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Ep. 127 Urinals and Standing to Pee · Privycast

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>> Speaker A: And I'm here to tell you the language in a
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patent is wild because they have to
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describe in detail down to,
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like, the minute functioning of every
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portion of the mechanics of their
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patent.
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Welcome back to privy. Privy
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is a podcast about bathrooms
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recorded from my home
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bathroom. I'm your host, hunter hoover,
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and I love bathrooms. Thank you guys so much for
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being here. Thanks for joining us. Here I am in my home
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bathroom once again, the old.
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The old steed. Uh, and we
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are fully into the spring season. You can. You can
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probably hear it in my voice. My family and I, uh,
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we did a little fire pit this evening, and anytime you do a fire
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pit, you got to get your. You really got to get your
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whole snoot right up in the mix to really get
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the fire really stewing and brewing. You
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kind of got to get your whole mug down in there,
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and it. And it just. It just smokes you out.
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And as a result, it just kind of makes the
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whole situation a little raspier. And
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so, forgive me. Forgive me for my raspberry.
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Uh, forgive
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me for the rasp. But it's the spring season. The
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allergies are already real.
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And at the point of this episode, it.
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Today at the recording is April Fool's
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day. Happy April Fool's day, everyone. Uh, it's late
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by the time you're hearing this, but I don't really care.
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Uh, again, if you pulled any. If you
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pulled any fun pranks, uh, let us know on the
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privy socials. We'd love to see and hear
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about those. You can send us an
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email@privycastmail.com, or share us
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on social rivycast. Um, and last
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month, we discussed feminine hygiene. It
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was International Women's Day. Uh,
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and also, it was kind of women's month.
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So, ladies, good job. I hope
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you enjoyed it. Uh, right at the end, our
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beloved president tried to shoehorn a whole group of people in
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on it. But.
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And in a statement that is probably all together
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out of place, I
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gotta say, you know, we have this month,
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this is. Hello, I'm a white
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man. Um, so,
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obviously, I'm an idiot, but
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for the first time in all of time, the guys were kind of
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left out. Like, they didn't really get much of the action.
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Last month, it was kind of, you know.
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And so this week on privy, I thought. I thought we would
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venture into the boys space a little bit. We're
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going to talk sort of a little bit about
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something that is very, very akin
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to being a guy.
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Um, but before we fully launch into
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that, uh,
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we got some things that we need to talk about. We're
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going to discuss urinals and we're going to discuss.
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And we're going to kind of trace, not trace
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in like the snow here. You'll see. But like
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the history of men standing to pee. Why do
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men stand to pee? And better yet, should
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they stand to pee? We're going to seek to answer those
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questions this week on preview.
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I'm going to go ahead right at the top here. We got a way to grip
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and rip. I'm thirsty.
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There's something about a fire pit that just creates a real thirst.
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Now, the history of men
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standing to pee is really not as
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interesting as the history of urinals.
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Or better yet, the development
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of the social norms behind
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standing to pee. It's pretty
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straightforward. Men, you see, men
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have a PP,
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and the PP that men have
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is it makes it easier
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for them to stand and go pee.
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And I say easier because women
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can stand in pee and as we're going
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to see often have throughout history. But
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it takes some work and maneuvering to do
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so without whizzing on yourself
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or as it has been put to me, peeing in your
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shoe. And I think the best
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method for ladies, ladies allow me to mansplain how
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to pee standing up is the idea
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of like the bear hug around the tree. You can use like a
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ratchet strap or a sweatshirt. And you go around the tree and you just
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kind, you kind of hang back. You kind of drop deaf,
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you know, you kind of, you kind of throw that, throw that
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butt back there and just sling it back.
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And now in this squat position,
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you just let fly. Um,
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you can also do the hang.
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You can kind of hang beef and let it
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ride. But essentially you are
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holding onto something and then putting your butt,
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leaning back into this semi squat
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hanging position wherein you're peeing.
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Totally flattering ladies hanging beef.
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But it'll get the job done. It
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squares out. Uh, it serves its purpose. You know, it helps
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you void. But men
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have this extra digit
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that makes standing to pee a lot
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easier. Like just a lot easier.
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It also makes writing and drawing or spelling your
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name, uh, in the snow a lot easier.
