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Well, gee, let's all just rush out and buy some for him.
Seaboe
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Is anyone else disturbed by the picture of him urinating? I mean, I feel bad for the guy and all...but I didn't need to see a picture!
quote: I hate carrying around a pee soaked towel all day. I sometimes throw it away.
But just sometimes...other times he carries it around no matter HOW soaked it is.
I do feel bad for him, though...and we have a whole butt load of old towels that I'll probably send his way.
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I don't know... for some reason I'm getting a "my friends took a picture of me peeing and posted it on the 'net with my name and address" vibe from it.
Didn't anyone ever tell this guy about the portable urinal bottles? Wouldn't one of those be a better investment than a stack of towels?
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I didn't see the pics, I stopped them from loading. But my husband is in a wheelchair and I don't think he has a problem with public bathrooms.
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I can't speak for the men's rooms, but the ladies rooms always have grab bars on both sides.
Dawn--always remember to take a towel!--Storm
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Maybe I am a dork, and the site might be some sort of strange joke, but I kind of want to mail him a towel.
On the other hand, I can see someone creating that site as a prank to get people to send a bunch of towels to someone who has no idea what is going on.
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quote:Originally posted by Tootsie Plunkettios: A towel? Depends.
Groan. And don't tell me you didn't mean it that way!
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I mentioned this to my husband and he said he'd like to know why the guy is in a wheelchair. Like if he's paralyzed or has some other problem.
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Why is he in a bar all day when he has a problem with his towel supply? I don't think this is real and I sure as hell aren't sending him a towel.
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Interesting little point here from my husband. He says if the guy is paralyzed, he'd most likely being using a cathiter(sp).
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Instead of sending towels, someone should buy this guy a Stadium Pal, made (in)famous by David Sedaris!
quote:It was my search for something discreet, masculine, and practical that led me to the Stadium Pal, an external catheter currently being marketed to sports fans, truck drivers, and anyone else who’s tired of searching for a bathroom. At first inspection, the device met all my criteria. Was it masculine? Yes, and proudly so. Knowing that no sensible female would ever voluntarily choose to pee in her pants, the manufacturers went ahead and designed the product exclusively for men. Unlike a regular catheter, which is inserted directly into the penis, the Stadium Pal connects by way of a self-adhesive condom, which is then attached to a flexible plastic tube. Urine flows through the tube and collects in the “Freedom Leg Bag,” conveniently strapped to the user’s calf. The bag can be emptied and reused up to twelve times, making it both disgusting and cost-effective. Was it discreet? According to the brochure, unless you wore it with shorts, no one needed to know anything about it. Was it practical? At the time, yes. I don’t drive or attend football games, but I did have a book tour coming up, and the possibilities were endless. Five glasses of iced tea followed by a long public reading? Thanks, Stadium Pal. The window seat on an overbooked cross-country flight? Don’t mind if I do!
quote:Originally posted by Tootsie Plunkettios: Instead of sending towels, someone should buy this guy a Stadium Pal, made (in)famous by David Sedaris!
quote:It was my search for something discreet, masculine, and practical that led me to the Stadium Pal, an external catheter currently being marketed to sports fans, truck drivers, and anyone else who’s tired of searching for a bathroom. At first inspection, the device met all my criteria. Was it masculine? Yes, and proudly so. Knowing that no sensible female would ever voluntarily choose to pee in her pants, the manufacturers went ahead and designed the product exclusively for men. Unlike a regular catheter, which is inserted directly into the penis, the Stadium Pal connects by way of a self-adhesive condom, which is then attached to a flexible plastic tube. Urine flows through the tube and collects in the “Freedom Leg Bag,” conveniently strapped to the user’s calf. The bag can be emptied and reused up to twelve times, making it both disgusting and cost-effective. Was it discreet? According to the brochure, unless you wore it with shorts, no one needed to know anything about it. Was it practical? At the time, yes. I don’t drive or attend football games, but I did have a book tour coming up, and the possibilities were endless. Five glasses of iced tea followed by a long public reading? Thanks, Stadium Pal. The window seat on an overbooked cross-country flight? Don’t mind if I do!
