Urinal Cakes: Why?
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- čas přidán 28. 03. 2016
- If you happen to be a frequenter of urinals, odds are you’ve seen one that has a little block at the bottom of it. But what does it do and why are you peeing on it?!
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wait... WE'RE NOT SUPPOSE TO EAT THEM?!!!
+Pikapetey
Urinal Cakes are not the same as Lu Biscuits.
+R3Testa wait, wait, wait. are you saying that i shouldn't have thought they were biscuits? and eaten many of them?
+R3Testa OMG I was waiting for this comment
+Pikapetey your profile pic fits
+Pikapetey i happen to like paradichlorobenzene cakes, thank you, i will eat them if i like
only after watching this video did i realize it really has no relevancy to my life, thats a sign of a good video style.
Thank you for this PSA. I've been eating urinal cakes for years now but this video has given me the motivation to stop.
What do you say to eggs, flour and sugar? "You're in all cakes."
What do you say to paradichlorobenzene? "Urinal cakes."
+Master Therion *Slow clap* ...Well done
Cody Erlanger no you're wrong.
Master Therion I
nor sugar
Michael Aranda's voice is so soothing. You're talking to me about Urinal cakes, why do I feel so at peace?
And he's nice to look at!!!
Well, when a woman likes a man, she sometimes gets these certain urges... sit down and let me tell you about the birds and the bees...
+Trista Peets This has nothing to do with Michael, you just love urinal cakes, accept yourself and live your life to the fullest.
+rhemorigher My secret shame D:
+Panther God www.google.com.au/search?q=why+do+women+die+during+childbirth&sourceid=ie7&rls=com.microsoft:en-AU:IE-Address&ie=&oe=&gfe_rd=cr&ei=fLb8VsKsI7HM8gfFr7-IDg
I was a Supply Sgt. The urinal cakes had warnings that they were hazardous to marine life. They were the only item that had this specific warning.
Soooo... The urinal cake is a lie?
No...
+Corvus Dammit, I was just about to comment the same thing!
I wonder all the people who say this have even played portal one.
+No... yes?
+Corvus brilliant
this guy and Hank could do a voice swap and i'd barely noticeable. His voice is literally a softer, slightly deeper version of Hank's
*notice
yeah, got used to him.
+Nick Kromer And half the speed.
Hank always talks like he just ran 4 miles and is out of breath. It's so irritating
+ayo_gsc he's just excited to be dropping knowledge on you
As a girl who had no idea what a urinal cake was, I was very disppointed by this video
Lol
Thing is those dawn things don't work at all and then you have those assholes that pee on them on purpose which splashes piss all over the place.
Those things always smell worse than pee.
Yeah..
+rockinstrawberries its a cake looking thing in a urinal
Disappointed? What did you actually expect?
What's up with birth marks?
yes yes yes
Get this to the top!
This one's for all the other girls who thought that white bar in the porta-potties was soap.
@PATH LIGHT TRIPWIRE why do you call your right hand stupid? Also how fat are you to have an ass on your hand?
What? It's a deodorizer? I thought it was in there for target practice!
+renaissanceexodus Lol same.......I thought it as the urinal's way of saying "Pee here"
renaissanceexodus I want the job aiding in this research!
What do you do for a living? "Drink beer and piss all day."
This channel always seems to answer questions I didn't know I had. So, thanks!
Well, this is ridiculous. When is science going to produce a urinal cake we can eat?
just put a regular cake in the urinal
What kind of frosting do you put on it?
0:15
Not really cakes? Then what the fuck did I just...?
Nevermind...
You're a female aren't you
+Dan Chen It's a joke .-.
+Uzumaki Tak Their comment was going along with your joke. =)
Sadly scishow is starting to lose ideas like buzzfeed
excuse you
Hmmm?
ikr
+Johnny Huynh that can't 'lose' ideas when they get asked them in the first place...
shun the non believer
Wait, I need red blood cells? Shit, I threw those out.
+Zero: Dragon of the Void Really? I switched mine with green-yellow-striped with purple-orange polka-dot blood cells.
Wait, those are 14% less effective than chartreuse blood cells?
+Ganaram Inukshuk i feel like you tried too hard
+ghostangel828 ^
+Zero: Dragon of the Void ....and this channel as 3, 225,553 subscribers... -_-
same from my wrists
"When it's ingested..."
This begs the question, who the hell is eating urinal cakes made of mothballs?
"Ingesting" is another word for "entering the body", so when you smell it, those particles enter your body.
