AdamSmith Posted March 7, 2013 Posted March 7, 2013 ... I know I have. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/mobile-phones/9914594/Quarter-of-men-admit-to-sitting-down-on-the-loo-so-they-can-keep-using-mobile-phone.html Quote
Members RA1 Posted March 7, 2013 Members Posted March 7, 2013 I would but I do any and everything reasonable to avoid using (or even carrying) the cell phone. After losing part of my hearing to engine noise I don't enjoy straining to hear and understand what is being said over the phone. Of course, I never understand it anyway, especially if I don't want to. Best regards, RA1 AdamSmith 1 Quote
BiBottomBoy Posted March 7, 2013 Posted March 7, 2013 If you can't stay off the phone long enough to piss you have a problem. wayout 1 Quote
Members RA1 Posted March 7, 2013 Members Posted March 7, 2013 I have known quite a few "big traders" who "have a problem". During the market they are so busy some of them literally do not take time to piss and might even go in their pants. Not a lifestyle I care to emulate. Best regards, RA1 Quote
AdamSmith Posted March 7, 2013 Author Posted March 7, 2013 There has long been a device called a "trolley man's friend" -- an external catheter named in honor of SF trolley operators, who of course have to hold onto the dead man's stick continually in order to keep the car clutched to the moving cable beneath the roadway. Quote
Members RA1 Posted March 7, 2013 Members Posted March 7, 2013 Somehow I don't think condom and catheter are words that "go together". However, it is an interesting and amusing concept. Pilots and sometimes passengers need to 'go" and there are various "conveniences" that allow such. Of course, I am referring to aircraft that are not large enough to have stand alone lavatories or the like but "other" aircraft. In one I commonly fly, there is a "potty" which allows men and women to sit "on the throne" and do whatever. In addition there are two "relief tubes" which allow "men" to pee into them and let the "result" escape via a Venturi tube. However, the pilot cannot and should not leave his station as the only pilot on board to answer any call of nature. The "second" relief tube is located in the cockpit and allows the pilot to "relieve" himself. Sorry gals, this convenience is for men only. However, in addition to the biffy aka potty, which will accommodate both men and women, there is a product called a "Jill's John" which "allows" women to collect their urine into a bottle with a LARGE recepticle for same. I have always thought of a catheter as being something "inserted" which I find not only unpleasant but unsanitary; however, a device that encloses the male organ with a tube leading to never never land sounds exciting, to say the least. Best regards, RA1 Quote
Members lookin Posted March 7, 2013 Members Posted March 7, 2013 Somehow I don't think Please don't let that stand in your way. It hasn't stopped any of the rest of us from posting on a wide variety of topics, either standing up or sitting down. AdamSmith 1 Quote
Members wayout Posted March 7, 2013 Members Posted March 7, 2013 ...In addition there are two "relief tubes" which allow "men" to pee into them and let the "result" escape via a Venturi tube. However, the pilot cannot and should not leave his station as the only pilot on board to answer any call of nature. The "second" relief tube is located in the cockpit and allows the pilot to "relieve" himself. ewww...so if I understand what you are saying, their pee is raining down on unsuspecting individuals on the ground? Maybe I've had golden showers without even knowing, lol. Quote
AdamSmith Posted March 7, 2013 Author Posted March 7, 2013 ewww...so if I understand what you are saying, their pee is raining down on unsuspecting individuals on the ground? Maybe I've had golden showers without even knowing, lol. Worse than that, even... Blue ice in the context of aviation is the frozen sewage material dispensed mid-flight from commercial aircraft lavatory waste tanks, a biowaste mixture of human waste and liquid disinfectant that freezes at high altitude. The name comes from the blue color of the disinfectant. Airlines are not allowed to dump their waste tanks in mid-flight, and pilots have no mechanism by which to do so; however, leaks can occur. Danger of ground impact There were at least 27 documented incidents of blue ice impacts in the United States between 1979 and 2003.[1] These incidents typically happen under airport landing paths as the mass warms sufficiently to detach from the plane during its descent. A rare incident of falling blue ice causing damage to the roof of a home was reported on October 20, 2006 in Chino, California.[2] A similar incident was reported in Leicester, UK, in 2007.[3] In 1971, a chunk of ice from an aircraft tore a large hole in the roof of the Essex Street Chapel in Kensington, London, and was one trigger for the demolition of the building.[4] In November 2011 a chunk of ice, the size of an orange, broke through the roof of a private house in Ratingen-Hösel, Germany. In February 2013 a 'football sized' ball of blue ice smashed through a conservatory roof in Clanfield, Hampshire causing around £10,000 worth of damage.[5] Danger to aircraft Blue ice can also be dangerous to the aircraft itself; the National Transportation Safety Board has recorded three very similar incidents where waste from lavatories caused damage to the leaking aircraft.[6][7][8] All involved Boeing 727s, and in all cases waste from a leaking lavatory hit the number 3 engine, mounted at the rear of the aircraft, causing a power loss.[6][7][8] The flights made safe emergency landings with the two remaining engines. Nobody was injured. Only one report specifically mentions ice,[7] while another mentions "soft body FOD",[8] indicating that in this case the "blue fluid" was not frozen. In popular culture Blue ice became known to many people from the last 2003 episode of the HBO series Six Feet Under, in which a foot-sized chunk drops on an innocent bystander. A similar incident occurs in the 1996 television series Early Edition episode “Frostbite” when the main character saves a man from being crushed by a chunk of blue ice. It was also mentioned in the US sitcom The Big Bang Theory season 2. This also happened in an episode of CSI: NY. The title of the 1992 film Blue Ice is a reference to the phenomenon.[9] The 2001 film Joe Dirt finds the title character (played by David Spade) proudly displaying a large chunk of 'blue ice' which he has mistaken for a meteorite, and the topic has also been covered on the TV show MANswers. Blue ice was also featured in an episode of the television show Mythbusters. Blue ice is a cause of death in season 4 of 1000 Ways to Die. In John Waters' film A Dirty Shame, David Hasselhoff, playing himself, goes to the bathroom in an airplane and his waste is flushed out of the airplane and hits one of the main characters in the head. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_ice_%28aircraft%29 Quote
Members RA1 Posted March 7, 2013 Members Posted March 7, 2013 OK, sorry to semingly provide disengenuous information. Yes, pee is often allowed to "leave" an aircraft via a tube connected to a venturi tube. This tube accelerates the fluid into the atmosphere which resutls in a "product" that is essentially harmless to one and all. It is dispersed so widely that it is virtually impossible to "collect" any "result" thereof. In other words, you will never "know" about this product in your everyday life. This process is similar to an airliner that has to "dump fuel" into the atmosphere to get down to landing weight if there has been a "situation" demanding such. Have you ever been "under" an aircraft releasing thousands of pounds of jet fuel? The answer is maybe so but it is atomized and not a problem. Years ago, this process was less than desirable. President Harry Truman used to instruct his aircraft, The Sacred Cow, to fly over Ohio and dump whatever waste was on board there because he was "unfriendly" with Senator Taft. Not to worry. The EPA is on you side and nothing of consequence is allowed to be "dumped" these days. Now, if you believe that, BO is your "hero". Best regards, RA1 Quote
