Yay
If you gotta go, you gotta go – and why not when you’re conveniently in a location with a drain and soap? Before my opponent suggests this: no, it is not a slippery slope into pissing in the sink.
Frankly, I don’t see why it’s an issue. If I’m busting to pee before hopping in the shower, I’m not going to naked dash to the toilet (it’s in a separate room in my flat) for some weird social construct. Isn’t it the rule that when you’re by yourself you don’t have to abide by that sort of bullshit? That’s why everyone loves solo road trips or having the flat to yourself for the weekend. You can do the weird individual behaviour that, if done in front of anyone else, would trigger a side eye.
Peeing in the shower is fine except for the occasion when you’re inviting a special someone in for a steamy session – that would just be gross. Unless you’re into that sort of thing. Not my cup of tea personally, but I’m not judging.
Y’all are perfectly happy to piss everywhere else. Students will piss anywhere after a couple cheeky Cleanskin Savs. O-Week in North Dunedin is one big game of hopping over streams of piss from alleyways (detty pigs). I’m not saying I haven’t been there (please don’t ask my friends about one first-year occasion involving a tree in the Octagon), all I’m saying is have some self-awareness if you’re going to screw your nose up at a clean, private behaviour while you’re out there dangling your bits in the breeze like a dog marking its territory.
Nay
“If you gotta go, you gotta go” is not a justification for pissing in the shower. Shame on you. Am I the only one that believes we, as adults, should be capable of either (a) making sure the tank isn’t about to overflow before our shower time, or (b) urinating afterwards?
I mean, I’m a big fan of autonomy, free will, all that good stuff, but this is an outrageous abuse of these! Sure, you’re not hurting anyone by adding your own flow of liquid to the mix, per se, but I imagine those you share your shower with wouldn’t be stoked about it.
If we're normalising pissing in the shower, then where does it stop? Are you degenerates gonna piss in the kitchen sink next? Doesn't that fit your agenda too? I hear shower-piss defenders say that it's fine because “it gets washed down the drain”, so by that logic, sink pissing is fine too, right? No, absolutely not, and I'm sure we can all agree on that.
By principle, piss doesn't go down drains, unless that drain is designed for that exact purpose, and those are called urinals, chat.
Bottom line is, if you pee in the shower, have some shame, and try to remember that you're an adult now and can (hopefully) control your bladder. You're not an animal, buddy. Act accordingly.