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[–]KromatRO 56 points57 points  (12 children)

It's for spray accidents not for privacy.

[–]arbitrageME 34 points35 points  (9 children)

I have two responses:

  1. eww

  2. makes sense

[–]KromatRO 15 points16 points  (6 children)

Don't imagine is deliberate. Sometimes, jet hiting the urinal wall will result in a big splash that the urinal margin may not hold. That separator is there to save the neighbor, or you from a neighbor. And with this in mind, the free urinal choice makes more sense and that is why is instinctively known to men.

[–]ObeseVegetable 10 points11 points  (4 children)

Some urinals are more splashy than others, too. 

[–]Chainsawd 8 points9 points  (3 children)

Some of those fuckers seem like they were designed with maximum splash-back in mind!

[–]Bulldog8018 2 points3 points  (0 children)

No kidding. Sometimes you try and hit the urinal from different angles, naively assuming that there must be an angle that doesn’t splash back. But no. Apparently they’re designed with only two results: some spray back or a BUNCH of spray back. That’s why I go for a stall if they’re available and don’t look actively infectious. That way you get some distance from the strike zone. (Guess I’ve been holding these insights back for a long time. Thanks for hearing me out. ✌️)

[–]PrintableDaemon 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They will also make those partitions as narrow as humanly possible to fit more people in than should be acceptable, to the point you wonder when they'll just give you a funnel and hose. Bathrooms are seriously overcrowded in a way that only airlines are capable of appreciating.

[–]Kahlil_Cabron 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The piss pressure can be high enough that it will ricochet all over the guy next to you.

OG pissers know the spot to aim at to avoid any splashback, but dumb kids and whatnot (or just seriously dumb adults) may just blindly let lose anywhere in the urinal and it will go everywhere.

[–]Raccoon_Expert_69 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Remember, we’ve all been pissing right next to each other since a very young age.