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Before port-a-John's, what did large events and tailgating look like?
Posted on 7/11/26 at 5:42 pm
Posted on 7/11/26 at 5:42 pm
Was it just a bunch of people pissing and shitting in bushes like pajeets?
Were there wooden outhouses around stadiums? Buckets? Did everyone just hold it until they got to an actual plumbed bathroom?
I mean, the Circus Maximus held more people than Tiger Stadium
So in a couple thousand years they surely had something figured out. Outhouses on trailers? Holes in the ground?
Anyone around remember what it was like before tons of port-a-potties?
Were there wooden outhouses around stadiums? Buckets? Did everyone just hold it until they got to an actual plumbed bathroom?
I mean, the Circus Maximus held more people than Tiger Stadium
So in a couple thousand years they surely had something figured out. Outhouses on trailers? Holes in the ground?
Anyone around remember what it was like before tons of port-a-potties?
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Posted on 7/11/26 at 5:45 pm to fr33manator
At LSU the buildings were open and people used the public restrooms because they didnt act like savages.
Posted on 7/11/26 at 5:46 pm to fr33manator
Circus Maximus and Coliseum had troughs.
Sixty-six toilets and urinals in the ancient city of Rome: sanitary, urbanistic, and social agency
Sixty-six toilets and urinals in the ancient city of Rome: sanitary, urbanistic, and social agency
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Location of comfort stations escalate to the level mass-evacuation with the urinals documented at the Colosseum and the Circus Maximus. Elisa Cella and Gemma Jansen present the preserved urinals of the Colosseum (cat. 19-21), consisting of gutters located on the inboard side of the corridors behind the seating areas and having a total length of 1260 meters (fig. 3). No evidence of wooden or stone privacy barriers survives, leading one to imagine the potentially shocking spectacle of the masses standing or squatting to urinate. Marialetiza Buonfiglio’s entry on the urinal locations in the Circus Maximus provides a useful plan and reconstructs its urinals and their drain systems (cat. 26-28, figs. 7 and 9). She proposes that it was normal—more than in other spaces—to relieve oneself along one of these gutters (cat. 26-28, fig. 9). Beyond Rome, Cella and Jansen cite the long stretches of gutter urinals in the amphitheater at Pozzuoli, whereas Buonfiglio finds a parallel in the theater at Teano.
This post was edited on 7/11/26 at 5:48 pm
Posted on 7/11/26 at 5:46 pm to fr33manator
quote:TD needs to talk more about slit trenches
Ancient Romans actually had a surprisingly advanced drainage and latrine system. Spectators in the Colosseum used large, communal stone benches positioned over channels of continuously running water. For cleaning, users shared a community sponge on a stick (tersorium) soaked in vinegar or salt water.
Posted on 7/11/26 at 5:53 pm to Kafka
quote:
port-a-John's
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Here's Johnny Portable Toilets is famously known for a landmark 1983 legal case, Carson v. Here's Johnny Portable Toilets, Inc. Late-night host Johnny Carson successfully sued the company for infringing on his right of publicity by using his catchphrase and a pun ("The World's Foremost Commodian").The Landmark LawsuitIn 1976, Earl Braxton founded "Here's Johnny Portable Toilets, Inc." in Michigan. The company explicitly chose the name and its tagline—The World's Foremost Commodian—to capitalize on Johnny Carson's immense fame as the host of The Tonight Show
Johnny Carson never registered the phrase as a trademark himself, but he sued the company for invading his right of publicity. After a long legal battle, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit ruled in Carson's favor. The court established that celebrities possess the right to control the commercial use of their identity, even if it involves a catchphrase rather than their actual name.The Long-Term ImpactThe case remains a staple in American law schools for intellectual property and torts classes, specifically regarding the "right of publicity". Decades later, in 2010, the company founder attempted to register "Here's Johnny" as a trademark with the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board. The board denied the request, enforcing the original 1977 injunction and cementing the legal protection of Carson's identity.
Posted on 7/11/26 at 5:56 pm to fr33manator
Just go to Starkville and find out. No way port-a-john technology has reached that backwoods shithole.
Posted on 7/11/26 at 6:05 pm to Kafka
quote:
For cleaning, users shared a community sponge on a stick
Eww.
Posted on 7/11/26 at 6:15 pm to Jim Rockford
quote:
At LSU the buildings were open and people used the public restrooms because they didnt act like savages.
Same thing at Auburn.
Posted on 7/11/26 at 6:22 pm to Kafka
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used, large, communal
What are the LLotOT?
Posted on 7/11/26 at 6:25 pm to fr33manator
I dont think people ate as much and were more active. Less poopin
Posted on 7/11/26 at 6:29 pm to fr33manator
World's largest outdoor cocktail party used to smell like new orleans, until the first rain.
This post was edited on 7/11/26 at 6:31 pm
Posted on 7/11/26 at 6:33 pm to fr33manator
People were respectful and used public facilities like civilized folks and didn’t F it up for everyone and clog toilets
Posted on 7/11/26 at 6:35 pm to fr33manator
Slit trench always worked…
Posted on 7/11/26 at 6:37 pm to Jim Rockford
quote:David Pollack ruined this.
At LSU the buildings were open and people used the public restrooms because they didnt act like savages.
Posted on 7/11/26 at 6:39 pm to fr33manator
quote:
Was it just a bunch of people pissing and shitting in bushes like pajeets?
Were there wooden outhouses around stadiums? Buckets? Did everyone just hold it until they got to an actual plumbed bathroom?
I mean, the Circus Maximus held more people than Tiger Stadium
frick yeah, the good ole days, relieving oneself wherever I choose. 'Rome
Posted on 7/11/26 at 6:44 pm to fr33manator
quote:777Tiger and Kafka were around before indoor plumbing was common, ask them
Anyone around remember what it was like before tons of port-a-potties?
Posted on 7/11/26 at 6:47 pm to fr33manator
Posted on 7/11/26 at 6:53 pm to SpotCheckBilly
quote:
Same thing at Auburn.
until they weren't.
In the name of "security" of course.
Posted on 7/11/26 at 6:55 pm to Kafka
Man that communal sponge…. I just can’t even. I don’t even like sitting on a public toilet seat.
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