Toilets of the Netherlands

Here is one of the most famous urinals in the world, the ones at Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport.

Someone, possibly a psychologist with an emphasis on urinary studies, determined that aim and therefore cleanliness improve with a target. So all the urinals have a small black fly in the target area.

The somewhat unusual raised hemisphere shape is not unique to the special Schiphol design. Here is the toilet facility at the Bulldog bar / cafe / coffeeshop in Amsterdam.

In the area of Amersterdam coffeeshop toilets, here is the glow-in-the-dark facility at the Homegrown Fantasy coffeeshop. It's lit entirely by blacklight. Very psychedelic.

The Netherlands is close enough to Germany to get some of their plumbing from there, including this Teutonic Inspection Shelf model at the Sphinx Hotel in Amsterdam.

Inspection shelf in the rear and exit at the front.

Amsterdam has lots of open-air urinals. In some districts you find them on every corner.

These are the old design. A lead-coated panel within a spiral steel screen.

Then there are the new ones.... Plastic design, a steel hook at the top to move it. And yes, this is all there is to it.

It's awfully close to just peeing on a lightpole along the street. "Performance anxiety" can be a problem.

This is a strange sign carved in stone along a street in Amsterdam. HOMO SAPIENS NON URINAT IN VENTUM WISE MEN DO NOT URINATE INTO THE WIND True, but why the monumental version?

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