Big Bad Diaper Industry totally making up the need to not have children shitting in bowls in your living room. If it weren't for their brainwashing, we'd be happily rolling around in baby crap every night after work.
― carl agatha, Friday, 19 April 2013 22:26 (eleven years ago) link
so its okay for dogs to poop in the street but not babies ; )
― 乒乓, Friday, 19 April 2013 22:27 (eleven years ago) link
Your baby can poop in the street as long as you scoop the poop.
― carl agatha, Friday, 19 April 2013 22:29 (eleven years ago) link
actually, it isn't -- you can get fined in NYC (and in Hoboken) for letting your dogs shit in the street and not cleaning it up!
― marmite christ (Eisbaer), Friday, 19 April 2013 22:29 (eleven years ago) link
But to hear that ding dong commenter tell it, baby poop is some precious commodity that we've been trained to fear. S/he probably thinks s/he's doing the world a favor living all those beautiful turds lying around for everyone to enjoy.
― carl agatha, Friday, 19 April 2013 22:30 (eleven years ago) link
well nothing suggests that they're not cleaning it up when it happens in public
i think you guys are making a poop moutnain out of a pee hill
― 乒乓, Friday, 19 April 2013 22:32 (eleven years ago) link
At three weeks, her daughter could hold her bowel movements until she was put over the bowl, she said.
lady, if you're going to lie at least make it a little bit plausible.
― Sadly, 99.99 percent of sheeple will never wake up (I DIED), Friday, 19 April 2013 22:36 (eleven years ago) link
kids aren't dogs and they shouldn't be shitting & pissing in public in the first place. though since this IS a NYT quiddities article, and we all know their tendency to publicize whatever dumb horseshit is being done by well-off pseudo-iconoclasts as if it were a bona-fide trend, you're probably right in that we're making a mountain of a molehill.
― marmite christ (Eisbaer), Friday, 19 April 2013 22:39 (eleven years ago) link
the ruling class kings of shit mountain
― H-E-double-s1ockisticks (forksclovetofu), Friday, 19 April 2013 22:39 (eleven years ago) link
they quote a NYC public health director in the article who says its fine - nobody has a problem with adults peeing in parks, or hell even the streets, NYC smells like urinetown anyway, there's probably way more to worry about on saturday morning from streets covered in barfly vomit. i'm just saying if you guys wanna be upset with these folks, be honest in your reasons
― 乒乓, Friday, 19 April 2013 22:41 (eleven years ago) link
I can totally get with not wanting to use disposable diapers - which don't decompose and are basically just massive landfill fodder. the pissing and shitting over a trashcan stuff eh not so much.
as a white hipster douchebag I shell out for the compostable diaper service (which didn't even exist 5 years ago when we had our first child. we did a combo of cloth/disposable back then and the mountain of disposable diapers we created still bugs me)
― four Marxes plus four Obamas plus four Bin Ladens (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 19 April 2013 22:43 (eleven years ago) link
boy_layer
― buzza, Friday, 19 April 2013 22:43 (eleven years ago) link
urine is sterile and is not a public health hazard
shit is a different story
― four Marxes plus four Obamas plus four Bin Ladens (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 19 April 2013 22:44 (eleven years ago) link
nobody has a problem with adults peeing in parks, or hell even the streets,
would imagine some ppl have a problem with adults peeing in the streets
― flopson, Friday, 19 April 2013 22:44 (eleven years ago) link
doesnt stop homeless people from doing it tho
― 乒乓, Friday, 19 April 2013 22:45 (eleven years ago) link
what's up buzza boo, you miss me?? ;) ;) ;)
― 乒乓, Friday, 19 April 2013 22:46 (eleven years ago) link
nobody has a problem with adults peeing in parks, or hell even the streets
False. I definitely have a problem with adults peeing in public.
(re: homeless people, necessity dictates. If I were in charge, while I was working out how to ensure everyone has the right to housing, I would build accessible, reasonably sanitary public restroom facilities.)
― carl agatha, Friday, 19 April 2013 22:58 (eleven years ago) link
i ride the NYC subways -- and i most certainly object to the stench of human waste in the stations and subway cars. especially during the hot summer months.
― marmite christ (Eisbaer), Friday, 19 April 2013 22:59 (eleven years ago) link
urine is sterile
― Mordy, Friday, 19 April 2013 23:00 (eleven years ago) link
i do too, its a fact of life, as are all of the 10 parents in new york who do this, deal with it
― 乒乓, Friday, 19 April 2013 23:00 (eleven years ago) link
it's p much 100000% more likely you're gonna encounter a gross starbucks bathroom or bar bathroom than it is a williamsburg yuppie shitting her kid in prospect park
― 乒乓, Friday, 19 April 2013 23:01 (eleven years ago) link
i don't even know how or why someone from williamsburg would be in prospect park or indeed if there are parks in williamsburg
okay, the whole "where is a goddamn bathroom i can use in this fucking city" is a non-quid problem that i'm sure we have another thread for but seriously
― H-E-double-s1ockisticks (forksclovetofu), Friday, 19 April 2013 23:03 (eleven years ago) link
everyone should just urinate in the street - modern ppl are too squeamish
― Mordy, Friday, 19 April 2013 23:03 (eleven years ago) link
Urine is sterile when it comes out of your body. How long does it stay sterile when it's puddled under a parked car? I presume all you urine apologists would have no problem drinking out of a glass I peed in, right? Urine is sterile, after all.
