We have a bar set, can anyone exceed it?
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Unbelievable.
If only it really were unbelievable.
That's sure a lot of flying for someone with aspirations to drive 2,000,000 miles. But hey, why not buy the entourage holiday flights when you have $29,000 in liquid cash assets?
It's actually 26,000 now, car expenses hot me hard this year. But I rarely fly. My last flight was over 9 years ago. Charlotte was originally going to be a road trip but I changed my mind.
So, all this bouncing around on flights when a trip behind the wheel would have likely taken 10-12 hours to complete depending on when you left. Had your flight gone to plan how much time would you really have been saving? Seems like the easier thing to do would have been to get on the road before sunrise (weather permitting) to get out to I-81 and I-77.
Nah I don't get up early for road trips, but had it gone normally, I would have been there 3:55 ish whereas driving would have taken at least 9 hours. Add in a long half hour rest stop and it may have been 10 hours (I can only go about 6-7 hours of driving right now before needing food/bathroom..etc). My main point in going there wasn't for the driving, it was for riding Fury325.
My personal record was about 5.5-6 hours when I was in a hurry to get from Phoenix and Alamogordo back during 2012.
If I go longer than ~2 hours without urinating I feel gross. Drink water. On a multi-hour trip, saving a couple minutes here and there ultimately doesn't matter.
Huh. I've never thought about this before. I just stop as needed. Definitely longer than 2 hours. But 5 or 6? I've no idea.
I did 4 hours and 30 minutes without stopping on my most recent trip between Memphis and Houston (specifically the stretch between Shreveport and my exurb south of Houston). I probably could've eked out an extra hour if I had kept going, so I'd say around 5 hours would be my maximum limit.
The max I will probably drive no matter what is 4 - 5 hours, which would be about 280 - 350 miles. Depends on when I need to get gas. And while I'm stopped, I'll probably hit the bathroom. I could push it by not going to the bathroom, but that just means I'll definitely be stopping again within a short period of time, so now I'm not exactly being efficient with my stops.
Besides, as I drive, I tend to have a drink. And related to MMM's comment above, while one tends to exert water via sweat when moving, sitting in the car doesn't tend to use up much personal power, so it's likely someone will need to pee more often.
If a baby just fell asleep in the car, you must keep driving until he wakes up–no questions asked, no matter how long it takes.
So when I was in my 20s I did an 10.5 hour trip from Indiana to Georgia on one stop, so I know I at least made it 5.25 hours.
Nowadays, 3.5 hours is pretty much my upper limit.
4 hours (Rochester, NY to Cleveland, OH) is the longest I know I've made without stopping. But it was early morning and, as I recall, the driver and I were the only ones awake most of the trip. Normally, I would plan on a stop about every 2.5 hours on long trips.
Sometimes if I had a really long road trip, like a whole week, I could go the whole trip without pooing. I can't do that anymore, but it used to be the norm.
Once when I was going on 13, we went on a week-long family trip to Philadelphia and Washington DC, and I made it the whole week without pooing. But someone kept passing gas and stinking up everything. It was as hilarious as you might imagine. Someone ripped a silent-but-deadly at the Smithsonian Museum, and my mom loudly declared, "It smells like somebody has a load in their pants!" It really did too.
I tend to get gas when I am down to 1/5 or 1/6 of a tank, so usually after somewhere between 370 and 430 miles depending on the traffic and how good the gas mileage I got. With a 15.5 gallon tank I would need to get gas at around every 400 miles of average highway driving. As for going to the bathroom, I usually just try to go as much as I can before leaving. Some people claim that the subtle vibrations of the car from being on the road for a long time start to give you an urge to go sooner, but I've never been affected by that I don't think.
Quote from: bandit957 on December 20, 2022, 10:35:04 PM
Sometimes if I had a really long road trip, like a whole week, I could go the whole trip without pooing. I can't do that anymore, but it used to be the norm.
Once when I was going on 13, we went on a week-long family trip to Philadelphia and Washington DC, and I made it the whole week without pooing. But someone kept passing gas and stinking up everything. It was as hilarious as you might imagine. Someone ripped a silent-but-deadly at the Smithsonian Museum, and my mom loudly declared, "It smells like somebody has a load in their pants!" It really did too.
