People having a slash in the street

Scioch · 27-05-2012 6:49pm

Herb Powell wrote: »

:rolleyes:

I take it your one of those who indulges themselves to the point that they cannot control their bodily urges and are forced to piss in a main street ?

Your rolling your eyes because you think this shouldnt be mentioned but should be ignored to allow you to continue indulging yourself and pissing on a main street because "when ya gotta go, ya gotta go".

Am I close ?

Scioch · 27-05-2012 6:51pm

Foxhound38 wrote: »

Are there specific laws against it? Has anyone ever seen the gardai enforcing them if so?

Yes and yes.

Foxhound38 · 27-05-2012 7:03pm

LordSmeg wrote: »

I take it your one of those who indulges themselves to the point that they cannot control their bodily urges and are forced to piss in a main street ?

Your rolling your eyes because you think this shouldnt be mentioned but should be ignored to allow you to continue indulging yourself and pissing on a main street because "when ya gotta go, ya gotta go".

Am I close ?

In fairness, if the drinking has been done it cannot be undone, and I would rather people (discretely) pissed against a wall than do themselves an injury by holding it in if it came down to it...

the_syco · 27-05-2012 7:09pm

Monsieur Folie wrote: »

I mean I know public toilets are horrible, horrible things but surely they must be preferable to a street?

Public toilets are mostly non-existent in Dublin, so not all that surprising when everyone pisses against the wall.

Honestly; what do people think will happen? That they hold it for an hour? This would cause the lads injury.

cloud493 · 27-05-2012 7:12pm

I've never seen a public toilet in Dublin city centre to the best of my recollection. Saw a few lads pissing on a side street when I was walking along fade street a week ago. Fair enough like.

Deus Ex Machina · 27-05-2012 7:13pm

I urinate in the streets very regularly. It tends to be a lot handier than ducking into a McDonalds or Burger King. I do it during the day sometimes too, but only really if I'm going through Stephen's green or something. I did urinate on College green once in broad daylight and I wasn't caught!

Scioch · 27-05-2012 7:14pm

Foxhound38 wrote: »

In fairness, if the drinking has been done it cannot be undone, and I would rather people (discretely) pissed against a wall than do themselves an injury by holding it in if it came down to it...

That doesnt excuse it, the problem isnt people who have no other choice but to piss in the street the problem is people choosing to put themselves in that position and they do that to indulge themselves.

Brinimartini · 27-05-2012 7:14pm

as a young fella i was arrested for peeing against a wall in public albeit at night

Pushtrak · 27-05-2012 7:16pm

Brinimartini wrote: »

as a young fella i was arrested for peeing against a wall in public albeit at night

Was there an associated public drunken, disorder component? Was there a fine? Overnight stay?

Foxhound38 · 27-05-2012 7:35pm

Pushtrak wrote: »

Was there an associated public drunken, disorder component? Was there a fine? Overnight stay?

Would seem a tad harsh wouldn't it?

senorwipesalot · 27-05-2012 8:11pm

How about this chap?
http://www.nationalist.ie/news/local/court-told-man-defecated-on-public-street-1-2238312

I love his reply to the guard.

Herb Powell · 27-05-2012 8:33pm

LordSmeg wrote: »

I take it your one of those who indulges themselves to the point that they cannot control their bodily urges and are forced to piss in a main street ?

Your rolling your eyes because you think this shouldnt be mentioned but should be ignored to allow you to continue indulging yourself and pissing on a main street because "when ya gotta go, ya gotta go".

Am I close ?

Yes and no.
No, as in, I do not get drunk to the point of losing my senses i.e, I'm not just going to whip it out in public on the main street, and I will try find an actual toilet for as long as is bearable.
Yes, because I think your example was silly, and it's irrelevant-it really isn't a choice to have the urge to urinate, and when you have to go, yes, you do have to go.
TBH my view is keep it discreet, and where possible use a drain or plants or something, and you're not doing any harm.

LordSmeg wrote: »

That doesnt excuse it, the problem isnt people who have no other choice but to piss in the street the problem is people choosing to put themselves in that position and they do that to indulge themselves.

For me that is exactly the issue.
In fairness, who wants to pay for a quick slash? I know I almost never have the change if I need to use one. What would be wrong with a low-maintenance public urinal?

Scioch · 27-05-2012 8:52pm

Herb Powell wrote: »

Yes and no.
No, as in, I do not get drunk to the point of losing my senses i.e, I'm not just going to whip it out in public on the main street, and I will try find an actual toilet for as long as is bearable.
Yes, because I think your example was silly, and it's irrelevant-it really isn't a choice to have the urge to urinate, and when you have to go, yes, you do have to go.
TBH my view is keep it discreet, and where possible use a drain or plants or something, and you're not doing any harm.

