Why you can piss on the street in Amsterdam

[Music] urinals matter and public urinals matter especially but there's one country in the world that does public journals like no other and that country is the Netherlands going back centuries the Dutch have had an intimate relationship with water management and in cities like Amsterdam the Dutch had to construct specific forms of water management Hardware to withstand drunk British males holding all other variables equal when presented with an open environment and the need to urinate certain locations have a much higher probability of being chosen this includes common objects like trees or alleys but in the Netherlands

there's a unique object that presents a unique Danger on a late night in Amsterdam a man finds the slow gray running water of the canals a bit too hard to ignore he walks over disoriented and unstable and also a bit too confident he unzips his fly and releases only to get light-headed and stumble and fall into the cold Canal below there's no way back cold and increasingly aware of what's happening the noise of other loud British tourists drown out the sounds of his drowning Amsterdam's red light district is a notorious tourist attractor since alcohol consumption

increases the need to urinate and self-confidence there have been multiple piss related drownings in the Netherlands piss-related drownings are one of the most significant causes of drownings each year with victims easily being identifiable due to their unzipped flies alcohol reduces your blood pressure emptying your bladder quickly reduces it even more combine both with unstable footing and a Wandering drunk tourist has a much higher risk of falling into a canal once Fallen they have the added problem that a canal is not easy to climb out of and being inebriated reduces motor function while making you more

likely to swallow dangerous amounts of water in an attempt to reduce piss-induced drownings the Dutch have had to come up with a genius solution this is the plus curl also known as the piss curl a phenomenal example of Dutch urban planning and Design when looking at this map of Amsterdam you can see that the plus kill is strategically built near water and at places with the largest number of British tourists the highest concentration of kills can be found in the heart of the red light district and the Cool's design is just as impressive as its

planning it's shaped in the form of a golden ratio sheets of affordable long-lasting cast iron metal are bent into a beautiful curve [Music] there's also an open bottom so that it's clear to others whether the kill is in use and it does it without revealing the self-conscious user although the exact Secrets behind the plus kills design are lost in time it's undeniable that the inventors were geniuses the legs of the possible are in the shape of a bladder Amsterdam is an international City attracting people from multiple different backgrounds and languages where the bladder legs designed

so as to make it intuitively clear to all that it was built for urination we'll never know the cool is also a lot more welcoming and clearly superior to the hard angle public urinal the design should obviously be soft and welcoming no not hard and cold the dark green also makes it blend in naturally within the cityscape better a urinal that's natural to use than one that brings large amounts of attention to you the designers also made it so that the plus skill delicately combines both elements of Municipal and National branding on some of the

older Metal Frames you can find Saint Andrews crosses this serves a try function advertising the city of Amsterdam ensuring ventilation and giving a clear-eyed view of the street to the vulnerable user zoom out and then you begin to see the strong National Design Elements combining both the Dutch tiling tradition as well as bricks likely locally sourced from the Rhine the plus curl is the best curl but unfortunately it goes by another name as well the will be missed curl currently in existential danger due to Amsterdam's government removing it off of its streets the plus kill

is imperfect you see foreign the plus kill with its perfect ratios is not perfectly optimized for space it also needs to be routinely cleaned by Municipal staff due to it not being directly connected to a water system and this has caused serious issues with more selfish residents who would choose their own hygienic needs over the interests of the larger City Hall options [Music] foreign [Music] although there have been some moonshot attempts to introduce handicap and female friendly plus curls the strong cast iron frame was not strong enough to keep the plus cool alive instead in

its ashes emerges a new Dutch public urinal one that puts all others to shame this is the eurolift the quintessential Dutch invention carrying the netherlands's strongest National traditions on its cold metal shoulders the country is known for some of the most intricate and well-developed Water Management Systems in the world a network of intricate dike and Bridge systems that keeps deadly water at Bay connected into that water system is the ai-powered self-rinsing eurolift paying direct homage to the country's strong grip on water and the Netherlands is also known for its serious investment into world-class public infrastructure

not everyone uses a public urinal so why should all be burdened by the urinal use of a few the Dutch solution as always pragmatic and based on consensus build a urinal that during the day is shy but pops up at night when the demand is high although some of the eurolift journals may still be male-centric it matters less because they're more space efficient the single pillar borrowing more from the oldest French pesoir is designed to have three urinators simultaneously and the design also intelligently cuts out of the cylindrical frame to carefully mask out self-conscious urinators

it's exactly the type of brilliant engineering that you would expect from the country home to companies like asml the brushed stainless steel frame communicates seriousness and a respect for civilians who need to use the urinal stainless steel is also a significant upgrade to the cast iron model because stainless steel is resistant to corrosion steel also comes off professional and clean and the top of the eurolift once not in use is designed to blend in with the natural landscape like a chameleon but the eurolift improves upon everything it has multiple models so unlike the plus curl

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