Where in god’s name do they have public toilets (or washrooms or lavatories or whatever you call them) like these**? And I am rather curious what the female equivalent looks like.
I might be able to pee in one of these if it was located in a quiet, relatively private spot, away from everything else. But the one in the picture looks like it’s right in the middle of some tourist spot (?maybe an old fort or church).
Now, this is GQ and my question was serious - where in the world are you expected to pee in the middle of a crowd like that? And what about the ladies "facilities?
**the pic in the link is SFW. The parent site is as well, but might conceivably raise an eyebrow nevertheless.
Relative to how people relieve themselves in all corners of the world, that’s nothin’ !
Your shock makes me wonder where you are from and where you have traveled. How you relieve yourself is not the standard against which the rest of the world is judged. Relieving yourself as you described just might make you the one who deviates from the norm.
“Deviates from the norm”? Sure, literally. But the tone of your answer seems rather hostile.
Hey, I said “I” would have trouble peeing there. I wasn’t being critical, just surprised. And, yes, I guess it was pretty obvious that I lead a sheltered life (as you so astutely pointed out). So thanks for your snarky response.
ETA: Do you want to know why I can’t travel? Hint - it’s the same reason I have a special sign on my car’s windshield.
Because you’ve gotten a bunch of tickets for double parking?
I have no idea where that is, but I prefer to use the restroom privately. I guess I would use that, if I needed to pee and it was all that was around, but I have a preference to private restroom usage.
I think these are set up specifically to accommodate the large crowds at Carnival, so it may not be an everyday thing. Can’t say for certain, though, never having visited Rio (the pavement in the picture looks like the famous Ipanema pavement mosaics–that’s what tipped me off).
Every public spectacle in the Netherlands has those. Except that I’ve never seen any with those “butt gates” on them. Either pee in them or duck into some alley somewhere.
Took me a while to figure out how that female urinal might work. Turns out you have to kind of back in to it. Handy that they have the instructions on the wall!
Actually I was thinking more along the lines of keeping the stench down to a minimum.
I don’t know about you, but every time I have to use a port-o-potty, all I can think about is how much I don’t want to be in there. The last thing on my mind would be to stay inside just to write on the wall and I would imagine that would apply to your average vandalizer.
I used one like that (without the butt guard) in the late 90s in New Zealand - during a public concert. Yeah, its a hinky feeling peeing in the middle of a mixed crowd, and ladies walking past thought it was a great joke.
That was what I was thinking too, and along those lines, the heat the enclosed porta potties accumulate in Summer temperatures makes them even more unbearable to be in…and increases the stench factor.
That’s actually more private than some public (enclosed) restrooms I’ve seen. There are dividers between each stall so no one can actually see anyone else’s junk, even if they look over. Many men’s restrooms are just rows of urinals with no dividers or even just a trough, where anyone could see your cock if they happened to glance over. I mean, unless you get especially shy that the womenfolk might be around, it’s not really any less private than any other restroom.
I guess heat is relative but the portable toilets I’ve seen have vented stacks plus chemical toilets. the nicer ones have antiseptic gel dispensers and paper towels.
Are “vent stacks” the same as those small rectangular-shaped vents that go around the very top of the porta-potty? If so…they don’t work very well at letting air flow in OR smell flow out.
