Why just the men? More sexist twaddle?

[Gromit]

I'm completely in favour of composing toilets, but only the ones with the long drops. St Nicks composting toilets, you get to see what the other person has left even though you cover it with sawdust.

 

[rich p]

I'm completely in favour of composing toilets, but only the ones with the long drops. St Nicks composting toilets, you get to see what the other person has left even though you cover it with sawdust.

I'm completely in favour of composing rhyming couplets

 

[Gromit]

I'm completely in favour of composing rhyming couplets

I mean composting toilets.

 

[theclaud]

Is the OP really concerned that this is sexist?

I think he's being slightly tongue-in-cheek - it's mildly sexist just because it's so preposterously coy about women having a piss, presumably on account of it being unladylike . Like Waffly, I see peeing on the compost as practically an obligation. I haven't got one of those piss-o-phone things, though. Perhaps they'd come in handy on the FNRttC...

 

[Campfire]

You know how they use sewage to spread as muck on farms, can any teckkie out there say what happens if any aids viruses get into the sewage, subsequently go onto crops that we eat? Does the sewage treatment process kill the virus, which I thought were difficult to be destroyed, like the foot and mouth virus?

 

[Gromit]

You know how they use sewage to spread as muck on farms, can any teckkie out there say what happens if any aids viruses get into the sewage, subsequently go onto crops that we eat? Does the sewage treatment process kill the virus, which I thought were difficult to be destroyed, like the foot and mouth virus?

I think they heat treat it thus killing off any harmful viruses. I have a friend who's father works in a treatment works, I could ask him what happens.

 

[Arch]

I'm completely in favour of composing toilets, but only the ones with the long drops. St Nicks composting toilets, you get to see what the other person has left even though you cover it with sawdust.

I'm not bothered myself. It's just poo. I don't spend ages looking into the pan, I just lift the lid, turn round and sit down.

 

[Arch]

As for the OP and whether it's sexist, I think that's rubbish. It's patently easier for a chap to have a pee onto a straw bale, indeed they tend to be called strawbale urinals, and we mostly associate urinals with men.

 

[Arch]

And the significance of the three metre long bit is called 'journalistic colour'. It's just a detail they happened to include. It gives scale. Most members of the public wouldn't have a clue how big a couple of straw bales are, and might thinkit was one of those enormous roles they see in fields.

 

[rich p]

I think he's being slightly tongue-in-cheek - it's mildly sexist just because it's so preposterously coy about women having a piss, presumably on account of it being unladylike . Like Waffly, I see peeing on the compost as practically an obligation. I haven't got one of those piss-o-phone things, though. Perhaps they'd come in handy on the FNRttC...

I'm intrigued although not in a prurient way Do you go to the end of the garden and climb onto the compost heap or do it in a bucket indoors and transfer the contents?

 

[theclaud]

I'm intrigued although not in a prurient way Do you go to the end of the garden and climb onto the compost heap or do it in a bucket indoors and transfer the contents?

It's usually pretty quiet at the allotments. It's one of those things, like getting dressed or undressed on the beach, that is best accomplished by choosing your moment well and getting on with it with the minimum of fuss, rather than going to preposterous lengths to be discreet and drawing attention to yourself in the process. You'd be amazed at what you can get away with in public on this principle.

 

[Tim Bennet.]

I think he's (the OP) being slightly tongue-in-cheek

Indeed. It's posted in Cafe with question marks.

As I said, the National Trust have been extremely emphatic about it only being the male gardeners. I was wondering why this might be as any 'practical' barriers to women gardeners 'doing their part' could be solved (as can most problems) in about half an hour with some stout poles, canvas, duck tape, wire ties and a good length of bailer twine.

So if the obvious problem could be so easily swept aside, one's mind turns to ulterior reasons . .

 

[rich p]

Sorry. I thought question marks denoted questions not tongue in cheekness!

 

[Piemaster]

Can't see what the problem is with women not contributing.

I'm a bloke. The world is my urinal.

 

[rich p]

Can't see what the problem is with women not contributing.

I'm a bloke. The world is my urinal.

So true. Can't be a good al fresco!