May 24, 2005

• Is this what we have come to? A guide to pisspots? Piss spots? Nurse! Catheter! Catheter! Oooh /dribble /urinate /blaargle
• Zagats for loos! You could also browse online references previously posted here and here.
• I had an old college roommate who'd love this. He was always on the lookout for the perfect public toilet to take his daily crap. He walked two blocks out of his way every day just to use the one at the campus gym, because he though the toilets were more comfortable there.
• This reminds me of the time... oops gotta go.
• Ha ha ha hilarious. Let's laugh at the people who need this resource. Seriously, I know stuff like the card is kind of funny, but speaking as someone with a condition that frequently involves all the joy of overactive bladder combined with additional doses of pain, pain, and then even more excruciating pain if I can't get to the washroom, this is actually something incredibly useful and I may buy it just out of principle, to support the publishers. You have no idea how hard it can be to go traveling, and how much the knowledge that facilities are available can make the entire process so much easier. The card itself is sort of dumb, as you can see it's sponsored by a drug company. I know people with much more severe cases of my disease who actually have medic alert bracelets for this sort of thing; it's not just "I gotta go" like anything you've ever experienced. I think that's a better solution, but maybe this is an interesting one too - I'd like to know how it worked for people. Sorry, no nanners for this post. Grumpy monkey today am I, though.
• i wonder which is worse, overactive bladder or "shy bladder syndrome."
• Having both?
• Depends. (ka-chunk)
• "..speaking as someone with a condition that frequently involves all the joy of overactive bladder combined with additional doses of pain, pain, and then even more excruciating pain if I can't get to the washroom.." /points and laughs No, no. It's funny. Very, very funny. And I'll raise you your pain pain miserable pain when not getting to the 'wash room' with enteric spondyloarthropathy and constant, unending pain all day whether I reach the 'wash room' or not, along with a spine that is fusing together. It's still funny, and I'm covered in liquishit.
• No, but seriously, if this is an urgent medical need, wouldn't it be more prudent to wear Depends, or be hooked into a portable bladder? If it was this dire I'm not sure I would trust my safety to the tenuous availability of courtesy and a nearby restroom.
• Exactamundo.
• Good for you, Chyren, but to be honest I don't give a shit. I have a pretty good sense of humour about my condition, but I still don't think it's "funny" in the sense of "oh look people who need to pee lots let's make a post and laugh at them." Christ, I was actually really offended by this post, not the comments but the whole tone of laughing at people for something they can't help at all, and weren't presenting themselves for laughter. This isn't people deciding to dye their dogs stupid colours or do other ridiculous things with no purpose. And I'm sorry you're in pain, but I'd still really prefer if you didn't laugh at mine here, okay? I know I don't get to dictate what Monkeyfilter is, but you don't either, so maybe let's err on the side of not purposefully pissing other monkeys off? My condition isn't bad enough for Depends or a portable bathroom, but it is for some people. For me, something like this book is exactly the sort of thing that would help me manage my disease without having to resort to such measures. Yeah, the card, the card - well, yeah, I can't totally defend it, although I do think it could be really useful because I don't think you'd really want to sit around after using Depends, do you? Oh, and sometimes I have shy bladder too, hard to think the two could go together, but they can. Thanks for pointing that one out too, SideDish, rather than taking any note of the fact that pointing and laughing at medical conditions was just called out before there. Lovely, wonderful, really classy. Fuck, normally I'm cool as a cucumber about this topic. I'm out of here.
• i'm not pointing and laughing. i posted this because i thought it was an interesting idea. and i found myself wondering if it caught on, if frat boys drinking too much beer would try to get these things.
• and i do still seriously wonder which would be worse, overactive vs. shy.
• and don't go away mad, livii, here, have a kitten.
