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There are urine deflectors https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urine_deflector https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urine_deflector all over Europe. Norwich in particula

There are urine deflectors https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urine_deflector https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urine_deflector all over Europe. Norwich in particular has a lot of them.

ndsipa_pomu 3y ago
I'd rather effort was put into providing public toilets and urinals - public urination is the symptom of not enough facilities.
- Chris2048 3y ago
  Shout out to Dublin, that closed all its Victorian public inner-city toilets b/c it couldn't be bothered to police them (much as it doesn't police ASB anywhere), shifting responsibility to local businesses, most of which are now "Toilets are for customers only" as a result..
  - AlecSchueler 3y ago
    In Belfast we had neither public toilets nor public bins for many years. Too easy to drop bombs into. No double decker buses either at the defusal robot couldn't climb stairs.
    - Chris2048 3y ago
      Well, yes. Many airports (and train stations) don't have them for the same reason. But I don't believe it's concerns over UDF/IRA that pushed them to close the WCs, it's the same reason they hardly fix inner-city potholes.
- Mawr 3y ago
  Or even simpler - build more green spaces with grass, shrubbery and trees. Peeing on those is harmless and they provide other significant benefits as well.
- fasa99 3y ago
  I was recently in Amsterdam (you know, the place where they said "welp we'll never fully outlaw prostitution & drugs so let's allow but regulate") and appreciated a series of very public urinals. Which I assume follows the same logic "people are going to pee on the street no matter what, let's give them a place to help control it" - I quite like the idea that acknowledging certain human traits are essentially a force of nature, so why not redirect that firehose towards a more tasteful target than impossibly try to stop it. See - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pee_curl https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pee_curl
thih9 3y ago
The article mentions that too, although as a secondary explanation for some reason. > it's said that the inclined casts of mortar also had the task to maintain a certain public decorum and therefore prevent Venetians from urinating in the corners of the calli.
- mhitza 3y ago
  I rather buy the idea that the secondary explanation is actually the primary reason. In the first picture you can clearly see such a structure in a corner that doesn't connect to any kind of street/alley. Thus, I personally, don't buy the primary reason. Of course, unless that specific spot was made much later in time.

There are urine deflectors https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urine_deflector https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urine_deflector all over Europe. Norwich in particular has a lot of them.

ndsipa_pomu 3y ago

I'd rather effort was put into providing public toilets and urinals - public urination is the symptom of not enough facilities.

Chris2048 3y ago
Shout out to Dublin, that closed all its Victorian public inner-city toilets b/c it couldn't be bothered to police them (much as it doesn't police ASB anywhere), shifting responsibility to local businesses, most of which are now "Toilets are for customers only" as a result..
- AlecSchueler 3y ago
  In Belfast we had neither public toilets nor public bins for many years. Too easy to drop bombs into. No double decker buses either at the defusal robot couldn't climb stairs.
  - Chris2048 3y ago
    Well, yes. Many airports (and train stations) don't have them for the same reason. But I don't believe it's concerns over UDF/IRA that pushed them to close the WCs, it's the same reason they hardly fix inner-city potholes.
Mawr 3y ago
Or even simpler - build more green spaces with grass, shrubbery and trees. Peeing on those is harmless and they provide other significant benefits as well.
fasa99 3y ago
I was recently in Amsterdam (you know, the place where they said "welp we'll never fully outlaw prostitution & drugs so let's allow but regulate") and appreciated a series of very public urinals. Which I assume follows the same logic "people are going to pee on the street no matter what, let's give them a place to help control it" - I quite like the idea that acknowledging certain human traits are essentially a force of nature, so why not redirect that firehose towards a more tasteful target than impossibly try to stop it. See - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pee_curl https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pee_curl

thih9 3y ago

The article mentions that too, although as a secondary explanation for some reason. > it's said that the inclined casts of mortar also had the task to maintain a certain public decorum and therefore prevent Venetians from urinating in the corners of the calli.

mhitza 3y ago
I rather buy the idea that the secondary explanation is actually the primary reason. In the first picture you can clearly see such a structure in a corner that doesn't connect to any kind of street/alley. Thus, I personally, don't buy the primary reason. Of course, unless that specific spot was made much later in time.