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M-m-m-m... window shopping... without the windows...
Posted by: estrogen centrale | January 31, 2007 at 05:17 PM
Good for men, I guess. What do they have for women?
Posted by: billinbossier | January 31, 2007 at 05:19 PM
I can't help noticing it is marked with a little mens symbol, is that to keep women from mega-squatting on it?
Posted by: Gadfly | January 31, 2007 at 05:20 PM
billinbossier,
answer: someplace private.
Posted by: estrogen centrale | January 31, 2007 at 05:20 PM
What is that blue sign next it supposed to mean?
Posted by: billinbossier | January 31, 2007 at 05:21 PM
I think that qualifies as a low-flow toilet...
Posted by: mm | January 31, 2007 at 05:21 PM
But where ever would you wash your hands afterwards?
Oops...silly question.
Posted by: Annie Where-but-here | January 31, 2007 at 05:21 PM
Okay, Depends look better and better...
Posted by: sirena | January 31, 2007 at 05:22 PM
ec...
I should certainly hope so.
Posted by: billinbossier | January 31, 2007 at 05:22 PM
I think the blue sign is dutch for 'NO NUMBER 2'
Posted by: Gadfly | January 31, 2007 at 05:24 PM
you'd think at least they'd turn the thing around so that you could enter from the building side
Posted by: mm | January 31, 2007 at 05:25 PM
I think the sign means "you need to be at least this tall to go on this ride"
Posted by: mm | January 31, 2007 at 05:26 PM
The kid in the blue sign looks like he's really trying to escape.
Posted by: fivver | January 31, 2007 at 05:26 PM
*booking flight to Holland*
Posted by: estrogen centrale | January 31, 2007 at 05:27 PM
mm:
Its 4 sided.
Posted by: The blog reader formerly known as matt | January 31, 2007 at 05:28 PM
fivver- I thought the same thing. Also it looks like the adult is trying to trip the kid over, well, whatever that thing is.
Posted by: mm | January 31, 2007 at 05:29 PM
....and I hear in the Netherlands the streets are paved with gold!
Posted by: Meanie the Blue | January 31, 2007 at 05:30 PM
Don't you wanna drive by and honk at just the right moment?
Posted by: Annie Where-but-here | January 31, 2007 at 05:31 PM
Golden showers maybe
Posted by: The blog reader formerly known as matt | January 31, 2007 at 05:31 PM
OMGWTFBBQ!, you mean 4 men could use it at once? I didn't pick that up at all...
Posted by: mm | January 31, 2007 at 05:32 PM
Liquid Gold, that is.
Posted by: sirena | January 31, 2007 at 05:32 PM
i guess people over there don't pee in their alleys.
Posted by: crossgirl | January 31, 2007 at 05:33 PM
Annie,
... and risk that the user turns quickly w/"bird" in hand to see who honked. Spray city!
Posted by: estrogen centrale | January 31, 2007 at 05:34 PM
Sorry, guys, but...buy a better bladder, will ya?
Posted by: Annie Where-but-here | January 31, 2007 at 05:34 PM
did you all catch the "e-mail this urinal to a friend" button?
Posted by: mm | January 31, 2007 at 05:34 PM
more than once I've wished for one of these when I was leaving a bar. Thank god for alleyways.
Posted by: The blog reader formerly known as matt | January 31, 2007 at 05:35 PM
Hey, at least the men will get SOME privacy if they're not standing next to each other.
Posted by: Siouxie | January 31, 2007 at 05:36 PM
*wonders whether objects look larger through that window...*
Posted by: estrogen centrale | January 31, 2007 at 05:39 PM
ec!! how ya doing????
Posted by: Siouxie | January 31, 2007 at 05:39 PM
I can see "kids," not mentioning any names, seeing how far back they could stand and still hit it...
Posted by: mm | January 31, 2007 at 05:39 PM
Couldn't they at least put up some shrubbery?
Posted by: Clark Kent | January 31, 2007 at 05:39 PM
mm, I was thinking with those angled sides you could try bank shots.
Posted by: fivver | January 31, 2007 at 05:41 PM
Clark - I think you're supposed to supply your own.
Posted by: Annie Where-but-here | January 31, 2007 at 05:41 PM
I have some blackberry bushes I pulled out from around CJ's house....dangerous in this situation, but....
Posted by: mm | January 31, 2007 at 05:42 PM
"It's ok, Shaq. Just think of it as a foul shot."
.....
"Let me rephrase that."
Posted by: Annie Where-but-here | January 31, 2007 at 05:42 PM
yep, lay-ups, slam dunks, nothin' but net...
Posted by: mm | January 31, 2007 at 05:43 PM
Hi Siouxie,
First day in this week. Leaving soon. Appt is tomorrow.
Back to your normally scheduled blogging...
Posted by: estrogen centrale | January 31, 2007 at 05:44 PM
mm,
It's not necessary to try for 3 points from the middle of the street, okay?!???
Posted by: estrogen centrale | January 31, 2007 at 05:46 PM
ec - you mean like a tripod shot?
Posted by: Annie Where-but-here | January 31, 2007 at 05:52 PM
not necessary, but the challenge of it, "Because It's There" would be practically irresistable, wouldn't you think?
