# Would you live in this city? A ridiculous (and somewhat gross) poll **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [May 28, 2008, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-live-in-this-city-a-ridiculous-and-somewhat-gross-poll/450922 "2008-05-28T19:37:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Autolycus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/22d042/32.png) [@Autolycus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Autolycus)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2008, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-live-in-this-city-a-ridiculous-and-somewhat-gross-poll/450922/81 "2008-06-01T20:29:48Z")
[Somebody read this thread and made a hit musical about it!](http://www.urinetown.com/flash/home_1a.html). As for my decision, I guess it depends on if a ‘Culture of Piss’ existed or not. Because of this law, I think it highly likely that all sorts of people who want to venerate public peeing would move there. Pissing in public could become the new normal. Instead of playing tag, kids would play R. Kelly. Instead of water fountains, 'yellow elixir fountain’s would pop up. It would be like India everywhere! I’m full of piss and vinegar; I guess I’d give it a go. ---
**Author:** ![Danalan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/76d3ee/32.png) [@Danalan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Danalan)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2008, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-live-in-this-city-a-ridiculous-and-somewhat-gross-poll/450922/82 "2008-06-01T20:55:04Z")
You know, you can pee anywhere you want in any city. In most of them, there are legal issues should you be caught; but nothing’s stopping you except social mores and the potential of being caught and facing the consequences. So you’re suggesting that the social mores and potential legal consequences are _eliminated_ in this fictional city. Sounds good to me. It’s just piss – it’s sterile, you know. ---
**Author:** ![Cisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2008, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-live-in-this-city-a-ridiculous-and-somewhat-gross-poll/450922/83 "2008-06-01T23:14:46Z")
[QUOTE=Danalan] Sounds good to me. It’s just piss – it’s sterile, you know. [/QUOTE] Healthy people’s piss is sterile, but only inside the body. Who knows what lurks in the urethra of the town drunk. ---
**Author:** ![Askance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/askance/32/8281_2.png) [@Askance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Askance)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2008, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-live-in-this-city-a-ridiculous-and-somewhat-gross-poll/450922/84 "2008-06-02T03:42:16Z")
[QUOTE=NinetyWt] I wouldn’t want to live in a city of 100,000 _period_. [/QUOTE] No, it’s _piss_ we’re discussing not … oh, I see. Sorry, carry on. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2008, 7:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-live-in-this-city-a-ridiculous-and-somewhat-gross-poll/450922/85 "2008-06-02T07:50:19Z")
[QUOTE=Danalan] Sounds good to me. It’s just piss – it’s sterile, you know. [/QUOTE] And yet, it hasn’t overtaken lemon-scented detergent as a dishwashing consumable. Urine is usually sterile, yes, but once it leaves the body, it’s a great source of nutrient for bacteria. It doesn’t _stay_ sterile - quite the opposite, in fact. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2008, 12:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-live-in-this-city-a-ridiculous-and-somewhat-gross-poll/450922/86 "2008-06-02T12:07:21Z")
Sounds like the Bohemian Grove turned into a city: > [@](#): > > There’s no end to the pee-pee and penis jokes, suggesting that these men, advanced in so many other ways, were emotionally arrested sometime during adolescence. > … > And former California governor Pat Brown has said publicly, many times, that the presence of women would keep Bohemians from enjoying their hallowed freedom to pee. > > The peeing is ceaseless and more than a little exhibitionistic. Everyone talks about it. Bohemian reminiscences describe such bizarre initiation rites as escorting new members to the redwood at which one of the founders “did his morning ablutions.” The Owl Hoots, which are poster-size cartoons racked up each day near the Camp Fire Circle, are filled with pissing pictures. One featured a spurious design for a commemorative stamp of club member U.S. Postmaster General Anthony Frank relieving himself on a redwood. [http://sociology.ucsc.edu/whorulesamerica/power/bohemian\_grove\_spy.html](http://sociology.ucsc.edu/whorulesamerica/power/bohemian_grove_spy.html) ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2008, 12:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-live-in-this-city-a-ridiculous-and-somewhat-gross-poll/450922/87 "2008-06-02T12:15:00Z")
> [@](#): > > You know you are inside the Bohemian Grove when you come down a trail in the woods and hear piano music from amid a group of tents and then round a bend to see a man with a beer in one hand and his penis in the other, urinating into the bushes. This is the most gloried-in ritual of the encampment, the freedom of powerful men to pee wherever they like, a right the club has invoked when trying to fight government anti-sex discrimination efforts and one curtailed only when it comes to a few popular redwoods just outside the Dining Circle. Tacked to one of these haplessly postprandial trees is a sign conveying the fairy-dust mixture of boyishness and courtliness that envelops the encampment: Gentlemen please! No pee pee here! … [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-live-in-this-city-a-ridiculous-and-somewhat-gross-poll/450922.md?page=4)