But you choose to be in that position. There's a lot of "Where's the public toilets" talk here and it seems to be a popular view. "We want to indulge ourselves, why doesnt the council facilitate that?". Yet if it was travellers saying they want to indulge themselves in relation to their culture and the councils should facilitate that then most people have a problem.

Equally I think a lot of people would have issue with overweight people demanding the council facilitate them because they want to indulge in over eating. Pissing in pots and doorways trying to be discrete is against the law if its in public view, so your either breaking the law in that regard or impinging on the rights of others by pissing on their property.

The issue isnt solved by being discrete, the act is the problem and its caused by people who willingly put themselves in that position. So you either take responsibility for your actions and stop drinking if its leading you to break the law or you give equal status to all indulgences which still doesnt solve the problem because its impossible to facilitate them all.

For me that is exactly the issue.
In fairness, who wants to pay for a quick slash? I know I almost never have the change if I need to use one. What would be wrong with a low-maintenance public urinal?

What would be wrong with it would be that it would be built to facilitate binge drinking. Why facilitate that more so than anything else ? A better solution would be to crack down on people publicly urinating to stop them doing it.

Teyla Emmagan · 27-05-2012 8:54pm

Deus Ex Machina wrote: »

I urinate in the streets very regularly. It tends to be a lot handier than ducking into a McDonalds or Burger King. I do it during the day sometimes too, but only really if I'm going through Stephen's green or something. I did urinate on College green once in broad daylight and I wasn't caught!

Jesus Christ.

Fulton Crown · 27-05-2012 9:06pm

Must say I think pissing in the Street is thoroughly disgusting and deserves a stiff fine.

Me ..I always hold a good stream as I generally get a taxi back to base.

If the taxi driver keeps his gob shut and dosn't try and rip me off ..all will be well.

But if he starts talkin ****e or trys to rip me off... I ease down the kekks and give his back seat a good soaking with sour piss.

Nothin wrong with that in my opinion......:cool:

Gummy Panda · 27-05-2012 9:11pm

Fulton Crown wrote: »

Must say I think pissing in the Street is thoroughly disgusting and deserves a stiff fine.

Me ..I always hold a good stream as I generally get a taxi back to base.

If the taxi driver keeps his gob shut and dosn't try and rip me off ..all will be well.

But if he starts talkin ****e or trys to rip me off... I ease down the kekks and give his back seat a good soaking with sour piss.

Nothin wrong with that in my opinion......:cool:

That's what flutt use to say.

are you his son?

Fulton Crown · 27-05-2012 9:27pm

Gummy Panda wrote: »

That's what flutt use to say.

are you his son?

Negative Panda! ...Negative....

charlemont · 27-05-2012 9:31pm

senorwipesalot wrote: »

How about this chap?
http://www.nationalist.ie/news/local/court-told-man-defecated-on-public-street-1-2238312

I love his reply to the guard.

Twenty kilometres to the west lies Clonmel... Take a look at this if ye haven't already seen it..Its on Parnell Street..https://us.v-cdn.net/6034073/uploads/attachments/320301/161616.jpg

charlemont · 27-05-2012 9:36pm

Teyla Emmagan wrote: »

Jesus Christ.

No No Jesus would never do anything like that..The poster's username is Deus Ex Machina..;)

Foxhound38 · 27-05-2012 9:45pm

charlemont wrote: »

Twenty kilometres to the west lies Clonmel... Take a look at this if ye haven't already seen it..Its on Parnell Street..https://us.v-cdn.net/6034073/uploads/attachments/320301/161616.jpg

There isn't enough concentration camps in the world...

eyeball kid · 27-05-2012 10:14pm

Gummy Panda wrote: »

I only condone peeing against a tree while doing a handstand

Feeling a bit inadequate? You going to let him get away with that?

nlgbbbblth · 27-05-2012 10:16pm

I'd say most people who do this have already gone just before they left the pub / club.

Simple reason - once you drink more than three or four pints you're gonna want to go every 20 minutes.

27-05-2012 10:57pm

It obviously city dwellers getting so worked up about it, I couldnt care less if a lad has to take a pi** on the side of the street, I've done it many times myself and so has any lad I know. Go out and work on a farm up to your neck in muck and you will soon pay little heed to a lad who needs to take a quick pi**.

