Riase your hand if you did NOT pee on the playa this year

Piss Clear · Post by **Piss Clear** » Fri Sep 09, 2005 3:02 pm

All I can say is:

Large Gatorade bottles ROCK!

Post by **Eric** » Fri Sep 09, 2005 6:59 pm

Piss Clear wrote:All I can say is:

Large Gatorade bottles ROCK!

:D

and having 5 of them nearby rocks even more.

I love planning ahead.

Adrian in supermarket: "did anyone get large gatorade bottles? Not that one- you need a bigger opening on it."

mars · Post by **mars** » Sun Sep 11, 2005 12:30 pm

Folgers Red makes a great pee can for women. It has a very wide mouth and a nice lid and a good handle. You can decorate it to suit you and make it fun to carry to the porta-potties.

This was the first year I didn't pee on the playa. I usually mark my territory once a year, but didn't feel the need to this time. I think I marked it by giving away tons of coffee, resulting in a high probablitity that my coffee got peed on the playa.

Neon

P.S. Serious thanks to Robidobbs...and I would like to volunteer for potty duty next year, how do i sign up?

bradtem · Post by **bradtem** » Sun Sep 11, 2005 7:43 pm

But who wants to step into what you just peed onto the playa? I caught one guy peeing next to a dome at the front of our camp. "This is our home," I told him. "Why are you peeing on our home?" But it doesn't stop them. Bring a bottle or know where the potties are. Don't make people get your pee mud on their shoes.

Blonde Iguana · Post by **Blonde Iguana** » Mon Sep 12, 2005 5:30 am

Ooooh, yah, I wouldn't have survived without the pee bucket for those nighttime bladder emergencies. The only problem was getting my campmates to stop pouring their old coffee and half-eaten soup into it when I wasn't looking...

robbidobbs · Post by **robbidobbs** » Mon Sep 12, 2005 8:37 am

mars wrote:P.S. Serious thanks to Robidobbs...and I would like to volunteer for potty duty next year, how do i sign up?

Your welcome.
Subscribe to the pottie-list(at)burningman(dot)com

Ash_ · Post by **Ash_** » Mon Sep 12, 2005 8:55 am

Piss Clear wrote:All I can say is:

Large Gatorade bottles ROCK!

Yes they do..
Yehehessss they doooo.

robbidobbs · Post by **robbidobbs** » Mon Sep 12, 2005 1:30 pm

FYI: a clearing house for anything potty-related is All About Participating in the Pottie Project, in the Get Involved section.

Placement is an on-going issue. We try to put the banks where the population is going to be, and not puting them where there is either heavy foot traffic (around center camp and the 3 streets from esplanade) or asthetic issues. Having the 4:30 and 7:30 banks one and 2 blocks out was a concession to the suburbs. It's nuts trying to get a truck thru the traffic around center camp. I wish there was a better way. We added units by the Man and Temple, since they get slammed hard later in the week. They were in the exact same place as last year, just more of them. They are placed such that they won't impede the asthetics of the Man. Bah! I say rows an rows of them along Esplanade, but that's just me and my fetish.

I must confess that I marked my territory when I first arrived. Time management and a piss bottle is your best bets to avoid pissing on the playa. I don't like to step in suspicious mud myself. I don't know anything about them creating scars, but you will get a citation if caught by BLM.

Ugly Dougly · Post by **Ugly Dougly** » Mon Sep 12, 2005 9:10 pm

It didn't taste like Gatorade...

...but I was too stoned to care.

camengine · Post by **camengine** » Tue Sep 13, 2005 1:01 am

but did pee on the playa once out of desperation with another female friend just prior to one of the burns. Because of the lack of facilities out in the middle of things, we chose to christen the tire of a DPW truck that was available. We had no chance of making it to the potties in time. The driver was looking the other way...

Other than that, I was able to peddle to the banks of potties from camp when absolutely necessary and didn't have to wait long, thankfully!

stuart · Post by **stuart** » Tue Sep 13, 2005 3:47 pm

No life exists there.

quite untrue

I still dump my piss on the playa though

blyslv · Post by **blyslv** » Tue Sep 13, 2005 4:00 pm

The broken locks were awesome. I lurves the broken locks! You see, half the time I forget to lock them anyway. But with the broken lock I can say "so sorry, the lock is broken" and it ABSOLVES me of all reponsibility!

Now I ask you: How cool is that?

There are beetles that burrow into the playa and come out when it floods. At least I've seen one or two do so.

