Louise_Ash wrote:
I was recently at Virgin V Festival in the UK and was shocked to see these freestanding green plastic urinals place literally in the middle of no-where with guys peeing into them.
I was even more shocked to see two girls standing up using them! Yuck.
Hey, if you think UK festivals are bad, you'd better not go to a Scandinavian one! I went to the Roskilde festival in Denmark a few years back. Although toilets were provided, it seemed to be normal for evryone (male and female) to just pee at the edge of the various fields that the festival is held in. In the camping areas, everyone just pees near the fence. In the main area where all the music happens there is a concrete ditch round the edge with a hoarding beyond it. The blokes pee straight into the ditch, the women mainly squatted with their bum over the ditch or with one foot either side. A few women stood to pee into the ditch but I think they were just showing off!
Men and women were side by side. No one seemed embarassed (except for the handful of Brits and Americans that were there) - everyone just accepted that some times you need to pee, its no big deal.
It was kinda refreshing to see this attitude rather than finding yourself in trouble with the law just for undertaking normal human bodily functions.
There's a photo here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/stalman/462403463/in/set-72157600084755645/
V.