This may go down in mumsnet classics.. but until just now I did not know that men did not use loo roll.when they had a wee!!!!

[Heyhothatsok]

No loo roll in bathroom. I asked dh , any loo roll and how has he managed all day without any? He sais " Ive not been" .. i said what you have not had a wee all day.. ? To which he replied men shake ,they dont use loo roll .i cannot believe that have never noticed this.! Thought they would at least pat it a bit with some loo roll. No more spontanous for me for now. 🤣

My ex had a bleached bit of his undies. not envy

@DedalusBloom

What a time to be alive.

Ive just had the conversation. It's more a requirement with increasing age apparently. Still not a thing in this house and I can't say I've noticed a wafting odour

@BackAgain5thAccount
Did you just drip until you were dry?

Mine does. He says he can't use a urinal in public toilets because there's no paper to wipe with.

@Charley50

I didn't know that I could wipe sitting down until I was at uni. I always stood up to wipe

Could you tell us how you got this revelation at uni? I don't remember my uni curriculum having bottom wiping as a module!!!

@DameCelia
I don’t remember it being a problem as a small child. Perhaps without pubic hair, it isn’t really. I hope I didn’t dribble on the seat.
What does everyone do when weeing in the wilds? I usually bounce up and down a bit to try to get rid of the drips. Should that be another thread?

For those whose DH can’t use urinals because of the lack of toilet paper, isn’t that rather limiting (physically and socially)? I have worked in pubs, and cubicles in the men’s are often in a very terrible state.

@gofg

grim adjective (UNPLEASANT)

very unpleasant or ugly:
a grim-looking block of flats

Hope that keeps your irritation levels in check?

It doesn't make any difference - I still find it irritating.

As a matter of fact I heard the word used in a news bulletin today, in the context I am more familiar with (i.e. serious, worrying). I don't live in the UK and I have never heard anyone use grim the way it is used on MN. "A grim looking block of flats" is fine - that means they are depressing, dismal. It's not the same thing as the way it is used on here. In fact my sources say it is UK slang!

@gofg it is not just used on MN in this way it is common parlance in the UK.

Mens toilets are grim
Mens toilets are very unpleasant

The use of the word grim here presents the mentally imagery associated with mens toilets.

Which one word adjective would you use to describe mens toilets that is more apt than grim?

[quote BackAgain5thAccount]@DameCelia
I don’t remember it being a problem as a small child. Perhaps without pubic hair, it isn’t really. I hope I didn’t dribble on the seat.
What does everyone do when weeing in the wilds? I usually bounce up and down a bit to try to get rid of the drips. Should that be another thread?[/quote]
Take some toilet paper or tissues with you and a small plastic bag. Wipe, bag, take home, dispose of.
For those with knee problems, leaning slightly back supported by a tree makes wild wees a bit more comfortable.

DH doesn't and it is fucking grim. Why would you want a patch of wee on your clothes. one of the many reasons I am reconsidering our relationship....

I've seen my DH do it, he says it stops his Calvins being ruined. Fair enough.

Laughing at the idea of a MN designed men’s room with toilet roll holders between every urinal.

At least no men using them would ever dream of treating the bog rolls as a target and ignoring the actual urinals.... - much better than a fake fly, ping pong ball or urinal cake.

Also, how would they dispose of the used paper afterwards?

I think all of us - of both sexes - should be doing our best to leave the toilet as dry and clean as possible down there.... BUT isn't part of the purpose of underwear in the first place an acknowledgement that some body parts may sustain the odd bit of excess 'matter' however diligent your efforts - and you don't want it coming into contact with your nice external main clothes? A buffer zone, if you will?

Everybody on a building site takes the utmost care not to get whacked on the bonce by falling bricks - but they still all wear a hard hat, just in case.

@borntobequiet
Thanks, I’m unlikely to do that.
Not having to wash your hands is the one advantage of peeing outside. Perhaps period pants would be one solution.

@Bargebill19 I feared this was the case! I was out lunchtime and a man came out of the men's WC still fiddling with his zip.

When I retired one of things I noticed was how often I washed my hands as I used so much handwash, used to work in the office of a care home.

Wasn't there a scientific study a while ago about urine being in the peanuts on a bar due to people not washing their hands? Or it may just be folklore
www.irishtimes.com/life-and-style/health-family/traces-of-men-s-urine-in-bowls-of-pub-peanuts-might-not-be-as-bad-as-it-sounds-1.3581891

@bellabasset. At one place I currently work, they have REMOVED all the soap and hand sanitizer from the hgv drivers toilets.

Presumably they used to much as that’s normally the excuse we are given for cost cutting. We supply to the nhs ……

Not having to wash your hands is the one advantage of peeing outside.

Though if you want to, anti bac wipes are your friend. And the plastic bag.

He sits down to wee, it is apparently better for prostate and bladder health

I thought it was the other way round, it's better to stand for your prostate and bladder health.

Not that I care, I have no men in my life that I have any need to know. Otherwise, I might have looked it up to check.

This is the precise why I don't like giving blow jobs (not envy)

This is just making me think about the last episode of King Gary and 'Mickey Drips'

I've assisted hundreds of hospital patients to the toilet over the years. The men usually need reminding to wash their hands and hardly any wipe themselves after a wee.
Older ladies often wipe with only 1 sheet of paper! Which quickly disintegrates in their hand as soon as its wet.

@alexdgr8

all the menfolk in my family do use paper for number ones. it's how they are brought up. cleanliness is next to godliness. also it is not necessary for men to stand over the loo to pass water, which can be messy. many men sit down. many mothers demand this.

Joke post right?

And PMSL at 'pass water.' My great granny used that expression in the 1970s.

And as IF a man is going to be told/show how to piss and shit. Daft.

@Skysblue

Yuk. When he shakes it does he not think about where he’s shaking the wee to? Hope your toothbrush is nowhere near…

My father son and dh all use tissue. Because they aren’t grim.

How did you get sun plied with the information. about your father?

@MobyDicksTinyCanoe

Dp and ds have both been trained by me to sit down and wipe. It's far more civilised...... I may well be a slattern but pissy floors are not a feature in my house.

No pussy floors here and no training needed!