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Our commenting system is not working. We suspect it is We confirmed it was the fault of this large cockroach I saw over the weekend. It was atop a urinal cake at a Pasadena movie theater, calmly grooming its antennae. (Click on thumbnail for enlargement.)
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SLANDER, I tell you. SLANDER!
There's a thing - can we have a new urinal cake picture every time the comments break? It'd be a nice change from unicorns.
They should put those cockroaches in all the urinals to get people to aim straight, I know i would aim straight for that sucker.
Of course he (she?) would probably love it, freakin' cockroach!
It is a damn pity the comment system is b0rken, or I'd leave a comment about this.
/coat.
Boingboing is really lucky that they have such a super-good tech team that fixes each outage really quickly ... no matter how many there are per year ;-p
Well, what do you expect from the Academy 6 theatre?
It's kinda amazing they have the urinal cake, come to think of it.
Cripes! Don't complain about the unicorns. That only ever results in more unicorns.
No doubt what we have here is the Comment System Engineer, who does a fine job 360 days out of the year. But one little glitch in the system, and everyone is immediately ready to piss all over him for it ...
I love the roach. What a beautiful, zen like, pic. I'm actually suprised, that despite the cockroach, that urinal looks pretty clean.
I wish "cake" were never used within 20 pages of "urinal"...
I think I speak for all of us here when I ask, did you pee on the cockroach. Other considerations are secondary.
That's not a scary cockroach, this is:
http://uglyoverload.blogspot.com/2007/12/opalescent-cockroach.html
(props to uglyoverload, which all right thinking citizens endorse.)
I'm Here!!!! NOW WHERE'S MY CAKE!?!
Life went downhill rapidly for Gregor Samsa after he was thrown out of the family home.
Do you think the cockroach is thinking "It's so delicious and moist!"?
@LIZZLE: What would we call that? A urinal cake chaser?
BTW, it was a bot-controlled cockroach... (Always wondered who put the cock in cockroach. Now we know...)
Thornado: It seemed so happy there, that I didn't have the heart. I used the adjacent stall.
#12: That was posted on boingboing a few days ago...
That is one of the things I like about nature . . so Zen.
If I were that cockroach, I'd be having conniptions about how I was going to get out of there.
Best post about site status ever.
Who takes a camera into a bathroom?
Note to self: when sharing a public restroom with Mark Frauenfelder, take notice of whether or not he's got his camera out.
Just kidding. Actually, I'm having fun imagining the wacky sitcom antics that would have ensued if someone had walked in on you taking that picture. "Oh, no, I just-- there was a cockroach, and-- you see, I write for this offbeat webzine thing, so--"
"Who takes a camera into a bathroom?"
I usually set my camera (which I carry in my pocket wherever I go) on the ground outside a pubic restroom before I go inside, but this time I forgot, Bour3! And aren't you lucky I forgot this time!
Best urinal picture ever. And huzzah, Mark, for not peeing on the cockroach! How many karma points -does- one get for that?
joe holmes: I wish "cake" were never used within 20 pages of "urinal"...
The urinal is a lie
That is NOT a large cockroach. It's quite small. You don't get to brag about your cockroaches until they're an inch-and-a-half long, not including feelers. Really, two inches minimum to be remarkable.
Do urinals count as Strictly No Photography locations?
Fnarf and eih10dv65g make valid points here folks. Cockroaches that aren't big enough to be running backs are not fit for print. This is clearly an invasion of privacy. Even a cockroach deserves a bit of discretion around the porcelain.
As for blaming said CR for your techie-troubles...shame. He was dining out in the kitchen of the nearby diner, and has 2,030 eight-legged witnesses to back his alibi. This cockroach is clean!
Hmmm. Now I've always heard them referred to as "urinal mints".
I used to do an experiment at a bar I frequented. I'd lay some US cash in the bottom of the urinal and see how long it lasted. A $1 bill would sit there til doomsday, a 5$ bill would make it until 11:00, and a 10$ would be gone before my next whizz.
This hereby proves that cockroaches value currency much like humans...
Ill Lich (#4): I've seen urinals with engraved pictures of flies as "aim points"; Amsterdam Schiphol Airport seems to be the usual reference, though I think I've seen them in one of the newer terminals at JFK as well (either T1 or T4, the latter replacing the old IAB).
... And then Mark swung 'round, equipment in hand, toward the next urinal. That's when he got busted ...
That cockroach probably works for LiveUrinal.
i read a post where the guy taught his young kid to aim straight at home
hed drop a fruit loop into the toilet bowl.. and tell him to see if he could pee thru the hole
My Aussie friend was just telling me the other day that down under they're referred to as "trough lollies"
I thought that was hysterical (sorry #25)