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Would you use a uritrottoir in Paris?
« on: 16 August 2018, 09:49:08 »

The old pissoirs were novel. These are a step too far?

Would you use one?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-45174382
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Re: Would you use a uritrottoir in Paris?
« Reply #1 on: 16 August 2018, 09:56:04 »

If I was desperate yes.  When in Rome...  :y
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Re: Would you use a uritrottoir in Paris?
« Reply #2 on: 16 August 2018, 10:04:09 »

No, because I would never be in Paris, due to the fact its in France.  ;D
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Re: Would you use a uritrottoir in Paris?
« Reply #3 on: 16 August 2018, 10:31:04 »

Hmm.. I'd have to be pretty desperate, and usually I find I can control my bladder until I get to a cafe/restaurant/my hotel/home, personally!

For once, I am inclined to agree with the feminist quoted:
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"They have been installed on a sexist proposition: men cannot control themselves and so all of society has to adapt," feminist Gwendoline Coipeault told Reuters.

"No one needs to urinate in the street," she added.

I'll be back in Paris in November, so we'll see if they're still there! ;D
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Re: Would you use a uritrottoir in Paris?
« Reply #4 on: 16 August 2018, 11:55:47 »

I've used them at music festivals. Not sure I would in the street. :-\

Music festivals are a special case on account of the volume of beer my body is required to process. ::)
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Re: Would you use a uritrottoir in Paris?
« Reply #5 on: 16 August 2018, 12:50:39 »

From the look of the last pic it appears that a few blokes have missed the spot big time. ;D
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Re: Would you use a uritrottoir in Paris?
« Reply #6 on: 16 August 2018, 13:45:16 »

The French have a strange (to us at least) approach to the toilet.

I have visited France many times and have never failed to be amazed by cubicles with no doors, or doors of small proportions, and worse still having to pass men urinating to reach a "unisex" toilet when no male / female divide exists! :o :o :o

This latest idea is obscene and absurd, and surely most men themselves would not use one of those! ::) ::)
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Re: Would you use a uritrottoir in Paris?
« Reply #7 on: 16 August 2018, 13:48:38 »

Civilised behaviour has never reached France.  ;)
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Re: Would you use a uritrottoir in Paris?
« Reply #8 on: 16 August 2018, 13:55:26 »

.... would not use one of those! ::) ::)

While not being the eco friendly version that this is supposed to be, I've seen loads of pissoirs in & around France that aren't dissimilar. While at a French railway station I approached a gents that turned out to be closed for cleaning but I was very quickly directed to the ladies by one of the female railway staff.

Campsite often have unisex shower blocks or a simple left or right in the same block
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Re: Would you use a uritrottoir in Paris?
« Reply #9 on: 16 August 2018, 13:56:06 »

Paris stinks of p1ss anyway .....  ::)
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Re: Would you use a uritrottoir in Paris?
« Reply #10 on: 16 August 2018, 17:06:29 »

No, because I would never be in Paris, due to the fact its in France.  ;D
Nought wrong with France. Although Paris is a shithole, full of Parisians.
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Re: Would you use a uritrottoir in Paris?
« Reply #11 on: 16 August 2018, 20:03:41 »

I'm with MigV6 on this I wouldn't be in Paris-or any other part of France for that matter-to use one.
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Re: Would you use a uritrottoir in Paris?
« Reply #12 on: 16 August 2018, 20:33:39 »

Have no desire to visit France utterly ridiculous idea as said earlier seem an uncivilised bunch.
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Re: Would you use a uritrottoir in Paris?
« Reply #13 on: 16 August 2018, 21:00:05 »

No, because I would never be in Paris, due to the fact its in France.  ;D
Nought wrong with France. Although Paris is a shithole, full of Parisians.


Apart from the fact its full of French people. Granted they may show a degree of friendliness when your giving them your hard earned cash though, as they have never "hard earned" anything due to being a nation of lazy communists.  :)
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Re: Would you use a uritrottoir in Paris?
« Reply #14 on: 16 August 2018, 21:15:05 »

Its the grab rails on the wall and the almost shower tray trough with just a hole into the ground in most rural cafes and bars that is mind boggling  :o
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Re: Would you use a uritrottoir in Paris?
« Reply #15 on: 16 August 2018, 22:32:33 »

amba - do they still have those in France?

I only ever saw one in Spain (in a bar in a very rural town called Cadiar). That was 18 years ago. Ghastly horrible things.

The very, very worst toilets I ever saw were in France at an aire de reste on a busy road. They looked as though they had been used by people with the trots, poor aim, never flushed or cleaned for god knows how many years. Makles me retch just thinking about it. :-[ :-[
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Re: Would you use a uritrottoir in Paris?
« Reply #16 on: 16 August 2018, 23:07:04 »

amba - do they still have those in France?

I only ever saw one in Spain (in a bar in a very rural town called Cadiar). That was 18 years ago. Ghastly horrible things.

