To think it's grim and lazy to piss in the shower

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Inspired by another thread but not a TAAT.

I'm surprised how many people think it's OK and actually do it themselves.

Haven't read the whole thread, but DH always says there are 2 types of people in the world.
People who piss in the shower, and Liars!

Wow, OP, I think you're way more rank for not flushing every time. You do realise that while your piss sits in the loo, it spreads bacteria onto the toilet and into the air (if you have the seat open). That makes me feel queasy although I commend you for wanting to save water. A bit of urine being heavily diluted by water and immediately washed down the plug does not. YABU.

Urine IS sterile - it is filtered on a molecular level by your kidneys and no bacteria can pass through a molecular filter. This is why if proteins are found in your urine it is not a good thing - nothing as large as a protein should make it through.

It is also filtered directly from your blood, another normally sterile bodily fluid.

Urine is completely different to faeces, which are absolutely not sterile and are a product of our digestive system.

Now, urine will not remain sterile once it leaves the body, however this is a process that will take a few hours rather than seconds. It may pick up some bacteria from the urethra entrance (although unless you have cystitis or some other infection, this too should normally be pretty clean).

There will be more bacteria in your shower water than in your urine. Especially if your shower runs from the mains and isn't electric, in which case you will be bathing in a positive bacterial soup as the lovely warm, still water sitting up in your tank is a perfect breeding ground...

Food for thought ;)

It's not sterile, but it's not 'dirty' either. It's just a bit of wee (diluted immediately in bucket loads of hot water). It's just not a big deal!

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urine contains less nasties than the shower water that has run over your skin...but it isn't sterile.

I don't like the idea of standing where someone else has pissed, so I don't do it to others.

Oooh! I think you'd be hard pushed, outside of much of Antarctica and some truly far flung places to find a spot where no human every pee'd... even fewer where no animal ever pee'd

Tbh whether it's sterile or not is irrelevant anyway. It is not harmful. It is not dangerous. A few mils of wee in several liters of shower water, swirling down the plug hole before you even notice is not, on any sensible level, a health hazard. Peeing in the shower is a totally logical and ordinary act, as evidenced by the fact that so many of us do it. Absolutely nothing bad whatsoever will happen to you if you share your bathroom space with a shower-pee-r.

In fact, you probably do already

What does it matter? So long as you are not being invited round to watch* OP there are much worse things to get ulcers over.

*unless.....

I do not change my pyjamas daily/wash towels daily/wash sheets weekly (!). I have a toilet brush.

But to me, peeing in the shower is just not necessary and it grosses me out.

I'm the same. On any other thread on MN I find myself on the 'dirty' side. I have a loo brush, I pretty much don't change my sheets until they walk themselves to the washing machine, I use the same towel for a week or more before washing it etc.

But peeing in the shower?

I'm already that people think it's a sin to wee in the shower, now my world has been rocked by the revelation that, according to some, it's bizarre to have a tampon in when showering . I have a tampon in when I have my period, because I'm bleeding not the same one for five days though. Why would I take it out to have a shower?

Try it. Bet you'll love it.

You do know when you stay at a hotel that;

Shock horror people have had sex in the bed and shower
They've shat, pissed, bled and puked in the bed and shower too

Ah but it's been cleaned/washed you will say

Well it has in your house too!

Shower piss? I do it all the time . Am too heavy to go tampon free though, would be like Carrie .

It's best not to ponder human leakage when staying in a hotel. Even the most charming and most expensive boutique hotels are awash with human cells and ooze.

what do people mean when they say urine is sterile?

Did you have to bring ooze into it? 😷😂

I look after rental properties and holiday lets, I can always tell when people wee in the shower regularly because it leaves the grout and mastic slightly discoloured - a slight orangey colour. Of course it cleans off with good scrub with various sprays and bleach, which are not so good for the environment!

Due to the denaturing affect of urine on biomolecules, it is almost impossible for anything infectious to survive in wee. There are some very hardy bacteria that live (non-infectiously) in your bladder than can live there but pretty much everything else is toast. So it is a far less likely transmission vector than any other form of body fluid or body contact.

I really struggle to stop my 2 year old drinking the bath water she shares with her sister. Grosses me out quite a lot but this week, with all the suncream, dust and sweat their bath water has literally been brown. Actually got the dry boaks when I saw her gulping it down.

I am also normally on the 'dirty side' of these threads, but I could never bring myself to wee in shower.

It's not even that I think it's that dirty, I don't care if my DH does it and I'm sure my toddler wees in the bath without me noticing. It's just that it would feel so undignified to be standing there with wee running down my legs. I wouldn't like it at all.

I never need to go when I'm in the shower anyway because it's part of my routine to go to the toilet beforehand.

It's not gross, really, but it's honestly never even occurred to me to do this. I'd always go before getting in to the shower if I needed to. But then, I only pee about four times a day, so the idea of needing to interrupt a bath or shower to pee is alien to me.