I'll be d*mned. You don't know how many times I've seriously thought about developing something very similar. Usually on the long drives between Colorado and Arkansas. I think the idea is based on the "piddle packs" that fighter pilots wear for long flights.
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Yeah, I looked at the thread in martha's post. Looking at the photo posted on page 1, really carefully, you can tell this guy has his shoes up against his feet, not on them. Then he had the shoes positioned at odd angles so his feet/ankles look deformed. Unless he goes around all day with his feet dragging the ground. I'm voting hoax, all the way.
If he was paraplegic, he would most likely have a catheter (if this is his wheelchair, he's probably a quadriplegic--the controls by his right arm are for someone who doesn't have much control over their arms).
Can't make much sense out of why he would do this, tho...
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quote:Originally posted by Menolly: Unless he goes around all day with his feet dragging the ground.
I knew a man who used a wheelchair and his feet drug around on the floor. I don't kow why he never used a foot rest, but *shrug*
Maybe he has some kind of condition that won't let him use a cathater. But really, there are still tons of options beside that. Maybe he just wants to see how many people will send towels.
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I have a very dear friend that had been hit by a van. Rendered his whole one side pretty useless and the side that worked was rather uncordinated. He has a caregiver 24/7 and they have a code when he has to urinate. When he's out they use those ziploc bags. The good sealing ones. The caregiver can then dispose of them...no messy cleanup.
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Well I say we all wait until Towel Day and then send him a towel.
Xia (Don't forget your towel!)
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So the guy can't help himself in the bathroom and needs our towels? Seems like a senseless joke to me. Who would be willing to give a guy money for towels?
Maybe if it was a real site like "I'm handicapped and need money for my rehab to walk again" versus the towel bit and a bit more paragraphs to explain his ordeal, we'd be willing to donate for his cause.
Maybe if he opened a "Holohan" foundation with a couple million dollars to help wheelchairers get around to cases like the bathroom.
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quote:Originally posted by Tootsie Plunkettios: Instead of sending towels, someone should buy this guy a Stadium Pal, made (in)famous by David Sedaris!
quote:Was it masculine? Yes, and proudly so. Knowing that no sensible female would ever voluntarily choose to pee in her pants, the manufacturers went ahead and designed the product exclusively for men.
Not so. There's a Stadium Gal advertised on that site too. Although I somewhat suspect they simply took the same promo pages from Stadium Pal without updating them. On the Gal page: "Other users include- Traveling, Flying, Hunting and Fishing, Aviators, Concerts, Physical Therapy, Pub Crawling, And Long Distance Motorcycle Riders"
Uh yeah. Real good targetted marketing there.
(Don't flame me and say girls do those things. I know some girls do some of those things. But let's face it, it's still a distinctly male activities list - *in general*.)
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quote:Originally posted by Menolly: Unless he goes around all day with his feet dragging the ground.
I knew a man who used a wheelchair and his feet drug around on the floor. I don't kow why he never used a foot rest, but *shrug*
Maybe he has some kind of condition that won't let him use a cathater. But really, there are still tons of options beside that. Maybe he just wants to see how many people will send towels.
No direct personal experience with this option, but it was mentioned in my college education (microbiology - took a lot of medical-related courses) and a fellow member of a support group I went to vouched for its effectivity (he personally changed out one for his disabled wife): there's the possibility of a suprapubic catheterization (through the lower abdomen into the bladder, and the area must be cleaned with a new catheter inserted every few days) that could easily prevent any problems, even if a "more routine" catheterization couldn't be done for whatever reason. It may be a more extreme option, but it would definitely be better than continually soiling donated towels.
