Wow, all this from a concern about peeing.  I second that whole idea that Japanese women are crazy over there.

Quote from: Zythyra on May 07, 2008, 12:59:20 PM

Quote from: Buffy on May 07, 2008, 04:10:21 AM
I have a friend who's a CD and decided she passed well enough to use the Womens rest room.

All was going well until she stood up and pee'd in the toilet, kind of gave the game away.

Geez, didn't she read the manual?? It's #1, don't stand up to pee in the ladies restroom. 

It's difficult for me to imagine any pre-op lady could be so clueless as to make that blunder. But the novel Born Confused by Tanuja Desai Hidier has one glamorous trans character who is outed when seen urinating in the ladies' room with feet pointed toward the pot instead of away from it. Maybe that was just a CD or a DQ, or maybe the novelist didn't actually understand trans women.

Posted on: May 07, 2008, 07:24:59 PM

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Quote from: Lori on May 07, 2008, 12:14:15 PMBeware of 'The Tinkler'

We all know the explanation for such foulness, don't we? A commentator to that article explained it:

QuoteThey refuse to let their tender tushies touch any part of the toilet seat--or even the paper gasket. Their solution is to hover (or surf) several inches above the seat, and go from this elevated position. They can't "aim" from this height, and they're wiggling all over the stall because perching in the air with your knees bent at a 90 degree angle makes your quads shake, so they inevitably wind up spraying pee everywhere.

I haven't got that foible. My legs are in better shape than that and I can hold steady as a rock in any position. I've taken a Bikram yoga class from a teacher who called himself "Quadzilla."

I don't think you should worry too much about this, Hypatia.  One thing I have noticed though (here I go again.. ) is that older women (like forty and over  ) do not always produce that hissing sound you talk about.

tink

Its amazing the little things we notice....and they are things that I really don't think gg's even acknowledge...I mean, I never really payed attention to the way men pee'd when I was in the mens room...I think I think to much....anyone else?

Quote from: Dennis on May 07, 2008, 02:07:49 AM
It won't out you because pee-shy women have the same trickle, as opposed to hiss sound. You'll just sound pee-shy. I have the opposite problem in men's rooms. Gotta hold back to get the trickle sound.

Don't worry about it, you're fine

Dennis

So, perhaps the trans guys need some sort of a muffler or silencer  >

I found my own 'hiss' comes and goes.  I'm there to relieve my bladder, not acoustically express female solidarity...

Karen

Quote from: Karen on May 07, 2008, 10:43:40 PM
I'm there to relieve my bladder, not acoustically express female solidarity...

Karen

That was waay too funny, Karen!

-Sandy

There's a hissing sound?

*makes note to listen for said 'hissing sound' next time he pisses*

Yeah, I definitely don't think someone's going to notice if you're not making enough noise.  No one pays attention to that sort of thing.
As she comes from the stall:
"How do you pee so quietly?"
"I don't know, do you pee really loud?"
"I hiss like steam engine letting off the brakes"

And that conversation could go on for a while.

Quote from: Kassandra on May 07, 2008, 10:49:36 PM

Quote from: Karen on May 07, 2008, 10:43:40 PM
I'm there to relieve my bladder, not acoustically express female solidarity...

Karen

That was waay too funny, Karen!

-Sandy

LMAO, Karen!!!!!

I knew a woman who was so "shy" that whenever she went for a pee she also turned on both taps in the bathroom sink!

I believe that the feet pointing towards the potty are hazardous.

I have hovered above some toilets in some airports but I also allowed my lower back to rest against the wall.

Wow, what a topic!

Wing Walker
Quads Challenged But Resourceful 

Quote from: Gracie FAISE on May 07, 2008, 01:41:46 AM
I mean, no chick is gunna be in the bathroom and be all "Huh? What the? THERE IS NO HISS IN THAT STREAM!!! HOLY ->-bleeped-<- ITS A DUDE IN THE LADIES ROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM" *blows on a conc shell horn*

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I'm post-op and still don't get that hiss, maybe just slightly when I'm really bursting !

What gets me is that a woman can be in and out of the next cubicle while I'm still peeing, I still seem to take nearly twice as long.

