In China, a lot of the urinal signs say "For you, 1 small step forward, for society, 1 big step forward".

The urinals still have a depressing amount of piss under them.

Oh no, I forgot my peeing suit and monocle.

Maaaaaaan. This is spoken like someone who's never had a kidney stone, and needed lasers to be shoved up their urethra, and turned their insides into star wars.

Now when I pee it comes out in 1 stream. Or maybe 6 seperate streams all going different ways. You never know.

piss with honor

Tophats are just a backup in case yo can't make it to the loo in time.

Not 6, but 2-3 is the universal experience.

In japanese it only ask you to keep the toilet clean, thank you.

Oof, ok I'm getting a glass of water...

It's always either General Kenobi or General Grievous with you, huh?

I am chaos.

All joking aside, drinking more water is genuinely the most effective way to prevent kidney stones. Everyone should drink more water.

Also there's something about high concentrations of caffeine and sugar ingested at the same time that correlates with higher occurrences of kidney stones, with energy drinks being the worst offenders.

The Japanese have shame culture down to an art form.

That’s because urinals are crap at not splashing. In fact, one of the Ig Nobel prize winners this year was a better urinal.

Moral reminders can apparently be very effective. I'm reminded of a couple of experiments performed at a university on the university students in a lab where they tested what changes would make students cheat more or less.

In one experiment, university students were asked to sign a copy of the school's honor code before a test, and cheating went down. This, despite the fact that that particular university didn't have an official honor code.

Another example was that students were given one of two tasks before taking a test. In one task, they were asked to recall up to 10 book titles. In the other task, they were asked to recall as many of the 10 commandments as possible. The ones who were asked to recall the 10 commandments cheated less, regardless of their religious beliefs.

So, I suspect that this sign does achieve its intended purpose, to get English speakers to be more careful when peeing.

I wield my porksaber with grace and accuracy in all matters, thankyouverymuch.

What am I supposed to do when Grace is on her break?

Take your break at the same time, that's when you're supposed to urinate together.

Can she hold my hand while I'll tinkle?

I am always surprised at work how people manage to get piss not only on the divider but also on top of the urinal. Like that's the most wacky shit ever to me. lol

It doesn't say that in Japanese lol. I guess this means the Westerner urinators are the ones that need the extra instruction.
In Japanese it just says "thanks for keeping the restroom clean"

Thanks for that rabbit hole, it was very interesting!

Yakuza game?

That's delightful

That's up to you two

Apply pissiprin!

For me it was a combination of working in a factory at 135F degrees, and also drinking as much gatoraid as you can imagine you'd want. I'd buy the 24 pack of 32oz bottles. That would last 1-2 days.

Apperently Gatoraid is also very high in salt.

Yakuza Kiwami 2 - Mini game - Toylets

According to machine translation:
“Thank you for using the toilet cleanly.”

That's why I sit. I'll tell you, once you get in your late thirties. Things change.

This is the most Japanese thing I've ever seen.

I always do. Unless other me is sleepwalking, you don't even want to know.

It also has something to do with water quality I presume, as I was once in a city I learned had the highest incidence of kidney stones in the country, supposedly.

toire kinda means bathroom as well so in this case it's (semi-literal) thanks for using the restroom cleanly.

Japanese people are culturally conditioned to respond well to politeness and obligation.

Anglos living in Japan are often some flavour of weeaboo.

Thus, each culture gets a message they'll respond well to.

I wish more Japanese dudes would wash their fucking hands after though. It's so gross.

Anyone know where I can get the original to print/laminate/frame around the various restrooms I see across the world? I’m being serious.

トイレをきれいに使って頂きありがとうございます。 Is the Japanese if you want it for something.

As a Japanese speaker: yep.

In my younger years, as a tall fella, the shake off procedure would sometimes cause some drops to land on urinal tops. Now, as time inexorably passes on, I piss with more control.

Which one of those glyphs is the one that means piss

None. It literally says thank you for using the toilet cleanly.

Why did I automatically think this was in the woman's?

toilet (direct object marker) cleanly (indirect object marker (among other uses)) use (command form) humbly receive (roughly), thanks very much.

"Humbly receive" isn't exactly right, but it's one of the different formal registers we don't really have in English.

Gotta be the flowers.