Public (VERY Public) urinals in Paris

[DoggyDaddy]

I guess it beats peeing in the streets... but not by much.

https://www.upi.com/Paris-open-air-urinals-have-some-crying-foul/2671534451233/

 

[jamil]

I guess it beats peeing in the streets... but not by much.

https://www.upi.com/Paris-open-air-urinals-have-some-crying-foul/2671534451233/

Everyone has to complain. How we gonna have progress if everyone says, “Not in my back yard!” If you don’t want people peeing in the streets, you have to do your fair share. Put a urinator in your back yard. We’re all in this together.

Wait. We need to redesign the urinator. The current design is sexist and especially transphobic. How is [STRIKE]she[/STRIKE] he gonna pee in that?

 

[DoggyDaddy]

Everyone has to complain. How we gonna have progress if everyone says, “Not in my back yard!” If you don’t want people peeing in the streets, you have to do your fair share. Put a urinator in your back yard. We’re all in this together.

Wait. We need to redesign the urinator. The current design is sexist and especially transphobic. How is [STRIKE]she[/STRIKE] he gonna pee in that?

Maybe San Francisco will be installing open air facilities to take care of their "problem".

 

[hopper68]

Everyone has to complain. How we gonna have progress if everyone says, “Not in my back yard!” If you don’t want people peeing in the streets, you have to do your fair share. Put a urinator in your back yard. We’re all in this together.

Wait. We need to redesign the urinator. The current design is sexist and especially transphobic. How is [STRIKE]she[/STRIKE] he gonna pee in that?

It also discriminates against the vertically challenged.



When does one get placed across from a school?

 

[Route 45]

Disgusting.

 

[jsharmon7]

I’m going to need Sylvain to explain this one. Are bathrooms that hard to find in Paris?

 

[Wild Deuce]

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[Alamo]

When I was stationed in Germany, there were lots of fests -- not just the big one, the Oktoberfest, but all kinds of little local fests in every little town, several times a year. This, naturally, led to a lot of public beer drinking (out of glasses, too, not paper cups. People didn't steal them). This, naturally, led to a lot of public, err, requirements for dispensing with the after effects.

The solution in many cases was a kind of flatbed utility trailer, parked off at the edge of the fest, with an open trough urinal running lengthwise (sometimes down the middle so there was a trough facing left and another to the right. Generally there was a roof too (hey, it's Germany, it rains a lot), but no walls. A long step ran down each side of the trailer halfway between ground and trailer bed so you could just step up twice and relief was at hand. No privacy dividers, no walls, just fresh air blowing through. Germans love the outdoors.

For some reason the trailer with the sitdowns (and walls) always seemed to be parked a little farther out, I guess so as the ladies scurried by to the sitzpinkler wagon they could check out the local talent.

 

[Alamo]

Supposedly, there are very few "free" or "open to the public" bathrooms in Paris ... and most of Europe from what I hear.

When I was stationed there 86-92 I traveled quite a bit, and I don't recall restrooms just for the public, except maybe in airports, but then whenever I traveled I was basically eating and drinking my way from place to place, so the bar/restaurant always had one. And there were lots of those. Go in, order a beer or a schnapps, down the hatch, drain the dragon.

 

[hopper68]

Supposedly, there are very few "free" or "open to the public" bathrooms in Paris ... and most of Europe from what I hear.

With a name like "Wild Deuce" I figured you would be arguing for squatters rights.




Sorry, could not resist.

 

[Sylvain]

I’m going to need Sylvain to explain this one. Are bathrooms that hard to find in Paris?

Supposedly, there are very few "free" or "open to the public" bathrooms in Paris ... and most of Europe from what I hear.

I don't know Paris well enough to tell you but I know there are some 400 free public toilets like that in Paris.

They are automatic, self-cleaning and desinfected after each person gets out.

Maybe 400 toilets is not enough and they need more?

They have some where you have to insert a coin to open the door but I never had to pay to use a toilet in France, ever (or anywhere else in Europe).
Maybe tourists don't know where to find the free ones.

They have maps and aps for cellphones to help you find the nearest toilets in Paris.


