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Comment by Dalewyn | Hacker News Reader

I'm not sure which train of thought to subscribe to:

A) We make fun of gamers who loo into bottles in their gaming chairs, so we should make fun of these race car drivers who loo into bottles in their racing chairs.

B) Not make fun of the above on both counts.

Consistency is important, after all.

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I think there's a reasonable C) which acknowledges that there are multiple jobs where people have an important reason to just have to pee on the spot, and also ridicule gamers for implying that their game is comparable to that.

There's a minor storyline in an episode of 'For All Mankind' where a NASA engineer urinates on himself in the flight control center so as to not leave his post while astronaut lives were in danger. Always wondered if it was inspired by an actual incident during the Apollo era.

More specifically, IIRC, he peed himself after getting word that the astronauts were safe, and mission control was celebrating.

Poor Bill. He was a great character.

I mean, car racing is just a game.

I suspect this article is mostly SEO spam.

It’s certainly not factually accurate. F1 drivers absolutely do not wear catheters and never have. They’re only in the car 90 minutes.

It says that in the article, that in F1 they just pee in their suits if they have to.

The article is trash. It’s like a rewording of random paragraphs from Wikipedia, but full images of suspect ally all the same brand products.

It’s seo spam.

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