Annabel Smyth wrote:
On Tue, 8 Jun 2004 at 11:39:49, Richard M Willis
wrote:

Also, a drinking fountain would inevitably get gobbed in, ****ed
in, or be treated as an ashtray or garbage receptacle. Presumably
the Americans don't suffer from this sort of thing.

But surely the whole point of water fountains is that they produce a
stream which arches up, so your mouth doesn't have to go anywhere
near the actual outlet. And, from what I remember of the US, the
fountains were too high up to be peed into, unless you were a
contortionist!

That's a gender-specific comment. Remember that some of us can do the
"stream which arches up" bit ourselves.
:-)

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On Wed, 9 Jun 2004 at 13:58:42, Richard J.
wrote:

Annabel Smyth wrote:

But surely the whole point of water fountains is that they produce a
stream which arches up, so your mouth doesn't have to go anywhere
near the actual outlet. And, from what I remember of the US, the
fountains were too high up to be peed into, unless you were a
contortionist!

That's a gender-specific comment. Remember that some of us can do the
"stream which arches up" bit ourselves.
:-)

True, but I would have thought that, unless one were *very* drunk, one
would try not to draw attention to oneself peeing in a public place....
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Annabel Smyth wrote:
On Wed, 9 Jun 2004 at 13:58:42, Richard J.
wrote:

Annabel Smyth wrote:

But surely the whole point of water fountains is that they
produce a stream which arches up, so your mouth doesn't have to
go anywhere near the actual outlet. And, from what I remember of
the US, the fountains were too high up to be peed into, unless
you were a contortionist!

That's a gender-specific comment. Remember that some of us can do
the "stream which arches up" bit ourselves.
:-)

True, but I would have thought that, unless one were *very* drunk,
one would try not to draw attention to oneself peeing in a public
place....

But many people *are* very drunk, have imbibed large quantities of
liquid, and cough obviously would not wish to pollute the pavements
and parks, and are therefore forced, despite their obvious
embarrassment, to use this urinal made for giants, which conveniently
has a flushing facility.
--
Richard J.
(to e-mail me, swap uk and yon in address)

Annabel Smyth wrote the following in:


On Wed, 9 Jun 2004 at 13:58:42, Richard J.
wrote:

Annabel Smyth wrote:

But surely the whole point of water fountains is that they
produce a stream which arches up, so your mouth doesn't have to
go anywhere near the actual outlet. And, from what I remember
of the US, the fountains were too high up to be peed into,
unless you were a contortionist!

That's a gender-specific comment. Remember that some of us can do
the "stream which arches up" bit ourselves.
:-)

True, but I would have thought that, unless one were *very* drunk,
one would try not to draw attention to oneself peeing in a public
place....

No shortage of very drunk people in London!

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