Besides those toilet cabin thingy in the street you can find many other free toilets in stores, cafés, train stations and other buildings open to the public.

They always had public urinals in Paris by the way, here's one from the 19th century.It's not new.

 

[Herr Vogel]

I can't help but wonder if the problem relates less to the presence of absence of proper facilities and more to the demographics of the city. And I have to laugh at the article's insistence that there's no cause for alarm, it's always been this way. To draw analogy to a problem closer to home, you don't solve the problem of 'used syringes in the streets of San Fransisco' by installing a bunch of collection points, you solve it by getting rid of the heroin addicts. Or rather, by changing the socio-economic climate such that 'being a druggie in San Fransisco' is not incentivised or even feasible.

Second, if the Greenpeace types really cared about sustainability and eco-friendliness and all that fluff, they'd already be pissing into ash piles and hay bales. There's zero waste water, and all of the nitrates, phosphates and so forth get returned right back to the soil. I already do this just to have fertilizer for the garden; granted, I live far enough out in FuddRuck, Nowhere that I can **** of my back porch without anyone raising an eyebrow.

 

[Trigger Time]

I don't know Paris well enough to tell you but I know there are some 400 free public toilets like that in Paris.

They are automatic, self-cleaning and desinfected after each person gets out.

Maybe 400 toilets is not enough and they need more?

They have some where you have to insert a coin to open the door but I never had to pay to use a toilet in France, ever (or anywhere else in Europe).
Maybe tourists don't know where to find the free ones.

They have maps and aps for cellphones to help you find the nearest toilets in Paris.


Besides those toilet cabin thingy in the street you can find many other free toilets in stores, cafés, train stations and other buildings open to the public.

They always had public urinals in Paris by the way, here's one from the 19th century.It's not new.

They had one of these in NYC too

Most big cities are a giant urinal

 

[JettaKnight]

Everyone has to complain. How we gonna have progress if everyone says, “Not in my back yard!” If you don’t want people peeing in the streets, you have to do your fair share. Put a urinator in your back yard. We’re all in this together.

I literally want this for my back yard.

Wait. We need to redesign the urinator. The current design is sexist and especially transphobic. How is [STRIKE]she[/STRIKE] he gonna pee in that?

They have ways... there are... devices. Go ahead and google "She wee".

 

[HoughMade]

We used to have a few expectations of social decorum. Now, the only way to fight urine all over the sidewalk is to put out fancy buckets to p!ss in.

This is not a positive trend.

 

[mensajess]

Last time I was in Europe, about 6-7 years ago, all restrooms were marked as for customers only. Even the local McDonald's had a pay code lock on the door. The farmers market in Nice did have a public facility, underground, and $.25 to use

 

[Itchytriggerfinger]

I knew the French were more refined. At least they're not paying for someone to clean the $*@! off the streets like they're doing in San Francisco.

 

[hoosierdoc]

I could stand there all day and not be able to go

i sAw a LoT of public urination in Germany in 1995. Guy peed next to my head in front of the Glockenspiel. I was sitting, he was standing. I heard it. He was shirtless wearing lederhosen

i marked the scene of the crime here.

upload and share your photos

 

[hopper68]

We used to have a few expectations of social decorum. Now, the only way to fight urine all over the sidewalk is to put out fancy buckets to p!ss in.

This is not a positive trend.

Think of the jobs created!!
[video=youtube;JGfXiIXTpE0]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JGfXiIXTpE0[/video]

 

[Alamo]

I could stand there all day and not be able to go

When I gotta go, I gotta go and everybody stand back. I found out I am not terribly shy when at Oktoberfest in Munich where they have some serious bathrooms built on the grounds. These are staffed with cleaning personnel -- all women as far as I could see -- who roamed the bathrooms constantly with scrubber and bucket in hand. They were so fanatically devoted to the job that as I stood at one of the urinals unloading a couple gallons of bier, she stood almost at my elbow, WATCHING INTENTLY, and swooped in as soon as I was finished to tidy the urinal. (No, was not a big thrill, she had the dimensions of a battleship, especially abeam, and she was clearly more interested in the liquid being dispensed, rather than the dispensing equipment.)