I pee'd less on the playa this year, but still wasn't above whipping it out on occasion. However I found the potties easy to find at all times.

mo_corleone · Post by **mo_corleone** » Tue Sep 13, 2005 8:36 pm

Cosworth Magellan wrote:I'd also like to give a shout-out to ASSentials, who spent a hell of a lot of time making the 3:00 potties (and maybe others) an experience to... remember. You guys rock!

word. i also enjoyed the amenities provided by the ASSentials crew.

as far as the number of potties, i have to agree that there were some difficulties with the placement. i'm not even sure that i'd say there were less potties - just that they seemed way more spread out than in years past. as soon as i had the situation figured out, i knew there would be a lot more incidents of pee puddles on the playa.

thankfully i can still raise my hand as part of the "did not pee on the playa" contingent. i haven't peed on the playa in a few years actually. the years before that though, i was just as guilty as anyone. those were also the years i drank alcohol on the playa, so it's no coincidence that my pee urgency isn't quite as intense these days.

my pee bucket back at camp also made my life about 100 times easier.

robbidobbs · Post by **robbidobbs** » Wed Sep 14, 2005 8:37 am

There were about 40 more potties out there than last year. 2 banks were further out to accomodate the suburbs and the villages.

For me trying to make a route to each bank, the placement was definitely a pain in the buttocks. Probably drove 1.5x more than last year. There was a net reduction in the waiting time, as there was only a day or two that there were lines at all. And I depend upon lines at the potties to pontificate at.

mo_corleone · Post by **mo_corleone** » Sat Sep 17, 2005 1:22 am

robbidobbs, i was a witness to one of your (many i'm sure) portapotty performances. i must say, i applaud your committment. commandeering shit receptacles has got to be one of the most thankless volunteer jobs on the playa. bravo!

Blackrock Lover · Post by **Blackrock Lover** » Sun Sep 18, 2005 10:36 pm

And we should always remember ......

pee on the playa today
breath pee dust tomorrow......

robbidobbs · Post by **robbidobbs** » Wed Sep 21, 2005 11:16 am

mo_corleone wrote:robbidobbs, i was a witness to one of your (many i'm sure) portapotty performances. i must say, i applaud your committment. commandeering shit receptacles has got to be one of the most thankless volunteer jobs on the playa. bravo!

Thanks, I'm glad you enjoyed my performance art.
Feel free to get loud next year about Excremental Correctness.

MissNev · Post by **MissNev** » Wed Sep 21, 2005 11:38 am

I never have, and I don't anticipate that I ever will. Of course, we bring our own porta potties each year for our camp. It makes things very convenient, clean, and it also prompts assholes who don't get to use them to pee on them.

rycaldwell · Post by **rycaldwell** » Tue Sep 27, 2005 1:21 am

no pee 4 me :P

sissylala29 · Post by **sissylala29** » Sun Oct 23, 2005 2:27 am

Making out in a JOTS??? ok, ewwwwwwww and double ewwwwww...I mean come on, it's BRC, like you have to hide, and if you feel the need, in a freakin' JOTS??? BLECH!
That said.....First and foremost, I applaud JOTS, robbidobbs and anyone else who has anything remotely to do with the potties in BRC.
Whenever 30,000+ people are involved, there are bound to be a few issues with TP, broken locks, smell, and the occasional 'wow, that bank of potties is past due for a cleaning', but all things considered, all involved do an amazing job! Thank You doesn't seem like enough!
I can say tho that because of those involved, I never found the need to pee on the Playa.
I noticed alot more peeing on the playa in 2004. However, I was accidentally looking for it...while searching in vain for my drunken, staggering friend, I spotlighted a few of those guilty of peeing on the playa. I apologized, over and over.....'whoops, sorry, thought you were someone else, shoulda gone before you left home.'
Peeing on the playa is going to happen. I understand the 'gotta go, gotta go, gotta go RIGHT NOW thing, but one of the 'guilty' that I spotlighted left more than a puddle when he got up....I swear, if I'dve had a baggie or something else handy, I would've scooped up his little 'gift' off of the playa, hunted him down and gifted him with his own lil gift....smiling and smearing I'dve kindly advised him that Poop is MOOP.....all I can hope for is that, because of the lack of TP, he paid the burning, itching, uncomfortable price....some ppls kids!

sake1 · Post by **sake1** » Mon Oct 24, 2005 11:20 am

it was tuff to make it to the port-a-potties a couple time but I can proudly raise my hand to this......

tweetybird · Post by **tweetybird** » Tue Jan 10, 2006 1:32 pm

how about a catheter?