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Or as I received an image,
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you can, you can mark your territory when you
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visit various national parks, shout out,
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you know who you are.
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So, yeah, uh, the beginning, that's the beginning of
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men standing to pee. Pretty much as long as men
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have been peeing, they've been standing to pee.
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And it kind of seems like that continued for a
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long time.
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Also, keep in mind,
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for hundreds of years when you went to the bathroom,
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you went straight into nature. You just
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blasted straight back into the source. You
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know, what goes around comes around.
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It's the circle of
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life, and
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it m moves it. I don't know. I'm going to
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get slapped with some sort of copyright infringement if
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I keep singing, because old Mickey Mouse, old
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Michael E. Mouse is going to come and
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sanction me.
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Tyrant. Uh,
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but
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they were often not really worried about where the
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material went, like,
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up. And that's kind of the end of the
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concern. And as developments in
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cleanliness grew, you know, people began to
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realize, we need to spend less time in
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contact with the things that have already processed and come
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out of our bodies. With the
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creation of the piss pot and the privy
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and later the toilet, these all
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began to have an impact on
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the development and
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progression of men standing to
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pee. You have to
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remember, men can pee
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where men and women must sit,
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and so there must be some splashing
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involved. Like when you. I'm going to tell you right now, as
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a guy who pees standing up frequently,
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there is splashing involved. And part of, and
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part of growing up, part of parents,
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if you are parents of boys, part of
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raising boys is to teach
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them to manage their p. Stream
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it. And I'm gonna be honest, it is the job
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of the dad. But moms,
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you guys are superheroes, and you probably are
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doing this too. But like
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every, every man person,
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every male person with the male
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wiener has made a mess. Peeing,
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it's just part of it. It's part of the game.
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And it seems that
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with this splashing,
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the seated options for
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bathrooms developed in men,
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even though they're splashing, would still opt
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to stand. But
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there are records of sitting. In
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some instances, new technologies
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developed. One of these was.
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Can be found in
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archaeological digs, uh, in Sri
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Lanka, uh, around the year
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800. Uh, they believed that
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this was part of a monastery, but they dug up what
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they believe to be one of the oldest
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and most rudimentary
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inground urinals. And,
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um, the development here makes a lot of
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sense. This urinal is probably one of
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many that became standard in buddhist
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monasteries. These were often
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habited primarily or only these monasteries,
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were they housed primarily or
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only men? And as such, it would be
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standard in the monastery to stand. To pee. You
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don't need sitting pee
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stations. It is also
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because of how they had to dispose of their waste,
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um, to pee and poop
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into the same spot made just dealing with what could be
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a simple job, peeing more
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costly time,
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time impeding
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and it just took more of your time because now you have to,
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like, scoop the poo out of where you peed
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as well, where if you poo and pee in separate
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spots, you can sometimes just dump, um, the
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pee. And so the idea of what
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they have going on here is it's like you pee into
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the hole, and now you don't have to deal with the poop, you
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just have the pee to deal with.
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Ingenuity. Since you would just be
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urinating these vessels and the cleaning rituals that
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followed could be more appropriately
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tailored to address the specific bathrooming
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job that you did. Did peeing in a space separate
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from where you would poo ensured easier bathing and
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easier collection for cleaning. Essentially, what this
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thing looks like, this sri lankan buddhist
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monastery urinal, is, it's like a stone
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slab with these two pegs where you would put
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your feet,
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and then there's just like a hole, and you would pee through the hole and it
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would go into like, a pot or a cistern or something.
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And that is what it is.
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This is likely the first urinal, but I'm going to be
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honest, it's really just a hole in the ground.
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And by this definition, my buddies and I peed into,
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quote unquote gopher hole urinals when we were a
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kid, if you know what I'm saying.
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Really, the next big strides in urinal
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technology were in the french pissoirs. And you can go
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listen to our. Our entire episode on
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these. I think it's just called something piss
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wars. Wee wee
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monsoor. Um, why are the
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French got so much to do with bathrooms?
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Like, I feel like every time I talk about
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bathrooms, I'm talking about the freaking Romans and
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the French. Why.
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Why do they get their snoot on
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this seat so often?
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They don't even shave their armpits. Figure it out.
