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David Perlmutter's avatar

Winnipeg has an even bigger problem with this, as I have hardly seen any such things around town for years. We used to have a fairly sizable one near Memorial Park in the downtown era, but it got torn down because it was attracting a bad class of people doing things unrelated to bodily functions within it.

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GraniteGrok's avatar

Heh - or a bad class of people doing bodily functions actions unrelated to the loo's purpose?

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lunafaer (she/they)'s avatar

thank you for writing about this. the “loo leash” keeps me from some protests. i have a rare-ish condition called “diabetes insipidus”. the condition means that my kidneys don’t receive the signal to conserve water and electrolytes. basically i urinate more than i can replace, and need to pee every 1-2 hours. o never sleep through the night. ever.

going out in the heat causes that to ramp up in effect. i need at least 32 ounces of diluted electrolyte drink for every hour i’m outdoors. even when i’m at home i drink almost a gallon of water a day. we don’t have public restrooms here except in parks for kids. that’s great for them but doesn’t help me when i’ve consumed a half gallon of water and need to excrete it and am downtown with a protest sign.

i curse my parents every day for breeding and passing on this hellish condition for which there is no good diagnosis or treatment.

protests rarely occur in places with toilets, or the toilets are too far to walk to.

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GraniteGrok's avatar

"i curse my parents every day for breeding and passing on..."

Just curious: were they aware of the recessive genes they carried that caused this condition? Or did it come about by some other means?

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Robert A Mosher (he/him)'s avatar

I do really believe that if you sell drinks and food to people you should be required to at the very least offer toilet facilities to your customers. Apparently Washington DC disagrees judging by the number of coffee shops that do not.

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PhilBuildTheFutureNow's avatar

We need more paid toilets!

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Domi's avatar

Loo loo skip to my loo. Yes indeed. Either that or people dragging along their own portable potties???

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Venus's avatar

Where I live in Houston, TX crime is a humongous problem. Public restrooms would only be an invitation to more criminal practices.

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