# Which city would you \[urinate\] on?

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**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [June 19, 2002, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-city-would-you-urinate-on/114863 "2002-06-19T14:16:08Z")\
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**Author:** ![Rocketeer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rocketeer/32/4437_2.png) [@Rocketeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rocketeer)\
**Post date:** [June 19, 2002, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-city-would-you-urinate-on/114863/1 "2002-06-19T14:16:08Z")

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**Go alien** posted this in another thread, and I thought it deserved a thread of its own:

"My father was the mid-upper gunner on Marauders training in Egypt in 1945. After training flights, they used to fly back to base and while  
over Cairo, open the bomb doors and take it turns to piss on the city.

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                     Which city would you piss on?"

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Myself, I’m still contemplating the question.

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**Author:** ![China\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/779978/32.png) [@China\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/China_Guy)\
**Post date:** [June 19, 2002, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-city-would-you-urinate-on/114863/2 "2002-06-19T14:23:04Z")

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Phoenix

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**Author:** ![Aro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b3f665/32.png) [@Aro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aro)\
**Post date:** [June 19, 2002, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-city-would-you-urinate-on/114863/3 "2002-06-19T14:25:08Z")

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Buffalo was the worst place I have ever been. By far.

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**Author:** ![Go\_alien](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/9d8465/32.png) [@Go\_alien](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Go_alien)\
**Post date:** [June 19, 2002, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-city-would-you-urinate-on/114863/4 "2002-06-19T14:30:34Z")

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Coventry. Being bombed by the Germans is no excuse to (re)build as badly as that.

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**Author:** ![Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e19adc/32.png) [@Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Barbarian)\
**Post date:** [June 19, 2002, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-city-would-you-urinate-on/114863/5 "2002-06-19T14:30:57Z")

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I can definitely think of some areas of Vancouver I’d like to piss on. But it rains so much they wouldn’t notice

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**Author:** ![Kal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9de053/32.png) [@Kal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kal)\
**Post date:** [June 19, 2002, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-city-would-you-urinate-on/114863/6 "2002-06-19T14:31:04Z")

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_In the U.S._

Santa Rosa, California

_In the U.K._

Derby

Sheffield\*

London

Reading

Coventry

Birmingham

\*God beat me to it

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**Author:** ![scott\_evil](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/91b2a8/32.png) [@scott\_evil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scott_evil)\
**Post date:** [June 19, 2002, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-city-would-you-urinate-on/114863/7 "2002-06-19T14:41:28Z")

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Toronto. Or as a poster on another board so eloquently put it, Moronto. 😛

- s.e.

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**Author:** ![World\_Eater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f04885/32.png) [@World\_Eater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/World_Eater)\
**Post date:** [June 19, 2002, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-city-would-you-urinate-on/114863/8 "2002-06-19T15:40:31Z")

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I said it in the other thread I’ll say it here as well.

Pittsburg. Fuck that place.

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**Author:** ![Gundy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b782af/32.png) [@Gundy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gundy)\
**Post date:** [June 19, 2002, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-city-would-you-urinate-on/114863/9 "2002-06-19T19:43:12Z")

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Quincy, Massachusetts.

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**Author:** ![rjung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/45deac/32.png) [@rjung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjung)\
**Post date:** [June 19, 2002, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-city-would-you-urinate-on/114863/10 "2002-06-19T19:54:28Z")

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Can I do the entire state of Florida? 😉

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**Author:** ![Balance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ccd318/32.png) [@Balance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Balance)\
**Post date:** [June 19, 2002, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-city-would-you-urinate-on/114863/11 "2002-06-19T20:11:08Z")

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> [@](#):
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> \*Originally posted by rjung \*  
> Can I do the entire state of Florida? 😉

Only if you’ve got one hell of a bladder.

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**Post date:** [June 19, 2002, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-city-would-you-urinate-on/114863/12 "2002-06-19T20:24:29Z")

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Brussels.  
City consists only of \*ssholes.

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**Post date:** [June 19, 2002, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-city-would-you-urinate-on/114863/13 "2002-06-19T20:33:08Z")

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> [@](#):
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> \*Originally posted by rjung \*  
> \*\*Can I do the entire state of Florida? 😉 \*\*

Gah! Give me fair warning to move out of the state first!  
Floridian joke:

Why does the St. Johns River flow north?  
'Cause Georgia sucks.

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**Post date:** [June 19, 2002, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-city-would-you-urinate-on/114863/14 "2002-06-19T20:35:57Z")

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I’d second the whole state of Florida, but if I had to pick a city I guess I’d choose Orlando.

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**Author:** ![jlzania](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/67e7ee/32.png) [@jlzania](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jlzania)\
**Post date:** [June 19, 2002, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-city-would-you-urinate-on/114863/15 "2002-06-19T20:37:24Z")

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Karachi-only place I’ve ever lived that I wouldn’t go back to for a zillion dollars.[sub]well…may for a _zillion_[/sub]

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**Post date:** [June 19, 2002, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-city-would-you-urinate-on/114863/16 "2002-06-19T20:57:09Z")

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> [@](#):
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> \*Originally posted by Gundy \*  
> \*\*Quincy, Massachusetts. \*\*

**Gundy** , I’ve gotta ask you this…why?

Just want to see if we’ve got the same reasons – barring, of course, those sections which don’t need, um…_that_…

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**Post date:** [June 19, 2002, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-city-would-you-urinate-on/114863/17 "2002-06-19T21:06:33Z")

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i have to agree with go aliens father, cairo really does bite, both the city and the people there, i hated my time there.

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**Post date:** [June 19, 2002, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-city-would-you-urinate-on/114863/18 "2002-06-19T22:52:14Z")

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How can I be the first person to nominate Los Angeles?

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**Post date:** [June 19, 2002, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-city-would-you-urinate-on/114863/19 "2002-06-19T23:09:33Z")

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I HAVE peed on Kowloon.

At the top of the Peninsula Hotel, Hong Kong is a bar called (I thought it was Henry’s, but now it seems to be the American Bar, or something). The men’s room is great. The urinals have low backs, and are up against the floor-to-ceiling window that slants away from you, from bottom to top. You can look directly down as you pee. It is surreal.

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**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\
**Post date:** [June 19, 2002, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-city-would-you-urinate-on/114863/20 "2002-06-19T23:10:52Z")

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Macon, Georgia.

'Cause the comic, **Margaret Cho** went there in the 80’s, & a bunch of rednecks tried to break down the door to her motel room in the middle of the night, screeching anti-Asian abuse.

F\*ck Georgia. 😛

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