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But, uh, the idea of a place
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to pee with these
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pissoirs that were installed in public and
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hooked to the newly renovated
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french sewer, uh, system
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made the idea of public
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places to use restrooms a little more
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prominent. The word about these public
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pisswars spread, and as it did, they were adapted in
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other countries and large cities.
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And there isn't really a lot of development in the world
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of urinals. These, again, were essentially a
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hole that you pee into. But they were technically not
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urinals because they
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could receive solids. Now, you shouldn't
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do it, but they did do it.
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The next strides in urinal technology
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came in the time of the American Civil
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War.
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The first us patent for a urinal is
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registered to a man named Andrew Rankin.
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He was granted this patent on March
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27, 1866. And I say
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registered to because there's some
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scuttlebutt here, some
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sources, and they all seem to be quoting from the
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same source without ever stating what that source
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was. Um, all state
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that this was a wall mounted urinal, which is the first
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time in all this that the urinal in
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question looks at all like what we are thinking in our brain
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when we think of a urinal today.
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But. But the scuttlebutt here is that
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Andrew Rankin did not invent it, that it was actually
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invented by a woman. And the way the story
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goes is that because women were not allowed
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to hold patents at the time, and the
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US patent Office thought it completely insane that
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a woman would be developing a men's
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urinating vessel, they would not
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grant her the patent. And so Andrew Rankin
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swooped in, pretty much stole the idea.
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Uh, and I want to know. The woman is not named, so there's not
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a way to give her credit if this is true. But what's
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interesting about the patent, you can. And I don't know if you know
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this, but you can just go online
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to Google and you can just go read
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patents. Like, you can just read the language in
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any patent, if something's patented, you can probably look it up
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on Google, see the images, read the
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description language. And I'm here to tell
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you, the language in a patent is
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wild because they have to describe in
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detail, down to, like, the
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minute functioning of every portion
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of the mechanics m of their patent.
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What this means is something even as simple as
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a wall mounted journal has a pretty
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wild patent description. But what's
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interesting is when you read through this patent
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is
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sometimes in Rankin's. In the
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case of Rankine's urinal, which is the name of
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this unit, by the way, it
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makes it seem like he might be
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stealing the idea. Like, if you name. If
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I named my, uh, video
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online video service, hunters
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YouTube, it kind of seems like I'm.
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I'm stealing a little bit of an idea. Do you know what I'm saying? So
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Rankin's urinal much, um,
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of the design and the language that he includes. And this
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is, I think, another tale that we can key in, that
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maybe this was designed by a lady,
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is it's less
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focused on letting men
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pee standing upright.
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And the device, the urinal itself,
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seems designed to be
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focused on controlling the smell that
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is created by urine
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sitting. The patent mentions
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numerous times being able to put deodorizing
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agent in the urinal to reduce the smell.
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Fascinating about all this is, you hear that, men?
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So, ladies, I don't know if you know this, but
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in a urinal where men blast urine
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is a little disc, uh, called a urinal cake. You
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probably know what a urinal cake is, but if you've never seen it, it's always a
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thrill because they do kind of smell nice,
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and they do make the experience of peeing really
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cool. Uh,
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but what's interesting is his patent
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is rife with language about this deodorizing
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agent. But his patent
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came 20 years prior to the
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urinal cake being patented and developed.
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But that's for another day. In
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short, the modern urinal had, for all
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intents and purposes, been invented.
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These urinals became standard installment
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in factories during the industrial revolution.
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Reason being, many of these factories were
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staffed only or primarily by men.
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As such, prior to the invention, it would be
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common for. For workplaces not
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to provide a place to pee. They would have a
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toilet for men to poop. And it
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was frowned upon for men to walk to that
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toilet to pee. Time is money, and if you're
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peeing, you ain't making money. And so
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men would opt to just pee right onto the floor,
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into the corner. You got to establish a pee corner. And in
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the american revolution, they did. Or
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industrial revolution. My bad. I'm not a historian. I've
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never claimed to be. I, um, am.
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But. So it's. So it's whack.
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They got. They got pee on the ground, pee on their
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pants, and they're working with food, sometimes
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packing industries. It's not sanitary, it's not
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good. Uh, but it was
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the scope. But these urinals
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save space. They saved time. They
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improved hygiene and the working conditions
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and allowed men to pee and get back to work
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faster. You can,
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for, like, the same space that it would take to
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have one toilet, you can put two to three urinals in that
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space. Urinals are also less
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intensive on the plumbing.
