Remember, most German toilets have a shelf, unlike American toilets. I have heard this is so you could inspect your deposit for worms before flushing. But it sits on that shelf and not in the water, so that's a part of the toilet where you will get splatter with #1 if your aim isn't perfect.

Ha ha ha ha pfffftt.

If you have ever shared an office toilet with somebody with bad aim, you would wish that they would learn to sit.

Now this peeing in the shower thing is sick because showers (Pre-Code or Non-Code) don't have the traps or siphon path that keeps smells from back up.

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-norfolk-29552557

When my brother got out of the Navy he came to visit and did pee in the shower, and I do not think let the water run much after. I had to pour bleach down the drain to get the smell out. Is that how they pee on a submarine?

Edited for clarification for building I once lived in.

There are a bunch of man card violations going on here.

I don't know if that's STILL the case, but it certainly was when I was stationed there in the late 80's / early 90's. When a buddy told you he was checking out a private apartment to rent "on the economy" first question always asked was "shelf or no shelf?"

It was kind of nasty sometimes to watch the water splash up against the hefty you lefty in an attempt to push it off the shelf and down the pipe. Sometimes it needed an assist :eek:

Peeing in the middle of the night is acceptable. Otherwise, for any healthy, self-respecting dude, no.

I'm pretty sure anything connected to the sewer line has a trap. It's code where I live.

Definitely, or you'd smell "sewer gas" coming out of the drain all the time.

For sure. The sewer gasses would roll up from it otherwise. Gotta have a water trap.

I've always installed traps in showers, holding the slippery PVC while the glue sets is an art you want to get right the first time.

I was thinking of the old buildings that I've lived in that were built before building codes.

Oh, and just because something is in the code or not disallowed by the code does not mean it gets done or should be done that way.

Aside, I read that some high-rise apartment buildings in the old USSR were build without drain and sewer traps, they were living hell, only way to live there - lots of vodka.

Any shower that has no trap would smell like a sewage treatment plant. Urine smell would not be a problem as the other stink would overwhelm the nose. No American would buy a house that smelled like an outhouse. The health department in any state would shut down the occupancy permit of any house like that and for valid reasons.

I guess if you built your own house in an area with no building codes of any sort it would be possible to do, but really stupid to save the dollar in parts to add in a trap.

I wonder if "sewer gas" would be a fire hazard in enough concentration. Methane & all that.