Training Men
In Amsterdam, the tile under Schiphol's urinals
would pass inspection in an operating room.
But nobody notices.
What everybody does notice is that each urinal
has a fly in it.
Look harder.
The fly is actually the black outline of a fly,
etched into the porcelain.
It improves the aim.
If a man sees a fly, he aims at it.
Fly-in-urinal research found that etchings
reduce splillage by 80%.
It gives a guy something to think about.
That's the perfect example of process control.
Who says men can't be trained?
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It's not a fireman, Merkin. But it is 11 more days until sweet romantic bliss. (HA!)
posted by WordWhiz at 9/21/2005
10 Comments:
I'm a stall man.
10:40 AM
Those Dutch are clever. I bet it's quite interesting when a fly gets loose in the house.
1:56 PM
My ex needs one of those.
3:44 PM
Hmm. Ain't it the Dutch that have them there neat hydraulic sea walls to keep the ocean in the ocean and outta there country?
6:02 PM
Ok, now that's a cool psychology trick! Maybe that'd work for Jared...no, wait, he only does that when he's too sleepy, and then he won't care about the fly either...never mind!
6:06 PM
They should just post a sign that says, "We aim to please. You aim too, please."
Okay now, this reminds me of Hoss's blog. Somebody called Whizzer posting a blog about . . . well?
Hea, I was a psych major. I'm SUPPOSED to pick up on these things.
And this romantic bliss talk is becoming a bit mawkish. And if you're a word whiz, you know what I'm talking about.
6:07 PM
Damn...I'm going to have to get my stencles out and put a fly in my toilet. LOL
10:58 PM
Where do you find these wacky things WordWhiz?
2:24 AM
Hooray - no firemen. Over the summer (at the time when you erased me from your links!) I spent a few weeks in Holland, Belgium, and Germany with "work". And almost every public urinal had "the fly".
And you know what - it worked! No splashback at all - my suede dancing shoes were splatter free. I KNEW there had to be something the Europeans could do other than piss and moan about themselves. And there it is!
3:43 PM
We can not be trained. We try to aim, really. But, as I am sure that you have heard a hundred times, the little guy has a mind of his own! ;-)
8:42 PM
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