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Americans also have a weird thing about ice in hotels/motels. I've also heard they fill urinals with ice? But pretty sure that can't be true, that's just too st
by WheatMillington 4y ago
Americans also have a weird thing about ice in hotels/motels. I've also heard they fill urinals with ice? But pretty sure that can't be true, that's just too strange and wasteful.
- icytrough 4y ago> I've also heard they fill urinals with ice? But pretty sure that can't be true, that's just too strange and wasteful. It IS true, but only really occurs in a specific context: old buildings with large icemaking capacity and trough-style urinals that are only plumbed into the sewer (i.e. no water flush capability.) It's basically optimization for a very specific local minima of "I have to run my icemaker anyway, which always has a surplus of ice at the beginning of the day, and it would cost $XXXXX to change my urinals because it would require me to bring the toilets up to code - and my customers are going to complain about losing the atmosphere..."' Admittedly, I've also occasionally seen this in places trying to fake an "old roadhouse" vibe, but those places don't tend to last. Not because they're bankrupted by the cost of ice, but because of a deeper inherent wackness.
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- iancmceachern 4y agoThey do this often at things like sporting events, concerts, bars and stadiims where you can't count on the beer drinking masses to flush the urinals and keep things decent. Putting ice in the urinals or pee troughs that older stadoums and bars have makes it so the urinal is "self flushing"
- justsomehnguy 4y agoMore important - less stinky.
- docandrew 4y agoHuh. TIL. I always figured it was just a good place to dump ice when it was done being used to cool things off.
- xadhominemx 4y agoIt keeps the smell down in high volume establishments and isn’t really wasteful because ice is extremely inexpensive.