Guelph considers installing open-air urinals

[ig-88]

Especially for weekend nights after bars close

http://news.therecord.com/News/Local/article/552981

Sample from London, UK:

 

[Rockslinger]

Especially for weekend nights after bars close

You can't post something like this without answering a couple of questions.

1) Is the "catch basin" at cock level or at feet level? I hate the ones at feet level because the stuff splatters all over your shoes .
2) Would you also post a pic of a female urinal. I saw one once. It juts out about a foot and is parallel to the ground. The lady straddles the urinal while doing her business.

 

[ENCHANTED]

I am from Guelph and I really hope they dont do this.

 

[masterchief]

Guelph is a "tester" town for many new things. Debit/Interac and countdown pedestrian crossing lights are just two things.

Hey...why not this.

 

[Rockslinger]

Guelph is a "tester" town for many new things.

I think Canadian Tire runs a lot of stuff by Guelph, Waterloo, Welland, etc. before they do the big rollout in Toronto.

I still want to see that pic of the female urinal.

 

[Rockslinger]

1) Is the "catch basin" at cock level or at feet level? I hate the ones at feet level because the stuff splatters all over your shoes.

Just got a call from my friend, the reason why the "catch basin" is at feet level is:

1) For short guys because they have low hanging cocks .
2) For kids because they tend to be naturally short.
3) For desparate women who just have go.
4) Maybe also for physically challenged people.

 

[BallzDeep]

The ones I used didn't go to the ground, they have outdoor urinals in Amsterdam, they were permanent and were handy.

Didn't Guelph give us Gwen Jacobs, God Bless her and her efforts.

 

[wangbang]

In my area we call them trees.

 

[mandrill]

I grew up in the UK, where they are a much-loved and odiferous part of the environment. The ones in my home town were fully enclosed, like little alcoves along the roadside and were made from clay-red porcelain. They are nice.

 

[Rockslinger]

The ones in my home town were fully enclosed, like little alcoves along the roadside and were made from clay-red porcelain.

They must resemble the "porta potties" that I see on Gay Pride Day. (No, I am not gay.)

 

[papasmerf]

They must resemble the "porta potties" that I see on Gay Pride Day. (No, I am not gay.)

Yup

You just enjoy a good parade

 

[Rockslinger]

You just enjoy a good parade

There were rumours of bare breasted women. All lies!

 

[papasmerf]

There were rumours of bare breasted women. All lies!

I for one have to take your word for that.

Any dutch boys there?

 

[mandrill]

They must resemble the "porta potties" that I see on Gay Pride Day. (No, I am not gay.)

No, they were porcelain tile surface, but concrete basic structure and were built in into the walls of the buildings along the roadside. Not portable at all. You went thru a little entranceway and there was a bank of urinals. Europe is the golden mecca of urinals.

 

[daty]

Guelph is a "tester" town for many new things. Debit/Interac and countdown pedestrian crossing lights are just two things.

Hey...why not this.

And lets not forget


Gwen Jacob, a 20 year old student at the University of Guelph, removed her shirt and bra before walking down several residential and commercial streets in Guelph and returning to her front porch.She testified that she felt more comfortable without her shirt on, and she believed that any law requiring her to wear a shirt in public places was unfair and must be unconstitutional for discriminating against women.After a few complaints (none of which were from the teenage boys assembled with binoculars across the street) the police requested that Ms. Jacob put a shirt on, and after she refused, she was charged with committing an indecent act, contrary to S. 173(1)(a) of t section ction riminal Code.She was convicted in the Ontario Court of Justice, and then appealed to the Court of Appeal for Ontario.
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Judge Payne noted that other women in Guelph did not choose to go about bare-breasted, and this, together with other evidence led him to the conclusion that Ms. Jacob exceeded the community standard of tolerance.
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It did not say, as Ms. Jacob had requested it to, that laws requiring women, but not men, to cover their breasts constituted discrimination.
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Far from the Court cramming Ms. Jacob's actions under the canopy of equality rights, all that the Court said was that Ms. Jacob was not guilty of the specific offence with which she was charged, namely committing an indecent act.At the very most, and we would even contest this reading, the Court declared Ms. Jacob to be at liberty to stroll topless through Guelph as there is no law against it.However the Court was only dealing here with one particular section of the Criminal Code.Conceivably, and the Court in fact makes this point, Ms. Jacob could have been charged with other offences, such as creating a public nuisance or being nude in a public place contrary to section 174(1).Why she wasn't charged in this manner is something of a mystery.Why others riding in her wake have not been so charged is more a reflection of political will than any uncertainty or license created by the law.
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It also heard from the mother whose choice not to have her young children exposed to a stranger's partial nudity was overridden by Ms. Jacob's frankly exhibitionist conduct.

GOD BLESS GUELPH

 

[spankingman]

There were rumours of bare breasted women. All lies!

tOO MANY barebutted men???????

 

[Rockslinger]

There is an aftermath to the Gwen Jacob story. Wal-Mart threw a couple of mothers breast feeding their babies out of their store saying that Wal-Mart is a "family" store and their definition of "family" does not include mothers breast feeding their babies.