We a front runner now for the Number 2 category. Should we keep a running scoreboard?
I went all the way from Rawlins, WY to Salt Lake City once without stopping, which is 4:30 on its own...and of course I arrived to the Wasatch Front just in time for rush hour, so it was probably closer to 4:45 or 5 hours. That last 30 minutes sucked.
All who think it's a badge of honor to hold it for as long as you can should heed the lesson this story has to offer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KDND#%22Hold_Your_Wee_for_a_Wii%22_contest
Quote from: abefroman329 on December 21, 2022, 06:56:03 AM
All who think it's a badge of honor to hold it for as long as you can should heed the lesson this story has to offer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KDND#%22Hold_Your_Wee_for_a_Wii%22_contest
I just assumed the scenario through which long urine breaks intervals occur didn't include really much in the way of water consumption and rather forced dehydration.
I regularly make it the 7.5 hours from the Twin Cities to central ND without trouble assuming I go beforehand. On longer road trips it's still only about 8—10 hours between bathroom stops unless I'd had something to drink at some point.
Fair to say 10 hours is the new top of the mark for number 1?
Quote from: abefroman329 on December 21, 2022, 06:56:03 AM
All who think it's a badge of honor to hold it for as long as you can should heed the lesson this story has to offer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KDND#%22Hold_Your_Wee_for_a_Wii%22_contest
Body-Harming challenges like that should be banned on all social media. I heard of one where the dare was to not drink for 2 days straight, and he got sick and ended up needing IVs in the hospital. If companies would stop letting people make money off of BS like that, people would be less incentivized to do it. Videos depicting or encouraging such idiocy should be taken down immediately and the channel banned. I'm glad I stopped even commenting on youtube, Facebook, l, and Twitter over a year ago. I personally will look all over for a place to stop if I have to go, it's not worth getting a urinary infection/bladder damage. Empty bottles could be useful in that respect. (Even wet clothes aren't as bad as urinary damage). I'm being serious here. Physical Health is more important is situations like that.
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Quote from: abefroman329 on December 21, 2022, 06:56:03 AM
All who think it's a badge of honor to hold it for as long as you can should heed the lesson this story has to offer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KDND#%22Hold_Your_Wee_for_a_Wii%22_contest
I just assumed the scenario through which long urine breaks intervals occur didn't include really much in the way of water consumption and rather forced dehydration.
I realize it's not a 1:1.
Quote from: bandit957 on December 20, 2022, 10:35:04 PM
Sometimes if I had a really long road trip, like a whole week, I could go the whole trip without pooing. I can't do that anymore, but it used to be the norm.
Once when I was going on 13, we went on a week-long family trip to Philadelphia and Washington DC, and I made it the whole week without pooing.
For a while in my youth, I seemed to not be able to 'complete any downloads' while on trips. This one backpacking trip, it took me like 4 days before I could finally drop a deuce despite trying a few times. Might be able to chalk that one up to eating rehydrated food and not drinking enough water.
It was around that time that I discovered the "home bowl" phenomenon. Getting back home after a long trip, it's like my butt knows we're getting close and like clockwork, gotta hit the head pretty much as soon as we arrived home. Somewhat funny because the rest of the family is like "Oh you're just trying to get out of helping unpack the car!" Heh, nope.
Driving for more than three hours straight strikes me as a safety hazard, even if one doesn't have to do any extruding. That's a long time to be alert and attentive as a driver for your average motorist. The longer you drive continuously, the greater fatigue and the greater the chances of making a mistake behind the wheel. Take your breaks, people. Stretch your legs, get the blood flowing, get out of the auditorally consistent environment that is the interior of a vehicle driving at highway speeds. Driving is a more mentally taxing thing than I think most people appreciate.
I get this isn't all that healthy, but I once flew from LAX to Sydney and didn't pee the whole time. Granted, I was asleep for about 11 hours of the 14.5 hour flight, but I went right before I boarded, didn't have to go for the first two hours of the flight, fell asleep, and then figured I could hold off until we landed.
I think it's more impressive you managed to sleep for so long on a plane. Drugs?
