The Urinal

It's so weird... I'm blogging more during exams period! Argh, I'm so gonna die. Then again, I've gotta admit: Blogging's a good way of relieving stress.

Don't know what came over me last night. Was peeing halfway when I suddenly thought: You know how girls always complain that guys wet the whole toilet bowl because of 'poor aiming'. Well, you gotta understand that sometimes, when guys wake up, (okay I shall put it in medical terms here) their parasympathetic systems (conserve energy) are activated. Okay, for those of you that do not understand, I meant erection. If you think about it, blood doesn't need to flow to our leg muscles since they don't require the oxygen then. So where do they go? Well, they gotta flow to 'somewhere else' definitely.

But it's normal actually. After all, our autonomic nervous system was designed to help us with our sleeping patterns. When waking up, the sympathetic nervous system (fight or flight) is activated. But it takes a while for the adrenaline to pump around our body, for the blood 'there' to flow to other more important areas (1). So guys, if you do notice, when you wake up at 3am suddenly just to go and pee, your dude's pointing up to the sky, whereas if you take an hour to get out of bed, it's probably flaccid. Perhaps impotent men should have the habit of waking up early and quickly to do it with their wives. Okay, enough for the scientific literature over here.

Back to the story, I was just thinking yesterday that perhaps I could fix up a urinal in my future home next time. That way, the kids could use the urinal without their moms screaming into their and my precious ears. Had enough screaming over the past 20 years. Hahaha! So the toilet has got to be quite posh and big. But what sort of urinal should I get? And suddenly, I remembered about the urinal I saw in Italy.

Now, if you look carefully, this is no ordinary urinal. Why? If you look carefully, the flushing system's operated by a tap, not a button or sensor. How cool is that? Turn on the tap, and water flows out to wash away all the stuff. You don't even have to worry about it running out of water unlike our usual toilet bowl. If I do get one, it'll definitely be this design.

But after thinking for a while, the kids will probably just 'shoot' around into the urinal at home. What about other people's house. I wouldn't want them to go around wetting other people's homes. Have got to start their training from the home. Perhaps I could follow what the army does - Having a sign on top that says "Aim before you shoot!" Haha, I do miss army days. But in any case, after careful consideration, I can say the kids are not going to get a nice big posh toilet with a urinal in it after all!

References:

1. Wikipedia (2006). Sympathetic nervous system. [Online]. Florida: Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. Available: URL http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sympathetic_nervous_system [Accessed 04/06/06].

EDIT: With regards to our dear friend iphris's comments, she's submitted a picture via MSN to support her claims of how her toilet bowl will work.

EDIT 2: Now M.O. also wants to put up his own photo when he was supposed to go and meet Crystal and the rest. If he was late, you know what he's been doing... (Notice the extra little thing... Why didn't you make the seat hit it M.O.)?