Peeing in Marina

[ricky_s]

Went over to Cowes on Thursday and arranged a couple of days in East Cowes Marina.

They put us on the visitors moorings which are long fingers with three boats on each finger.

The second day a sail boat with a black flag? (not pirate) pulled in front of us with a few blokes on it.

In the early evening I popped my head out to find two of them peeing into the water. Nice!

They buggered off after that but arrived back at their boat around 2am.
I could hear one of the being sick in the water, that is until they started their engine which they then ran until about 3am!

Not sure which country they are from but this is the first time i've seen someone pee into the water, especially as it was still light outside!

 

[KenMcCulloch]

You have lived a sheltered life, so far, haven't you?

 

[colvic987]

Well, thats cowes for you, that where all the riff raff go for their summer hols you know. !!!!

 

[PCUK]

There are ignorant pigs in all walks of life - and sadly not all of them are foreigners!!!

 

[ricky_s]

You have lived a sheltered life, so far, haven't you?

No mate,

I grew up in London and have seen blokes pissing, but not openly in a marina before.

 

[Robin]

No mate,

I grew up in London and have seen blokes pissing, but not openly in a marina before.

In France they will do it from the opposite pontoon whilst looking you right in the eye...

One time in Cherbourg's old marina a friend said 'you would think they didn't have loos on board', whereupon another Frenchman appeared out of the mainhatch carrying...... The loo!

Best though was anchored off a beach in Belle Isle when a French boat went past under sail leaving the anchorage. Behind the foresail was a crew member crapping in a bucket just sat on the foredeck, which he then emptied overboard not too far away.

 

[ricky_s]

In France they will do it from the opposite pontoon whilst looking you right in the eye...

Just googled their flag, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Flag_of_Brittany.svg

Thought they sounded French.

 

[Robin]

Would you have been as concerned if the ladies on board were stood on the pontoon naked using the hose to wash down? We were once next to a boat with an all female crew in Port Haliguen and had to push past to get to walk ashore.

 

[ricky_s]

Would you have been as concerned if the ladies on board were stood on the pontoon naked using the hose to wash down? We were once next to a boat with an all female crew in Port Haliguen and had to push past to get to walk ashore.

That wouldn't have been so bad

 

[blueglass]

yes the French have made it an art form, they seem to have a total aversion to using their own toilets - very strange. Women too in Le Havre - squatting down with their a**ses hanging out over the bathing platform, in broad daylight mid afternoon with loads of people about.

 

[Robin]

Watched one French crew go ashore for a meal in the tender, 6 up in a tender built for 2 and a choppy day. One young lady's solution to not getting her best duds wet was simply to remove them and get dressed again on the beach.

 

[epervier]

yes the French have made it an art form, they seem to have a total aversion to using their own toilets - very strange. Women too in Le Havre - squatting down with their a**ses hanging out over the bathing platform, in broad daylight mid afternoon with loads of people about.

There lies the huge difference in cultures, the British still suffer from the hang over of Victorian/Edwardian values and anything related to the reproductive organs represents sex, therefore, offensive to their morals and sensibilities,

whereas the French see it as a natural function that everybody has to do it, and have not gone down the road of making laws against it, although it has to be said, the pissoir/pissotiere of Paris have been removed for a good number of years now, but in rural areas it is common practice if you need to go then go!

The Flag flown on the boat is the Drapeaux de Bretagne or Flag of Breton which covers five departments, Cotes-d'Amor,Finistere,Ille-et-Vilaine, loire Atlantique and Morbihan

Not for one moment would I say I am an expert on the french way of life, after all I only lived there for 17 years and you can't claim to know another country's culture until at least a life time of living there

But a lot of their "ways" are better than ours, not all but a good many.

 

[blueglass]

There lies the huge difference in cultures, the British still suffer from the hang over of Victorian/Edwardian values and anything related to the reproductive organs represents sex, therefore, offensive to their morals and sensibilities,

whereas the French see it as a natural function that everybody has to do it, and have not gone down the road of making laws against it, although it has to be said, the pissoir/pissotiere of Paris have been removed for a good number of years now, but in rural areas it is common practice if you need to go then go!

