The peeing walls of old London town

[mybrainhurts]

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/hac...

Endless fun...I'll be sneaking into the gents and painting the urinals...

[Evolved]

Another good use of tax payers money. It's designed to repel vomit and pee, I'm guessing the people doing that are in no state to even care if it bounces back at them and those that do will just pee on the floor instead.. Genius, who comes up with this stuff?

[Evolved]

Another good use of tax payers money. It's designed to repel vomit and pee, I'm guessing the people doing that are in no state to even care if it bounces back at them and those that do will just pee on the floor instead.. Genius, who comes up with this stuff?

[untakenname]

They could spend the money on some portable toilets instead, so many proper toilets have been closed down these past few years and the insane houseprices in London mean that there's no strips of wasteland to sneak a piss anymore after spending the evening sinking pints.

[jammy_basturd]

I imagine it's been done to make it easier to clean afterwards?

Like a drink is going to wander the streets looking for the nearest portaloo! Most can't even wait for a taxi door to open!

[castex]

I used to live in France and they don't even need a drink over there to start pissing in a corner. Even the police like to 'mark their territory' in an urban setting.

[Digitalize]

Just do it from an angle, only an amateur stands parallel to the wall.

[philthy]

castex said:

I used to live in France and they don't even need a drink over there to start pissing in a corner. Even the police like to 'mark their territory' in an urban setting.

A while back I didn't believe this when people told me about it. That was until I saw a bus load of people pull up, and just about every bloke on it got off and lined up along someone's house wall, and let fly. I think what staggered me most, was nobody raised an eyebrow!

[Perik Omo]

Used to be a regular at the Rose & Punchbowl in east end of London (E1) in the 1960's, it was one of those old pubs that was just one long thin bar with the bogs at the far end next to a small stage. If there was a band playing (every Friday/Saturday) then the place would be rammed and if you were at the door end then you had no chance of getting to the bogs, consequently the wall of the factory next door ws used AND IT ABSOLOUTLY STUNK by the end of the night, blokes used the nearest wall and the girls the far wall surrounded by friends. ot sure that "special" paint would have made any difference!!

[Goaty Bill 2]

Digitalize said:

Just do it from an angle, only an amateur stands parallel to the wall.

That is one of the things I really appreciate about PH.
There is inevitably a professional that will give proper advice to the thread.

[MikeGoodwin]

In London I saw some urinals in the middle of the street. Thought they were a good idea. Like a porta-loo but more like a porta urinal without any sort of privacy.

[KungFuPanda]

How much to apply to a large family saloon?

[Ste1987]

MikeGoodwin said:

In London I saw some urinals in the middle of the street. Thought they were a good idea. Like a porta-loo but more like a porta urinal without any sort of privacy.

I'm used to seeing those at music festivals. Was really surprised to see them in a city, but I can't remember which one. Might have been Newcastle

[ecsrobin]

When I lived in Eindhoven a council Larry would go round about 5/6pm and drop off open air urinals all around town and in the main square. Come 8am they'd pick them up again. Brilliant idea!

[loafer123]

MikeGoodwin said:

In London I saw some urinals in the middle of the street. Thought they were a good idea. Like a porta-loo but more like a porta urinal without any sort of privacy.

Next to Charing Cross Station.

I did a Google search and got http://www.urinal.net/charing_cross_new/ as a result, which is worrying as it means someone has written a site devoted to urinals!

[hairyben]

untakenname said:

They could spend the money on some portable toilets instead, so many proper toilets have been closed down these past few years and the insane houseprices in London mean that there's no strips of wasteland to sneak a piss anymore after spending the evening sinking pints.

It's amazing that for such a supposedly accomplished society one of the most basic and simple human needs can't be facilitated.

Boroughs like camden/westminster/hackney etc must gross millions in tax from the pubs and bars in the area

[loafer123]

hairyben said:

Boroughs like camden/westminster/hackney etc must gross millions in tax from the pubs and bars in the area

...all of which are legally obliged to have working customer toilets!

[5-Oh]

ecsrobin said:

When I lived in Eindhoven a council Larry would go round about 5/6pm and drop off open air urinals all around town and in the main square. Come 8am they'd pick them up again. Brilliant idea!

I saw these in Amsterdam too, they struck me as a good idea. Far too forward-thinking to catch on here.

[jkh112]

Bristol council put out temporary open air urinals in the city centre for Friday and Saturdays nights.

[crofty1984]

On Price of Wales road in Norwich they have permanent urinals in the street. They look a bit like stainless billboards during the day, then at night they unlock the door (more like a privacy panel) and there's a grate to pee down. Brilliant. Apart from the fact you have to be on Prince of Wales road to use them.