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Not strictly one for the blokes as I am sure that many ladies know how useless we are - weeing on the floor or on the seat/bowl.


I haven't worked out why so many pubs have got rid of proper urinals - which deals with the above issue. Further the silly little units also spray back. Try weeing next to some one when you are wearing shorts, and you will see.


Here's some proper ones

http://www.lbc.co.uk/mm/photos/2012/10/1889/460x/27461.jpg


https://media-cdn.tripadvisor.com/media/photo-s/08/d3/41/80/the-philharmonic-dining.jpg


And no I have not been drinking.

I remember many years ago being in a bar in Barcelona and at the end of said bar was a huge mirrored wall.


When you went to the gents the mirrored wall was in fact a one way mirror so you you could watch the punters in the bar below whilst having a pee but they couldn't see you. Quite bizarre.

uncleglen Wrote:

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> Some pubs have got rid of urinals altogether so

> that they can have unisex facilities



This is and has always been a massive victory for hope over reality/ coolness over pragmatism - the average blokes' toilet hygiene (not to mention aiming power - especially when mixed with some booze) is at a standard millions of miles below the minimum threshold of 99% of women.

KalamityKel Wrote:

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> lol Artful my love... I tried install something

> similar in the gents at work... the boss was not

> amused *blush*



Sigh kel


When are you going to learn the difference between boys and girls toilets.... Or are you still trying to work out how we sit in a urinal ! (Ewwwwwww)

malumbu Wrote:

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> Not strictly one for the blokes as I am sure that

> many ladies know how useless we are - weeing on

> the floor or on the seat/bowl.

>

> I haven't worked out why so many pubs have got rid

> of proper urinals - which deals with the above

> issue. Further the silly little units also spray

> back. Try weeing next to some one when you are

> wearing shorts, and you will see.

>

> Here's some proper ones

> http://www.lbc.co.uk/mm/photos/2012/10/1889/460x/2

> 7461.jpg

>

> https://media-cdn.tripadvisor.com/media/photo-s/08

> /d3/41/80/the-philharmonic-dining.jpg

>

> And no I have not been drinking.



The second one of those looks like they may be the marble toilets of the Philarmonic Pub in Liverpool. A fine looking boozer with the finest of gentlemen's lavatories.

titch juicy Wrote:

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> The second one of those looks like they may be the

> marble toilets of the Philarmonic Pub in

> Liverpool. A fine looking boozer with the finest

> of gentlemen's lavatories.


It definitely is the Philharmonic. Beautiful pub in a beautiful building!

Disappointed that is took so long to name the Phil in Liverpool. And no one has mentioned the Princess Louise in Holborn.


I should have also mentioned the Morpeth on Millbank that used to have wonderfully polished brass and copper pipeware. Now gone following the dreadful refurbish. A final fave was the Anchor in Abingdon by the Thames that had outside gents toilets. Now that was a proper pub. Now sadly gone, as with all Abingdon pubs they have gone generic/


I was also going to start my piece by saying (as I had had a snipe at men's hygiene) that on the odd occasion I have walked into a ladies toilet by mistake you know immediately as they dont smell of wee.

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