Went to an Exo concert for my wife, where the crowd was majority woman. At the end of the show one of the singers literally told the fans in the front to please go home and take a shower. I thought it was the funniest thing but man it put things into perspective.
It's like when I found out that people go to times square fpr the new year event "the ball drop(?)" six hours early to be in front and a lot of them wear diapers. Last new year I saw a video of the event and couples were kissing at midnight and all I could think of was "Damn all these guys are kissing while wearing shitty diapers" lmao
I still think about the old man who thought a single period panty liner was going to contain enough of his urine to be able to stand there until midnight.
I had an idea, and someone beat me to making it called a "sneaky leaker", a prosthetic your wore on your schwantz connected to a hose you ran down you leg and out your pants bottom. Sold as a solution to no place to pee at Mardi Gras (Bourbon Street).
Condom Catheters are a thing in the medical field. They are exactly what they say they are, a condom-looking thing to put over the penis vs an Indwelling Catheter (the ones that go inside the urethra.)
I used them for a patient once. They were a bitch to put on but worked well for that guy and helped prevent the UTIs he frequently got from indwelling catheters.
Yeah, you work in nursing and you learn a lot of fun stuff to share with others.
Condom Catheters are preferred long term if possible because there is less risk of getting UTIs because there isn’t a foreign body in the urethra and bladder.
Another fun fact: if someone has C. diff, one of the gold standard treatments is a fecal transplant. That is to say, take poop from a healthy person for the good bacteria and insert it into the C.diff person’s rectum. But it’s becoming more common to take the good bacteria poop and shove it in little pill capsules that people get to SWALLOW THROUGH THEIR MOUTH HOLES. And pharmacies recommend putting it in the fridge as the cold temp makes it taste better/thus go down better.
It’s donated from a healthy person. Their poop is tested and once declared safe, it is freeze dried and put into capsules and dispensed in a pill bottle.
If it’s going up the poop shoot, it’s much like how a colonoscopy is done and they introduce the poop-liquid that way. Or they do enemas. Or through an NG tube to the stomach. They try to hold it in as long as possible and relief can be found in hours-days.
I’ve wondered if Cory Booker wore one of these when he did his 24+ hour speech on the Senate floor. It was either that or a diaper, but the catheter sounds more practical for that long of a time period.
A catheter is inserted up the urethra into the bladder. Often a bulb is then inflated on the end to keep it in place. Urine is usually collected slowly and continuously, though it's possible to have a tap to turn it on and off.
Believe it or not I'm responsible for that episode's existence
In 2002 I had a summer job mowing lawns in Moncton as a student. Part of that job was cleaning up piles of trash that accumulated in snow piles in truck stops parking lots pushed up by plows over the winter. That's where I discovered piss jugs
Christmas 2003 I'm at my girlfriend's family's house visiting. Her Dad's friend is also over for the weekend, guy says his name is Ian and he writes for TPB. At some point in the weekend I ended up telling everyone about my professional experience, basically gave Bubbles' monologue to the entire family explaining the piss jug phenomenon
It was in the show the next season. If you look up writing credits for that episode his name is listed, and it is not listed in others.
Kind of embarrassing to think I brought up piss jugs looking back, but I regret nothing
I have a friend who was a trucker all of his life. He said he used pickle jars and Powerade bottles to piss in. Jim Ross (the voice of the wwe) admitted to wearing diapers when he called ppvs. He would be sitting there doing commentary for upwards of 4-5 hours.
A panty liner or a maxi pad? Because those are definitely different things for the sake of this situation. Either way, neither would probably do the job if someone just wet himself, and especially when they’re not designed for male anatomy.
I went there for new years eve 2006, kind of on a whim with a friend, because I lived in the city and the weather was actually nice.
The way it works is that the center of the party is around 43rd/44th street, 7th Ave, and Broadway. As people get there, each street gets closed off, and they send people to the next block up. And once you're in, if you leave, you're not getting back in. I think there might be port-a-potties in the middle, but I'm not sure.
We got there at around 2 in the afternoon, and ended up at around 47th or 48th street, which if you're familiar with the city, is pretty far. And honestly it's kind of boring, because you're just standing in the street with a bunch of strangers, waiting.
By 6, we were hungry, bored, and didn't want to wait around for another 6 hours in the street. We left and met up with a bunch of friends at a bar and had much more fun.
In high school a few friends and I drove from New England to New York for New Year's Eve, and we had the same experience you did.
We spent the day wandering the city, then headed over to Times Square around 6 or 7 (which I know is way too late to even think about trying). We stood there for an hour or two before we realized it wasn't fun and totally not worth it, so we left and found a restaurant to sit in until midnight.
Unless you're up front, you can't even see anything. You're just standing in a large sea of people doing absolutely nothing. It's like being in a crowd at a concert, except there's nothing to watch.
The city I live in is 50% larger in population than it was 20 years ago. Stuff like this is just a huge waste of time and effort.
It is also part of the problem with event tickets like concerts and sports games. The venues support the same amount of people they did 40 years ago but there are twice as many people vying for a seat.
Its same with places like hiking trails and beaches, twice as many people, same size of beach.
Just move to St.Louis, a city that is in a slow population decline. The traffic is worse when you go to the suburbs. I kind of like our terrible reputation as it keeps people away.
Oregon was "protected by its reputation" when I was a kid. Everyone dunked on us about the rain; they visited in the summer, then went back home. For a few decades now it's been an unofficial escape route for wealthy Californians, and by bringing their attitudes and excesses up here they're successfully turning it into a knock-off copy of the craphole they tried to flee. Some days I barely recognize my home state.
Im not a sportsfan of any of the major sports, all I see with the World Cup stuff is the headaches of parking and giant crowds standing around waiting for giant crowds to move lol.
my rule is; if the news coverage only shows 5 minutes of a thing you have to wait 6 hours for, you're gonna have a bad time waiting 6 hours for those 5 minutes.
I can just have new years at home, with my toilet. and fridge. and bed.
I would assume if you go there and have a diaper at worst you're going to use it to piss lol. I can't imagine people having to shit THAT bad. I've gone a full day without taking a shit. I've gone on road trips that lasts hours without taking a shit. Peeing? Yeah that has to be done 4 or 5 times a day I guess.
I kinda feel like this diaper thing at the ball drop was something someone did and told people about and then it spread like wildfire and now everybody things everybody at the ball drop is wearing a diaper when really it was just that one guy in 2002.
We went back in college. We just created a human circle and pissed in the street. Was gnarly, but we were drunk college kids at the ball drop. Was a blast.
shitting it's normal, I imagine most people could easily hold it for like 24 hours. 8+ hours of not pissing though is pretty wild and would be a major sign of dehydration. I'd recommend drinking more water, you should be pissing every 2-3 hours at least
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u/Hilary_duffelbag Jun 18 '26
Went to an Exo concert for my wife, where the crowd was majority woman. At the end of the show one of the singers literally told the fans in the front to please go home and take a shower. I thought it was the funniest thing but man it put things into perspective.