Open air urinals in Paris

[OregonDead]

What does the Padded room think? Maybe they need some for women too? Is this the solution we need in America?

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-45174382

[Supermoon]

They’ve got similar things all over Amsterdam too. Gotta help the Euro piss smell you get some places in the summer.

[reckless toboggan]

Aaaaannnd...profile photo.

[iceman]

Maybe a little fence? Flaps? Something? That's gross and the placement is obviously agenda-driven, although what exactly the agenda is, is a bit mysterious from here.

I mean, were people frequently pissing in that spot previously? I'm gonna say probably not. Historic townhouse next door, direct view of the river...somebody's trying to make a point.

I'm just as glad I don't get it. Fucking Frenchies.

[hutash]

A pissoir or vespasienne is a structure that provides support and screening of urinals in public space. It is a French invention common in Europe that allows for urination in public without the need for a toilet building. Wikipedia

Got to love the pissoir, nothing quite like a piss as you watch Europe pass by. Never been to Paris, but have pissed in Amsterdam.

Europeans are much less hung up about such things. Communal bathrooms in alpine huts (individual stalls with doors.) Cleaning ladies freely walk in to clean bathrooms in Moscow. Urinals in the common part of unisex bathrooms. North Carolina can learn a thing or two before passing stupid bathroom laws.

[iceman]

No doubt we could be way less hung-up. But that's not the whole story as evidenced by that pic.

[hutash]

Maybe a little fence? Flaps? Something? That's gross and the placement is obviously agenda-driven, although what exactly the agenda is, is a bit mysterious from here.

I mean, were people frequently pissing in that spot previously? I'm gonna say probably not. Historic townhouse next door, direct view of the river...somebody's trying to make a point.

I'm just as glad I don't get it. Fucking Frenchies.

I think they were originally placed in such places so they could drain directly into the river, or that is what I noticed in Amsterdam. You don't want to swim in the Seine, or Dutch canals.

[Buster Highmen]

I thought Paris _was_ an open urinal. No?

[Kenny Satch]

Why not let people pee over the edge of bridges while tour boats go by. It could be a golden opportunity for tourists.

[Supermoon]

Some would probably pay extra for it.

[NW_SKIER]

Why not let people pee over the edge of bridges while tour boats go by. It could be a golden opportunity for tourists.

It will be a golden something. That's for sure.

[Kenny Satch]

Some would probably pay extra for it.

It will be a golden something. That's for sure.

LoL
Could enhance the whole "gay paree" thing.
NTTAWWT

[iceman]

I thought Paris _was_ an open urinal. No?

Looking for the source of that quote, which I know I've seen before, I found this short fun piece about Hemingway: https://nypost.com/2014/03/08/when-e...erate-a-hotel/

[Buster Highmen]

When bombing around Amsterdam last summer, I noticed the place was riddled with billboards, sidewalk ads and various painted ads for Canal tours.

I amused myself and embarrassed my wife and kids by insisting on calling attention to myself as I covered up the 'C' in those ads.

[Meadow Skipper]

Looking for the source of that quote, which I know I've seen before, I found this short fun piece about Hemingway: https://nypost.com/2014/03/08/when-e...erate-a-hotel/

That was a fun story. In particular I liked this paragraph:

The antics at and around it during World War II were often shocking, as one half was reserved for high-level Nazis — Adolf Hitler’s second-in-command, morphine-addicted cross-dresser Hermann Göring, lived in its grandest suite — while the other was open for business to sympathetic celebrities and socialites and citizens of neutral countries.

[JimmyCarter]

Got to love the pissoir, nothing quite like a piss as you watch Europe pass by. Never been to Paris, but have pissed in Amsterdam.

Europeans are much less hung up about such things. Communal bathrooms in alpine huts (individual stalls with doors.) Cleaning ladies freely walk in to clean bathrooms in Moscow. Urinals in the common part of unisex bathrooms. North Carolina can learn a thing or two before passing stupid bathroom laws.

Fair, but europe could also not smell like piss if they pursued the puritanical "you have to register as a sex offender if we catch you pissing in public" laws.

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[iceman]

When bombing around Amsterdam last summer, I noticed the place was riddled with billboards, sidewalk ads and various painted ads for Canal tours.

I amused myself and embarrassed my wife and kids by insisting on calling attention to myself as I covered up the 'C' in those ads.

Well yeah that might do it.

[iceman]

That was a fun story. In particular I liked this paragraph:

I liked this:

Hemingway “commandeered a motorcycle with a sidecar,” and “loaded up the sidecar with whiskey and machine guns.”

My kinda guy.

[Kenny Satch]

It would be a most presidential reception for tourists.

Especially if the ones peeing just ate asparagus

[Viva]

From the same culture that brought you Piss Boy.

[Ripzalot]

Fair, but europe could also not smell like piss if they pursued the puritanical "you have to register as a sex offender if we catch you pissing in public" laws.

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then they will have to put in a 2 shake limit law. shake it more than twice and yer playin with it.

[KQ]

If they are going to have things like this there better not be any bitching about public breast feeding.

[assman]

San Francisco is an open air shitter...

[XXX-er]

Thats pretty open

On White ave in Edmonton a busy pedestrian area they had something that was a little more booth like, made of plastic, open air portable, 4 stalls but with a lot more wall (like a cubical ) pissing into a center tank seemed like a good idea

http://portlandloo.com/

they put one of these^^ in down town, people bitched about the money spent but they are probably the same people who complained about the stage, the new ice rink, bike lanes ... everyfuckingthing that makes it a better place to live

[Micol]

Gotta help the Euro piss smell you get some places in the summer.

national past time