Took my teenage daughter to a sellout arena concert for a band she likes. This photo from the venue accurately represents the audience demographic.
My bf and I went to see Dethklok and DragonForce. We both went to the restroom at the same time.
I walked right the women’s room, went and then joked around with the other women about how we walked right in I left the restroom pushed my way through crowds, saw my partner was still standing in line, went to the bar, got drinks, then hung out until he was done.
IT WAS SO WEIRD AND AWESOME.
Also the concert was awesome.
I remember seeing dragonforce in this small venue quite some time ago, we didn't really get bands like that where I lived. It was pretty cool as we had a smoke with the drummer during the intermission out front. I only really knew one of their songs as I was a massive guitar hero fan but it was totally worth it just for that.
Wait until you take in a metal show with a band that has a big following of women.
There's going to be lines at both, but there's also going to be a line of women in the men's room waiting for stalls.
That's the big benefit of urinals; you can cram more of them into the same space. Ngl, if I was a woman and going to shows, I'd carry one of those "porta jane" funnels and use the damn urinals instead of waiting for my bladder to pop
Now its up to you to do the damage of 1000 men.
I could try and get them all in a single wild stream, like an F1 victory champagne.
Was it ghost or sleep token, girls be loving those bands
Unbelievable guess! It wasn't, but she is also the world's biggest Ghost fan. She went to watch them a week or so ago and cried with happiness throughout.
Sleep token is touring soon if you want another band to take her to, tickets are kinda hard to get though (rabid fans + scalpers)
I once accompanied a teenager to one of those horse-girl movies. The auditorium was completely full, and apart from two young women who seemed to be doing it ironically, I was the only adult in the theater. During the interval, I noticed how other adults handled it: They accompany the children to the movie theater and then have two hours to enjoy a few drinks.
I always see the movie with the kids, no matter how juvenile. That way I'm more aware of what they're watching, and we can make inside jokes. Plus I didn't think I'd like Teen Titans Go until I saw the movie.
So that's why there is bar seating at Flicks Brewhouse. I could just have a 2nd pint rather than buy another movie ticket
Oh man, I hope you had hearing protection..
Oh mate, this is my favourite comment. It's about 32 hours later and my right ear is still ringing. Full on white noise. There was a point near the end of the concert where the band asked the crowd to scream as loud as they could. Fuck me, did they oblige. It was piercing.
I'm at another music venue tonight, a fraction of the size. I'm basically deaf. Last night was inescapable high pitched sound. Tonight is calming whale song in comparison.
That's a very off-putting mural for a restroom.
I don't get what's up with this picture. It looks like a normal bathroom to me. Honestly, it's surprisingly clean for a concert venue bathroom, if there's something that seems out of the ordinary here.
That's the point... There are barely any men at the specific concert.
As in its empty cause most of the bands fans are women?
Yes
Empty and pretty clean...
Why does the wall in the bathroom say "it wasn't me"?
Picture this; we were both butt naked, bangin on the bathroom floor...
Shaggy was in attendance
Don’t ask me. I didn’t write it. Wasn’t me.
Followup question: what does the mural say in the women's bathroom?
Sweet, we can compliment each others dicks
This also happened to me to back in the 90s at a Melissa Ethridge concert.
Also happened to me at an indigo girls concert
Funny enough, the biggest Indigo Girls fan I've ever met was assigned male at birth (they came out as non-binary several years ago but is still very traditionally masc presenting for reasons).
I (M) saw Sinead O'Connor in the early '90s and almost the entire audience was 13-year-old girls dressed in black who screamed every time Sinead made a weird hand gesture. Still probably the best concert I've ever been to - Sinead was a fantastic real singer and her band was tight. RIP and fuck Joe Pesci.
Which band?
Chase Atlantic
Finally a bathroom designed for people to snort coke in!
Also a great place for a quickie
Quickie? You could host an orgy in there.
I mean, I was right there
So a sausagefest. Glad you were there to bat the bats away
See that's a generational divide. Millenial women would have already co-optes that bathroom.
Well I hope they don't mind potentially seeing a dudes standing against the wall with their dicks out!
Went to a Dream Theater concert a couple months ago and it's the opposite 🤣
Was just thinking, the hardcore show I just went to was the same situation. Dream Theater prob even worse
Oh shit op be careful maybe the fbi tryna set you up. Kinda like a trap
Because they have no dividers so it's a gay venue? Or that there are no other penises in the room?
No other people. No dividers is less gay than the full dividers (full dividers is gayest because "What are you hiding?")
Splashing on my neighbor.
You don't want to trigger a sword fight.
Not relly an issue for you in this bathroom based on this pic, butt I absolutely fuckin' hate urinals without a divider. I went to go take leak, not go to an impromtu sausage party for fucks sake. Gimme some god damn privacy!
