Mildly Interesting @lemmy.world Offlein @lemmy.world 2y ago

The urinal in this restaurant I went to had crazy pipes and lights

I don't know why, but this big complex pipe structure was situated above the urinal. When you flush, the red light goes off and the green light goes on, and all the pressure dials start going crazy.

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I don't know why

My dude have you ever heard of "just for fun?"
- Well somebody installed it, of course, but the place is currently the storefront of a noodle shop that used to be a food cart. My guess is it wasn't them, but it feels like the ratio of probable cost to value is way out of wack for any restaurant unless this somehow fit into an aesthetic somehow.
That's an awesome Rube Goldberg machine of a pisser.

Hopefully whoever built that will make a version for the Chinese sperm extractor machine next.
- Of the Chinese what now?!
This is not a urinal, this is an inter-dimensional time space teleportation device
- Placement In Space and Situation of Eventual Relativity
  
  Or PISSER for short.
- After you flush it the world changes in a few scuddle ways
- Every time you flush some poor dinosaur gets hit in face with a bunch of piss outta nowhere.
- The Doctor has regenerated into a real freak this time...
- Getting it up to 88mph is the tough part.
  
  It's not YOU that has to get to 88, just your piss.
steampunk pee
That's really nice. Waaaay better than those pictures of women laughing or whatever.

Where is this? I wanna pee there.
- "Bing Mi Dumpling and Noodle Bar" in Northwest Portland, Oregon. Food was pretty good too fwiw.
- How about here?
  
  Or here?
looks like a urinal on Myst Island
- This makes me so happy someone gets this reference 😊
Are you in a nuclear submarine?
“When the light is green, the urinal’s clean.”
There is a chain of hotels/bars/breweries/distilleries/... called McMenamins, they have a few bathrooms like this. Damn cool
Try to understand, that is a high voltage laser containment system. Simply turning it off would be like dropping a bomb on the city.
When the light is green, the trap is clean.
lol I love it
Does the red light mean it's out of order? Or is that some kind of red light special?
- Oops, didn't read the body!
Looks like you could make an alarm go off if you use it „well“ enough lol
Wow, after eleven years, it's still there.
- Is this a joke or do you really know this place?
  
  More like comment that this keeps being reposted. A photo of the same urinal is on Flickr since 2009, for example.
  
  https://www.flickr.com/photos/xwrn/3385198927/
I feel like the red light means you were not found worthy
This would crazy fit a steampunk themed place.
Performance art.
That looks amazing and I want it.
And it's galvanized piping too. What a nightmare.
Ever see nin's "broken" movie?
Grey box is a flow sensor that turns lights on/off. Bell shaped thingy is a pressure reducing valve. Pressure gauges and valves are obvious. Not sure what the last thing is, maybe to prevent hammering?
I guess it's an effective way of getting people to remember to flush?
"That is a cool steampunk system! Where does the steam come from, though?"
That is a pretty cool urinal. A good structure.

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