Posted on 09/08/2018 2:59:21 PM PDT by rickmichaels
Men are peeing en plein air, on one of Paris’s most beautiful 17th-century streetscapes. And the people of Paris are peeved.
Me? I’m just upset that women can’t do it, too.
Paris’s pee-ers are making their daily deposits into uritrottoirs, mini street-side urinals topped with flower boxes. These chest-height repositories sport a hole below the foliage for urine, which collects in a bale of concealed straw, later used to produce nitrogen-rich compost for Paris parks and gardens.
The city has chosen to install the uritrottoirs – a portmanteau of urinoir (urinal) and trottoir (sidewalk) – to combat public peeing on buildings, in alleys and among Paris’s urban bushes and flowers.
Public urination is no small matter in Paris, where the habit even has a name: les pipis sauvages, or wild peeing. The city has so far installed four uritrottoirs to help curb errant excretion around the capital. A fifth is planned.
The funding of these on-street comfort stations was approved through municipal participatory budgeting – voted on by residents who were no doubt savage over all this pipi.
But one uritrottoir wasn't so well received.
This particular pee-box was located on Île Saint-Louis along the Seine River – a high tourist-traffic spot within sight of Notre-Dame Cathedral. A user could literally use his free hand to wave to tourists on river boat cruises.
The indictment? It was ugly and out of place.
One man told CNN, “I think installing a urinal in the streets of Paris for those who don't respect their surroundings is a good idea, but in my opinion, this model is not attractive at all, and where it's been set up is not appropriate at all.”
(Excerpt) Read more at theglobeandmail.com ...
Apparently they can’t do squat about it.
Just tell female parisanas theu are really gender confused and are men.
Problem solved.
And Europeans have the gall to stick their noses up in the air towards “class-less” Americans.
>>Me? I’m just upset that women can’t do it, too.
The world needs a Great Depression to kill off these idiots.
Been to Paris a couple of times in the 1990s. Did not see much of this but there was lots of dog poop. At least I think it was dog poop.
They apparently are ignoring the fact drunk women pee in public all the time.
. Like my mothher used to say, "Go at home."
Wasn’t this one of the things that surprised doughboys back in WWI? The open air urinals? More than a century ago? It is apparently nothing new.
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Speak for yourself.
Me? I ain’t stickin’ mah thang in no trash can to pee. There could be rats ‘n coons ‘n sich in thar.
Handy-dandy phone booth used to work.
Don’t they have Starbucks?
-——A user could literally use his free hand to wave to tourists on river boat cruises-——
If they are American tourists, it’s OK to use the business hand…
Yep. they’ve had them in Europe for a long time, some alleyways would have a slow “waterfall” pipe that flowed down the wall and guys would just stand there (not always with a half-wall hiding them) & pee on the wall/into the gutter and it would wash down the grate. My husband dragged his mother thru’ one of these one time when he was trying to find a shortcut!
Maybe these are different because of the straw bales & recycling for compost?
So it does to to the Paris sewer system? Ed Norton would be appalled!
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