Uzumaki Tak ingestion is eating or drinking. Breathing it in through your nose would be inhalation.
+mickeybill In the common vocabulary, yeah. But we are not talking about macroscopic stuff, but microscopic particles that can be inhaled.That can be called "ingested" too.
I thought everyone was... guess I'm the only one who does that :(
My first roommate in college ate part or all of one (and hos friends filmed it)...he was a fan of Jackass or whatever that stupid show about the idiot was called.
"they're not really cakes".......fu#k...
still tasty tho :)
Mmmmm. Urinal cake.
"Here's a pro-tip for ya, they're not really cakes. . . "
Urinal Cakes are also fun to aim at!
I know it's like target practice
accorden Oh noes.
+Moonbeam and some guys still manage to miss. ever been to the bathroom at a theater after a movie? piss everywhere
vic cobb Yep. I feel bad for the people who work there.
Moonbeam i know :(
If you're not drinking enough water... Urine trouble!
+Kalibur Kitty If you find money on the floor in a bathroom... Urine luck!
top notch puns
+AlanTheDuck1 I would never lift money in a public bathroom floor, specially when it's near urinals.
This one really takes the cake
+James Craver Nice Kurzgesagt bird!
+New American Fishkeeper Thank you :)
Only about 50% of the audience will even know what this video is about.
When you realize everything causes cancer. Welp, I guess with all these new carcinogens my odds of getting cancer are like over 9000% at this point.
This guy got cancer and he peed on a urinal block. That must be what caused it!
Even oxygen causes cancer! Sadly this is true. They're called free radicals :/
+RiskyPanther And you're now a super saiyan cancer !
"Do not eat the blue mint!"
His delivery in this video is particularly smooth and melodious.
A lot of Women are probably going wtf.
+DigitalYojimbo Maybe. The top comment seem to suggest so.
I had no idea I needed those pesky red blood cells...
Right? I thought they were useless
I thought I had heard of Paradichlorobenzene before so I looked it up, turns out it's also a Vocaloid song! O-O
When he mentioned paradichlorobenzene I had a sudden flashback of my vocaloid weeaboo days.
You've gotten much better at the whole hosting thing since a couple years ago
what actually happens when you have a headache?
There's many types of headaches
There's many types of headaches
There's many types of headaches
Explain..ALL of them!!
There's many types of headaches
They're not really cakes. I found out about slang terms the hard way. Kind of like when I tried dating a cougar.
So many scratches....
It's all I get for my birthday anymore.
Paradichlorobenzene? Like the vocaloid song?
+Sputony thought of that too
So, I have to wonder who asked this question. Who saw a urinal cake and was confused by its purpose
Can you do a video on restless leg syndrome? I've been finding it difficult to sleep the last month because I just can't lay still long enough.
***** Google Restless Leg Syndrome, then come back.
***** I just mean, it can occur anywhere in the body, it's just most common in the legs. I feel it in my legs and arms and when I do finally get to sleep I constantly wake myself up by sitting up.
+6Twisted That can come from having withdrawals. Have you quit drinking or smoking or doing drugs in the last month? Or hell why not start drinking and smoking and doing drugs, that should knock you right out at night. But I'm no doctor.
raiderhaterhater Not to sound boring but I don't drink, smoke or do drugs. I've had RLS on and off since I was a child.
6Twisted You don't sound boring man, you don't drink or anything, thats cool. I was just joking around with the whole drugs thing. But when i quit smoking a few years back i had a hard time sleeping for a while. Hope you find some answers.
I really like the writing for this vid. A++
That thumbnail had me rolling, haha.
Am I the only one that just uses the stalls regardless if urinals are free? I just like it better.
Also, I have a question: So I've heard of all the bad endings to the universe, but are there any good solutions, or better outcomes? All of it seems bleak with no chance of the universe continuing, which is a very depressing thought.
+cusson27 I think the current plan is more or less to put if off. Normally that's a bad idea, but when even the soonest end-of-the-world that's likely to happen happens, which I think is the sun expanding too much, it's still a couple billion years off. Current scientists I think are assuming we'll either lose pretty everything to a lesser apocalypse like a meteor, are devoured by a rogue A.I, or become gods by that point.
+cusson27 Big crunch maybe? Everything gets sucked in by gravity to form a black hole, then Big Bang goes boom again?
I know that the world will end, I'm speaking universe. But thank you any ways Jeremy. :)
Yummy, I love to eat cakes.
Oh sh*t, I just peed on one.
What a Weird B-day Party.
