Fake Fly in Urinal

That is sooooo cool....they would keep trying to pee on it.....lol....I can appreciate the humor in that....

I went to college in Liverpool in the 1970s and the Victorian pubs had large stand up urinals with flies glazed under the porcelain. Maybe from about 1880s. Nothing new, huh?

Well, I've been to Schiphol Airport, and I don't recall the tiles being all that clean, or there being flies in the urinals, either. But my last visit there was some years ago. It might have changed.

in germany, ive experienced urinals in several different places which have tiny goalposts and a football (sigh.... 'soccer ball') suspended from a thread. with careful aim the ball can be directed neatly into the goal. limitless fun...

I just have to ask, why do men do these things anyway? I've seen guys do that and I think it's awfully weird.

Heh.. wha'ts next? little ceramic cigarette butts?

I was in Schiphol last month, and the flies were there. I thought it was pretty clever...

Not only in Schiphol: I've seen the same model in several other places in Europe. Nearest to my home: the Woluwe Shopping Center in Brussels.

At least 10 yrs old. Next!

Why do men have such a problem getting it into the urinal?

I hear that cheerios does the same job.

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I just mentioned this story to a friend of mine who's just been travelling round the US, and he says JFK already has these fly etchings. And he did indeed automatically aim at it.

Like a few people said before, this is old news. It's pretty commonly used on public urinals in a number of European countries.

its true, i live inn amsterdam and go regurlaly through the airport

It's definitely true, Schiphol Airport has these, for quite some time actually. As do many pubs here. And it works!

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I can confirm that Terminal 4 at JFK, the international air terminal does indeed have the fly in the urinals and has since it's opening a few years ago.

I think it

Men..lol they never cease to amaze me, they still need something to amuse themselves with when they go to the bathroom. You wanna know what we WO men get? we get to read the writing on the walls, there's not much fly shootin goin on in the women's bathrooms 😕

I've seen plenty such ceramic insects over the years (and I don't make a habit of going into the gents'). More to the point, I once read somewhere, I forget where, that the Victorians liked their cultured little jokes and originally printed bees on their urinals (apis in Latin).

Are you telling me this is not a common trick throughout the whole world? These fake flies are everywhere in Dutch toilets. Some are even accompanied by real flies. Haha!

Not flies - bees. It's a pun:

The Latin for bee is apis.

What's up with all the man hatin'? So some of us like to practice our penmanship, or create little flowers and circles when we tinkle. So what? I will sometimes clean the toilet of debris when I pee. Big deal. I do think the guy that invented the fly is a real whiz...

I read of a similar device used in chamberpots and turn-of-the-last-century urinals. The only difference was they had a tiny bee rather than a fly painted on them. Such bees were known as 'aiming bees.' They were occasionally referred to as 'apis' (pronounced in the French manner). You may draw your own conclusions.

Munich airport has these as well.

I've seen the flies at Schiphol too, and some urinals in the US have Hanoi Jane urinal targets:

In Spain there are aiming SPIDERS in many public urinals and toilets. No flys or bees.

I got scared almost every time I saw one.
And until now I didn't know exactly why that sticker was there.

At work we just got some "waterless urinals" in a new bathroom, and they all have little bees in them. Would work just as well with pictures of managers. 😊

I used to use urinals like this a lot a few years ago - I was well trained: 96% accuracy. Problem is, now every time I see a fly I have an overwhelming urge to piss on it! Oh the embarrasment! I'll never be invited to a picnic again!

Waterless Co., Vista CA--the manufactures of the No-Flush waterless urinal also manufactures urinals with a fly etched in the vitreous china urinals

Who manufacture these fake urinal flies. where can I get hold of the company. I was in Schipol Airport June 2005 and took some photographs of these "flies" The men tried to close their fly's as quickly as possible, since they thought I was some sort of pervert. They were very relieved when i told them it was for a research project.

You can buy the stickers at this site:
http://www.urinalfly.com

I just found a website....www.urinalfly.com....where you can order fly stickers to place in urinals to reduce spillage and keep a cleaner bathroom. Great idea!

This is true - I see them about twice a year..

Those little bees are all over here at the University of Colorado at Boulder. They are installing new Sloan waterfree urinals everywhere and they all feature a little bee 😊

Pee on the Bee with Sloan Water Free... very clever, yeah they just installed a bunch at Broward Community College (north campus)

just return from tunisia holidaywhere i spend the last 2 days looking around searching all the toilet for this fly i saw in the urinals with fly in toilet so that i can photogragph and show it to my wife.trouble is i forgot which toilet i been and saw this fly ,so i looked in the web and found one.

I know this is a common observation, but I feel it is in error. I don't know why men have been too shy to respond with the unsavory truth, considering the nature of the critism is not kindly put forth. So here goes: The scatter around the urinal has nothing to do with aim. Every man can aim well enough. It is a "cold gun" scenario, in which the barrel is sealed shut. The first shot is wide of the target until the full pressure of the stream opens the valve completely. This may all seem a little graphic, but what the heck! I've heard the comment many times, so maybe a gross and graphic response is deserved.

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it's so normal in amsterdam, did you never see it?