small, flexible plastic mat in the bottom of it over the drain. It had spongy kind of spikes sticking up. What was it??? It was gross, whatever it was.

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Seek's avatar

It’s a urinal screen

It reduces backsplashing and the stale piss odor.

Tropical_Willie's avatar

Keep using the “Ladies’” room.

josie's avatar

In my opinion it is a throw back to the days when guys would not only take a leak but throw their cigarette butts into the urinal and risk clogging the trap the trap with debris

filmfann's avatar

It’s so the end of your dick doesn’t get into the drain.

yeah, no. It’s the cigarette butt thing

Rarebear's avatar

Duh. It’s a target.

Coloma's avatar

Nice, I’m lucky to say I have never encountered such a mat. A back splash mat, lovely concept, learn something new everyday.
I had a bad public bathroom experience yesterday. The stupid toilet seat cover stuck to my ass when I stood up and the wet part clung to my leg.

It-was-so-gross!
I hate public bathrooms.

ARE_you_kidding_me's avatar

@filmfann I know, it sucks when the end of your pecker gets down into the nasty stuff at the bottom of the drain. Those urinal screens are a god-send.

MrGrimm888's avatar

It’s also a filter. People vomit in them frequently in bars…

johnpowell's avatar

I was a janitor for long enough to experience people shitting in urinals. I have no clue why this would ever be done but it happened a few times a month. And I was working at a TV station. Everyone wore suits and there were urinal shitters. It makes no sense.

Espiritus_Corvus's avatar

It’s called a urinal splash guard and it is there to do precisely what Seek said it is there to do.

Cruiser's avatar

Serves two purposes….first is to filter gum, ciggy butts and other debris that should not be chucked into the urinal….the other more significant purpose is to mitigate the errant splash/spray of the guys who waited way too long to pee and now are peeing like a racehorse.

Pachy's avatar

It’s a welcome mat we guys try to avoid putting our feet on.

Aster's avatar

They are impregnated with French fragrances to help make the bathroom smell like a trip to a Parisian boutique. I think.

Dutchess_III's avatar

Folks, I go with Seek. The bathroom is in a business office, not a bar or other public area. If anyone crapped in it, or was smoking, they’d be busted instantly.

Well, glad to know there is an actual reason for it. Wish it could be cleaned somehow, or replaced, but Not My Job!

@Aster Whatever scent it may have once had, it now smells of months or years old urine. So gross.

Why don’t they just make a tube that guys could stick their dicks in to pee?

MrGrimm888's avatar

Yuck @Dutchess_III . Maybe this is how women feel when men design things for them…

It should be legal for us to just pee outside. I definitely prefer that.

People argue all the time about how it’s natural for women to breast feed in public. What’s more natural than a man peeing outside?

Dutchess_III's avatar

I would rather you pee outside @MrGrimm888. But I find it odd that you compare whipping your dick out in public to breastfeeding.

Coloma's avatar

One of the joys of country living, you can pee outside anytime the urge strikes. haha
Many a time I’ve dropped my drawers behind the horse barn when I am busy and don’t want to trek hundreds of yards back to the house. My girlfriend complains her husband pees on her roses off their second floor balcony when he doesn’t want to leave their game room. Couldn’t get away with that in the city. lol

Seek's avatar

Sheesh, he should at least pee on the tomatoes, which will approve of the ammonia

Dutchess_III's avatar

When my hubs was growing up they had one bathroom, and you had to go through their parent’s room to get to it. I find this very, very odd! Why didn’t they at least put a bathroom in the basement? It’s plumbed for a shower down there. We still have to go through his dad’s room to use the basement.
Anyway, you can imagine they only used that bathroom when they really had to, and it was hell if they came home as teenagers, drunk! They peed out their upstairs bedroom window, or went outside, or went into the basement and peed in their shower. Three boys. YUCK!!

MrGrimm888's avatar

Well I didn’t mean I want to pee at an all.girls school play yard @Dutchess_III .~

I have a fenced in backyard, and I pee out the back door more than 80% of the time. The closest bathroom is way in my house, and I share it with others.

I think it saves on water,on top of being prefered. It’s like 5 gallons to fush the toilet. Seems like kind of a waste to just flush pee.

And for the record. The thing in the urinal is probably dishwasher safe ;)~

Dutchess_III's avatar

It ain’t goin in MY dishwasher!

Coloma's avatar

I just had to wash pissy kitty litter clumps off my ultra fluffy cats ass. Nice Myles, thanks for that before breakfast. Time to trim the pussy. lol

MrGrimm888's avatar

^Don’t let it outside. Trump might grab it….

Coloma's avatar

Hahaha, noooo, don’t grab my pussy!

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