Pissed off Belgians
You * out pissed, but I can say f**k?
Who are you, the BBC?
A videogame that truly takes the p*ss
Combine videogames, beer and a urinal, and what do you get? Well, aside from a vile smell, you get Place to Pee – an interactive gaming unit ‘operated’ by the flow of a certain warm, yellow liquid. Can't see the video? Download Flash Player from Adobe.com No we’re not taking the p*ss, Place to Pee has been developed by …
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Tuesday 20th May 2008 14:42 GMT Anonymous Coward
Too good to be true, the article that is.
As soon as I'd read the first sentence I was thinking of Belgium.
>BTW is there a version for the girls?
You've lead a sheltered life. The aforementioned country is the only place I've seen were in some bars the women walk past the men's urinals to get to their own places of worship. You soon get used to it, especially if you keep going back to those bars. On busy nights the more adventurous (read one drink from passing out) female would join in with the men or at least try.
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Tuesday 20th May 2008 14:42 GMT Michael H.F. Wilkinson
I have a question
When voting in this novel fashion, does pissing on a candidate imply a vote for or against? Logic would indicate the latter, but what does it say in the manual?
The system would not work for The Netherlands, where you would have to piss on hundreds of candidates from dozens of parties to erase all except the one you like or trust....
oh hang on, where talking politicians....
Come to think of it: brilliant system, should draw in the crowds next polling day!
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Tuesday 20th May 2008 20:08 GMT Andy ORourke
@Sabine Miehlbradt
I have recently started to see urinals where there is a picture of a fly placed in the bowl, apparently some research found that the accuracy of men increased when they had something to aim at.
Come to that has anyone seen the toilet trainer for cats? The wife just bought one but our boot faced old tom cat just ran for it!
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Tuesday 20th May 2008 20:08 GMT Mike
Compelling storyline, over 40hours of gameplay
Or maybe not.
One can only assume that the games available for this are somewhat limited in terms of the amount of time you can play since you would only have a limited amount of "flow time"?
Rather like the ol' coin-op machines, I guess - 45 seconds gameplay before you're dead and time to shovel in more coins. I suppose that at least with this machine, you only have to spend a penny :)
The urine-stained trenchcoat with the special front-hatch please
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Tuesday 20th May 2008 20:08 GMT jai
limited gameplay?
i'm concerned about the limited amount of gameplay
space invaders, for example, you'd have had to have drunk a damn load of beer in order to have a chance of reaching the 2nd level.
and just as you reached the critical part and needed extra precision for aiming at the mothership, you'll run out of juice... as it were
and now i think about it.... how do you fly to the left _and_ fire at the same time? some kind of stream splitting mechanism is required?
actually - this is just crying out for a Ghostbusters game, isn't it?
don't cross the streams!!!
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Tuesday 20th May 2008 20:08 GMT Herby
Make sure the aiming pads...
...are not conductive. Could get exciting, to say the least. If you have one of these for voting, I suggest that the aiming point be for the one you vote against. It would make for a popular sport.
Oh, another thing. The system has an ability to prevent "double voting" built in. Unless you are drinking beer. Of course, after a few you may lack coordination to "cast" a vote properly.
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Tuesday 20th May 2008 22:35 GMT Steven Raith
This is just an electronic version of...
...entertaining yourself by aiming for the soap block in the urinal.
I for one welcome our electronic urinal based overloads - especially if it means that more blokes use the urinals, rather than blocking the one cubicle, *blatantly* standing there pissing into it, and taking their time over it too, when I need a good dump.
If you are too much of a pussy/so insecure of your sexuality to use the urinal, then go put a skirt on along with some mascara and use the lasses bathroom, you big girls.
And if you are insecure, and you must use the bog to have a piss, at least lift the frigging seat first you fucking pikey.
Steven "Bored of spending two minutes wiping piss off the bog seat before dropping the kids off at the pool" Raith.
PS: I most often see this in the 'trendier' bars of Islington - nuff said?
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Tuesday 20th May 2008 22:35 GMT Dave
@ Andy O'Rourke and others
The picture of the insect in a urinal has a long and glorious history that goes back to Victorian days.
The insect depicted is usually a honey bee, which is a smart alec Latin joke for the scholars.
(The latin for bee is Apis)
Mines the one that I won't wear again until its been dry cleaned
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Wednesday 21st May 2008 05:08 GMT Dave Murray
Non-electronic version seen in Czech Republic
I saw a similar kid of thing in the Starobrno brewery toilets in the Czech Republic about two years ago. There the urinals had a set of goalposts in them with a small orange ball. Everyone on our piss up had great fun comparing how many goals we'd managed to score in the course of the evening.
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Wednesday 21st May 2008 07:42 GMT Andy
Hardly surprising
Considering the Belgians are the proud owners of the famed Manneken Pis statues (there are actually several, not only the one in Brussels http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manneken_Pis), their obsession with this activity should be no surprise.
Oh and Belgium is not the only country where women avoid the queues in their own toilets by heading to the men's. I have seen this behaviour frequently in clubs and bars in Sweden.
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Wednesday 21st May 2008 07:42 GMT Andy Worth
Re:Nothing New
"We had games like this at our students union about 5 years ago, they lasted about 2 weeks before they were all broken."
That's because they were surrounded by students, which is enough to give anything the will to die. Besides, with the urine-alcohol content found in most students, it'd be like dousing the thing in meths.
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