Who shares my sentiment?
Hell when I was young you didn't even get urinals, it was just a trough.
Lived in Australia for a couple years and those were super common in all sorts of public bathrooms. (schools, bars, libraries, clubs)
Basically just a wall covered in stainless steel, with a slope to a drain in the corner.
Those are still in a lot of places here in the UK. Apparently it used to be common in a lot of countries for bars in pubs to be surrounded by a gutter with a drain at one end so guys could just piss and spit without having to leave their stool. I suppose when everybody smoked indoors the smell wouldn't have been as much of a problem.
Hell, in a lot of places they still have troughs.
Wrigley Park where the Chicago Cubs play still has troughs.
They still have those in the Chinese school I was teaching in. Spotless, modern, but a trough. A really humbling experience, even after years of nightclub toilets in Ireland.
Oh damn that's rough.
I once went to a large outdoor music festival. They had these round plastic units that had urinals shaped around the outside. So you're facing each other. Whilst I was using one a guy came over and said "Isn't it great that we can piss whilst staring into the eyes of another man!"
The worst of these I have ever seen was my high school football field men's room urinal, yes singular, because it was just an old cast iron tub in the center of a bare concrete room. It wasn't uncommon to have 8-10 men and boys around it pissing at halftime. It was only replaced maybe 15 years ago.
Ugh awkward lol.
I have crippling stage fright even with a generous divider. It would be literally impossible for me to pee in this place.
Yeah when it gets super crowded I get stage fright as well.
Just get a couple of fog machines to throw up a barrier (and perhaps a few laser projectors for fun).
Who are you performing for?
You can get over it with practice. Stop avoiding what you're afraid of.
I don't care about dividers but I do hate when it's just once long trough that everybody uses. I'm so glad they stopped using them.
Last time I went to a concert at an arena (over 10 years ago at this point), I held my piss far too long to avoid the lines/trough... I finally gave in mid-set, and there was still a line. Finally got to the trough, and I dunno if it was because I held it for so long or because I was surrounded by drunk men with their dongs out, but I suddenly had shy bladder syndrome for the first time in my life... Stood their with my dick in my hand for what felt like 10 mins (probably more like 1), but nothing. I had to wait for a stall to open up and then still had like a 30 sec wait before I could actually start pissing. It was awful.
Fuck piss troughs. We should've left that shit behind like 300 years ago.
Troughs enable pooh stick races with cigarette butts.
Trough definately sounds worse.
This way when I walk in I can find an open urinal between two people, pull my pants down to my ankles, put my arms around each of them and piss without touching my dick at all.
Lol!
As a tall man the dividers are too low, I don't care if someone sees my dick, but I don't want to make eye contact.
Then stop facing sideways, ya weirdo.
They should just put the dividers up between our heads, like horse blinders.
Yeah there really is an etiquette, no eye contact being part of it.
Look at my dick if you want idc lol
Lol nice cock bro.
Lol.
Totally agree, this was my thought too! Literally doesn't take any extra space, just put dividers between the urinals...
Yeah super minor improvement that makes a big difference.
Went to see a musical recently, and I spent nearly all of the intermission trying to force my bladder to get a move on, because the dividers were so damn small and scores of men lined my peripheral vision. If I walked into this bathroom, I'd leave and hold it.
Life's too short to suffer a full bladder.
Oh yeah when it' super crowdedeis the worst!
I won't use a urinal unless it's an emergency and no other options are available. They're uncomfortable.
I remember some bar I was at once only had urinals, and I was like "what do you do if you gotta shit??". Apparently the bathroom on the bottom floor had full stalls, but still. Yuck.
I'm betting someone shit in a urinal there at some point lol.
When you're the only two guys at such an event you stand next to each other and go "nice dick bro". That's just common courtesy.
Lol!
I don't mind, when I go to such a place I've got my own business to do and let others do theirs. It's a simple natural thing I don't think about much.
Fair enough.
Same. If someone wants to see my dick, whatever; have fun.
I just don't look at other guys dicks cause I don't want to see theirs. Bathrooms aren't sexy, people taking a piss aren't sexy.
Just look ahead and do your thing, then get outta there.
I agree. I never use urinals for this reason, I will always go into a stall. Fuck urinals dude
Yeah gotta have some privacy.
Our stadiums still have the piss troughs.
About 3/4 of the game when everyone's feeling twisted all the dicks are coming out together
Sounds awkward.
100%, I don't need to hang chode with a bunch of other dudes. I'd rather piss in a bottle Amazon style.
I feel the same way.
I guess when I gotta go I gotta go. Usually don't spend long enough thinking about it because I will pee my self if I do.
That's understandable.
I used to hate urinals. Then again that's probably more of a trans woman thing
Makes sense I guess.