They also help prevent buildup in urinal drain lines. I've had to unclog lines on urinals that didn't have puvks. It wasn't pretty.
Kidney stones all the way down?
My school finally started used them this year. The bathrooms smell SO much better now!
Did you guys get Yoda to write the title for this one?
they just used proper grammer.
+Jesse Daye .... *grammar.... not grammer.
+jadyn reynolds I never said I knew how to use it. only that SciShow did. I fucking suck at spelling and shit.
spilling"
I love pee
...
+Matthew Li I love it when I pee. Relief is a nice feeling.
+Matthew Li are you related to bear grylls?
Better love story than twilight
+Matthew Li I like the letter P.
Such a smooth voice in this video
~Pa-ra-zji-ku-ru-ben-zen~
*Sings to the vocaloid song "Paradichlorobenze"*
Is it Canadian of me to refer to those as urinal "pucks"
This was so hard to get it by your own that you asked scishow to answer it???
+Johnny “Walker” Kat People pay to have these answered so what ever. At this point I think people are asking questions for the hell of it just so scishow will talk about it.
+Redmoonblade if they pay at least just ask something that matters not why wee have hair in out asses or thus?
Oh I am thinking of a real depth charge of a question to ask them. I normally dont give people money to answer question when google can do it for free. So my question has to have some bite to it for the sake of amusement.
it's not like any of these qqs couldn't be looked up. We just like hearing the scishow gents talk.
I'm a chemist and just by looking at the molecule of paradichlorobenzene I raised a brow thinking "wait naphthalene is considered carcinogenic and this thing is not? " benzene ring was the very first (at least one the first) substance ever to be considered carcinogenic.
fun fact naphthalene is also used as the bug repellent for woollen cloths when they're stored.
+Bakerygo - _"bug repellent for woollen cloths when they're stored."_ Yes... Moth balls. He said so IN the video.
oh ok sorry
A plumber told me the urinal cakes are to dissolve the uric salts which can clog the plumbing resulting in an extremely difficult clog to get rid of. I may not be remembering it just right, but the point is they are for preventing clogs in the plumbing. I think any odor fighting function is secondary. Perhaps it depends on the type and expense of the "cake".
according to melman...they are free breath mints.
I'm beginning to think that life itself is carcinogenic.
+Condḗu̯i̯os Andīlíχtos Did you know star light is carcinogenic? So is sun light. To exist is to be carcinogened.
Maokai Hecarim Well thank goodness I never take my shirt off when I'm outside!
I like the light positioned just so, as to show off your hair
You Scishow guys and gals deserve fresh cakes! FRESH CAKES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I thought this was common knowledgr
+AdventureThroughLife To guys, maybe. But I sure didn't know about this. And I'm sure you didn't know that urinal cakes are possibly carcinogenic. See? Everybody learns!
+AdventureThroughLife Not me. I didn't even give the "Urinal Cakes" (Never knew they were called that) a second thought when I went to a restroom. The more you know.
The cake is a lie...
But the urinal cake is not...
I love them when there are these in the multi-person type urinals - you can play piss hockey with them.
Umm... Still detained.
I have always wondered this!
I hate those things, piss bounces off it and onto your clothes/legs.
Can you do "commonly believed science myth's"? Or a episode on a in depth the food chain? The smallest organisms? I would also like to see stuff on dinosaurs, like the bite force of a tee rex or how some animals got blood up to there head when they had long necks, OR HOW SOME ANIMALS HAD TWO BRAINS, AND HOW THEY WORKED?
I agree, that would be a really cool miniseries.
Hey, just to go back to one of your videos from a long time ago:
Are we ever getting the part 2 of your cryptography video?
Best frickin' pro tip ever.
why do I have hair on my earlobe
+Nathan Fu No particular reason, pretty much for the same reason you have fine hairs everywhere else on your body; we had much hairier ancestors, and there's no evolutionary pressure to completely eliminate these useless follicles.
Oh, come on SciShow... I was expecting you to explain how the urine reacts with the cake.
+Adi Serghei Next video: "Urine REACT: Cake"
It essentially doesn't. They're made so the urine flows away and they can get on with slowly evaporating.
Video summary, "DO NOT EAT URINAL CAKES". Thanks SciShow, I don't know what I would do without you.
Happy birthday mr. Urinal, happy birthday to you 🌬🤚🏻💋
The trick is to suck on them like a mint, that way you don't break your teeth.
Here an absolutely vital question: Do animals kiss?
+HazardousTeam yeah I kiss all the time.
