Urinal Exchanges

I'm pretty sure it was the cock. As I said, he though I was English or European, living in London. Most of the guys I met in the UK were uncut, so I guess a cut guy there might be presumed as probably being Jewish. How he possibly thought I was from London, given the New Jersey accent, I do not know.

prepstudinsc: [quote author=ericbear link=board=meetgreet;num=1067107507;start=20#30 date=10/28/03 at 10:16:17]I'm pretty sure it was the cock. *As I said, he though I was English or European, living in London. *Most of the guys I met in the UK were uncut, so I guess a cut guy there might be presumed as probably being Jewish. *How he possibly thought I was from London, given the New Jersey accent, I do not know.

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People don't pay careful attention to accents. I've got a mild southern accent and when traveling, I've been asked if I was from New York. How a southern drawl gets confused with a New York accent, I do not know.

[quote author=prepstudinsc link=board=meetgreet;num=1067107507;start=20#31 date=10/28/03 at 1114]How a southern drawl gets confused with a New York accent, I do not know.[/quote]

Just a curious observation: the typical New Orleans accent is very 'Brooklyn-ese', while the 'upper uppers' from New Orleans' Garden District tend to sound like transplanted Bostonians.

johnny8x8: Double-Meat,

I forgot that you, too, live in New Orleans. 8)

I like your observation about dialects. Funny thing about our area, that one can fairly accurately guess what part of the city someone was raised in just by listening to them ... Uptown, 9th Ward, 7th Ward, The East, Lakeview, Old Metairie.

Speaking of a "naynt waud" accent ... Recently I saw Becky Allen walking down Decatur while en route to Central Grocery for a muffaletta. She looked pregnant? Who/What did that to her? Ricky Graham (not in this lifetime) or Popeyes?? Loved her in every theatre piece she's done but hadn't seen her in probably 5 years. Now see -- she's someone I would talk to at a urinal. But she's a lady ... she'd flush, too. Wish that she and Ricky would do a new show.

Solis24: Hmm, I think we in North America, the land of individualism, may be a tad too prude for our own good. I never knew this until I came to Germany, where partitions are pretty damn rare. The most common urinal I've found is the low-rising kind which does not hide anything. If the germans look, they sure are discreet about it, but one thing's for sure, most of them have already seen a number of cocks and boobs before in a sauna or something (there's one in just about every village here, everybody is nude and it's all mixed, men and women), so for them, it's nothing spectacular. Maybe just because is the kind of thing that you're "not allowed to see" in North America, that's exactly why people would be curious at urinals and glance all the time, just out of curiosity of seeing something that's normally "forbidden".

[quote author=Solis25 link=board=meetgreet;num=1067107507;start=20#34 date=10/29/03 at 0341]Maybe just because is the kind of thing that you're "not allowed to see" in North America, that's exactly why people would be curious at urinals and glance all the time, just out of curiosity of seeing something that's normally "forbidden".[/quote]

I think you've hit the nail on the head, Solis.

Forbid something and it will be suddenly very attractive.

Pecker

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ORCABOMBER: Good point Pecker, might be what burkhas are all about.

throb919: For you trough urinal aficionados, the 2 best ever (IMHO) are:

• The danceclub Heaven in London: At one time, one of the men's rooms was practically a walk-in urinal, an L-shaped set-up with a trough drain at floor level. The walls were some sort of highly-reflective stainless steel (mirror-like) and water cascaded down them from ceiling height, sort-of a waterfall effect. You just walked-up and let it flow onto (into?) the water-wall. The reflection and refraction of the water made checking-out your nearby neighbors very interesting. It was really quite a classy pee--and when you think of urinal said in the British manner (yur-RHINE-ul) instead of the American (YUR-uh-nul), even classier!
  
• The bar Havana on Reguliersdwarsstraat in Amsterdam: You walk-in minding your own business (as guys are wont to do in such matters); you notice there's already someone at the trough urinal, but pay him very little attention (as guys are wont to do); you step-up to the urinal on one side or the other from the guy in situ and take matters in-hand. At some point mid-pee, you realize this other guy is a life-size sculpture! He's holding onto a pipe with one hand which allows water to flow into the sculpture and out of the dick he's holding in the other. My memory is that the whole thing was bronze-looking, but don't really know what it was made of. But it was entirely cool, very funny, and a great "gotcha" surprise! (Maybe wristthickxl will know if it's still there or javierdude when he visits A-dam.)

I noticed one of those cascading-wall urinals in the movie The Matrix ReLoaded.

Anybody else catch that?

Pecker

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longtimelurker: [quote author=johnny8x8 link=board=meetgreet;num=1067107507;start=20#33 date=10/29/03 at 0225]I like your observation about dialects. *Funny thing about our area, that one can fairly accurately guess what part of the city someone was raised in just by listening to them ... *Uptown, 9th Ward, 7th Ward, The East, Lakeview, Old Metairie.
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London is very good in that way too. You can normally guess at least SE, E (=cockney), N and W - and if you go further then you start getting Essex or the other home counties.

Britain is really amazing for the number of accents in such a small area - esp. as there tends to be several variations dependant on background (i.e. middle-class background will sound quite different from working class 90% of the time)

[quote author=Solis25 link=board=meetgreet;num=1067107507;start=20#34 date=10/29/03 at 0341]Hmm, I think we in North America, the land of individualism, may be a tad too prude for our own good. I never knew this until I came to Germany, where partitions are pretty damn rare. [/quote]
Partitions in the USA seem to go in and out of style according to place and time. When I was a kid in New Jersey, most older buildings had the type that extend down to the floor, with no partitions. As I grew up, I began to notice that newer construction favored smaller urinals and partitions. But then I began to travel to other regions of the USA, and found that trough style ones were quite popular in some places, even in new construction. The picture below shows the men's room at Wrigley Field Stadium in Chicago, which certainly offer no individual privacy, even less than individual urinals without partitions. In my current home in California, such troughs are quite common.

http://www.urinal.net/wrigley_field/Wrigley1.jpg

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ORCABOMBER: Woah, not bad Eric, not bad. :D

I have to admit though, I'm surprised, one individual trough for each person? That's luxury.

da_blissmachine: hmm in India public toilets are sometimes just holes in the ground... ya hafta swat if you're going #2.... being spotted is ur least concern... there's hepatitis, leprousy, if you have an open wound AIDS, being mugged, drugs, rape............

even though my family left in the 1930s I still wipe down the entire stall in a public restroom before using it

prepstudinsc: The only thing I ever do in a public restroom is pee.....I will hold anything else until I can get to a place I know is clean. Who knows what kind of germs are growing in those places, and when your penis hangs down enough to touch the toilet bowl, that's even more reason to avoid public toilets.

ORCABOMBER: [quote author=prepstudinsc link=board=meetgreet;num=1067107507;start=40#43 date=11/03/03 at 10:46:02] Who knows what kind of germs are growing in those places, and when your penis hangs down enough to touch the toilet bowl, that's even more reason to avoid public toilets.[/quote]
Well my meat touches the bowl as well, the thought of little critters crawling up it is not reassuring! :o