• You know, I can't imagine how people with overactive bladder deal with flying. This occurred to me when I was on a plane last month. There are so many minutes were you MUST be confined to your seat. What happens during those unending minutes where you're holding in a takeoff line? It occurred to me that people probably do rush to the restroom and they probably hold the plane on the taxiway until you're back in your seat. During takeoff roll though I'd imagine one would be in serious trouble.
• especially flying in and out of d.c., where you literally cannot get up 30 minutes coming or going. because of terrorists, you know.
• When I was 8.9 months pregnant I was denied use of a bathroom in a pizza shop because I hadn't bought anything. I wonder if an "I need to go now" card would have helped?
• Sorry, I got way pissier than the thread deserved. Thanks for the explanation, SideDish, and especially the kitten. I'd have to say that overactive is definitely the worse one, because with shy bladder you're not at risk of peeing your pants. Plus, shy bladder is generally a social anxiety disorder, so you can control it with medications, which medication for overactive bladder is sketchy, at least in my case. There's also social embarassment, much higher with frequent rest stops than shy bladder, which is (imo) more personal. Flying can be very hard; if I was ever so unlucky as to have a booked flight on a day when I'm in a flare, I'd have to use Depends, there'd be no choice. Never happened yet, but I'm sure that day will come. And the terrorist point is true more generally as well - they seriously look at you funny if you get up to go too often and aren't obviously disabled or pregnant or something. Anyway, I'm going to leave this thread alone now for good.
• "I got way pissier than the thread deserved" /falls over laughing
• Someday, SideDish, you and I will be old men. Then all we will require to have the need to go is to have someone bring up the subject. We will toddle down to the bathroom to wait for relief. Then the key indicator of oldness will not be forgetting to zip up when we are done, but to unzip in the first place. Oops. Gotta go.
• >>Someday, SideDish, you and I will be old men egad! i must schedule that sex change operation sometime soon.
• You did pull a "me" back there. I'm impressed. and glad it wasn't me, for once. And that was a great My Problems Are Bigger Than Yours, So I Win sidetrack. argh. I saw a Golden Retriever puppy today. Puppy puppy puppy. PUPPY! DAMMIT.
• Windex!!!11!!
• Simple Green!!!11!!
• Oh. This is a meme that's following me around, huh. BlueHorse yelled "Windex" at me in another thread ...I have no idea where it came from, but I can take a hint. Later.
• Ozzie+The Alamo=sweet blessed relief.
• Wurwilf, I think it's because she spit whatever she was drinking on the monitor, because your comment was funny. Which means that Chy thinks your comment above is funny. So, don't go!!
• ...I didn't say anything funny, did I? I don't think I can be funny. Well... okay, I'm sorry, BlueHorse and/or Chy. I was wrong about that. But I should've been gone long ago anyway (I'm not hot, and this community is all about being hot, according to the shirt thread and the meetup threads) - so it's kind of for the best. I'm sorry for misinterpreting, though. (Like I said, if someone yells something at me and I don't know what it means, it's a safe assumption that it's an in-joke at my expense. I was wrong this time, that's all.) Oh, enough rambling. This is off-topic.
• *crackle* Cleanup on thread 8589! We have a mess on thread 8589! *click*
• Hot? Meh. Would it make you feel better if I told you I have a lazy eye? Seriously, I do. Not just a little, either, but so lazy that I can see around walls. I am also not tall, and not thin.
• Doesn't this book sound like something George on "Seinfeld" would do? (He did keep a list of the best mens rooms in NYC). As one who has been prescribed diuretics (one time, a doctor gave me an injection in his office and told me: "You've got 20 minutes to get home. Run!"), I know some of the best and worst places to pee in L.A. As a rule, L.A. Public Libraries are surprisingly clean, McDonald's and Carl's Jr. are always available, Ralphs is the best place to buy groceries with a full bladder, but the best restrooms in retail, hands (washed) down, are at Targets: they're always in the front of the store, they always have at least 3 urinals and 3 toilets in the Mens, they're almost never out of paper, and have 1/4th the amount of graffiti as WalMart. Why did I write this?