The very, very worst toilets I ever saw were in France at an aire de reste on a busy road. They looked as though they had been used by people with the trots, poor aim, never flushed or cleaned for god knows how many years. Makles me retch just thinking about it. :-[ :-[

As it's Paris, one of several mugging capitals of Europe I would have thought they would be an ideal mugging spot as you would struggle to catch the assailant with your todger in your hand. :o :o :o
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Re: Would you use a uritrottoir in Paris?
« Reply #17 on: 16 August 2018, 23:42:47 »

amba - do they still have those in France?

I only ever saw one in Spain (in a bar in a very rural town called Cadiar). That was 18 years ago. Ghastly horrible things.

The very, very worst toilets I ever saw were in France at an aire de reste on a busy road. They looked as though they had been used by people with the trots, poor aim, never flushed or cleaned for god knows how many years. Makles me retch just thinking about it. :-[ :-[

But they were probably free, therefore they would never exists in the UK in the first place. So given the choice in need of a pee some shithole for free, or nothing at all.

In defence of Frogland, there are motorway stops with a free toilet, and somewhere to park for a while, without the threat of parking fines and having to buy loads of overpriced crap.



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Re: Would you use a uritrottoir in Paris?
« Reply #18 on: 17 August 2018, 08:49:53 »

Worst 1 ever used was actually in a pub/café in a town called Terrasson in the Dordogne .

It was same sex and had what I can only describe as a shower tray with a large hole in the middle raised up on a tiled plinth.All the walls in the open space were tiled and on each side of the wall was a very crude rusty metal hand rail.No running water and the only means of waste removal was by the next person to use it .

Absolutely vial and that was in a place where you could eat.....admittedly that was around 1998/9...but it had been there for many years

Agree though service areas on main routes are free and normally clean better than the open air picnic places along some minor roads
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Re: Would you use a uritrottoir in Paris?
« Reply #19 on: 17 August 2018, 12:56:59 »

No, because I would never be in Paris, due to the fact its in France.  ;D
Nought wrong with France. Although Paris is a shithole, full of Parisians.


Apart from the fact its full of French people. Granted they may show a degree of friendliness when your giving them your hard earned cash though, as they have never "hard earned" anything due to being a nation of lazy communists.  :)
Ignoring Parisians for a moment, and whatever nationality lingers around the Northern ports, especially Calais, I have found the French people friendly, helpful and pleasant, irrespective of whether I'm giving them money or not.
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Re: Would you use a uritrottoir in Paris?
« Reply #20 on: 17 August 2018, 13:04:34 »

Ignoring Parisians for a moment, and whatever nationality lingers around the Northern ports, especially Calais, I have found the French people friendly, helpful and pleasant, irrespective of whether I'm giving them money or not.

To be honest - with the exception of one very obviously "tourist" cafe (as it's right beside the Notre Dame) - I've found the same in Paris.

It's cleaner than London, too. Less escalators on the Metro than the Underground, however, if you are mobility challenged.
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Re: Would you use a uritrottoir in Paris?
« Reply #21 on: 18 August 2018, 01:15:32 »

No, because I would never be in Paris, due to the fact its in France.  ;D
Nought wrong with France. Although Paris is a shithole, full of Parisians.


Apart from the fact its full of French people. Granted they may show a degree of friendliness when your giving them your hard earned cash though, as they have never "hard earned" anything due to being a nation of lazy communists.  :)
Ignoring Parisians for a moment, and whatever nationality lingers around the Northern ports, especially Calais, I have found the French people friendly, helpful and pleasant, irrespective of whether I'm giving them money or not.

I've always got on well with the French and mostly found the same, but their cultural enhancement has led to several people I know being mugged, dipped on the Paris Metro or having bags 'stanley knifed' and the contents taken. >:( >:( >:( These days I would recommend Kyiv as a much safer interesting tourist capital city to visit over Paris, where most East European countries don't do uncontrolled cultural enhancement. ;)
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Re: Would you use a uritrottoir in Paris?
« Reply #22 on: 18 August 2018, 08:14:05 »

No, because I would never be in Paris, due to the fact its in France.  ;D
Nought wrong with France. Although Paris is a shithole, full of Parisians.


Apart from the fact its full of French people. Granted they may show a degree of friendliness when your giving them your hard earned cash though, as they have never "hard earned" anything due to being a nation of lazy communists.  :)
Ignoring Parisians for a moment, and whatever nationality lingers around the Northern ports, especially Calais, I have found the French people friendly, helpful and pleasant, irrespective of whether I'm giving them money or not.

I've always got on well with the French and mostly found the same, but their cultural enhancement has led to several people I know being mugged, dipped on the Paris Metro or having bags 'stanley knifed' and the contents taken. >:( >:( >:( These days I would recommend Kyiv as a much safer interesting tourist capital city to visit over Paris, where most East European countries don't do uncontrolled cultural enhancement. ;)
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