Sharing the toilet...

mentallychaotic · Feb 16th 2022, 11:00pm

dkne wrote:

mentallychaotic wrote:

I have just read this entire thread, and spent minutes laughing! You people are very entertaining!

I have no issue using whatever facility is available. It is more common here to put little walls between urinals, even on the outdoor/portable ones at the park/festivals. But if I have to pee, and there is only a long space (a trough you call it??), then I will just push into the line next to everyone else.

Like the ones where the head and feet are visible to people walking by?

It must not be pleasant then to be a girl...I guess they'd have to hold it?

Emmmm... no. I do not know that type. I meant this:

dkne · Feb 16th 2022, 11:19pm

I bet those solve the problem of young boys peeing with their pants down around their knees.

But still, what do girls think? Are they grossed out? I'm sure they can't use them.

pahern0317 · Feb 17th 2022, 3:00am

mentallychaotic wrote:

dkne wrote:

mentallychaotic wrote:

I have just read this entire thread, and spent minutes laughing! You people are very entertaining!

I have no issue using whatever facility is available. It is more common here to put little walls between urinals, even on the outdoor/portable ones at the park/festivals. But if I have to pee, and there is only a long space (a trough you call it??), then I will just push into the line next to everyone else.

Like the ones where the head and feet are visible to people walking by?
It must not be pleasant then to be a girl...I guess they'd have to hold it?

Emmmm... no. I do not know that type. I meant this:

Young boys will still pull their pants down. No modesty at that age. Where is that picture from?

mentallychaotic · Feb 17th 2022, 4:27pm

dkne wrote:

I bet those solve the problem of young boys peeing with their pants down around their knees.

But still, what do girls think? Are they grossed out? I'm sure they can't use them.

pahern0317 wrote:

Young boys will still pull their pants down. No modesty at that age. Where is that picture from?

Certainly girls cannot use them. There are toilet-stall type temporary ones at festivals also. Even non-festival time, the urinal type keep the boys from simply pissing on the street or in the canals. I do not think little boys can reach these.

I do not think the girls even care or notice. Why would they be grossed out?

The photo is in Amsterdam.

notthatchrisevans · Feb 17th 2022, 4:46pm

mentallychaotic wrote:

I've never seen one of these, nor would I use one. Not enough privacy, nowhere to wash my hands. Unless maybe in an emergency. Better than using the tree behind it, especially with all the bikes :lol:

Gc1110 · Feb 17th 2022, 5:23pm

i would never share a toilet with anyone

tfkbuggy · Feb 17th 2022, 7:27pm

mentallychaotic wrote:

dkne wrote:

mentallychaotic wrote:

I have just read this entire thread, and spent minutes laughing! You people are very entertaining!

I have no issue using whatever facility is available. It is more common here to put little walls between urinals, even on the outdoor/portable ones at the park/festivals. But if I have to pee, and there is only a long space (a trough you call it??), then I will just push into the line next to everyone else.

Like the ones where the head and feet are visible to people walking by?
It must not be pleasant then to be a girl...I guess they'd have to hold it?

Emmmm... no. I do not know that type. I meant this:

What does it smell like?

Sean2001 · Feb 17th 2022, 9:58pm

mentallychaotic wrote:

Emmmm... no. I do not know that type. I meant this:

This just goes to show that attitudes differ from place to place. I remember seeing a rather strange film on TV that was shot in France and they had regular trough urinal, much older than this and much less shrouded, in the middle of the street which French men were happy to use. Their view seemed to be "If you don't wan to see then don't look". But that was rural France, I think, not the middle of Paris.

Then, with, these, passers by can't really see anything - it's just that they know what you're doing.

Different nations do have different reputations and to those of us outside the Netherlands, the Dutch have a reputation of very practical and not sticking to rules just for the sake of it.

lanee · Feb 17th 2022, 10:44pm

Don’t cross the streams

lanee · Feb 17th 2022, 10:46pm

Sean2001 wrote:

mentallychaotic wrote:

Emmmm... no. I do not know that type. I meant this:

This just goes to show that attitudes differ from place to place. I remember seeing a rather strange film on TV that was shot in France and they had regular trough urinal, much older than this and much less shrouded, in the middle of the street which French men were happy to use. Their view seemed to be "If you don't wan to see then don't look". But that was rural France, I think, not the middle of Paris.
Then, with, these, passers by can't really see anything - it's just that they know what you're doing.

Different nations do have different reputations and to those of us outside the Netherlands, the Dutch have a reputation of very practical and not sticking to rules just for the sake of it.

A lot of those were to stop people peeing on the buildings I think

mentallychaotic · Feb 18th 2022, 6:00am

lanee wrote:

A lot of those were to stop people peeing on the buildings I think

Yes. Buildings, signposts, canals.... I wonder if it helped.

Sean2001 · Feb 18th 2022, 11:33am

mentallychaotic wrote:

lanee wrote:

A lot of those were to stop people peeing on the buildings I think

Yes. Buildings, signposts, canals.... I wonder if it helped.

It does seem like a very practical response. Particularly at night, when alcohol has already lowered guys' inhibitions and made the need to piss nore urgent while at the same time indoor public toilets are less likely to be open, it is not surprising if people go where they should not. Drunken guys should have no problem using these and it avoids all the inappropriate places becoming smelly.

XSVENX · Feb 18th 2022, 11:57am

mentallychaotic wrote:

I have just read this entire thread, and spent minutes laughing! You people are very entertaining!

I have no issue using whatever facility is available. It is more common here to put little walls between urinals, even on the outdoor/portable ones at the park/festivals. But if I have to pee, and there is only a long space (a trough you call it??), then I will just push into the line next to everyone else.

Yes I laughed too. And just like fellow Dutchman Niels, I have no problem peeing wherever it is allowed.

trey_c · Feb 18th 2022, 12:58pm

Our locker room at school has a trough in it, we just call it the tub, but we're always using it at the same time as others...never thought much about it

BJade · Feb 18th 2022, 1:29pm

theres more toilets in that picture than there is in the whole of my city now :lol:

To much drug use and maintenance cost, so all out toilet blocks have been demolished

we just have to hold it in (or use the few available in shops)

soft · Feb 18th 2022, 2:26pm

Not really in like normal toilets but there used to be a trough thing at school when I was a lot younger, I did it a few times then but not really anymore

mentallychaotic · Feb 18th 2022, 5:39pm

BJade wrote:

theres more toilets in that picture than there is in the whole of my city now

To much drug use and maintenance cost, so all out toilet blocks have been demolished we just have to hold it in (or use the few available in shops)

This seems like the incorrect solution to the problem.
Partly because drug use will happen somewhere, you cannot stop it by removing the toilets.
But government usually makes little sense.

dkne · Feb 20th 2022, 3:29am

trey_c wrote:

Our locker room at school has a trough in it, we just call it the tub, but we're always using it at the same time as others...never thought much about it

But troughs are designed for many people to use simultaneously.

(I still hate them tho...I like my privacy when it comes to down there.)

pahern0317 · Mar 13th 2022, 2:04am

For boys, ya gotta go, ya go.

What do you think boys do on the outide?

Woods, etc.

dkne · Mar 13th 2022, 2:18am

Ya, but outside, there's usually lots of space between people.

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