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Last time I had to suffer an agriculture show 50 years ago I just remember the 4'boxing ring screen where the pee along the trough then straight to fertilize the soil for next year's crop.
What if you had the grips did it go straight to the field too ?
Wonder what Glastonbury or the Isle of Wight festival did way back then
I'm bored it's raining again
Im at ours tomorrow would you like a photo
#notweirdatall
I think we've all sat on a plank of wood with a hole cut in it - trying not to think of the pyramid of shit below! 💩💩💩
Or the smell.....
Glastonbury 1993. Seeing the aftermath of a bank of "long drops" after the pit side had collapsed and it had fallen in, pitching everyone on one side face first into the pit with their kecks round their ankles... Happy days.
Red Bull Mountain Mayhem, Sandwell 2001. I was racing hard to the finish, ready to hand over the baton, when I saw the rider in front ploughing through a large puddle. Suddenly the realisation dawned that a 'turdis' 'portiloo' had toppled over and flung its contents onto the last few metres. I gingerly soft pedalled through the smelly contents, urrrgghh.
Poogirl, Leeds Festival 2009. Only time in my life I've ever witnessed the creation of an urban myth firsthand.
See also: How high in the air a portaloo flies when set on fire and its payload of poop explodes. And every T in the Park, where within 2 seconds of arriving on site everyone is pissing everywhere. You're standing in the nice food area waiting for your incredibly expensive Loch Fyne Seafood mussels and you realise there's a fat lass pissing on the thing where they keep the little wooden forks
That reminds me - It's Cockermouth show at the weekend. I'll check out the toilets and report back!
Although at £10 a ticket I'm expecting something special...🤣
Winter of 2010/11 when it was pretty chilly (-18 each night) I was working out of Loch Awe doing a railway de-veg and rockfall meshing job where the train was derailed by a rock .
The toilets froze in the compound. The 18 guys who were there decided that before each night shift going for a dump there was better than at the digs. Each toilet had a pyramid of frozen crap in it. One guy decided to take the cistern lid off to give him a higher perch. Unfortunately he crapped down the side of the lid then stuck it back on the cistern.
In other news that was when I had my greatest temperature difference in one night -18 at the start +10 by the end of the shift.
I don't miss geotechnical work
I once shit in the glovebox of a Clio hirecar whilst being driven up a Moroccan autoroute as my work colleague wouldn't pull over anywhere.
RustyNissanPrairie
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I once shit in the glovebox of a Clio hirecar whilst being driven up a Moroccan autoroute as my work colleague wouldn’t pull over anywhere.
Shit himself in The foot there!
Just make sure you know where the hand washing facilities are 😉
The toilets froze in the compound. The 18 guys who were there decided that before each night shift going for a dump there was better than at the digs. Each toilet had a pyramid of frozen crap in it.
At least it was frozen, at the last Reading Festival I was at, 1995, IIRC; Björk and Neil Young with Pearl Jam were a couple of the headiners, the portapotties had shit piled about a foot above the seats, because nobody bothered to come round and empty them. Then they got pushed over…
I haven’t been to a Reading Festival since.
Greenman and End Of The Road do empty them regularly, but then they have smaller crowds.
See also: How high in the air a portaloo flies when set on fire and its payload of poop explodes. And every T in the Park, where within 2 seconds of arriving on site everyone is pissing everywhere. You’re standing in the nice food area waiting for your incredibly expensive Loch Fyne Seafood mussels and you realise there’s a fat lass pissing on the thing where they keep the little wooden forks
WTF? I've led a sheltered life, I think.
I think we’ve all sat on a plank of wood with a hole cut in it – trying not to think of the pyramid of shit below!
hard not to think of it when towards the end of a festival weekend the tip of that pyramid is a few inches above the height of the toilet seat
Competing in an off-road race in Croatia years ago the camp field had a long row of plastic portaloos. However, in order to save on having to empty them they had simply dug a trench and cut the bottoms out of the loos to effectively produce a row of long-drops. By the end of the week the pyramids had all reached the top of the bowls! They affectionately became known as "Krapatoa" the shit volcano 🙂
Perhaps it’s just easier to avoid using the provided facilities?
We are of course missing the obvious... I've been in a fair few farmers houses over the years and an agricultural show toilet is probably a step up in class for some of them! 🙂