Do You Remember...............

[Full Member]

...........these?



They were once found all over France in both public and private conveniences (I use the word loosely!). Over the past 30 years or so they've been progressively replaced with the more familiar bowl toilet we are all used to. This has happened to such an extent that it's now actually unusual to come across these 'squat' toilets.
They were made and installed with some endearing features:
1. A crack running across the width of the ceramic.
2. A piece of damp tissue firmly adhered somewhere near one of the foot plates.
3. The ability to wash your feet at the same time as flushing the waste away.
4. The flush button was/is located such that it can't be reached from a position away from the high tide (flush) mark.
5. There is no skin contact between users and facility!
6 These toilets are much easier to use naked in order to keep clothing clean and dry.
7, There is never a hook or surface provided to accommodate clothes or baggage.
8. Anything dropped on the floor didn't stay there.
9. This is the 'premiere" model. It has a toilet paper dispenser.

Do you remember these toilets? Do you regret their demise? Did/do you find them a better design than their toilet bowl replacement?

Colin ???

 

[yorkslass]

Is that a touch of the" good old days" or not?

 

[edina]

Those were the days, remember these?

 

[Full Member]

Those were the days, remember these?

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Yep. I saw 'un pissoir' last year in a tiny village along the Seine. It had been boarded up, as have most. The thing that amused me most about 'les pissoirs' were the users chatting away to passers-by as they peed. To either gender, naturellement..

Colin ???

 

[Jenrai]

What do you mean those were the days...

 

[Wooie1958]

Plenty of them still about

 

[Full Member]

What do you mean those were the days...ria

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That's something completely new to me, Jenrai. I'm guessing it's in France, probably Paris?

Colin ???

 

[Jenrai]

That's something completely new to me, Jenrai. I'm guessing it's in France, probably Paris?

Colin ???

Nope central London, but they also have a posh version..

 

[dalspa]

Those were the days, remember these?

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I don’t remember them but can remember a tv programme a long time ago (in the days of black and white) called “Clochemerle” (spelling?). The whole programme was centred around the pissoire! Anybody remember it?

 

[Full Member]

I don’t remember them but can remember a tv programme a long time ago (in the days of black and white) called “Clochemerle” (spelling?). The whole programme was centred around the pissoire! Anybody remember it?

Now you mention it, I do, dalspa.
Thanks for that - I remember it as being funny.

Colin ???

 

[Full Member]

Nope central London, but they also have a posh version..

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Thanks, Jenrai.
Are these in situ and available for the convenience of the public (intended!)?
Or are both urinal designs conceptual?

Colin ???

 

[trevskoda]

Nope central London, but they also have a posh version..

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I can see some drunk being stuck under ground all night in one

 

[Pudsey Bear]

...........these?

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They were once found all over France in both public and private conveniences (I use the word loosely!). Over the past 30 years or so they've been progressively replaced with the more familiar bowl toilet we are all used to. This has happened to such an extent that it's now actually unusual to come across these 'squat' toilets.
They were made and installed with some endearing features:
1. A crack running across the width of the ceramic.
2. A piece of damp tissue firmly adhered somewhere near one of the foot plates.
3. The ability to wash your feet at the same time as flushing the waste away.
4. The flush button was/is located such that it can't be reached from a position away from the high tide (flush) mark.
5. There is no skin contact between users and facility!
6 These toilets are much easier to use naked in order to keep clothing clean and dry.
7, There is never a hook or surface provided to accommodate clothes or baggage.
8. Anything dropped on the floor didn't stay there.
9. This is the 'premiere" model. It has a toilet paper dispenser.

Do you remember these toilets? Do you regret their demise? Did/do you find them a better design than their toilet bowl replacement?

Colin ???

Living in Pudsey twixt Leeds n Bradford, these are still quite a common site, apparently it is the healthy way to pass on ones waste matter.

 

[pauldmallett]

I have a copy of “Clochemerle” the full series on DVD, still very funny and worth spending a penny.

 

[Linda]

I remember the 'hole' in the floor very well! Camping at the side of the river in Metz my father came back from using this facility in a terrible panic - the car keys had fallen out of pocket into the 'hole'!

Only after mum produced the keys from the car did he calm down and realised that it was his metal comb.... early 60's and I still remember it well....

 

[Jeanette]

Goodness me it’s a long time since I saw one of those Colin I was in France with my parents camping hmm ? yep long time ago haha

 

[polar bear]

...........these?

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They were once found all over France in both public and private conveniences (I use the word loosely!). Over the past 30 years or so they've been progressively replaced with the more familiar bowl toilet we are all used to. This has happened to such an extent that it's now actually unusual to come across these 'squat' toilets.
They were made and installed with some endearing features:
1. A crack running across the width of the ceramic.
2. A piece of damp tissue firmly adhered somewhere near one of the foot plates.
3. The ability to wash your feet at the same time as flushing the waste away.
4. The flush button was/is located such that it can't be reached from a position away from the high tide (flush) mark.
5. There is no skin contact between users and facility!
6 These toilets are much easier to use naked in order to keep clothing clean and dry.
7, There is never a hook or surface provided to accommodate clothes or baggage.
8. Anything dropped on the floor didn't stay there.
9. This is the 'premiere" model. It has a toilet paper dispenser.

Do you remember these toilets? Do you regret their demise? Did/do you find them a better design than their toilet bowl replacement?

Colin ???

I used one of these in April this year in an Aire by a marina in Brittany.

 

[Lorraine]

Pit latrine with direct drop
Main article: Pit latrine

A poorly maintained pit latrine in Yaounde, Cameroon
A simple pit latrine uses no water seal and collects human excreta in a pit or trench. The excreta drop directly into the pit via a drop hole. This type of toilet can range from a simple slit trench to more elaborate systems with seating or squatting pans and ventilation systems. In developed countries they are associated with camping and wilderness areas. They are common in rural or peri-urban areas in many developing countries. Pit latrines are also used in emergency sanitation situations.
The pit or trench can be dug large enough so that the pit can be used for many years before it fills up. When the pit becomes full, it may be emptied or the hole covered with earth and the pit latrine relocated. Pit latrines have to be located away from drinking water sources (wells, streams, etc.) to minimize the possibility of disease spread via groundwater pollution.
A ventilation improved pit (VIP) latrine adds certain design features to the simple pit latrine which reduces flies from exiting the latrine, thereby reducing the spread of diseases.[1]

And also the one to the right is for the wealthy people in rural areas

They are still used today

 

[Minisorella]

In Australia and New Zealand, they call it a 'long drop'. Plenty of them around when I last visited a couple of years ago - in rural areas of course.

 

[Wully]

The new Dethleff model is called the short drop?