This is a toilet thought, please ban me mods.

  • Rappe@sopuli.xyz
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    3 hours ago

    Now I’m sitting here wishing I had rifling in my barrel so the pee would come out spiraling like those nozzles on some power washers.

    • FishFace@piefed.social
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      2 hours ago

      but the individual particles in the stream are going to follow a ballistic, not spiralling trajectory. I think the spiral nozzles have to rotate; they can’t just be rifled.

  • A_norny_mousse@piefed.zip
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    4 hours ago

    Of course there are other factors (how full and how big the baldder is etc.) but I do wonder if the diameter of the pipe is smaller in a penis, and maybe less stretchy/flexible, compared to vulva urethra.

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    7 hours ago

    The velocity is proportional to bladder pressure and inversely proportional to the square of the diameter of the urethra. The shape of the body parts outside the urethra is irrelevant.

    • Fleur_@aussie.zoneOP
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      7 hours ago

      This isn’t true because I can squeeze the tip of my foreskin and the pee will start spraying everywhere super fast. Similar to covering the end of a hose with my thumb.

      • tankfox@bookwyr.me
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        4 hours ago

        You should try a twist tie, wrench it shut like it’s bread you want to actually keep fresh instead of just twisting it up and tucking it under the loaf like most men do. See what happens!

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        Yes, partially covering the opening will increase flow speed, but it doesn’t matter how long the hose was before you covered it, so no penis is required to achieve that.

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        7 hours ago

        Similar to the hose, your feeble attempts at restriction only make the stream stronger.

        There is a fundamental pressure being restricted. IF she has a bigger urethra than you, she’ll wreck you. If she has a narrow urethra, she might be in the same support group as Hank Hill.

        Either way, the fundamental limit of how much pee can flow will always follow a basic function.

        • can_you_change_your_username@fedia.io
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          I used to think that women had larger urethras than men because female catheters are larger. A post similar to this one caused me to do a bit of reading though. Women’s urethras are actually a little smaller on average. They can use larger stiffer catheters because their urethras are much shorter and almost straight. Men’s catheters have to be narrower because they have to be flexible to go through men’s longer curvier urethras.

        • Fleur_@aussie.zoneOP
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          7 hours ago

          I don’t even think you know what you’re talking about let alone what I’m talking about.

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          7 hours ago

          Damn crazy. Do you think the shape of someone’s genitalia has an effect on that velocity and diameter?

          • tankfox@bookwyr.me
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            4 hours ago

            The optimal genitalia for urination has zero length. Imagine a frictionless laminar flow from a razor edged hole in your torso!

  • psx_crab@lemmy.zip
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    Likely slower due to the friction the fluid have to go through the length of the barrel. The benefit however is the accuracy it has and lower in decibel, as it act as an aiming device and a suppresor.

    • Fleur_@aussie.zoneOP
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      4 hours ago

      Caution advised, I have just received a theory from one of your scholarly peers that a phallus may act as a scilencer thus making your method ineffectual. Perhaps pee upwards at a 45 degree angle and then measure the height of each stream to derive velocity?

  • farmgineer@nord.pub
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    6 hours ago

    I thought most mammals had basically the same time (where diameter scales with bladder size) from a full bladder. I’m not sure if I’m misremembering that.