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The US Navy’s newest aircraft carrier has no urinals
Quartz ^

Posted on 08/05/2017 8:58:21 AM PDT by ameribbean expat

The $12.9 billion USS Gerald R. Ford, which can carry about 5,000, is the first new US aircraft carrier designed in 40 years. Of course, a lot has changed in 40 years.

For one thing, it’s not uncommon to find women serving aboard such carriers these days. Women account for nearly 20% of the sailors in the US Navy. So, the ship’s designers adapted to the new reality. According to the Navy Times, the Ford has no urinals—only seated toilets with stalls.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: militarywomen; sailors; usnavy; ussgeraldrford
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To: NorthMountain

The urinal at the Madonna Inn restaurant in San Luis Obispo is quite interesting:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-iwOmBNfPU

My wife took me there as her family love it - another couple came in before we left - it’s quite the attraction.


61 posted on 08/05/2017 11:43:52 AM PDT by LibertyOh
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To: NorthMountain
They provide a very efficient means for large numbers of men to relieve themselves rapidly.

And how often is that an issue?

62 posted on 08/05/2017 12:04:53 PM PDT by DoodleDawg
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To: DoodleDawg
"They provide a very efficient means for large numbers of men to relieve themselves rapidly."

So does just using the side of the ship ...

63 posted on 08/05/2017 12:06:13 PM PDT by BlueLancer (Ex Scientia Tridens)
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To: Savage Beast
America's enemies are rolling on the floor laughing at the feminization of the U.S. military.

I would think that the fact that this is an issue among some people would have them scratching their heads more than rolling on the floor.

64 posted on 08/05/2017 12:06:41 PM PDT by DoodleDawg
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To: BlueLancer

think wind


65 posted on 08/05/2017 12:06:49 PM PDT by bert (K.E.; N.P.; GOPc;WASP .... The Fourth Estate is the Fifth Column)
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To: bert
"think wind"

True, but you have to check the wind before you spit over the side, right?

It's just a matter of doing the same thing ...

You don't tug on Superman's cape,
You don't spit into the wind,
You don't pull the mask off the ol' Lone Ranger,
And you don't mess around with Jim ...

66 posted on 08/05/2017 12:12:36 PM PDT by BlueLancer (Ex Scientia Tridens)
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To: ameribbean expat
Just created these:

Unequivocal Toilet Door Signs

67 posted on 08/05/2017 12:16:37 PM PDT by TXnMA ("Allah": Satan's alias. "Islam": Allah's assassins; "Moderate Muslims": Islam's useful idiots.)
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To: Bryanw92

exactly....I also have only toilets in my house....no urinals

I was I was back in cause I’d just piss on the seat and hope the next user usually needs to squat

Its called passive aggression...LOL


68 posted on 08/05/2017 12:19:44 PM PDT by Dont tread and Live
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To: ameribbean expat

Just shows how stupid we are.


69 posted on 08/05/2017 12:27:20 PM PDT by mulligan
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To: jz638

Navy ships use salt water for flushing


70 posted on 08/05/2017 12:28:55 PM PDT by msrngtp2002 (Just my opinion.)
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To: Kickass Conservative
"That being said, being able to Piss while standing up is just another benefit of being a Man, which of course is completely unfair in today’s inclusive Society. #:^) "

Since you've broached the subject...

In the 1940's, I recall seeing a cartoon on a head wall of a WAVE at a urinal -- with her skirt hiked up in front -- saying to the Sailor at the next urinal:

"Handy gadget you have there, Sailor!"

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Lotsa penis envy going around, nowadays...

71 posted on 08/05/2017 12:30:43 PM PDT by TXnMA ("Allah": Satan's alias. "Islam": Allah's assassins; "Moderate Muslims": Islam's useful idiots.)
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To: ameribbean expat

This is CIA: Communism In Action, a.k.a. LCD: Lowest Common Denominator.

Since females cannot, or will not, use them, despite their efficient usefulness, and that males predominate, urinals must be excised to create the illusion of egalitarian equality.


72 posted on 08/05/2017 1:10:43 PM PDT by YogicCowboy ("I am not entirely on anyone's side, because no one is entirely on mine." - JRRT)
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To: DoodleDawg

I think America’s enemies and friends are bewildered. I don’t count the decadent nations of Western Europe among either. They are lost.


73 posted on 08/05/2017 1:45:14 PM PDT by Savage Beast (You can drive coast to coast without ever crossing a district run by Democrats! MAGA = Renaissance!)
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To: DoodleDawg

I think America’s enemies and friends are bewildered. I don’t count the decadent nations of Western Europe among either. They are lost.


74 posted on 08/05/2017 1:45:17 PM PDT by Savage Beast (You can drive coast to coast without ever crossing a district run by Democrats! MAGA = Renaissance!)
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To: ameribbean expat

Womyn in the US military; if I were an enemy, that’s what I’d want.


75 posted on 08/05/2017 2:07:48 PM PDT by A strike (Academia is almost as racist as Madison Ave.)
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To: ameribbean expat

And bring yellow sharpie it will keep them busy.


76 posted on 08/05/2017 3:02:14 PM PDT by Vaduz (women and children to be impacted the most.)
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To: ameribbean expat

They didn’t already? Hmm.. ok. JK.. maybe they can just pee on the seats.


77 posted on 08/05/2017 3:05:20 PM PDT by momincombatboots (White Stetsons up.. let's save our country!)
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To: DoodleDawg

It’s an issue often enough that the design is (or was) very common.


78 posted on 08/05/2017 4:15:35 PM PDT by NorthMountain (The Democrats ... have lost their grip on reality -DJT)
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To: ameribbean expat
Hemingway's cat fountain... a urinal he snagged from Sloppy Joe's in Key West:



The story as I remember it is that he came in one day to find workers removing the urinal. He said that he had paid for it many times over, so it was his. Had it installed on its side in his house for water for his cats.
79 posted on 08/05/2017 6:19:17 PM PDT by nicollo (I said no!)
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To: Bryanw92

>>>because you don’t “need” urinals. Does your house have one?<<<

If my Wife would allow it, it would. LOL


80 posted on 08/05/2017 8:06:17 PM PDT by Kickass Conservative (The way Liberals carry on about Deportation, you would think "Mexico" was Spanish for "Auschwitz".)
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