A device I'm certain we can all manage without.

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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The “women peeing standing up” site had a link to the IPP (Inflatable Porta-Potty). One look and I was thinking “I would only ever risk inflating that thing with lungpower once – right after it came out of the box.” After all, how convenient can it be?
[ul]*Scene: A hiker is backpacking through the wilderness. He is admiring the canyon below when suddenly a look of concern appears on his face. He quickly doffs his backpack and starts yanking stuff out and throwing it carelessly over his shoulder in a frantic search for some item of importance. He pulls out… (trumpet fanfare) The Inflatable Porta-Potty!

He quickly rips the box open and starts inflating it.*

Huff!
Puff!
Huff!
Puff!
Wheeze!
Pant, pant!
Huff!
Puff!
Huff!
Puff!

*Finally, he starts doing the “potty-walk” (cheeks tightly clenched, knees hardly bending) in ever-widening circles, looking for a secluded spot to do his business. He selects a spot, plunks the seat down, lowers his trousers, begins to sit when Whoosh! a sudden gust of wind catches his inflatable potty and sails it into the canyon.

The man squats for a few moments, when he suddenly realizes* “Damn! I forgot the toilet paper!”[/ul]

Now that is a wilderness adventure!

~~Baloo

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Does it explain what’s supposed to be done with it once it has been used? Surely, they don’t think it’s reusable.

Blow it up. Use it. Pack it out?

I don’t think so.

3

I think it says you can use a garbage bag for a liner. Frankly, if I had to use such a device, I’d always use a pump to inflate it, and I’d make sure I was using Hefty Steelsacks instead of the micron-thin bargain basement GB.

If you had to pack the stuff out, I certainly wouldn’t want to risk a leak. It’d be less trouble to bring a shovel.

~~Baloo

4

I would HATE to have the thing accidentally start deflating while the user was still s*itting on it!!!

5

I clicked the link. Does that kid have the mumps?

6

Nahh, mumps gets you further back on the jaw than that–I managed to get it despite the vaccine. Go fig.

That kid’s just a freak