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What's truly interesting is the role women
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begin to play in the development of urinal culture
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for men. During the women's
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suffrage movement, it was a common point for
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many of the men who were against women to
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gain the right to vote, to
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tout their ability to stand
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NP as a mark for
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why they were superior as
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men over women. Now,
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first of all, we've made some jokes this episode,
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but to the idea that you are able to
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stand up, um, that
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NP, and that makes you better
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shut up. That's. It's not
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that cool of a trick. Like, it's kind of cool, but it's not
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that cool of a trick. And
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one. And also, women can stand
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to pee. A, uh, reality that I
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became all too aware of when an
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unfortunately uncensored image on Wikipedia
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was all too keen to demonstrate that to me.
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Wild. That that's just on the Internet loose like that.
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Wikipedia, censor your crap a little better.
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But as such, men began to make it a bigger
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and bigger deal about being able to stand
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to pee. Wee. Look at me. I can vote, and I
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don't have to sit to pee. This morphed
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into a cultural phenomenon
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in which men were then expected
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to stand to pee. It kind of had a little bit of
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sexism attached to it. If you sat to pee,
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maybe you're a little bit more of a lady. That's where this
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idea comes from. This coupled
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with the janky history of women's public
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bathrooms, which there was a huge
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shortage of at the outset because women were expected
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to be at the home. And when they began to enter
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the workforce, there was this awkward, like, oh, shoot, they need a
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different place to go to the bathroom. We need to have a women's
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bathroom. Also, at the
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beginning, a lot of times they charged women
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to use the public restrooms. They had pay
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toilets. And while they were not just
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for women, women could not pee in the streets. And
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so it kind of became just for women,
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because men, instead of paying, they just go blast it right into the
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street, where women were like, I'm not doing that.
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And as these amenities became more.
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More public and they didn't have
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to pay, and they began to make strides
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in making bathroom access more
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of a reality to everyone,
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people began to make a realization.
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We don't like it when
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creepy Doug blasts
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his stream in the middle of the street
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in front of every. We're just coming out of target, and dudes
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peeing on the cart. Like, figure it
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out. Sort yourself, ma'am.
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No, sir. You
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know, ladies on this,
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but. And
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so it went. For some time, pay toilets
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and public restrooms were a toilet, no
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urinal. But as it became free, we
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began to have men's and women's rooms.
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Urinals were started to be installed
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as it allowed men to pee and get in and out
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quicker. Think of how many times
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you've been to a state fair, amusement park, or some
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sort of venue. Any,
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really, anywhere where there's a large gathering of people and the women's
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restroom line is always longer than the
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men's. I've never seen it the other way. I'm sure it's happened.
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I've never seen it. And the reason
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usually is, if you have to pee,
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women still have to go about the same
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process of taking the drawers down,
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sitting, doing the business where men, you
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have fewer toilets, you can have urinals which save space. You
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can have more urinals in that amount of space. It saves
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water. It saves time. And for many
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businesses, if this was an option
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to install urinals, it was a no brainer. It saved your water
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consumption, it saved your
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time, of your employees. It's less
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paper, all of these things.
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And this distinction turned into
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a further distinction.
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If a man can use a urinal,
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then it must be what a man does to stand
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in pee. And that's kind of the thinking.
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And I know there's some whack job out there who will one
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day make the argument that it's sexist to stand and
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pee. If you stand and pee, you're being a sexist
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pee. I know that argument exists. I know
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someone out there is going to make it, but shut up.
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That's stupid. But that's
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kind of the thinking. It's annoying.
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And they're already trying to install urinals in
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women's bathrooms. Now, I should note, this is
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not a women's urinal which exists.
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They are trying to put men's urinals in
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women's restrooms so men who want to
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make believe can still go in there and pee in a
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urinal, whatever.
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As noted, there are also women's journals
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for actual, real women. And that brings us
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to this segment of poo in the
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news.
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This poo in the news was published
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eight days ago at the. This episode's release, it looks
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like March 23
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ish. And it's published by the
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BBC News of west England. And it's
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titled Pair behind female
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eyeing up european expansion.
