Some bar owners say it works even better than urinal cakes because it actually flushes the urine instead of just trying to deodorize it. Eating a urinal cake can kill you.
Anyone crazy enough to bite into a urinal cake is putting their health at risk. Ingesting the chemicals found in urinal cakes can lead to symptoms such as: Dizziness. Why one need to hire a banking lawyer?
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Search for questions : Search. My Profile. Open Questions Why do some places put ice in urinals? Tweet Why is it some places put ice in their urinals? In , a bar owner in Chicago realized he could keep his tipsy customers from peeing on the floor by placing ice in the urinals.
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More than 25 million immigrants entered the U. As more and more people became accustomed to denser living conditions, expectations in regards to privacy were modified. Not surprisingly then, the urinal was patented in the U. My deodorizing composition hereinabove referred to being of a much heavier specific gravity than the urine and consequently remaining in the bowl, it will completely relieve the smell and odor emitted from the urine, the advantage of which is manifest.
The main thing naphthalene does is vaporize, making the air smell very strongly like mothballs, and therefore less like urine. Most times I actually come down with something is on a trip involving air travel.
I always use the towel I just dried my hands with to open the door upon exit. Bathroom doors in public places should push to open from the inside. There, all better. Ice in the urinal is is common all over the midwest.
I am surprised that there are people who don't know that it keeps the smell down. They really stink. My middle two kids went to a preschool at an Audubon center.
The building was constructed with just about every green gimmick you could dream up, including these stinky urinals. It would be better to just teach all the little boys to piss outside on a tree.
I have noticed that I seem to encounter this repetitively in some establishments. The urinals in the St. Paul Hotel are always choke full of ice when I'm there. Post a Comment. In this possibly useful article about relatively cheap but somehow stylish hotels in New York City.
I don't go — no pun intended — in the bathrooms where one finds urinals, but if I were writing that article, I would at the very least Google the phrase "ice in urinals" before leaving it in an article. I would know that some readers would Google "ice in urinals" and I wouldn't want to be embarrassed if the answer was something it would be embarrassing not to know. And once I'd done that, I'd know the answer, because "ice in urinals" gets "about , results" in Google , beginning with "Why Ice in the Urinals?
The leading theories are: The melting ice acts as a slow, continuous flush Ice cools the air around the urinal. Cool air sinks, which serves to contain the smell Cold discourages drain flies Fun to melt, helps users aim better, compensates for poor male sanitary habits New York Times, you seem to need a little help, so Posted by Ann Althouse at AM. Tags: bathrooms , city life , Google , ice , lameness , NYC , urine.
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