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Male Restroom Etiquette

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This video is ten minutes long, far longer than most men will ever spend in a public men's room, but it covers some fairly important points -- like why you shouldn't talk in there, or where you should piss when given a choice of several urinals.

And it's funny.

We're certain that women have their own public-facilities rules that probably aren't as blatantly based in homophobia as this, so we await that film when it's released. So to speak.

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