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They note that the company
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Pequol, designed by
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these two ladies in Europe, um,
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and it was designed to reduce time spent
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waiting in line for the women's
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room. The 25
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and 26 year old say that these are
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six times quicker to use than a regular
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toilet. And the team have raised
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500,000 euro. I don't know how much
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dollars that is. It's probably like $15. No, I'm just
24:48
kidding. Um, and they're going to
24:51
continue to improve the product. They're expanding into
24:54
Germany and Netherlands. Uh, and
24:57
I should describe these,
24:59
uh, the ones that they have. They
25:02
look like these multi, like, stepped up into
25:05
rims. And when you get in there,
25:08
you have this, like, privacy thing.
25:11
You have enough privacy to where you can pull your drawers
25:14
down and do your thing. Um,
25:17
and it's got a thing
25:19
that minimizes splash. Very good. When you're
25:22
trying to use a urinal, by the way, I've shared at
25:25
length at my job at the high school
25:28
there, there is an in ground urinal that I
25:31
use frequently. And when you wear shorts and use
25:34
that urinal, you definitely feel the splashback. That's
25:37
all I'm saying.
25:40
But they have investors and they begin to
25:43
drag these things out at festivals.
25:46
Ah. And it's a shift in behavior. At the start,
25:49
uh, a lot of people were like, I
25:52
don't know about it, but when you don't
25:55
have to wait in a regular 15 minutes line,
25:57
the option is suddenly, like, there. They say,
26:02
they, they say that
26:05
the biggest thing is like, oh, the impact on the climate.
26:08
It's fine. We're gonna be fine. In
26:11
addition, uh, they're trying to make the
26:13
units out of plastic from the ocean. And
26:16
they're in discussion about collecting the
26:19
urine in the bottom and it being used to turn into
26:22
fertilizer. Now, uh, I want to
26:25
note, I looked at these, I had to go look
26:28
these up to see what these look like. And, uh, they're
26:31
kind of cool looking, I'm not going to lie. But here's the deal. The
26:34
mechanism by which women you would squat and
26:37
pee in this is literally, it's
26:40
a man made device to allow women to do the squat and
26:43
hover bear hug method I mentioned earlier. It's
26:45
just inside of a plastic cage rather than wrap
26:48
your butt around a tree. And if you don't believe me,
26:51
go look this up on YouTube. It's pretty clear what's going on.
26:54
You pretty much like brace, hang beef, let's bray,
26:57
move on. It's pretty cool. It's a path
27:00
forward, giving women something that's for them to
27:03
use, that is quick, like what men have, rather than
27:06
just making the experience the same as a
27:08
man's. This brings us to
27:11
the end of poo in the news.
27:18
It should also be noted in the standing to
27:20
pee and urinal technology. We have two other things we need
27:23
to discuss. First is
27:26
the concept of portable urinals. Now, while
27:29
I think the distinction between these and
27:32
piss pots is essentially shape like,
27:37
some of these ancient portable urinals are wild.
27:40
And I have to say this. The
27:43
opening of the portable
27:46
urinal I, uh, you need, well, imagine a watering
27:48
can. But instead of like a nice little
27:51
spout is what appears to be like a two inch
27:54
hole that protrudes from the spout itself. The pot
27:57
itself.
27:59
I'll post pictures of these out on the privy social. But
28:02
yeah, people were definitely sticking
28:06
stuff into these devices. It's wild.
28:10
Also, this is another thing of
28:13
feedback to those of ancient history.
28:16
Don't make the portable urinals look like
28:19
animals. And if you're gonna make them look like
28:22
animals, like if you can't help it, don't
28:25
make the hole on the portable
28:28
urinal correspond to a hole that could be found
28:30
on the real life version of the animal.
28:33
Stop it. So many of
28:36
these is like the mouth of the animal
28:38
is the receptor hole.
28:41
Please dear Lord, help us. Why
28:45
the guys like spray into the container and then they dump it
28:48
in an appropriate spot. And I think these actually probably
28:51
had some religious usage. If you go back far enough,
28:54
they just did it wherever. But if you need to get
28:57
outside the camp or outside
29:00
of some sort of an area that
29:03
was affected by worship, this would
29:06
definitely make disposing of your
29:09
waste out of those areas much easier.