Quote from: triplemultiplex on December 21, 2022, 10:35:38 AM
I think it's more impressive you managed to sleep for so long on a plane. Drugs?
Nah. As I remember, maybe a beer or two before the flight, but that's it. It was a very empty flight and I got to lay flat on a section of four seats.
All I know is it ain't me. 4-5 hours was my limit when I was young. Now I keep one of these (https://www.cvs.com/shop/cvs-health-male-urinal-prodid-741737) in the car.
I'm down to about 3-4 hours maximum, where as I was told I had an "iron bladder" as a kid. I used to drive for 5-6 hours and not need to make a stop, but those days are long gone. Travelling with kids for long distances means they're always on different pit stop schedules, so I get relief because I'm not holding up anyone else's day up.
Sometimes I can hold it a little longer on a plane ride, because it's a headache and annoyance to others when trying to get a lav. If the flight is over 4 hours, I'm making a pit stop somewhere around the third hour, or if my seatmates are taking turns. I have been able to hold it longer but I've been in the situation where you land and then wait 30 minutes for a gate, and that's a pretty miserable feeling.
As I get older, the trick I've found is to go once when I get off of the flight, and time permitting, go again just before boarding the next one (if the flight is on the long side), or some sort of errand-running which involves places without restrooms. An enlarged prostate means you probably don't get it all out of your bladder. (Yeah, I got the idea from a kid's show.)
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Quote from: triplemultiplex on December 21, 2022, 10:35:38 AM
I think it's more impressive you managed to sleep for so long on a plane. Drugs?
I managed to sleep for about 9 of the 14 hours it took to get from Washington, DC to Tokyo, mainly by taking melatonin and staying up all night the night before.
Also, I was in business class.
Car rides I don't know, but I've had some bike rides that I've cleared 8 hours without taking a leak.
As I get older, that feat gets harder and harder to achieve.
Quote from: abefroman329 on December 21, 2022, 11:09:28 AM
Quote from: triplemultiplex on December 21, 2022, 10:35:38 AM
I think it's more impressive you managed to sleep for so long on a plane. Drugs?
I managed to sleep for about 9 of the 14 hours it took to get from Washington, DC to Tokyo, mainly by taking melatonin and staying up all night the night before.
Also, I was in business class.
You fly United or ANA? (or JAL? Although I don't remember them flying this.)
Quote from: JayhawkCO on December 21, 2022, 11:28:38 AM
Quote from: abefroman329 on December 21, 2022, 11:09:28 AM
Quote from: triplemultiplex on December 21, 2022, 10:35:38 AM
I think it's more impressive you managed to sleep for so long on a plane. Drugs?
I managed to sleep for about 9 of the 14 hours it took to get from Washington, DC to Tokyo, mainly by taking melatonin and staying up all night the night before.
Also, I was in business class.
You fly United or ANA? (or JAL? Although I don't remember them flying this.)
ANA, but this was about 15 years ago.
Quote from: abefroman329 on December 21, 2022, 11:34:09 AM
Quote from: JayhawkCO on December 21, 2022, 11:28:38 AM
Quote from: abefroman329 on December 21, 2022, 11:09:28 AM
Quote from: triplemultiplex on December 21, 2022, 10:35:38 AM
I think it's more impressive you managed to sleep for so long on a plane. Drugs?
I managed to sleep for about 9 of the 14 hours it took to get from Washington, DC to Tokyo, mainly by taking melatonin and staying up all night the night before.
Also, I was in business class.
You fly United or ANA? (or JAL? Although I don't remember them flying this.)
ANA, but this was about 15 years ago.
I'm flying them in Business from Delhi to Tokyo and then in First from Tokyo to Chicago coming up here in June. My first ever international first class flight was with them and it was amazing.
Who can hold it in the longest?
Not me. Between reaching my 60's and liking to hydrate as I drive, I find I stop every two hours or so. Which is not a bad thing as it gives me a chance to stretch. (And I make a point to pee every stop). The downside is that my days of 550-600 miles are in the past.
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Quote from: JayhawkCO on December 21, 2022, 11:28:38 AM
Quote from: abefroman329 on December 21, 2022, 11:09:28 AM
Quote from: triplemultiplex on December 21, 2022, 10:35:38 AM
I think it's more impressive you managed to sleep for so long on a plane. Drugs?