Ugly Dougly · Post by **Ugly Dougly** » Tue Jan 10, 2006 3:24 pm

I'd raise my hand but I need both hands to pee.

capjbadger · Post by **capjbadger** » Wed Jan 11, 2006 10:26 pm

*Raises hand*

This was my first year ging to BM (Finally!

), and after beng there, I can't see any excuse to piss on the playa. Porta potty or gatorade bottle when not wanting to trek through the cold night to the nearest bank. Its just that simple. sheesh...

*Repeats to self* "Red gatorade, good. Yellow gatorade, bad. Red gator..." ;D

Badger

ais4ali · Post by **ais4ali** » Mon Jan 16, 2006 2:07 pm

is SIMPLY not allowed!! unless you were halfway to the man 10 minutes from burn time, in which case, it is completely ALLOWED. oops

PrincessCharming · Post by **PrincessCharming** » Sat Feb 04, 2006 11:25 pm

We didn't pee either.. Had a hella hard time at night finding some of the potties though. Not all of them were lit up out on the playa. I have no idea where the hell we were, but it took some serious riding to find them. And damn there were a LOT of nasty mud puddles. Definitely saw some solids too.. It really grossed me out.. oh, and I hadn't considered the possibility of BREATHING IN PEE DUST, thank you.. Double the incentive to bring a bandana or mask out with me..

webdaemon · Post by **webdaemon** » Sun Feb 05, 2006 6:20 am

*raises hand*

twas my first year and i saw no need for peeing on the playa. there were always porta potties near by, except for those few occasions i was a bit incohearant... damn hippies and their "special guacamole"...

webdaemon · Post by **webdaemon** » Sun Feb 05, 2006 6:24 am

oh yea before i forget here is a little gadget for the ladies. http://www.freshette.com/ hope you enjoy... took me about an hr of googling before i found it.

karine · Post by **karine** » Sun Feb 05, 2006 11:48 am

Thanks for the link...
and I am PROUD to raise my hand and announce to the world... " I DO NOT PEE ON THE PLAYA! "

One thing I doo , dooo, is.. whenever I go to the potties, I bring a bag with and I clean up all of the junk off the ground and in any potties that are "Free". Any MOOP I can find... (no matter how big or small) and then I bring it back to my camp and put it in our garbage.

I mean, I've got extra space when I leave- where all that food and water and give-away costumes used to be!
and to me it feels like a "thank you" for the potties just being there.

Stagger · Post by **Stagger** » Fri May 26, 2006 4:14 pm

[quote="Wavemage"]OK so its one thing to preserve an environment where living things could be endangered by your piss.

Its another to worry about an environment where literallly NOTHING (not even bacteria) lives. Correct me if I'm wrong, but even if 40,000 people piss all week on the playa, can it really do any damage? No life exists there. Preserving an environment is about preserving life, not dust & rocks. So I believe in picking up trash, but how does grey water hurt anything?

Am I wrong about nothing living out there? I'm a little perplexed...[/quote]

Yes, you are wrong about nothing living out there. Here is a quote from the BLM - Burning Man 2006-2010 Special Recreation Permit Environmental Assessment NV-020-06-EA-11 (available at http://www.nv.blm.gov/Winnemucca/NEPA/b ... cument.pdf)

"The playa supports populations of aquatic invertebrates that can persist in the playa sediments until flooding allows them to hatch from eggs, grow, and reproduce. No inventory has been conducted which would confirm their abundance or diversity. In 2005 mature tadpole shrimp carapaces were observed on the plays surface following evaporation of the surface water that covered the BRC site from April until June. "

It also mentions "Shorebirds may use playa surface as a temporary spring stop on their migrations when the temporary playa lake exists. Because of the variation in the size, location and depth of the lake this use by shorebirds is infrequent, particularly at the event site because it is on a portion of the playa where the seasonal “lake” lasts for a very short time in the winter an spring. The Nevada Division of Wildlife does not consider the playa an important stop for migrating shorebirds or waterfowl (Saake, 2000)."

Now, the impact study makes no mention of the effect of human urine on this environment (though I does talk about how oil drippings from vehicles kills the shrimp), so it may be negliable. But since the BLM takes it into consideration when reviewing our permit, I am of the belief that urinating on the playa is something to be avoided.

Riase your hand if you did NOT pee on the playa this year

Sure your bladder hurts

Didn't want to..

Re: Hmm...

peeing

URINATING?!

Nothing Lives There - um.. not so fast