If toilets were provided they would be used but you cant always find somewhere to go that time of night and its ridiculous to expect people to hold it.

The same people complaining probably have no problem letting their dogs or cats pi** all over the place.

mikemac1 · 27-05-2012 11:03pm

Used to night porter in Garveys Hotel in Galway
Sure get a train or bus to Galway and it's the first pub you see!

Manys a night, wasters kicked out of Boo Radleys would be standing in my doorway and I sit in reception watching piss spilling in under the door.

Grand, I'll fetch my mop bucket so :mad:

Kenya Nice Brake wrote: »

It obviously city dwellers getting so worked up about it, I couldnt care less if a lad has to take a pi** on the side of the street, I've done it many times myself and so has any lad I know.

And then in the morning get my yardbrush and bleach and suds and wash the door and the footpath and the doorway

Take a stroll around Kenya Nice Brake in the early hours and you'll see lads outside shops in your town washing their doorways too

So yes, city dwellers get annoyed over it

27-05-2012 11:18pm

mikemac1 wrote: »

Used to night porter in Garveys Hotel in Galway
Sure get a train or bus to Galway and it's the first pub you see!

Manys a night, wasters kicked out of Boo Radleys would be standing in my doorway and I sit in reception watching piss spilling in under the door.

Grand, I'll fetch my mop bucket so :mad:

And then in the morning get my yardbrush and bleach and suds and wash the door and the footpath and the doorway

Take a stroll around Kenya Nice Brake in the early hours and you'll see lads outside shops in your town washing their doorways too

So yes, city dwellers get annoyed over it

Granted there is no need to do it against the front door of a shop, but duck down a side street and taking a quick p*ss is is hardly the end of the world and when you got to go, you got to go.

Scioch · 27-05-2012 11:29pm

Maximiliano Greasy Ear wrote: »

It obviously city dwellers getting so worked up about it, I couldnt care less if a lad has to take a pi** on the side of the street, I've done it many times myself and so has any lad I know. Go out and work on a farm up to your neck in muck and you will soon pay little heed to a lad who needs to take a quick pi**.

If toilets were provided they would be used but you cant always find somewhere to go that time of night and its ridiculous to expect people to hold it.

The same people complaining probably have no problem letting their dogs or cats pi** all over the place.

I grew up on a farm surrounded by piss and shít, doesnt mean I cant aspire to be better than the fcukin animals though does it. Its not just city dwellers who have issue with it, its anyone with an ounce of cop on.

Jorcky · 27-05-2012 11:35pm

It doesn't bother me too much if I see it when I'm out, but then again waiting on Parnell St. for a bus home from college for 20 mins surrounded by the stench of fermenting, dried in piss and stale beer is vile.

Especially if you're exhausted and want to put your stuff down because you're too tired to carry it, but you know everywhere is about as clean as a festival urinal on day 3, so you've to hold them up, try not to vomit, and slowly die a little inside.

Wattle · 27-05-2012 11:35pm

They used to have a name for it: Operation Freeflow.

Mr.Biscuits · 27-05-2012 11:52pm

The average person must need to take a leak at least twice a day and yet the lack of public toilets in Dublin is a disgrace.

On any given weekend there must be a few hundred thousand people shopping, clubbing etc in the city and yet I can't think of one public toilet to cater for people who may need to use one.

cloud493 · 28-05-2012 12:25am

I've never seen a woman.. use the outside as a bathroom. Bit different like isn't it. I mean a bloke can get it over and done with it in a matter of seconds, there's a whole process with a woman.

suicide_circus · 28-05-2012 12:26am

Mr.Biscuits wrote: »

The average person must need to take a leak at least twice a day and yet the lack of public toilets in Dublin is a disgrace.

On any given weekend there must be a few hundred thousand people shopping, clubbing etc in the city and yet I can't think of one public toilet to cater for people who may need to use one.

The public toilets were all closed because the quares kept bumming eachother in them.

suicide_circus · 28-05-2012 12:31am

Fulton Crown wrote: »

Must say I think pissing in the Street is thoroughly disgusting and deserves a stiff fine.

Me ..I always hold a good stream as I generally get a taxi back to base.

If the taxi driver keeps his gob shut and dosn't try and rip me off ..all will be well.

But if he starts talkin ****e or trys to rip me off... I ease down the kekks and give his back seat a good soaking with sour piss.

