Comments on: You gotta love a story that involves a love triangle, astronauts, adult diapers and pepper spray

By: Dennis

Dennis — Wed, 07 Feb 2007 17:01:53 +0000

Hell, Frumious B, we should just issue them to all women, since 'it is a human right not to have to sit down like a girl.' Also, I think what you're looking for is called the P-Mate. Although, women need not resort to such devices to succeed at standing urination... at it really requires is a steady hand and maybe a practice run or two in the shower.

By: Ledasmom

Ledasmom — Wed, 07 Feb 2007 15:31:43 +0000

I am thinking of the Museum of Science exhibit on space technology; the section on bathrooms was titled, “In Space, No One Can Hear You Flush”.

By: Frumious B

Frumious B — Wed, 07 Feb 2007 15:18:54 +0000

Someone makes these tube thingies for women that let them pee like a man. I don’t know what they are called, but there’s a cup-like portion which goes over the vulva and then a tube, essentially giving you a fake weiner with which to write your name (maybe not in outer space, though.) These things should be standard issue for females in bathroom-limited situations – astronauts, fighter pilots, soldiers, etc.

By: Dennis

Dennis — Wed, 07 Feb 2007 15:07:00 +0000

Anyone reminded of Upright Citizen’s Brigade? “Oh, it’s a very good neighborhood… no dirty astronauts.”

By: zuzu

zuzu — Wed, 07 Feb 2007 14:11:07 +0000

Knowing all this sort of got me over my Flight Suit = HOT thing…

I wonder if that's what Commander Codpiece was packing.

By: Hawise

Hawise — Wed, 07 Feb 2007 13:59:15 +0000

tinfoil hattie- I think we all realize that we are one synapse away from doing something equally ludicrous but still- driving 950 miles in adult diapers to attack a woman who has just flown out of the city that you started in. That is taking ludicrous to levels that boggle the mind.

By: tinfoil hattie

tinfoil hattie — Wed, 07 Feb 2007 13:38:08 +0000

Why in the world do you people think that the mental breakdown of a woman is funny? Are you in 7th grade, or something?

Shame on you.

By: Kat

Kat — Wed, 07 Feb 2007 12:43:18 +0000

And just one other thing on that…

Knowing all this sort of got me over my Flight Suit = HOT thing…

By: Kat

Kat — Wed, 07 Feb 2007 12:41:20 +0000

The paranoid side of me thinks that this lackof facilities on fighterjets remains in spite of female pilots, serving to belittle them and to discourage other females from becoming fighterpilots.

Yeah, I’ve wondered about that too. Men do seem to have a certain advantage here, being able to pee into a bottle from a sitting position. I’m trying to imagine doing that as a woman and can’t quite figure it out. The depends seem the way to go.

There does seems to be an equal lack of opportunity for …. uh… number 2… blech. I asked my friend what he does about that, and he sort of gave me that end-of-conversation look so I have no information on that… ;)

By: shoppista

shoppista — Wed, 07 Feb 2007 09:57:32 +0000

Poor NASA. This is the most press they’ve gotten in YEARS.