ETA: Sorry for the extremely long run-on sentence - I'm not usually that bad
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quote:Not so. There's a Stadium Gal advertised on that site too. Although I somewhat suspect they simply took the same promo pages from Stadium Pal without updating them. On the Gal page: "Other users include- Traveling, Flying, Hunting and Fishing, Aviators, Concerts, Physical Therapy, Pub Crawling, And Long Distance Motorcycle Riders"
Uh yeah. Real good targetted marketing there.
(Don't flame me and say girls do those things. I know some girls do some of those things. But let's face it, it's still a distinctly male activities list - *in general*.)
Well, yeah, but... the sort of girls that one would market such a product to would probably be more likely to do the above activities. I can't imagine you'd need a "Stadium Gal" for the more "feminine" activities of gardening, shopping, tea parties or sewing. Not to mention, I would think most ultra-feminine girly-girls would be repulsed by the notion of such a contraption. In short, I'd say they were aware of their target market. JMHO
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It's a cool frood who knows where his towel is.
I'm guessing this was a drunken joke to see how many towels this guy could collect. Sort of a "you can find anything on the internet....let's see if we can find people to send us towels."
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Does he actually use the towels as described? I have no way of knowing without meeting him face to face, but I suspect that it is real.
I have located legal proceedings from the state of Virginia having to do with the divorce of Sharon Yvonne Holohan and John Joseph Holohan, Jr. One of lines in the text describes a child over eighteen that was diagnosed with cerebral palsy and required continuing care and support. The date of the action would be about right for someone claiming to be 23 year old (as he does on the website). Also, the document indicates that as part of the settlement Sharon received the marital residence, referred to as the Broad Run property. The giveatowel.com domain name was registered in January of this year to a John Holohan, with a Broad Run address.
The person named on the website seems to be a bit of an entrepreneur. In March of 2004 Holohan registered the domain name www.johnkerryforprez.com, thinking that he might capitalize on the popularity of the then Democratic front-runner, John Kerry. His motives were not political, however. He used the Web address to sell long- distance phone plans, calling cards and other communications services. He was quoted as saying, "For whatever reason, I thought, this is going to rock, people are going to stumble onto this and they're going to buy something." Seven months later, he had yet to make a single sale, and now that site is no longer in existence.
I do wonder about the towel story, though. There are several alternatives for the described facility problem, including a catheter, portable urinal bottle, a heavy-duty zip lock bag, and even a commercial device known as the Stadium Pal ("when you gotta go but you wanna stay").
If someone sent this to you in the form of an e-mail chain letter, I wold suggest to you that there is really no excuse to forward any e- mail chain letter to other people. And, if this was the case, I would hope that you would just delete it and not pass it on to others.
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I'm in a wheelchair and I've worn the penis sheath, tube and bag set-up. It works and is cheap. I feel like sending him one. If I find out he's goofing, I'll send him a full one.
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LMAO skippytoe, sounds like something my husband would do.
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This dude came to the Straight Dope boards, and posed as someone else, posting a link to his website, and said, "Do you think this is real?"
The mods investigated and found out it was him, the owner of the site and "banned his ass".
Why not just use paper towels? Or just buy a bunch of cheap ones?
ETA: better yet, why not just use plastic bags? He could just reuse grocery bags if he's that hard up for cash.
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quote: This dude came to the Straight Dope boards, and posed as someone else, posting a link to his website, and said, "Do you think this is real?"
Hmmm...and the OP is a first post for giblee. I wonder...
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quote:Originally posted by Guinastasia: This dude came to the Straight Dope boards, and posed as someone else, posting a link to his website, and said, "Do you think this is real?"
The mods investigated and found out it was him, the owner of the site and "banned his ass".
Why not just use paper towels? Or just buy a bunch of cheap ones?
ETA: better yet, why not just use plastic bags? He could just reuse grocery bags if he's that hard up for cash.
Wait a minute, how do we know you aren't him?
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