even more quiddities and agonies of the ruling class - a new rolling new york times thread

btw isn't "public health and sanitation laws are some evil plot by the Big Bad Diaper Industry to stifle their kids' natural industries" almost exclusively the province of well-off douchebags in any case? You gotta be well-off to have time to worry about those kind of (maybe sorta kinda) non-problems

forks otm disgusting savagery at its most disgustingly savage

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.

so its okay for dogs to poop in the street but not babies ; )

Your baby can poop in the street as long as you scoop the poop.

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!

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.

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

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.

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.

the ruling class kings of shit mountain

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

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)

boy_layer

urine is sterile and is not a public health hazard

shit is a different story

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

doesnt stop homeless people from doing it tho

what's up buzza boo, you miss me?? ;) ;) ;)

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.)

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.

urine is sterile

i do too, its a fact of life, as are all of the 10 parents in new york who do this, deal with it

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

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

everyone should just urinate in the street - modern ppl are too squeamish

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.

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

thread getting very wtf up in here

o_O

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

Mordy otm

unless you have a rare disease whose pathogen persists in urine (there are not a lot of these btw)

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

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.

what's your stance on dogs then

i think peeing in the street should be okay. obv feces is a totally different situation.

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.

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.

can somebody confirm for me that williamsburg is in prospect park

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

I'm not "cool with it" - it smells terrible! it's just not a public health hazard on the level of HUMAN SHIT EVERYWHERE

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

in rome all the public toilets have the seat removed - thank god for strong thigh muscles i guess

Rome also has a lot of squat-over-a-hole-in-the-floor public toilets, too.

like this one:

http://onceinalifetimetravel.files.wordpress.com/2012/02/614_o1.jpg

utopeea

buzza!! :O

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?