Posted by: mm | January 31, 2007 at 05:54 PM
I'm particularly fond of this one
http://www.urinal.net/vienna_bar/
Posted by: Gadfly | January 31, 2007 at 05:55 PM
Oh my! I can just see some little elderly person, turning that corner, as the stream comes in overhead from mid-intersection!!!
Posted by: estrogen centrale | January 31, 2007 at 05:56 PM
mm - until you became roadkill. Then you'd belong to "Sam's Club." (of stuffed squirrels)
Posted by: Annie Where-but-here | January 31, 2007 at 05:57 PM
A bird in the hand is worth two to the Dutch.
Posted by: Stevie W | January 31, 2007 at 06:04 PM
And of course, that would be a... wait for it... a Dutch treat.
Posted by: estrogen centrale | January 31, 2007 at 06:11 PM
The Holland Tunnel.
Posted by: Stevie W | January 31, 2007 at 06:15 PM
As tourists walk by, the bot will make them type
"LIBICMPN"
Posted by: casey | January 31, 2007 at 06:21 PM
Just goes to show there's no place for a woman to have a private Nerd MacToot.
Posted by: writer132 | January 31, 2007 at 06:30 PM
I thought men, or "guys" would pee anywhere....
Posted by: Cookie | January 31, 2007 at 06:46 PM
Cookie, yes, but as you are aware, they like to celebrate every accomplishment. So now they've put a pee-shrine on the corner.
Posted by: Annie Where-but-here | January 31, 2007 at 07:05 PM
A pee-shrine.
I like it. :)
Posted by: Cookie | January 31, 2007 at 07:43 PM
If you're so drunk you need a street-corner urinal, you're probably too drunk to use it.
Posted by: Guin | January 31, 2007 at 08:10 PM
HEY! I'm going to be in Leiden on Saturday! I'll be sure to take an exclusive photo with the urinal, if IN can find it. And if I have to 'go'. :)
Posted by: tropichunt.com guy™ | January 31, 2007 at 08:44 PM
so.....where are women supposed to go?
Maybe I don't want to know.
Posted by: slyeyes | January 31, 2007 at 08:51 PM
I think I would have to throw chocolate pudding all over that.
Just sayin'.
Posted by: Christobol | January 31, 2007 at 09:00 PM
Proof positive that the more things change, the more they stay the same.
In the old days, there were pee troughs along the bottom of the bar so the men did not have to disembark to take a leak. 19th Century, so the women that may have been present at a watering hole would not have been ladies by the standard of the times. ISIANMTU.
If you are ever in Portland,Oregon, there is one still in existance (hopefully not being used) at Jake's Famous Crawfish. Also, Crawfish not being indigenous to the region, they had (until the 70's) a pit in the basement where they bred their own supply.
Ewwwww!!!!!
Posted by: Meditrina | January 31, 2007 at 09:03 PM
"I thought men, or 'guys' would pee anywhere...."
You got it, cookie.
We don't need no stinking bathhouse.
Posted by: Stevie W | January 31, 2007 at 09:03 PM
*at Dave's house, where there's only the one pair of pants*
"Honey, you didn't wet our pants again, did you?"
"I, well yeah."
Posted by: Christobol | January 31, 2007 at 09:04 PM
They have a 50-50 relationship. They split their pants right down the middle.
Posted by: Stevie W | January 31, 2007 at 09:07 PM
I kinda wanted to cover it in clear plastic wrap and watch the hilarity ensue.
Posted by: Annie Where-but-here | January 31, 2007 at 11:37 PM
Looks kinda like Darth Vader without the head.
Posted by: Stevie W | February 01, 2007 at 01:50 AM
I think the blue sign means "Child Molester Crossing".
Posted by: Layzeeboy | February 01, 2007 at 09:22 AM
so, i guess the girls gotta hold it in. hey, people of leiden: we fart in your general direction.
Posted by: queensbee | February 01, 2007 at 10:52 AM
Aww the Netherlands, always ahead of the times. But what bout takin care of # 2. Hey sometimes it just hits!
Posted by: adam | February 01, 2007 at 12:38 PM
I grew up half an hour from Leiden. The blue sign merely designates a crosswalk.
But this is a good solution to an existing problem! Men pee in the street in Holland. It's perfectly normal. On a visit back home, my young son had to pee. I asked, in Dutch, a bartender if my son could use the toilet. He looked at me with shock and asked why I didn't just let him go outside. After that, for the rest of the trip, we just let him go in an alley. Suddenly he had to pee a lot more often. Also, it was hard to get him to stop once we got home.
I was out for a walk with the family once at a street festival. I stopped to talk to someone and failed to notice that my son had peed on a cop's shoe. He (the cop) took it pretty well.
Posted by: Lizzie | February 01, 2007 at 01:31 PM
I was in Amsterdam a few years back during the World Cup. You should have seen the lines for those things! Being a tourist and all, I made sure to snap several quirky pics of them!
Posted by: Casey J. | February 02, 2007 at 12:23 AM
I think there are quite a few people who'd be willing to use that fixture, despite its lack of privacy...
On Thursday night, I was leaving the FIU campus and saw a row of six people who had just come from a party at Gracie's Grill (the campus's supposed Rathskeller) using a hedge and fence in the parking lot as a giant public urinal. It was rather impressive, really.
Posted by: VXO | February 03, 2007 at 10:24 PM