I managed to sleep for about 9 of the 14 hours it took to get from Washington, DC to Tokyo, mainly by taking melatonin and staying up all night the night before.
Also, I was in business class.
You fly United or ANA? (or JAL? Although I don't remember them flying this.)
ANA, but this was about 15 years ago.
I'm flying them in Business from Delhi to Tokyo and then in First from Tokyo to Chicago coming up here in June. My first ever international first class flight was with them and it was amazing.
Oh yes, the service was amazing! Probably would have been even better if I had done like I was supposed to and called the FA every time I needed something, rather than waiting for them to offer it.
As I've gotten older (just shy of 50), I can no longer hold it in the longest. Every 2 hours is about the norm. The good news is that most of the people I travel with also need to stop every 2 hours or so.
What limits me is no longer so much the ability to hold it, nor the capacity of the car's gas tank, so much as my lower back starting to get stiff and requiring me to take a break to stand up. Once I do that, I figure I may as well combine it with a toilet stop. If I don't, I'll wind up having to go sooner than later. I drink more water than I did when I was younger anyway. I have an 800 ml Yeti travel mug. I use it in my home office all day long and I'll refill it at least twice in a day, and I use it in the car when we travel anywhere further than, say, Charlottesville. Great mug, but drinking that much water makes multiple toilet stops inevitable.
Quote from: 1995hoo on December 22, 2022, 07:47:07 AM
What limits me is no longer so much the ability to hold it, nor the capacity of the car's gas tank, so much as my lower back starting to get stiff and requiring me to take a break to stand up. Once I do that, I figure I may as well combine it with a toilet stop. If I don't, I'll wind up having to go sooner than later. I drink more water than I did when I was younger anyway. I have an 800 ml Yeti travel mug. I use it in my home office all day long and I'll refill it at least twice in a day, and I use it in the car when we travel anywhere further than, say, Charlottesville. Great mug, but drinking that much water makes multiple toilet stops inevitable.
If your back pain is in any way associated with your ribs, recline your seat a degree or two. Does wonders.
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Quote from: 1995hoo on December 22, 2022, 07:47:07 AM
What limits me is no longer so much the ability to hold it, nor the capacity of the car's gas tank, so much as my lower back starting to get stiff and requiring me to take a break to stand up. Once I do that, I figure I may as well combine it with a toilet stop. If I don't, I'll wind up having to go sooner than later. I drink more water than I did when I was younger anyway. I have an 800 ml Yeti travel mug. I use it in my home office all day long and I'll refill it at least twice in a day, and I use it in the car when we travel anywhere further than, say, Charlottesville. Great mug, but drinking that much water makes multiple toilet stops inevitable.
If your back pain is in any way associated with your ribs, recline your seat a degree or two. Does wonders.
It's not so much "pain" as it is just general stiffness. At this time of year, the seat heater is a glorious device for that sort of thing (especially tomorrow night). I get the same sort of stiffness from extended slow walking. Had I gone to the Metropolitan Museum of Art with my wife last week (I didn't because I had to work), I'd have had the same problem due to the very slow pace associated with exploring a museum, reading the explanatory signs, etc.
(Sorry about sequential posts, but I wanted to keep my reply to a respected user separate from dealing with the troll.)
I've never been known as a large bladder person. I remember, at college, there were a few times at the bar, where I'd be going to the bathroom every 15 minutes or so. Which I hated.
That said, it's never been quite so bad on road trips, where I stop usually about every 200 to 300 miles or so. It works out pretty well with gas stops, since I don't let the gas tank get below half full.
The one exception I can think of is when I thought it would be fun to get a Diet Doctor Pepper at the gas station. Now that's a diuretic. I had to stop quite a few times until it passed through.
Quote from: SectorZ on December 21, 2022, 11:21:21 AM
Car rides I don't know, but I've had some bike rides that I've cleared 8 hours without taking a leak.
