Paris-Locals 'peeved' At New Very Public Urinals

I suppose that is a better alternative than putting up with what happens in San Francisco...feces on the sidewalks, etc.
 

Honestly despite the uproar of it ''destroying the beauty'' ..Paris IS a urinal...*ugh*.... but I agree with them there shouldn't be urinals out in the open and certainly not near a school...
 
"The device is essentially a box with an opening in the front and a floral display on top, containing straw which transforms into compost for use in parks and gardens." Um, no. From my somewhat limited knowledge of composting, peeing on straw ain't it. That will just be a pile of smelly straw... yuck-o.

Oh, and a urinal wouldn't help the feces problem in SF. People are so disgusting.
 
C'est Moi said:
"The device is essentially a box with an opening in the front and a floral display on top, containing straw which transforms into compost for use in parks and gardens." Um, no. From my somewhat limited knowledge of composting, peeing on straw ain't it. That will just be a pile of smelly straw... yuck-o.

Oh, and a urinal wouldn't help the feces problem in SF. People are so disgusting.
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Exactly, and I do not see why the school proximity matters either. It's just a bad idea. What about the female convenience ?

And......just a thought, didn't that look a tad close to the river?....where exactly is all that pee going?
 
I don’t think I’d like the idea of walking past a strange man knowing he was standing there peeing in front of me !!! and who knows what else he might be doing ?..........just saying
 
While it might be better than peeing in corners, in the open or in the river...this misses the mark by a mile!

Surely, they can do better.

Remember the in the Palace of Versailles, no matter of breathtakingly beautiful it is, king and courtiers as well as pet dogs and cats dropped whatever, wherever for so long, tourists still get a faint "whiff, even today!
 
Ugh. This is so disgusting. If women can use a restroom then why can't men?

What's wrong with them that we have to provide a urinal in public for them?
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Growing up in my old city there was a "Public Restroom" downtown- half for men, and half for women. Yes it was old, but the city hired cleaners, created jobs and it was relatively clean, amazingly, at least in the women's side. I think there were at lease 8 stalls and sinks. There were translucent skylights in the high ceiling that could be cracked open.

It's been gone for years. Stores pretend they don't have restrooms, yet hope you will shop there.

People need a place to "go". What's the answer?
 
RadishRose said:
Growing up in my old city there was a "Public Restroom" downtown- half for men, and half for women. Yes it was old, but the city hired cleaners, created jobs and it was relatively clean, amazingly, at least in the women's side. I think there were at lease 8 stalls and sinks. There were translucent skylights in the high ceiling that could be cracked open.

It's been gone for years. Stores pretend they don't have restrooms, yet hope you will shop there.



People need a place to "go". What's the answer?
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We used to have two underground public toilets in our central city area.

When folks from out of town asked about them they were told that they were the entrance to the subway system.

Eventually, they were closed and the above-ground structures were removed.

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IMO if a business is open to the public they should not be able to refuse a person the basic need/right to use the bathroom.
 
All restaurants have a restroom for customers. Some even allow non-customers to use it. If you HAVE to go, you can buy a Perrier and a croissant, use the restroom, finish or bag up your croissant, and leave.

So where do these public peeing men wash their hands when they're finished using the Paris outdoor urinals?

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I wondered about washing their hands also. But many times I have been in a restroom and seen women leave without washing also. Makes me cringe. I try not to have to use public restrooms anymore.
 
Wait. So Paris would rather watch men pee in a public sidewalk urinal,
because they don't want the men to be peeing in the river...the river that fish poo in all the time?

I've never seen this type of primal human behavior in public, but if I did, I think I'd rather tell myself that the one urinating in public is only gazing at the river....and then I'd move along. I'd much rather do that than have to see permanent bright red and white urinals all along the riverwalk...especially with a man using one.

It looks really weird in that link posted in the OP.



 
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Way back then, when I was in France, The women didn't come unglued if they happened to see a man urinating by the

roadside. Oftentimes they were holding their girlfriend's hand......... and never let go !

Hey, This is FRANCE !!! Ya don't like it, don't come here! There are lots of other countries.
 
Falcon said:
Way back then, when I was in France, The women didn't come unglued if they happened to see a man urinating by the

roadside. Oftentimes they were holding their girlfriend's hand......... and never let go !

Hey, This is FRANCE !!! Ya don't like it, don't come here! There are lots of other countries.
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I agree here, things are done differently in different countries. And !....the same should apply here in America....I wish folks would stop trying so damn hard to make us more like Europe!

We're America, we do things [or at least used to do things uniquely] in our own American way.....don't like it? don't come here. Already here ? leave!
 
Anybody else seen the new British police show, No Offence? It says, "Created by Paul Abbott," who brought us "Shameless," and I can believe it! It's a quirky, semi-comical (and partly tragic) procedural drama about a group of tough, female, Manchester cops. Very witty and frequently shocking.

One scene has the tough detective inspector, played by Joanna Scanlon, following a couple of male police officers into the men's room and bawling them out while they, very embarrassed, stand at a
urinal. Apparently nothing is off limits any more, even in England!
 
I remember French urinals on the sidewalks that had sides that were only chest high. Nobody paid you any attention when you used one and women used them too. Don't see why they went to this open style. Anyway, having had to clean bathrooms in the past there isn't any contest who leaves a public bathroom the messiest, women!
 

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