To ask my wife to stop using blue cistern blocks?

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Which are absolutely unnecessary and environmentally unsound.

But apart from this, I've been following the 'If it's yellow let it mellow, if it's brown flush it down' dictum for some years now. (The lid of the toilet is always kept down.) If my wife doesn't use cistern blocks (these things appear intermittently), everything is fine. However, when she puts the blocks in, there is a reaction between the urine in the bowl and the chemicals in the blocks resulting in a crust forming around the sides of the bowl.

This can't just be wiped or brushed away. The best way I've found to get rid of it is to use a (dedicated) pan scrubber. But it's a pain in the arse, to coin a phrase.

Beef, I don't actually care about popular opinion on the pungency of urine and whether it's sex-differentiated. Stop trying to push the burden of proof on to me, it's not going to work!

Interesting, can you back that up with an external source, please?

Last post aimed at WellErrr, clearly.

Tara, you've tried and failed to goad me, so please can you stop replying to me now?

Yes I am. What a ridiculously pointless thing for you to argue about.

Takes two to Tango, Drop. Once again, I see you can't provide any proof, and just want to argue for the sake of arguing. Pathetic, IMO - at least I have something central that I believe, and am sticking to my principles, rather than wildly windmilling because - well, I don't even know what you think, other than that I shouldn't have an opinion on this, and should let a minor piece of sexism slide.

Well, that's insulting... I'd like to flatter myself that if I was trying to goad, I'd succeed at it.

'Windmilling'?

How is it discriminatory for someone to perceive that make urine smells stronger than female urine.
It took me about 3 seconds to google a study on this, which basically concluded that makes and females smell each other's urine differently. So men perceive women's to smell more, and vice versa.

As a nurse of many years working on both male and female wards, I can assure you that male urine smells far worse than female.
It's not sexist ffs, it's just how it is.
beef after all my years of nursing, in many different settings, you could blindfold me and I'd be able to tell you whether I was in a male or female room, because of the smell of urine.
It's not sexism love, it's how it is. Stick to your hilarious principles if you must and ignore the evidence (and there's plenty out there) but be aware that you're coming across as a complete twat on here.

Always nice to hear from the horses mouth so to speak, no offence intended.

Right, so do men really think we have honking pee.

By the way beef you are putting words in people's mouths. The posters you are having a go at for being 'sexist' simply said that stale make urine smells. And it does. They didn't say women's stale urine doesn't smell. But in this thread and in this context it's a man leaving his urine in a toilet and not flushing it. So it smells.

Sort of buttered. Pheromones, innit.

I've just read Urban Dictionary definition of windmilling

I suppose it's back to animal basics, dogs like to sniff pee/bums too.

What did it say buttered?
My DH likes death metal and there's a fair amount of windmilling to that.

Just looked it up!
Death metal windmilling refers to the hair. THE HAIR!!

www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=windmilling

It says Mr Bean was doing it to the school children

windmilling
The act of spinning one's penis around in the fashion of a windmill, usually with the intent of hitting someone in the face. Sometimes done while urinating.

sword less metal, more meatspin.

They stole it from Death Metal.

I wasn't aware that that was even possible...

Well this thread has been an education!

I know if the men's loo at work is left unflushed it smells much worse than the ladies'.

I'll leave the loo if there's only me in the house but the rest of the time it gets flushed.