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I'd rather effort was put into providing public toilets and urinals - public urination is the symptom of not enough facilities.
by 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 agoShout 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 agoIn 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 agoWell, 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 agoOr 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 agoI 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