What's your stance on public urination?

[Xanados]

If plebs want to go out and take a piss in public, so be it. It's not me that looks like a fool.

[Rikilamaro]

I think both of these old ladies deserve to be peed on by a three-year-old boy.

That's awesome and I completely agree.

[Caged Maiden]

Regarding nudity.....

Nothing is worse than having a wet car-seat that you have to go home and wash... you do what you need to. How would people feel about it if I had to strip kids naked to get into the car?

I regularly camp in big old groups of hundreds of people, and maybe I'm a bit desensitized, but people maintain a level of decency even there regarding nudity and elimination.... hell one time, (after I had camped a day and night in a desert in July) I felt so grungy I just needed a bath.... So I walked for about 3 minutes into the woods and had me a bath with a bar of soap and bottle of water. If anyone witnessed it, they've not mentioned... so HA! decency was not compromised.

It's about being neighborly to me, but little kids are what they are..... People need to get over their weird feelings about accidentally seeing exposed children and realize that to them, it's as natural a thing as any to be naked. If you don't shame them, they carry on and learn as they mature. I'm more offended by some dogs who have constantly raised curly tails.... you know?

[grahamguitarman]

No big deal for me, if a kid needs to go they need to go. Stopping them does more harm than good.

It used to be a two mile walk to my kids old school, and because neither me or my wife drive, it was a long walk to school for the little ones (the new school is a lot closer thankfully). I often had to take the kids into the bushes because they simply couldn't make it to school on time. Can you imagine the looks I would have got from staff if my kids had turned up wet with urine?

I have my own bitter old lady story too. I was once in a supermarket, when an old lady started having a go at me, because my three year old girl was not wearing knickers and had bent over. It seems that my little girl had removed her knickers while I was at a friends house without my knowing it. The nosey old lady loudly complained that by letting my daughter go without knickers, I was encouraging paedophiles, and that I should have been ashamed of myself.

So after thanking her for bringing my daughters lack of knickers to the attention of any nearby perverts, I asked her to kindly mind her own business and bugger off.

At the end of the day how I raise my child is my own business, not anyone else's. And being old doesn't automatically mean these people are right - wisdom does not automatically come with age!

[Saigonnus]

Normally if they are children, there is nothing wrong with public urination (boys or girls alike) if circumstances don't allow access to a bathroom since their bladders are so little and holding it could cause bladder infections.

I think adults are okay too, but ONLY under extenuating circumstances. A guy whipping it out in a park with bathroom facilities 100 feet away or even 100 yards away is one thing. I remember being on a long road trip through the mountains. It was October and snowing heavily, causing them to close the road. We were the last ones let through, but we had to stop to put on snow chains. When we started moving again, we were driving at 5mph from an accident further up on the highway and eventually had to stop completely. One by one we all got out of the car and went into the bushes off the side of the highway because we were there holding it for nearly 2 hours. This I would classify as "extenuating" circumstances.

[The Blue Lotus]

You know what really kills me, more than the people who feel then need to make a point about peeing... are the ones who make a huge stink about breastfeeding.
I mean really now, breasts are not toys, yes they might be fun to play with boys but at the end of the day they were designed to feed your children! Don't like it don't look!

[Saigonnus]

That too... Many women that breastfeed in public will cover themsevles for sake of modesty at any rate. I find nothing wrong with naked breasts in public and not just because I am a man. Human nature being what it is, before the 1900s women have ALWAYS breastfed their children because they didn't really have much of a choice otherwise. It is the "prudes" in modern society that makes it seem wrong, those same prudes that want to immasculate statues or censor works of art/literature. I think we should allow it to be shown more on television (covered of course) so young women won't get the idea that it's wrong and feed their baby formula when they become a mother later on. Formula is good for when you are not lactating or here and there, but nothing is better for a baby than their mom's milk.

[The Blue Lotus]

Right!

I had someone go ballistic when I was feeding my son at a store years ago.

Now I'm a private person, I had a feeding blanket everything was covered up nicely and this "Woman" had a fit and told me to take it in to the bathroom...


I just had to ask her, "Do you eat in the restroom?"

That shut her right up.

My son never got formula. I pumped enough and stored it that if his father wanted to feed him he could. When I lost my milk I was still able to avoid formula for a good number of months By then he was starting on real food so it was not a big deal.

People need to chill out. I often wonder if some of these people suffer from High BP? Seems to me they would if they get so worked up so easily.

[Rikilamaro]

Well, actually I do eat in the restroom. You caught me!

I completely agree though. I breast fed my son in public and thankfully never had anyone say anything about it. It's the most natural way to feed your child. I don't understand why people these days don't see that a woman's naked breast is just like a cow's udder. Do we make cows, cats, dogs, etc cover up when feeding their young? Then why can't we as a society get over teh 'naked' issue and understand that what is best for the well being and healthy development of a child is best for everyone. My chid may be your doctor someday, or he may build a bridge you drive on. I hope he got the proper nutrition as a child to help his brain develop sufficiently and let his neuropathways grow. Otherwise you may be dead.
I'm being extreme. I'm aware of this.

[The Blue Lotus]

Well, actually I do eat in the restroom. You caught me!

ROFLMBO! Oh man... that's just funny.