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Ever see one of those things at Chuck E. Cheese where you hurl a small heavy ball up a ramp and into a target area comprised of circular walls, each one with a different point value assigned to it inversely proportionate to it's size? Skee ball?
My urinal would be a smaller version of that. Score
would be based on the accuracy of your stream, adjusted for time. Wall-mounted, so if you try and climb onto it in order to cheat like in regular skee ball, it'll crack off the wall.
No one cheats Skee Urinal.
Urinal Slot Machine
Urinal_20Slot_20Machine
Not *exactly* the same thing, but VERY similar. [21 Quest, Sep 01 2007]
Urinal Turbines
Urinal_20Turbines
Yep, it's been done, too. [21 Quest, Sep 01 2007]
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I'm pretty certain this has been proposed here before... (see linky). Last week, I saw a urinal in a public restroom that had one of those plastic round mat thingies inside that was black, turned white when you peed on it, then went back to black again. |
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While we're at it, we might as well have urinal waterwheels that generate part of the electricity it takes to pump the water that flushes them. |
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That has been done, too, monk. I'll look for a link, although it's possible the poster deleted it. |
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Edit: Idea found, link posted |
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How about a very lightweight ball that you pee onto, with the goal of using your pee to push the ball into one of the target holes? |
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With a sign saying "From your balls to mine"? I dunno about that..... |
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I had a friend at primary school who could pee most of the way up the wall behind the urinal. Fekkin' useless at pretty much everything else, mind. His time has come. |
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I recall several years ago reading a men's room sign that said "We aim to please. We ask that you aim, too, please!" |
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I've seen that one, Canuck. I also saw one at a bar that said "please don't throw cigarettes in urinals, it makes them soggy and hard to light". |
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there's a lot of urinals over here in Germany with a little fly either painted directly onto the ceramic of the urinal, or modelled onto the mat inside. It is said to strongly increase concentration on aiming. Personally i got bored after the first few visits to the toilet, but if there is something to win in those skeeball games(?)... |
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//Personally i got bored after the first few visits to the toilet//
But you keep going, right? |
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There's no real prize, just the thrill of competion. |
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I see that after much deliberation, I removed my "urine Mill; the yellow water wheel" idea from the halfbakery, as it was enormously redundant. |
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Sadly, this also deleted the links which showed that uric acid can be incorporated into use with batteries to generate electric potential. I suspect that if you just included a few anodes and cathodes in a holding tank, you could generate nearly as much power as the wheel would make, at lower construction and maintenance costs. |
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While we're in the business of harnessing energy from human waste, why not separate the methane out of human fecal matter (do humans emit methane from that end like cows do?) like they do with cows and burn it for energy? |
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(Note: I saw an episode of Dirty Jobs where a guy who used the solid parts of cow dung to make flower pots somehow extracted the methane from the fecal matter and used it to heat his house) |
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/(do humans emit methane from that end like cows do?)/ |
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Most methane from cows is emitted from the mouth. |
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Then why all the talk in the science community about bottling cow's farts? |
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Because people tend to think that methane = farts, have a wee snigger, and don't consider the matter any further. |
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<nemesis>notmarkflynn has returned, but in his absense he has only made himself more pathetic and puerile. I laugh in the face of your pathetic idea. Hah hah hah!</nemesis> |
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dbmag9, you are the best nemesis ever. I can always count on you. |
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<nemesis>I know.</nemesis> |
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