Nothin wrong with that in my opinion......:cool:

I find the phrase "sour piss" to be extremely amusing.

deisedave · 28-05-2012 12:34am

I would normally try my best to not piss on the street but there have been few times where I just had to go and there was no public toilets. We are just animals at the end of the day and if there is no toilet provided I will go somewhere quite and out of the way.

guitarzero · 28-05-2012 12:35am

Never bothered me people pissing in the street etc as long as its not on my door step. Its just a slash loik, no harm. If we stop people from having a piss in public, what next, banning people smoking in public cuz well this is it. I'm off to take a dump in the bath.

mikemac1 · 28-05-2012 12:35am

Eyre Sq Galway has public toilets
Pay something, I think it's 20c and they clean automatically

So does my fine town in the midlands, has these too

None in our capital city

2 stroke · 28-05-2012 12:42am

mikemac1 wrote: »

Eyre Sq Galway has public toilets
Pay something, I think it's 20c and they clean automatically

So does my fine town in the midlands, has these too

None in our capital city

These things are totally inadequate. Because they clean themselves after each user, only 4 or 5 people can use them each hour.

Some have suggested ducking down an alley or side street. That isnt safe even on the main street in our capital city.

Foxhound38 · 28-05-2012 12:49am

mikemac1 wrote: »

Eyre Sq Galway has public toilets
Pay something, I think it's 20c and they clean automatically

So does my fine town in the midlands, has these too

None in our capital city

In fairness, I can't envisage a situation where they wouldn't be vandalized by scumbags or abused by junkies in Dublin...

Herb Powell · 28-05-2012 1:00am

LordSmeg wrote: »

But you choose to be in that position. There's a lot of "Where's the public toilets" talk here and it seems to be a popular view. "We want to indulge ourselves, why doesnt the council facilitate that?". Yet if it was travellers saying they want to indulge themselves in relation to their culture and the councils should facilitate that then most people have a problem.

Equally I think a lot of people would have issue with overweight people demanding the council facilitate them because they want to indulge in over eating. Pissing in pots and doorways trying to be discrete is against the law if its in public view, so your either breaking the law in that regard or impinging on the rights of others by pissing on their property.

The issue isnt solved by being discrete, the act is the problem and its caused by people who willingly put themselves in that position. So you either take responsibility for your actions and stop drinking if its leading you to break the law or you give equal status to all indulgences which still doesnt solve the problem because its impossible to facilitate them all.

What would be wrong with it would be that it would be built to facilitate binge drinking. Why facilitate that more so than anything else ? A better solution would be to crack down on people publicly urinating to stop them doing it.

I think you're forgetting that drinking ANYTHING will make you piss. Yeah, I'm putting myself in that situation, because I have to drink water to live.

The suggestion that a public urinal somehow facilitates binge drinking is also ridiculous, I really don't get your logic on that one at all.

Scioch · 28-05-2012 1:20am

Herb Powell wrote: »

I think you're forgetting that drinking ANYTHING will make you piss. Yeah, I'm putting myself in that situation, because I have to drink water to live.

People dont piss in the streets when they drink water, they only do it when drunk. Your being deliberately obtuse here, you know damn well its a problem arising from alcohol consumption and nothing else. There is no problem with shoppers at christmas pissing in santa grotto. Its lazy ignorant drunks who are the problem.

The suggestion that a public urinal somehow facilitates binge drinking is also ridiculous, I really don't get your logic on that one at all.

As above its an issue arising from binge drinking, and even with public toilets not everyne will use them. There is enough fast food joints, resteraunts and cafes around with toilets to provide for most people, there is also public toilets in a lot of towns, along with toilets in every pub (which are plentiful in every town). What you want is public toilets on main streets to facilitate drunks after the pubs let out. All to stop you breaking the law when your drunk. How about you just act like a civilised human being and take responsibility for your own actions instead ?

onemorechance · 28-05-2012 1:23am

Drunk people don't give a f**k about anyone or anything. Simple!

Pushtrak · 28-05-2012 1:23am

LordSmeg wrote: »

People dont piss in the streets when they drink water, they only do it when drunk.

Glaringly false. You could definitely argue that more often than not it is people who have been drinking alcohol. Not that all are drunk, or indeed all have consumed alcohol.

Sea Filly · 28-05-2012 1:25am

The worst I ever saw was a photo of a former boyband member peeing up against the wall under an ATM, WHILE USING THE ATM! :eek: And believe me, this wasn't photoshopped. Puke.

Mance Rayder · 28-05-2012 1:26am

Not 1 but 2 separate drunk idiots last night decided my garden wall looked like a decent place for a slash.

Fu**wits.