The Flag flown on the boat is the Drapeaux de Bretagne or Flag of Breton which covers five departments, Cotes-d'Amor,Finistere,Ille-et-Vilaine, loire Atlantique and Morbihan

Not for one moment would I say I am an expert on the french way of life, after all I only lived there for 17 years and you can't claim to know another country's culture until at least a life time of living there
.

But a lot of their "ways" are better than ours, not all but a good many.

yes but why, if you need to go, do you choose the bathing platform over the heads which are 3 steps away? Also, without getting too precious, there sre strict rules on using holding tanks when in marinas and harbours, therefore implictly against normal rules to pee off the pontoon, surely.

 

[Chris_Robb]

In France they will do it from the opposite pontoon whilst looking you right in the eye...

One time in Cherbourg's old marina a friend said 'you would think they didn't have loos on board', whereupon another Frenchman appeared out of the mainhatch carrying...... The loo!

Best though was anchored off a beach in Belle Isle when a French boat went past under sail leaving the anchorage. Behind the foresail was a crew member crapping in a bucket just sat on the foredeck, which he then emptied overboard not too far away.

We were in an anchorage in Greece when we noticed a rather pretty fillette totally starkers go to the push pit and C**P straight into the lovely clean anchorage where we were all swimming - French of course!

Nothing wrong with peeing into the water, but I don't think it should be "in your face"

 

[blueglass]

We were in an anchorage in Greece when we noticed a rather pretty fillette totally starkers go to the push pit and C**P straight into the lovely clean anchorage where we were all swimming - French of course!"

Outrageous. Call me Victorian/Edwardian if you like Epervier - I don't care if they do think they have a healthier attitute to bodily functions.
I don't want to watch it and I don't want to swim in it and its got nothing to do with sex - you've been reading too much Freud mon ami

 

[Chris_Robb]

Outrageous. Call me Victorian/Edwardian if you like Epervier - I don't care if they do think they have a healthier attitute to bodily functions.
I don't want to watch it and I don't want to swim in it and its got nothing to do with sex - you've been reading too much Freud mon ami

We were frankly gobsmacked and furious and said so. they didn't seen to give a C**T

 

[iangrant]

Live and let live?

So if everyone gets upset by the behaviour of other folk then move somewhere else.

Same as moaning about the TV, turn it off!


Ian

 

[blueglass]

So if everyone gets upset by the behaviour of other folk then move somewhere else.

Same as moaning about the TV, turn it off!


Ian

sorry but that is ridiculous. The "other folk" who behave badly should be the ones to go somewhere else! You may as well say that if someone behaves badly by breaking into your house, you would give them the keys and move out - I mean - you wouldn't want to moan would you?

 

[oldgit]

I don't want to watch it and I don't want to swim in it and its got nothing to do with sex - you've been reading too much Freud mon ami[/QUOTE]

We do it much better of corse,we just used dump millions of gallons of untreated sewage into any handy bit of water,usually near a beach of course,until the EU told us to pack it in(well treat it actually.
Whilst living on the Isle of Sheppey near to the port of Sheerness,it was quite common to see chaps with foreign registered cars(dutch/Belgium/France) relieving themselves unashamedly at the side of the road road,you got used to it after a while.Much more civilised IMHO than our cross your legs and pray attitude or pissing in a water bottle a chucking it out of the vehicle onto the verge to catch the eye for months to come.
Just check out any motorway roundabout for half filled bottles of orange pop.

 

[blueglass]

I don't want to watch it and I don't want to swim in it and its got nothing to do with sex - you've been reading too much Freud mon ami

We do it much better of corse,we just used dump millions of gallons of untreated sewage into any handy bit of water,usually near a beach of course,until the EU told us to pack it in(well treat it actually.
Whilst living on the Isle of Sheppey near to the port of Sheerness,it was quite common to see chaps with foreign registered cars(dutch/Belgium/France) relieving themselves unashamedly at the side of the road road,you got used to it after a while.Much more civilised IMHO than our cross your legs and pray attitude or pissing in a water bottle a chucking it out of the vehicle onto the verge to catch your eye for months to come.[/QUOTE]

Im quite happy to take pee by the side of the road myself if need be - but we were talking about the girl who crapped into the Greek anchorage, which is little different. So I assume you would approve of boats emptying holding tanks in an anchorage full of swimmers?