Aren't them foreigners weird...

[sight-pin]

There's one on the outskirts of Castleford actually!!, but not in use
(think the locals preferred walls & gutters?)

I know I did have a picture of it, but can't see it in my files, so, here's listing & a picture off the 'net;
http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/en-342464-public-urinal-to-east-of-post-office-

Les pissoirs... Still quite common - and not only in France. There are a few in London and a lovely glass one In Groningen.

We was heading for San Sebastian Spain by coach at the time as my mum wouldn't fly, i can remember i finding them loo's highly embarrassing
with everyone just walking by. lol

 

[twentysix by twentyfive]

in Santiago de Compostela airport loo, to be able to wave and chat to passers by while using the urinal.

What exactly were you waving?

 

[NorthernDave]

You don't necessarily need a passport to encounter such oddness...
A mate tells the tale of visiting a chippy in the hinterland of Manchester and the local in front of him ordering a "chip barm, pea wet".
This is apparently something of a local delicacy - a chip butty with the breadcake dipped in the mushy pea juices before the chips are added.

 

[NorthernDave]

There's one on the outskirts of Castleford actually!!, but not in use
(think the locals preferred walls & gutters?)

I know I did have a picture of it, but can't see it in my files, so, here's listing & a picture off the 'net;
http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/en-342464-public-urinal-to-east-of-post-office-

I bet whoever lives in that bungalow is glad that the facility has been closed for years...

 

[User169]

Lunchtime at work: adults spread margarine on a slice of bread, chuck a load of chocolate sprinkles on and then eat it with a knife and fork. All washed down with a glass of milk.

 

[srw]

Les pissoirs... Still quite common - and not only in France. There are a few in London and a lovely glass one In Groningen.

User is, of course, a connoisseur of gentleman's conveniences.

 

[srw]

I have, this evening, seen:

Naked men in a public park.
A statue of the Renaissance composer Lassus reused as a memorial for Michael Jackson.
A tour guide in a cassock carrying a halberd and wearing a hat with a feather in it.
A group of young and very small Japanese women dressed up as cartoon cats and cartoon geishas accompanying a tall German with a Heavy Metal T-shirt on the steps of a cathedral.

 

[Shut Up Legs]

In many countries they make tea by heating milk and dunking a tea bag in it.

Tea? What a newfangled invention! Back in the day...

 

[hopless500]

I went AWOL in Cambodia (Sihanoukville) on a 'happy pizza' for 36 hours. Oh how I laughed.

They have that in Sihanoukville? Bugger, missed it. Had a fish amok instead

 

[Piemaster]

Public urinal/ Bus shelter.
Much the same thing in many places I've been to.

There's one on the outskirts of Castleford actually!!, but not in use
(think the locals preferred walls & gutters?)

I know I did have a picture of it, but can't see it in my files, so, here's listing & a picture off the 'net;
http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/en-342464-public-urinal-to-east-of-post-office-

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

And just what exactly did you wave at them?

PS: I love Santiago, one of my favourite places in the world. I lived not too far away for 2 years. Also, it has the nickname "The Urinal of Spain" (cos it rains so much)

The rain in Spain falls mainly on the...... Spannish.

Thank God you didn't try smiling at someone.

Oy ponce, if I see them pearly whites again I'll smash em aht.

(I've seen the London documentary Eastenders, I know how you lovable cockney rogues talk)

I believe that another of their sayings which has a similar meaning is

'Get aht my Pub!!'

Which is usually shouted by the lady folk to show their disgust at someone undesirable.

Devon.
As an 19 year old from the Wirral it took me a while to get over the language barrier.
I worked for Plymough City Council for a while,

You are still working on it I see!

grass cutting. I was cutting grass in the garden of some flats. One of the residents, an older man made me a cup of tea. I drank it and chatted to him.
When he started sayin "moi luvver" and "moi 'ansome" to me I thought he might be angling for a little bit of 'extra gardening'. I made my excuses.

It turns out that that's how they talk there!

I'd be disappointed!

 

[ayceejay]

I made the trip from Piraeus in Greece to Brindisi in Italy. It all started well with we deck class hippies sharing as we spread out on blankets, the Greeks off to the Volkswagen factory in Germany were more than generous, we had chicken and bread and figs and retsina. Sometime later a visit to the toylut was necessitated and a trip 'down below' was the real adventure. By this time many passengers had yet to find their sea legs and the metal floor was greased with pre digested chicken bread figs and retsina. I made it to the loo only to find a hole in the floor two footprint imprints and two handles on the wall all covered with the generally donated food.
So now that I have painted a tasteful picture for you and you can see where I might have a problem, you know, you put your feet in the footprints right and hold on the the handles right? But excuse me, you can't do the business because of trousers. I took my trousers off and put them around my neck so I was naked from waist down taking a tommy and a girl walked in, there was no door, and spewed the contents of her stomach all over my well, me . In case there are any makers of porno movies out there - no this is not a turn on.
Furriners eh?

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

I made the trip from Piraeus in Greece to Brindisi in Italy. It all started well with we deck class hippies sharing as we spread out on blankets, the Greeks off to the Volkswagen factory in Germany were more than generous, we had chicken and bread and figs and retsina. Sometime later a visit to the toylut was necessitated and a trip 'down below' was the real adventure. By this time many passengers had yet to find their sea legs and the metal floor was greased with pre digested chicken bread figs and retsina. I made it to the loo only to find a hole in the floor two footprint imprints and two handles on the wall all covered with the generally donated food.
So now that I have painted a tasteful picture for you and you can see where I might have a problem, you know, you put your feet in the footprints right and hold on the the handles right? But excuse me, you can't do the business because of trousers. I took my trousers off and put them around my neck so I was naked from waist down taking a tommy and a girl walked in, there was no door, and spewed the contents of her stomach all over my well, me . In case there are any makers of porno movies out there - no this is not a turn on.
Furriners eh?

You loved it really, just admit it!

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

I bet whoever lives in that bungalow is glad that the facility has been closed for years...

I'm not certain if it was built after closure, or not??

 

[slowwww]

On my first ski trip to the French Alps as a boy in the 1970s, the toilets in the restaurants on the slopes were simply a hole in the ground, but there were handles on either side of the door frame for you to hold onto while doing the deed.

Apparently a favorite trick of French boys was to carry a screwdriver with them to loosen the handles and so you would fall backwards into said pit. Nice!