The SF Chronicle reports:
First came the iPod – now comes the pPod, a custom-made, open-air urinal that San Francisco is installing at Dolores Park to help deal with the hordes of male hipster inebriants that descend on the popular Mission spot on weekends.
Looks cool! Read on.
[via Mission Local]
I’ve used these in Amsterdam. Good idea but I have the feeling they’re going to be used as garbage cans as much as urinals.
I used the one in Freetown Christiania a number of times. Didn’t smell very good, but after a few beers you don’t really care.
Do any public restrooms smell good?
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pPod is a pretty garish name for something that’s been around for centuries with the far more elegant title “pissoir.” freakin’ american yokels
Freakin parasitic Eurotrash
No mirror, well that’s fucked up.
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VICTORY IS YOURS
Hope they splurge for stainless corrugated…
They should make this into a 2 way mirror so you can see out but in. That will make things interesting.
How does that piece of corrugated metal over a drain cost $15,000??
You have to factor in the jack offs building it.
Mostly drainage/sewage costs, actually. But yeah FUCK LABOR.
It looks like a piece of celery.
Great idea! We need these all over the city, though. Ideally, we’d actually get the portable kind that they use in Europe, though. That way they could be distributed for events, etc.
I give it a day before someone poops in it and renders it completely useless until some poor sap has to come out and clean it up.
GREAT IDEA
but uh
Im a dude and I like this
but uh
what are the womyn supposed to do?
more dudes lining up for this = less lines for the port-o-potties
I dunno what a womyn is, but I don’t see why women couldn’t use this, too. The drain is on the ground, so it’s basically just a squat-toilet for peeing only.
Frisco.
What does a small city in Texas have to do with an open-air urinal?
From the article:
“And just in case you’re wondering, ladies, there will be a couple of new, standard bathrooms built as well.”
Im 7’5 tall, people going to see me looking out at them, plus its going to look like I’m sitting on someone’s shoulders.
Water or beer bombs lobbed over the top; let the hilarity commence.
Finally – a positive in a city of negatives.