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[Brian]

Ah, thanks!
Of course, we have a story on here about "the races". One of Lee's brilliancies.
https://www.ladspissing.com/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=42

[Fred]

Perhaps those four gents are the health inspectors to check to see if the toilets are sufficient in number and clean. The picture indicates how this venue fared….

[Brian]

Perhaps those four gents are the health inspectors to check to see if the toilets are sufficient in number and clean. The picture indicates how this venue fared….

I love that.
Still, the inspectors could have made their point even more graphically and with more lasting effect by peeing in their suit trousers.

[Adrian6970]

Very nice.

[Brian]

Someone couldn't hold it any longer in the train.

[Keith]

Train desperations are the best u get so many

[Brian]

Train desperations are the best u get so many

Yep. You're an expert on those Keith, I guess, with your organised train excursions in Scotland.

The depicted train is a Dutch one, a stopping train without toilets on board. The issue actually caused questions in parliament here in NL a year or two back. The national railways organisation responded by saying that it could not introduce toilets on its local trains until 2025, I think, but until then suggested that it could provide special pee-bags ("plaszakjes" in Dutch) which passengers who couldn't wait any longer could request from the conductor. That response caused such incredulity amongst the politicians that the railway bosses dropped the idea. So for the coming few years, passengers will just have to hold on, take some sort of illicit action like the young man in the picture above, or piss their pants.

[Fred]

It's a logical problem. People sensibly choose public transport rather than attempting to drive a car when they have been drinking. Alcohol (and caffeine) stimulates the production of urine. Holding it for an hour or more may not be possible for most. What are they supposed to do? Retrofitting older train cars with toilets would be expensive, and replacing the rolling stock would be extremely expensive. But using pee-bags in public isn't the answer.

[Brian]

[...] But using pee-bags in public isn't the answer.

Indeed! Incredibly, that had to be pointed out to the railway management who came up with that idea. There isn't anywhere private to use such a bag on a train without toilets. The response from the management was that the desperate passenger could be given access to the train driver's cabin and do it in there ... which didn't go down well with the drivers' union! At that point the idea was dropped.

[Fred]

If all train, bus and tube stations had easily accessible toilets, that would reduce the problem, but maintenance cost and vandalism have closed many existing ones. In the cities there are fewer and fewer public toilets, yet they continue to prosecute a fellow who has taken emergency relief in an alley or at the end of a station platform.