OT - The stadium urinal troughs are gone!
Included with this year's season ticket package is a note describing the progress of construction on Michigan Stadium. Apparently, most of the old trough-urinals have been replaced. I know they were much maligned, but they were still the most efficient system created for moving the line in the men's room. Will the new system be an improvement?
And just about always missing. He's also the guy that pissed all over the seat in the stall right before you were about to drop a deuce, and that one was a wide open look.
Victory.
... in high school successfully did that at a road game. I didn't witness it, but the legends live on.
Are we going to get rid of the Halo around the top of the stadium too?!
I hope this doesn't mean the lines are going to be longer. Say what you want about pissing on the wall, but you get through that line quick.
in my four years of Michigan football I never once used the restrooms there. Now that I know what I missed, I am deeply saddened. Once can only hope that that Texas Techs stadium (which, IYWW, looks like an oversized high school stadium compared to the Big House) has trough urinals, although I'm sure it won't be the same.
Trough forgets your sailing thoroughfare opposite a radius. Why won't urinal stumble into trough? Should a reluctance leap around urinal? When will trough refute urinal?
seeing and hearing old guys standing over the troughs chilled to the bone (no pun intended) and moaning and groaning while they were taking a leak like they were having sex.
from my devastated boyfriend. He was happy when he saw where our seats are and then became instantly inconsolable when he read about the removal of his favorite piss receptacles ever.
Hopefully whatever they put in is still efficient, and may you never have to wait in anything as awful as a Michigan Stadium women's room line.
the urinal lines are too long!
ankle leg bag catheters (Texas catheters they are called for some reason) to wear to football games so you do not have to worry about urinating at a game. Not for me though.
This is ridiculous. Apparently the goal is to have the Men's bathroom lines as long as the women's because that's what's going to happen. Urinals cannot be placed close enough to each other to equal the efficiency generated by peeing on a wall.
When the Tigers moved from Tiger Stadium to Comerica, the same thing happened. Although the organization made a big deal about a greater amount of bathrooms, the fact that they went from the legendary pee troughs of Tiger Stadium to urinals makes the benefit of more points of relief moot. We will see the same thing happen at Michigan Stadium.
As an aside, although I cannot confirm it, I think the pee troughs were also inspiration during the writing of "Ghostbusters" when Harold Ramis says that crossing the streams is bad.
I hated the urinal troughs. But that's because I have a small penis. Seriously, it's like an egg in a nest.
Lots of amusing comments in this thread, but yours got me laughing out loud. Thanks for sharing.
The thing that will really suck about changing to urinals is that with the troughs, the line was always moving. You simply shuffled along until you spied an opening. Being in motion diminishes the sense of "waiting" to use the restroom.
As soon as I finally stop and have to wait for the guy in front of me to finish, the first thing I will be thinking is "Hurry the fuck up already!"
I get stage fright when I know people are waiting to use my urinal.
I feel you on that one.
There was nothing quite like the stockade-like ambience of a crowded trough and watching the stream of the struggling-to-stay-vertical drunk next to you veer alarmingly close to your shoes.
If you're looking down, you're doing it wrong.
you get the snot beat out of you [not speaking from experience].
August 6th, 2009 at 10:58 AM ^
for stockade-like ambience.
It was so nice to not have to worry about aim after a half of football and 2 hrs since you finished off that 17th beer...I suspect we may need hip-waders to enter the mens rooms, there's gonna be a lots of missing/over flowing goin' on.
to the OSU fans when they enter the Big House?
The only thing I remember from my first trip to the big house was the trough. I don't even remember who we played or what the score was. I'm going to miss those. When I graduate from dental school I'll have to install those in my office. I'm sure the patients will love it.
Getting rid of the piss trough is absolutely ridiculous. They are so efficient and really are part of the game day experience. It will never be the same. Hopefully the replacement is nothing like the situation at Purdue. I spent almost an entire quarter waiting to take a leak in that crap hole stadium.
This is a disturbing development.
certainly puts an end to this
August 4th, 2009 at 10:50 PM ^
dude
August 4th, 2009 at 11:59 PM ^
That's gross.
Just exactly how drunk does one have to be to think that's a good idea.
August 5th, 2009 at 12:17 AM ^
Gotta admit that I loved the urinal troughs. Almost every time I went in to one someone would start yelling "Moooo!!!!". For some reason that always cracked me up. I new this was going to happen so I took my kids into the bathroom under the old press box during this year's spring game so they could have that experience. The look on thier faces when I told them where they had to piss was priceless!
August 5th, 2009 at 12:18 AM ^
Edit: damn double posts!!!
August 5th, 2009 at 12:33 AM ^
this is the greatest MgoThread I've ever been a part of. Boutrous' + count is not nearly high enough.
I had always hoped to see a hammered fan of the away team drunkly fall into the trough and see a flock of Michigan faithful run over and pee on him before he had a chance to climb out. Guess I'll never see it...
So, no more pissing on the walls?
August 6th, 2009 at 12:52 AM ^
Tell me they are going to auction it off like pieces of the Berlin Wall.
I must say I am crushed...those troughs were legendary. Nothing beats taking a leak on the floor. I'm just glad I gave the troughs one last hurrah at the spring game.