Male aim

Ladies, you may not be aware of this, but in recent years the fiendishly difficult task of peeing INTO a urinal, instead of all over the floor AROUND it, has been made more manageable - and in an ingenious way:

If boys have something to pee on - say a cigarette butt, a coin or a dead fly - their aim becomes much better. Urinal manufacturers have taken advantage of this by printing a small picture near the drain of the urinal. Usually it's a fly, but I recently saw a cute one with a little candle picture instead.

It all started in Amsterdam's Schiphol airport, when an enterprising PhD student studied the efficiency improvement (and associated reduction in cleaning costs) of putting a picture of a fly in the urinals there. I remember my joy at first seeing this little bit of useful art in - ooh, it must have been 1997.