more urination research

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I absolutely do not know why urination seems to have snagged my addled attention, but after this post, I'll try to get a grip and return to my usual posts about profound matters, ethics, politics, war and peace, ethereal art, architecture and music, frontiers of scientific research, the existence of God, etc.

I mean, that's what Vleeptron's famous for, that's why all nine of you are so addicted to Vleeptron.

But tonight -- posting on the Wi-Fi with the nifty Sony laptop in that antique 1849 train depot Hotel Coolidge in Vermont -- we got a fly in a urinal.

The urinal is in a lavatory in Schiphol, Amsterdam's airport.

The fly isn't just in one lonely urinal.

There's a fly in every urinal in Schiphol.

And they're not real flies. They're manufactured and etched into the porcelain bowl.

A guy would have to lean down into the urinal and look very closely to realize it's not really a fly.

(Please don't let me stop you from closely examining the urinals the next time you're whizzing at Schiphol.)

Why did they put a faux fly in every urinal?

They researched the problem of sloppy male urination, which is so costly, unsanitary, and vile to clean up. At a place like Schiphol, we're talking about hundreds of liters / gallons of spilled nasty urine every day.

But when a man sees a fly in the urinal, he gets focused, he gets serious. He aims for the fly.

He's no longer just idly voiding his bladder.

Now he has a job to do: He must drown that fly, he must kill that nasty fly.

The manufactured faux fly in the urinals in Schiphol reduces spillage by 80 percent.