― carl agatha, Friday, 19 April 2013 23:03 (eleven years ago) link
like i don't do it bc i don't want to offend ppl's sensibilities but if the culture was cool w/ it i'd totally urinate wherever whenever
can i also just
a williamsburg yuppie shitting her kid
there's a urine taboo but biologically speaking i should be totes okay drinking your urine xxp
― Mordy, Friday, 19 April 2013 23:04 (eleven years ago) link
thread getting very wtf up in here
― H-E-double-s1ockisticks (forksclovetofu), Friday, 19 April 2013 23:04 (eleven years ago) link
o_O
― caek, Friday, 19 April 2013 23:05 (eleven years ago) link
for the record i'm not a urine apologist, i'm just saying that as a person who has spent 90% of his life living in cities its just a fact of life that i've leraned to ignore, and afaict it hasnt affected my ability to post to ilx so everythings cool
― 乒乓, Friday, 19 April 2013 23:05 (eleven years ago) link
Mordy otm
unless you have a rare disease whose pathogen persists in urine (there are not a lot of these btw)
― four Marxes plus four Obamas plus four Bin Ladens (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 19 April 2013 23:05 (eleven years ago) link
is prospect park even in the same borough as williasmburgs. im very unsure of what the terrain is like on the other side of the bridge
― 乒乓, Friday, 19 April 2013 23:07 (eleven years ago) link
totally ok with parents using this technique in their own home. heard of it before, toilet trained at three weeks is rubbish, but it does apparently work.
routine peeing or pooing in the street though is not ok, however old you are.
i mean i don't care if urine is sterile. so what? crude oil is sterile. doesn't mean i want it dumped on the pavement.
― caek, Friday, 19 April 2013 23:08 (eleven years ago) link
what's your stance on dogs then
― 乒乓, Friday, 19 April 2013 23:08 (eleven years ago) link
i think peeing in the street should be okay. obv feces is a totally different situation.
― Mordy, Friday, 19 April 2013 23:09 (eleven years ago) link
dy OTM about gross public bathrooms, but the solution there is to clean the bathrooms, not to turn our city streets into open sewers of human waste.
xp biologically speaking, sure, but you can probably eat your own poop, too. I guess my point is that just because something is taboo doesn't mean it's a great thing. Some things are taboo for a reason.
I don't know, this is a dumb thing to argue about. You badass dudes who don't care about pee are just too tough for me, I guess.
― carl agatha, Friday, 19 April 2013 23:09 (eleven years ago) link
i've learned to ignore it, too. but that doesn't change the fact that it's still disgusting & that parents shouldn't be enabling their kids to go in public.
Prospect Park is mostly in Park Slope ... which also has its share of yuppie/hipster douchebags who might read an article like this one & decide that this is a good idea.
― marmite christ (Eisbaer), Friday, 19 April 2013 23:10 (eleven years ago) link
can somebody confirm for me that williamsburg is in prospect park
― 乒乓, Friday, 19 April 2013 23:10 (eleven years ago) link
tbqh tho when i've had particularly flared crohn's disease i've used what was available and a more lenient cultural approach to elimination would definitely have made my life easier during some rough times
― Mordy, Friday, 19 April 2013 23:10 (eleven years ago) link
I'm not "cool with it" - it smells terrible! it's just not a public health hazard on the level of HUMAN SHIT EVERYWHERE
― four Marxes plus four Obamas plus four Bin Ladens (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 19 April 2013 23:10 (eleven years ago) link
probably children should not be allowed outdoors until they are fully potty trained and able to speak in complete sentences, so i think 12 would be a good age to let kids out
― 乒乓, Friday, 19 April 2013 23:11 (eleven years ago) link
in rome all the public toilets have the seat removed - thank god for strong thigh muscles i guess
― Mordy, Friday, 19 April 2013 23:11 (eleven years ago) link
Rome also has a lot of squat-over-a-hole-in-the-floor public toilets, too.
― marmite christ (Eisbaer), Friday, 19 April 2013 23:15 (eleven years ago) link
like this one:
http://onceinalifetimetravel.files.wordpress.com/2012/02/614_o1.jpg
utopeea
― buzza, Friday, 19 April 2013 23:20 (eleven years ago) link
buzza!! :O
― 乒乓, Friday, 19 April 2013 23:22 (eleven years ago) link
Do you guys seriously never let your kid pee on a tree in the park in an emergency situation? What about your dog, do you find an open coffeeshop so it can piss in a toilet?
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Friday, 19 April 2013 23:24 (eleven years ago) link
HUMAN SHIT EVERYWHERE
― H-E-double-s1ockisticks (forksclovetofu), Friday, 19 April 2013 23:25 (eleven years ago) link
emergencies? sure.
this article was about yuppies who let their kids shit and piss in public and in their sinks in lieu of as part of their potty training, which is totally different.
― marmite christ (Eisbaer), Friday, 19 April 2013 23:28 (eleven years ago) link