29:12
They have found these in all sorts of ruins from ancient
29:14
Japan in the Europe in the 500s. It's
29:17
wild stuff.
29:20
The other stand to pee technology is a
29:23
modern invention and it seeks to make
29:26
the urinal using process less of a thing for
29:29
just men. And add the experience for the
29:32
ladies. Ladies, this one's for you.
29:36
While much of this technology is pretty new,
29:38
most of it came about in the last hundred years. It is
29:41
really the updating and development of women's
29:44
clothing to allow for easier bathrooming while
29:47
standing pants, if you will. Uh uh.
29:50
Because a long time ago, like you go back 100,
29:52
2150 years, women didn't wear pants. It was
29:55
like, what is wrong with her? But they're
29:58
essentially devices for the collection or
30:01
aiming of urine. One
30:03
popular device is this cone shaped thing. And
30:06
I think the woman holds it to
30:09
her zone while standing to pee. And then it comes
30:12
out the end in what looks like a more aim
30:15
friendly shape. Others seek
30:18
to collect it for the lady and then dump it in the toilet.
30:21
Similar to the urinal situation,
30:25
the most popular of these, something called the
30:28
urinal, originated in France and
30:30
entered widespread use in 1996.
30:33
But here's the deal. There are
30:36
countless accounts and images of women
30:39
standing to pee in pots and things throughout
30:42
history. It's the
30:44
urinal that fouls us up because
30:47
you can't really stand and hover over your. No, not
30:50
well. And that brings us back to
30:53
the question. Men stand to pee. And
30:56
the urinal followed. But should
30:59
men stand to pee?
31:07
There's been a lot of debate about this in recent times
31:10
and as we will
31:13
see in times past, about whether men standing
31:16
to pee has any health
31:18
risks. And this
31:21
original hypothesis dates back to
31:24
1883, when the english medical
31:27
officer Raglan W. Barnes stated
31:29
his concern about the number of
31:33
bladder stones they were finding in the
31:36
indian immigrant population. And
31:39
he said that this was linked to the fact
31:42
of them and their voiding position. Now, I
31:45
want to know. His hypothesis was
31:48
definitely racist in nature, because he goes on
31:51
to say that, like, because they pee in the
31:54
position they pee in, they're savages. All this
31:56
stuff. Now it's just another
31:59
old guy. Uh, he's a
32:02
product of his time. Okay, I'm not saying it was
32:05
okay, but that was the belief at the time.
32:08
We've moved on. And since, since
32:11
his original hypothesis, it's only been
32:14
researched a handful of times, and one of the most
32:16
recent was in a study in
32:19
2014. And this study
32:23
sought to determine if there were any
32:25
health benefits or
32:28
detriments for men standing to pee.
32:31
Does it improve flow? Is there any
32:34
data to suggest that men standing to be as
32:37
harmful or helpful? And the
32:40
one ongoing argument is that if you are
32:43
standing up, you are going to
32:46
be less able to relax and allow
32:49
everything to just noose, rough out flow
32:52
right on out of you.
32:55
It's a hypothesis at minimum. And they
32:58
did this study, and they found that there isn't
33:01
really a benefit unless you
33:04
just prefer to sit. And here's the rub.
33:07
You're free, baby.
33:11
They said that for people with pre existing
33:14
medical conditions, uh,
33:16
luts, it's like lower urinary
33:18
tract somethings, it could
33:22
help you to sit to pee, but other than that, it's
33:25
not going to make that much of a difference. And here's
33:27
the thing. You're free.
33:31
Uh, we here, where I make this show, we are free.
33:34
We are in America. You might as well enjoy it while it's still free.
33:37
If you want to sit to pee, sit to pee and own that
33:40
you're a man because you have the equipment, not based on what
33:43
position you are when you use that equipment.
33:46
So our takeaway is this week on privy. Sit
33:49
to pee if you want, stand to pee if you
33:52
want. Ladies, demand the technology
33:55
developed to you, not just altering
33:58
men's technology to fit you.
34:01
This brings us to the end of another episode of
34:04
privy. Thank you all so much for being here. I hope you enjoyed
34:07
our brief look at men standing to pee in urinal
34:10
technology development. As always, you
34:13
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34:56
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34:59
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35:02
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35:05
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35:07
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35:10
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35:14
don't forget to flush.