• Wurwilf: I'm tall, but I'm VERY not thin. Very. Not. Thin. And I hate it. I hate having to shop at clothing stores that feel like they're pandering, or that only have floral and animal prints and baggy crap that doesn't fit right. I hate not being able to shop with my skinny friends. I hate having to worry when I meet people online that they will, at some point, find out that I am fat and that they may hate me for it. I hate being in restaurants and thinking that people are watching me -- "look at that fat girl eat!" I hate that good-looking girls get a lot of privileges I don't. I hate that I have to worry about whether rollercoasters will fit my fat ass. You're not alone, even in this community, hey hey. Got it? Here's something to ponder: there are plenty of actual communities for the Hot Beautiful People. They're called nightclubs. If this were a forum for the hotties, why would it be on a text-only site on the web? Trust me, these people, according to both the law of averages and the number of them posting on Friday and Saturday nights, are not, for the most part, hotties.
• What musingmel said. So what if people get called hotties sometimes, it's bound to happen in a community of any size. Probably you just notice it more because you're more conscious of your own negative self-image. I'm not saying that to be mean, it's just an observation. I would guess that the vast majority of monkeys fall in the Not Hot category. I, for one, may have a cute face, but what the photo doesn't show is that I weigh 150 lbs and have a not-so-cute tummy bulge, boobs heading rapidly south and scoliosis. Definitely falling in the "lukewarm" category. Also, that was a lucky photo, I'm usually making a stupid face when I pose for a picture. I can understand why you'd be reluctant to post your picture to the t-shirt thread, and no one's forcing you to, but for the most part, we're not as superficial as you've made us out to be.
• Wurwilf - I'd miss you if you chose to leave. When you're not beating yourself up, you have interesting things to say. And, isn't that the whole point? We don't see each other when we comment, so our hot-or-not points don't count. Having seen a couple of pictures of you, I also have to say that you're "hotter" than you think you are. And, I don't know if you noticed, but I "left" in tears a few months ago when feeling blue, and then came back because I realized that it was my mood, and not the atmosphere here, that made me sad. (Had I been in better fettle, I'd have ripped throats out in a deceptively ladylike manner instead of weeping while clutching the drapes on my way to Coventry.) So, please stick around, even if you have to just lurk a while to get your feet under you.
• Yes, what musingmelpomene, Koko, and path said. (I'd add to it, but I can't say it any better.)
• Wurwilf come back! ...Is that clearer? posted by Wurwilf at 04:46PM UTC on May 23, 2005 Wurwilf: pass the Windex, will you? posted by BlueHorse at 04:27AM UTC on May 24, 2005 The Windex joke/poke was all in fun. I wasn't laughing at you, I was flirting/teasing in a friendly sort of way and trying to engage you in a bit of banter. As in see clearer=clean window=bad pun. Chyrin's was funnier, but now Windex is your very own personal in-joke that only we three know the meaning of. Please take it all in the spirit of fun. damn, must remember to use the friendly winky face;)
• Wurwilf: pass the Windex, will you? posted by BlueHorse at 04:27AM UTC on May 24, 2005 I just thought GramMa needed a drink.
• I'm fat and ugly, Wurwilf. Plus I'm covered in liquishit.
• I am exceedingly hot. I am a hottie.
• this community is all about being hot, according to the shirt thread and the meetup threads BULLSHIT.
• ...INTERNET BULLSHIT. You're slipping.
• I think the shirt thread was about showing off a very large yellow banana on a brown background.
• And I still haven't got my shirt.
• I'm exceptionally cool. I'm a coolie.
• I haven't either, but I cried all my tears away already.
• I call bullshirt.
• Oh, guess this would be quite useful for those afflicted with that condition.
• 15 years in the loo far more than I could do if I went to spend a penny I would find I hadn't any after 15 years in the loo