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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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[–] ArtificialLink@lemmy.ml 14 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I don't know why

My dude have you ever heard of "just for fun?"

[–] Offlein@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

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.

Edit: It used to be called "Industrial Cafe and Saloon", and had an industrial/metal theme. Which does, indeed, explain this.

[–] IAccidentallyCame@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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.

[–] TomMhCl@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

Of the Chinese what now?!

[–] Waitwuhtt@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago (2 children)

That's really nice. Waaaay better than those pictures of women laughing or whatever.

Where is this? I wanna pee there.

[–] Offlein@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

"Bing Mi Dumpling and Noodle Bar" in Northwest Portland, Oregon. Food was pretty good too fwiw.

[–] Cinner@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

Bing Mi Dumpling and Noodle Bar

[–] 15liam20@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] morain@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago
[–] marcar@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago (3 children)

This is not a urinal, this is an inter-dimensional time space teleportation device

[–] TurnItOff_OnAgain@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

Placement In Space and Situation of Eventual Relativity

Or PISSER for short.

[–] 15liam20@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Getting it up to 88mph is the tough part.

[–] morain@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

It's not YOU that has to get to 88, just your piss.

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

After you flush it the world changes in a few scuddle ways

[–] faltuuser@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago

Are you in a nuclear submarine?

[–] unpop0@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

looks like a urinal on Myst Island

[–] STUPIDVIPGUY@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

steampunk pee

[–] KumquatGubbins@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

There is a chain of hotels/bars/breweries/distilleries/... called McMenamins, they have a few bathrooms like this. Damn cool

[–] BigPapaE@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Now I want their Cajun tots…

[–] axtualdave@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

fyi - you can buy their Cajun seasoning mix online. Add to tater tots yourself. Now you don't need to wait 45 minutes for tots!

[–] BigPapaE@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Oh thanks that’s a great tip!

[–] art101@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

When the light is green, the trap is clean.

[–] MrGeekman@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

“When the light is green, the urinal’s clean.”

[–] minkshaman@lemmy.perthchat.org 2 points 2 years ago

That looks amazing and I want it.

[–] TheLurker@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

Try to understand, that is a high voltage laser containment system. Simply turning it off would be like dropping a bomb on the city.

[–] Dio@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Wow, after eleven years, it's still there.

[–] Offlein@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Is this a joke or do you really know this place?

[–] YMS@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago

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/

[–] jerome@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Ever see nin's "broken" movie?

[–] Pixelologist@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

lol I love it

[–] WhiteOakBayou@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

I feel like the red light means you were not found worthy

[–] solidsnake2085@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

And it's galvanized piping too. What a nightmare.

[–] Hikermick@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

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?

[–] Kotton@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Does the red light mean it's out of order? Or is that some kind of red light special?

[–] Kotton@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago

Oops, didn't read the body!

[–] caut_R@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Looks like you could make an alarm go off if you use it „well“ enough lol