During extended physical exertion, if you aren't hydrating yourself to match what your body is using, it is indeed easy to go quite a while without peeing. I've had those days when we were doing roof demolition in Mexico in the summer months. Take the roof down with mattocks, breaker bars, and axes; shovel the debris into wheelbarrows, dump them in pickup trucks, shovel the debris out of the pickups at a dump site... I've probably gone most of a day like that without peeing.
On road trips, I hardly drink anything. I don't get thirsty just sitting there, and I don't like extra pit stops. So, on a 700-mile drive, I could easily do with only a single potty break. Stretching my back multiple times, though, is more of a requirement.
I used to own one of those Toyota minivans, an '89. Those weird ones that were sort of ... trapezoidal.
The engine in these is literally under the driver's seat. You release a latch, and tilt the driver's seat back, to do things like check the oil, coolant, etc.
Anyway, it had a coolant leak, and at the time I was experiencing diabetic weirdness, causing a lot of ... output.
I didn't do this at the time, but I was on a road trip, thinking to myself 'well, all the parts are here..rig up some sort of hose.."
Quote from: zachary_amaryllis on December 27, 2022, 07:23:38 AM
I used to own one of those Toyota minivans, an '89. Those weird ones that were sort of ... trapezoidal.
The engine in these is literally under the driver's seat. You release a latch, and tilt the driver's seat back, to do things like check the oil, coolant, etc.
Anyway, it had a coolant leak, and at the time I was experiencing diabetic weirdness, causing a lot of ... output.
I didn't do this at the time, but I was on a road trip, thinking to myself 'well, all the parts are here..rig up some sort of hose.."
Hell, I knew people growing up with cars so rusty you wouldn't even need some kind of hose. Just lift up the floor mat. :-D
Quote from: triplemultiplex on December 27, 2022, 11:40:23 AM
Hell, I knew people growing up with cars so rusty you wouldn't even need some kind of hose. Just lift up the floor mat. :-D
Like passenger trains from the 50s, except no toilet seat.
Quote from: kphoger on December 27, 2022, 03:13:48 PM
Quote from: triplemultiplex on December 27, 2022, 11:40:23 AM
Hell, I knew people growing up with cars so rusty you wouldn't even need some kind of hose. Just lift up the floor mat. :-D
Like passenger trains from the 50s, except no toilet seat.
I'm pretty sure there was equipment like this that lasted into the Amtrak era, and I'm also pretty sure the big drive to replace them with a better solution was spurred by the fact that waste dumped on the tracks was attracting wildlife in search of food-and they would, in turn, get hit by a train.
Quote from: abefroman329 on December 27, 2022, 04:20:21 PM
Quote from: kphoger on December 27, 2022, 03:13:48 PM
Quote from: triplemultiplex on December 27, 2022, 11:40:23 AM
Hell, I knew people growing up with cars so rusty you wouldn't even need some kind of hose. Just lift up the floor mat. :-D
Like passenger trains from the 50s, except no toilet seat.
I'm pretty sure there was equipment like this that lasted into the Amtrak era, and I'm also pretty sure the big drive to replace them with a better solution was spurred by the fact that waste dumped on the tracks was attracting wildlife in search of food-and they would, in turn, get hit by a train.
I rode on a train like that in August 1986–the Ontario Northland's Polar Bear Express from Cochrane to Moosonee. You could very clearly see the ground rushing by when you "flushed."
Quote from: zachary_amaryllis on December 27, 2022, 07:23:38 AMat the time I was experiencing diabetic weirdness, causing a lot of ... output.
Sorry to hear that. When my diabetes was uncontrolled last year, it wasn't the amount of output so much as the fact that I would go from "don't have to go" to "have to go RIGHT NOW" in a millisecond, leading to at least on occasion where I wet myself while driving a car.
Quote from: abefroman329 on December 28, 2022, 10:47:24 AM
Quote from: zachary_amaryllis on December 27, 2022, 07:23:38 AMat the time I was experiencing diabetic weirdness, causing a lot of ... output.
Sorry to hear that. When my diabetes was uncontrolled last year, it wasn't the amount of output so much as the fact that I would go from "don't have to go" to "have to go RIGHT NOW" in a millisecond, leading to at least on occasion where I wet myself while driving a car.
Been there, done that, got the t-shirt (and every other item of clothing). Zero to Niagara Falls in -snap-.