Female Urinals
20 02 2006Ok, this is just messed up!! I’ve always though that the Electric Picnic sounded like the coolest, classiest of all the usual summer gigs that take place in Ireland. It’s always billed itself as a chilled out, high-brow event, as opposed to the hectic, mud invested, drink fuelled events that are Oxeygen and the like.
But, this mail appeared today, courtesy of the event organisers for Electric Picnic:
As Spring approaches and the time draws near for the 2006 line-up
announcement, we thought we’d keep you updated with some news and
developments in other Electric Picnic matters.FEMALE URINALS: It has also been announced today that The Electric Picnic is
taking care of female concert-goers this year by providing female urinals at
the boutique music festival in Stradbally.Everyone knows that the worst element of any festival is the long queues for
portaloos that are often too awful to even consider sitting on. The Electric
Picnic will be the first in Ireland to provide female urinals in a bid to
cut loo queues and offer women a more time efficient & hygienic option to
portaloos.Female urinals for girls will be used in association with P-Mates. The unique
and original P-Mate enables woman to pee while standing upright. The P-Mate
is a small conical device made out of leakproof, firm and reliable material
and is used by girls to enable pee-ing standing upright. It is then
instantly disposed of; it is environmentally friendly, fully recyclable
material.At Electric Picnic ladies will be able to walk into an enclosed girls-only
urinal, pick up a P-Mate and go! No queues, no waiting around for your turn,
no fuss.Female urinals are just one of the many new facilities that will be provided
at the festival this year.
That, my friends, just isn’t right!! And any of my female friends I’ve mentioned it to so far are in agreement!!
That’s just nasty, pure nasty. There’ are many limitations to those p mates thingys and sure what do they expect us to do, use them in public. No, no, this is one invention that’s going right down the toilet….
Oh dear, that’s a bad pun!!
And can you just imagine the curious fellas lining up with their camera phones for a gawk. I think I’ll stick with the smelly portaloo privacy option
I think that they are on the right track here. It will give women who are willing to do that for the sake of their health the choice they deserve to have…and leave more portaloos free for the less adventurous!
My girl friends and I have been standing at the urinals for several years without the use of these funnels. Practice makes it work and we think it is faster cleaner and who really gives a 3266 what the guys think.