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I don't know why, but this big complex pipe structure was situated above the urinal. When you flush, the red light goes off and the green light goes on, and all the pressure dials start going crazy.

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[-] ArtificialLink@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 year ago

I don't know why

My dude have you ever heard of "just for fun?"

[-] Offlein@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Well somebody installed it, of course, but the place is currently the storefront of a noodle shop that used to be a food cart. My guess is it wasn't them, but it feels like the ratio of probable cost to value is way out of wack for any restaurant unless this somehow fit into an aesthetic somehow.

That's an awesome Rube Goldberg machine of a pisser.

Hopefully whoever built that will make a version for the Chinese sperm extractor machine next.

[-] TomMhCl@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Of the Chinese what now?!

[-] marcar@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

This is not a urinal, this is an inter-dimensional time space teleportation device

[-] TurnItOff_OnAgain@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Placement In Space and Situation of Eventual Relativity

Or PISSER for short.

[-] DinosaurSr@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Every time you flush some poor dinosaur gets hit in face with a bunch of piss outta nowhere.

[-] 15liam20@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Getting it up to 88mph is the tough part.

[-] unpop0@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

looks like a urinal on Myst Island

[-] jelloeater85@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

This makes me so happy someone gets this reference 😊

[-] faltuuser@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Are you in a nuclear submarine?

[-] Waitwuhtt@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

That's really nice. Waaaay better than those pictures of women laughing or whatever.

Where is this? I wanna pee there.

[-] Offlein@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

"Bing Mi Dumpling and Noodle Bar" in Northwest Portland, Oregon. Food was pretty good too fwiw.

[-] Cinner@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Bing Mi Dumpling and Noodle Bar

[-] STUPIDVIPGUY@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

steampunk pee

[-] KumquatGubbins@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

There is a chain of hotels/bars/breweries/distilleries/... called McMenamins, they have a few bathrooms like this. Damn cool

[-] BigPapaE@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

Now I want their Cajun tots…

[-] axtualdave@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

fyi - you can buy their Cajun seasoning mix online. Add to tater tots yourself. Now you don't need to wait 45 minutes for tots!

[-] BigPapaE@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Oh thanks that’s a great tip!

[-] MrGeekman@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

“When the light is green, the urinal’s clean.”

[-] caut_R@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Looks like you could make an alarm go off if you use it „well“ enough lol

[-] minkshaman@lemmy.perthchat.org 2 points 1 year ago

That looks amazing and I want it.

[-] Dio@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

Wow, after eleven years, it's still there.

[-] Offlein@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

Is this a joke or do you really know this place?

[-] YMS@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

More like comment that this keeps being reposted. A photo of the same urinal is on Flickr since 2009, for example.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/xwrn/3385198927/

[-] TheLurker@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Try to understand, that is a high voltage laser containment system. Simply turning it off would be like dropping a bomb on the city.

[-] Kotton@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

Does the red light mean it's out of order? Or is that some kind of red light special?

[-] Kotton@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

Oops, didn't read the body!

[-] art101@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

When the light is green, the trap is clean.

[-] solidsnake2085@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

And it's galvanized piping too. What a nightmare.

[-] Hikermick@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Grey box is a flow sensor that turns lights on/off. Bell shaped thingy is a pressure reducing valve. Pressure gauges and valves are obvious. Not sure what the last thing is, maybe to prevent hammering?

[-] Pixelologist@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

lol I love it

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