And I still get a bit paranoid that I don't sound right (the acoustics of restrooms seems to amplifiy sound somewhat rotten) ....    ....

So Claire's hilarious quote kinda re-assures me and puts my worry in perspective !

And anyways no matter what I sound like tinkling, when I emerge from the cubicle there's no doubt about my gender ....  ....

Laura x

Quote from: Laura Eva B on May 08, 2008, 06:03:51 AMWhat gets me is that a woman can be in and out of the next cubicle while I'm still peeing, I still seem to take nearly twice as long.

Shucks and here I was hoping SRS would take care of that. Maybe we just have narrow-bore urethras.

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And anyways no matter what I sound like tinkling, when I emerge from the cubicle there's no doubt about my gender ....  ....

True, I'm not actually worried about it, I'd be astonished if anyone actually outed me based on a difference in sound. It's totally the least of my worries, LOL. I just had been noticing this and I'm hyper-sensitive to any differences, always seeking to mitigate them.

Acoustic Solidarity Rocks!

Too funny, Karen!

Kristi

Quote from: Laura Eva B on May 08, 2008, 06:03:51 AM
What gets me is that a woman can be in and out of the next cubicle while I'm still peeing, I still seem to take nearly twice as long.

I think it's just a body difference.  I'm taller and bigger boned than most women and I take longer too.  I suspect that my bladder is bigger than the little anorexic size 8 nymph in the stall next to me. 

The things we women talk about!!!

-Sandy

Quote from: Kassandra on May 08, 2008, 08:42:27 AM
I suspect that my bladder is bigger than the little anorexic size 8 nymph in the stall next to me. 
-Sandy

You talking about me, Sandy? 

Kristi

Quote from: Zythyra on May 07, 2008, 12:59:20 PM

Quote from: Buffy on May 07, 2008, 04:10:21 AM
I have a friend who's a CD and decided she passed well enough to use the Womens rest room.

All was going well until she stood up and pee'd in the toilet, kind of gave the game away.

Geez, didn't she read the manual?? It's #1, don't stand up to pee in the ladies restroom. 

Z

This makes me glad that my habits will prevent this from happening.  I've been a sitter for a while, at least at home where there aren't any urinals and where there is carpeting in the bathrooms.  So as long as the women's rooms don't have functional urinals, I should be all right when I get that far along.

If you should be worried about ANYTHING in the bathroom, it is putting down the paper sheild and sitting down in time before that damn sensor thinks you are done and pre-maturely flushes and sucks away your shield.

I will never forget that week at college. They had to fix the sensors cuz they were reacting far too quickly, and I can't hover cuz i can relax to pee and still stand like that @ 3@ i have no idea how my girl friends do it.

Quote from: Kristi on May 08, 2008, 09:05:01 AM

Quote from: Kassandra on May 08, 2008, 08:42:27 AM
I suspect that my bladder is bigger than the little anorexic size 8 nymph in the stall next to me. 
-Sandy

You talking about me, Sandy? 

Kristi

Oh, yes!  You definitely came to mind as I wrote that!  I still remember the time we went shopping at Marshall Fields!

-Sandy(I wish my thighs were size 8!)

Hey us size 4-6 feel kind of offended, and I've got one hell of blader too (I'm 6 foot tall which helps).

Yeah, some woman come and go so fast from the restrooms that I wonder if they pee siderway while taking their pants down 

Its just incredible, they're in and out in 10 seconds and I hear a niagara in between 

Yesterday at work I was in the midst of a long, quiet, leisurely urination that must have lasted longer than The Flight of the Bumblebee by Rimsky-Korsakov. Another lady came in, and I heard what sounded like a glass of water being poured all at once. For one second. Then she was gone.

I feel incredibly reassured to learn that I'm not the only one who's noticed this.

Quote from: Kassandra on May 08, 2008, 05:09:45 PM
Oh, yes!  You definitely came to mind as I wrote that!  I still remember the time we went shopping at Marshall Fields!
-Sandy(I wish my thighs were size 8!)

Actually, I'm a 4 or 6, Sandy, and it was Bloomingdales.  But oh well.

I've been practicing making a hissing sound that I will use while urinating.  A closed "shhhh" does nicely. 

Kristi