Scioch · 28-05-2012 1:29am

Pushtrak wrote: »

Glaringly false. You could definitely argue that more often than not it is people who have been drinking alcohol. Not that all are drunk, or indeed all have consumed alcohol.

Stand on the main street of any town at 2 am sunday morning and tell me its people who drink too much coffee that are pissing in the streets. :rolleyes:

Pushtrak · 28-05-2012 1:34am

LordSmeg wrote: »

Stand on the main street of any town at 2 am sunday morning and tell me its people who drink too much coffee that are pissing in the streets. :rolleyes:

Your previous suggested it is a phenomenon solely attributable to people who are drunk. You make some brief mentions of alcohol consumption, but you return to one must be very drunk.

How many people do you suppose leaves pubs on nights out without drinking? Do you really suppose they don't urinate outside of the pub? You might say that is a minority. But, then, so too would be those on a night out who aren't drunk. There would be many who are not drunk off their face, lucid, just had a few, say. Suppose they go to the toilet, and have to go on their return home?

I'd rather people be discrete, and I'd leave it at that.

purplepanda · 28-05-2012 1:47am

Why can't they add more public toilets like Amsterdam, they've even got ones that appear at night coming up from the floor over there!!!! :eek:

Scioch · 28-05-2012 1:48am

Pushtrak wrote: »

Your previous suggested it is a phenomenon solely attributable to people who are drunk. You make some brief mentions of alcohol consumption, but you return to one must be very drunk.

Its a probelm arising from alcohol consumption. These people are usually drunk. Its pretty simple.

How many people do you suppose leaves pubs on nights out without drinking? Do you really suppose they don't urinate outside of the pub? You might say that is a minority. But, then, so too would be those on a night out who aren't drunk. There would be many who are not drunk off their face, lucid, just had a few, say. Suppose they go to the toilet, and have to go on their return home?

A minority ??? Thats the understatement of the century. I'd say those who leave pubs sober and piss in the street would be outnumbered by drunks by about 10,000 to 1. If they go to the toilet before they leave then they should be fine until they get home. If not dont drink so much. Whats hard to understand about that ? If you have to drive you stay sober. If you have to hit the gym you stay off the burgers. If you have to walk for an hour with no sign of a toilet dont drink a gallon of liquid.

I'd rather people be discrete, and I'd leave it at that.

I'd rather people didnt behave like animals, break the law, and bend over backwards to try and justify and defend self indulgence and ignorant behaviour.

Foxhound38 · 28-05-2012 1:53am

LordSmeg wrote: »

Its a probelm arising from alcohol consumption. These people are usually drunk. Its pretty simple.

A minority ??? Thats the understatement of the century. I'd say those who leave pubs sober and piss in the street would be outnumbered by drunks by about 10,000 to 1. If they go to the toilet before they leave then they should be fine until they get home. If not dont drink so much. Whats hard to understand about that ? If you have to drive you stay sober. If you have to hit the gym you stay off the burgers. If you have to walk for an hour with no sign of a toilet dont drink a gallon of liquid.

I'd rather people didnt behave like animals, break the law, and bend over backwards to try and justify and defend self indulgence and ignorant behaviour.

Is it not a fact though that some can hold it in for longer than others? I'd rather they found a discrete place to do it if they must than risk doing themselves an injury just so I can shake my head disapprovingly and say "I told you not to drink so much..."

My point being that the pissing occurs after the fact...

Pushtrak · 28-05-2012 1:59am

LordSmeg wrote: »

Its a probelm arising from alcohol consumption. These people are usually drunk. Its pretty simple.

You intermittently go from talking about people who have had any alcohol to drink to those who are fecked drunk. It seems like you are phrasing it in a way to try to strengthen your argument.

Thats the understatement of the century. I'd say those who leave pubs sober and piss in the street would be outnumbered by drunks by about 10,000 to 1.

So, do you see the problem with your question relating to 2 am and how many people who have drink in them? Or was it off their head drunk? Or does it matter?

Scioch · 28-05-2012 2:04am

Foxhound38 wrote: »

Is it not a fact though that some can hold it in for longer than others? I'd rather they found a discrete place to do it if they must than risk doing themselves an injury just so I can shake my head disapprovingly and say "I told you not to drink so much..."

My point being that the pissing occurs after the fact...

I've never lived anywhere, country or town where I had no other option but to piss on the street. Its a 35 minutes bus trip home, often bursting for a piss but I got through it. People know where they are, how long it takes to get home, how likely it will be the need a piss and they carry on regardless because they dont care. They dont give two shíts who's door they piss in as long as they have their fun for the night.

People having a slash in the street

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