+Mongis Lort Fuck should have predicted this.
*Do other animals apart from humans and Mongis Lort kiss?
Some animals mouth feed idk
+Dylete Thanks bro great insight, my question has been answered.
HazardousTeam Cows do kiss. Are you going to rearrange your question again and write fuck everywhere? Jeez.
Nice job on GMM!
So can I still eat it?
yes
+Daniel Kevin Debideen He said towards the end they cause cancer.
+6Twisted That doesnt prevent anyone from physically ingesting it.
Divine Linker That wasn't his question.
6Twisted Yes it was. He didnt ask if it is safe to eat it.
I'm a guy. You can tell from my thumbnail. You want proof guys are gross? Two words. Urinal Puddles. These are the little puddles of "moisture" on the floor in front of many urinals.
Guys, you've got a wide open receptacle right in front of you. It's just about impossible to miss if you take two seconds, step up to it, and try not to miss. For crying out loud, stop peeing on the floor!
+Rick Seiden lmao, I cannot fathom why people leave a puddle on the floor. Sometimes I believe it's on purpose.... I mean, the urinal is right there, even if you left the accuracy of your stream to random chance, it would be a lot easier to get a yahtzee than missing. I think they try to be clever: "I bet I get it from here! 50 cm (a foot and a half) is my record!"
How is this actually a question?
And is the suggestion to not eat them is at all necessary?
We did a chem lab with Paradichlorobenzene earlier this year. All the guys just kinda went with the smell, and all the girls who were unfamiliar with it were a little less ok after the lab.
Asparagus makes my urine smell, and vice versa.
Antifoul Awl XD
Antifoul Awl no shit
Paradichlorobenzene!! Yo, anyone else know that song? It’s one of my favorite vocaloid songs of all time. I always wondered what it was!
Everyone needs to take a bite out of one of them at least once in their life time. The experience is unforgettable.
I just got a fortune cookie that said "there is a very special cake waiting for you soon"
I like his hair... Am I tho only one?
No.
+Calvin Gall everybody loves the zebra stripe
...I just pee on the ground and watch it run down the street... ;>)
You did not address a question I've had for most of my life about urinal cakes: Do they melt and decompose to then look as if someone stepped on them? When I was in primary school all the boys were called to an assembly by the principal who asked who was stepping on them. No one fessed up and if I remember it right we all got detention for one recess.
QUESTION- why do I cough during and after I drink a smoothie or like a malt or something cold?
You should also cover the microbial cakes that are used in no flush urinals.
my father had head injury and there's a blood on the brain and I like to know how long the recovery will take...?
When I read the title, I thought it meant 'cakes made from urine, why?' Like some experimental thing. I usually see the blocks as a blue blob stuck to the back or a chalky yellow lump in the bottom. Also, what's a mothball?
this is relevant for making Storm Glasses. Turns out a lot of stuff sold as Camphor is, in fact, PCB and it doesn't work nearly as well in the reaction.
I saw the title and I was like the hell man what's happening
Paradichlorobenzene? I love that song!
"Hey, look, someones left perfectly good mints in the bathroom"
We used to use urinal pucks to help with the smell in the hospital I worked at. We had a guy with a really bad abscess (which smelled like a rotting corpse) and a nurse who was allergic to the deodorizing spray we had, so we had to isolate him in the tuberculosis room and put wet urinal pucks throughout the ER.
it's usually girls who stink like that
Urinal cake and ice cream for your birthday party.
Why do some higher end restaurants use ice chips in the urinals rather than the "urinal cakes"? Is it just for aesthetics or does it serve a particular purpose?
While we're on the subject of public restrooms, why do I enjoy reading (most of) the things people write on the walls/door? Is it out of pure boredom or is there a more in-depth reason?
+Kezajaws you could generalize that question to "why do I feel the sudden urge to read seemingly pointless stuff once I sat down on the toilet seat?"
+egalomon who sits on public toilet seats
"They're not really cakes?" I guess you could say ... the cake is a lie.
I refuse to apologize for that joke.
Why do we get white stains or circles in our nails? Is it related to nutrition?
Eat a cake filled with microscopic ninja stars? Nope.
This was a triumph!
+Darthane I'm making a note here, huge success
Kindergarten teacher: tHeY aReN't MoNsTeRs, DoN't FrEaK oUt
is it un-safe to spend all day in a space with one of these, even the newer ones?
Placing sodium cakes in a dry location in a urinal generates more excitement for the unknowing user when the pee hits it.