To complain about public urination

Well, I don't want to flash my fanny around in public.

If that's precious, then I'm it.

I recall long distance coach holidays in which there were comfort stops when men and women relieved themselves on different sides of the vehicle: gentlemen to the right, ladies to the left. Are we not being a bit precious about all this?

How clean are the park's public toilets?

If they are as filthy as most public conveniences, I do understand why people (of either sex) would rather go behind a bush.

But I agree, it is a filthy habit to wee just anywhere, and a potential spreader of germs.

The trouble is, and always has been, that mothers of little boys give up trying to persuade small sons to use the toilet before going out. Ringing down the years I hear, "But I don't need to wee" followed five minutes afterwards at the bus-stop, by"I need to wee." As it is easier to let a boy, even in a flying suit wee outdoors than a little girl who has to be undressed more-or-less, mothers, aunties, grandmothers, you name us, gave in and said "Well, pop behind that tree"

But that is no excuse for grown men, is it?

More public toilets, kept reasonably clean might help, but will probably have about the same amount of luck and users as the bins for putting dog-do, suitably wrapped, in!

I just don’t understand why some men can’t use toilets, and have seen men peeing next to the road in European countries, sometimes right into the road seemingly targeting passing traffic, but that doesn’t make it ok, it just means that men over there are behaving disgustingly too.
This freedom they feel to pee anywhere is one freedom too far, goodness knows they have far more freedoms than women to start with. And I do think could be a ‘man’ thing, like they are too big and important to use a toilet so they will wave their willy at the world and wee where they want.
Time to call time on this awful habit, or perhaps women could go out enmasse and squat everywhere to wee and see what society has to say about that.
Not sure I’d do it in this weather though 😂

I know of two people who were fined £150 each for peeing behind a hedge in the Lincolnshire countryside.
Men tend to pee by the roadside here in France although not as common as it used to be. We also see bottles of urine on the roadside thrown from lorries.

It is very common on the continent; I will never forget the expression on my mother-in-law's face (and the English guests) when her new Belgian son-in-law and his friends urinated all over her freshly weeded flower beds at her daughter's wedding.
Perhaps mothers, and fathers, could instruct their sons. Teachers are tired of having to install basic human manners because parents can't be bothered.

MissAdventure

And she blamed her dog!! 😂

Yes I forgot that 😂

And she blamed her dog!! 😂

I imagine all of us have been caught short and nipped behind a bush at some point. But I doubt many of us would do it in a stairwell or lift etc. I remember Sarah Millican saying that once in a traffic jam that
lasted hours she took off her knickers and sat on the passenger seat to wee, then sat back in the drivers seat. She did then clean the car thoroughly, but I imagine in those circumstances your options are very limited. For a man he can use an empty bottle or container.

It happened in a supermarket car park. I watched it with another woman from inside my car- when he turned round we shouted there was a toilet in the store! Some men are just disgusting...

It’s disgusting and unsavoury!

Honestly can’t they wait 5 mins? Unless it’s delivery drivers (still absolutely no excuse)

We do need far more accessible public loos though

At least you didn't go through someone's letterbox.

I was guilty of this sin yesterday. I was suddenly desperate when my daughter was driving me home from day surgery. She pulled in to the motorway services, but I knew I wouldn't make the building, so she stopped for me to squat in some bushes!
Loss of dignity, but as my mother would have said 'nobody knows me'!

Maddy4 surely it wouldn’t need to be so complicated for the police. Maybe on the spot fines / tickets much like traffic fines a d speeding tickets.

Bloody disgusting pigs!!!

I can't stand anything like that.

Babs, I agree, I just think women are much less fussy than they used to be, I’ve seen women urinate in the car park on more than one occasion, and once out for a walk, a lady, and I mean a lady, not a young girl, having a wee in a bus shelter, one of the brick type, so not so obvious unless you’re walking by.

Gingster

OMG * GrannyGravy *. That really is disgusting. 🤢

If he had been a few minutes later the senior school opposite, the junior and pre-school next door but one to me would have been coming out.

Virtually no public loos in.our local town. Bit of a trial for those of us with weak bladders ...
I do not get too panicked about peeing behind a bush though ... it's lifts etc where it is so objectionable.

@sara1954 I take your point, some inebriated women may well do this but is a tiny percentage compared to the men who will do it either inebriated or stone cold sober. 🙁

Gingster

OMG * GrannyGravy *. That really is disgusting. 🤢

I agree 🫣

OMG * GrannyGravy *. That really is disgusting. 🤢

No I agree, but I don’t think it’s just men in public places.

Sara1954

I know men are the main culprits, but after a night clubbing, I don’t think women are too fussy about where they wee. My dog walking friend says she often pops over a gate for wee if she’s on a long walk.

I have to say the countryside is a different matter, have walked and rambled all my adult life and in the countryside is permissible to dodge behind a bush and have a wee, this isn’t the same as urinating in urban areas, particularly in shared public spaces like stairwells and bus shelters where the smell is overwhelming.

I know men are the main culprits, but after a night clubbing, I don’t think women are too fussy about where they wee. My dog walking friend says she often pops over a gate for wee if she’s on a long walk.

I live on the main road through our village (not big enough to be called a town)

I looked out of my kitchen window to see a middle aged man urinating at the bus stop at 2.30pm on a week day. I was about to call out to him when he turned round half squatted and defecated with his trousers round his ankles…