Thank you, Randy Leonard. Thank you.
Portland’s water commissioner has just given us (or maybe just me?) another excuse to make pee-and-poop jokes—all in the name of one of the truly great and sensible ideas to emerge from City Hall in recent years.
The Portland Loo apparently has its very own Facebook page, and Leonard’s staffers, in a post this week on his blog, are blowing the trumpet new fans. The goal? 1,000. The current number? 54.
Here’s the pitch:
You can stay up to speed on the latest updates about the Portland Loo by liking the Loo on Facebook. You can easily keep track of news items such as our approval for a patent or the installation of the most recent Loo on SW Naito at Taylor Street by becoming the Loo’s Facebook friend. We will keep you in the loop about the upcoming World Toilet Day and the 2 Loos that are scheduled for installation this Fall!
I expect I’ll sign up. The Portland Loo concept is genius and humane and decent. Everyone deserves a private place to piss. And Leonard still deserves credit for muscling ’em in place—occasionally over the outcries of neighborhood NIMBYs.
Pee and poop jokes WITHOUT a downer plea for discussion of mental health funding?! We’ve really turned a corner with news editors at the Merc.
Who are we paying how much to create and maintain this facebook page for a public toilet?
This toilet has been locked the two times I’ve attempted to use it. As in, nobody inside, just locked, midday.
That’s gotta be an awesome news feed.
“Some dude just took a dump!”
“A junkie just shot up!”
“Some other dude just took a dump!”
A perfect metaphor for the cesspool that surrounds it.
Sam is already a master of making friends IN a toilet, this seems like a logical extension.
Public toilets are great, but the city should really put in some bidets along 82nd…
I love how all the suburbanites automatically assume any piece of infrastructure is a refuge for evildoers. Light rail? CRIME TRAIN! Public toilet? SHOOTING GALLERY SHITTER!
It’s all very warm and fuzzy until they’re making their once-yearly visit for the Rose Festival (or some other such shit) and they actually get some use out of mass transit or a public restroom. Oh wait, they’re too uptight to even try ’em.
Stay home, fuckwads. You’re too soft. Even for a pussy-ass city like Portland.
somebody put a burr under Cunty’s nutsack! can’t say I’d disagree with his message, though. I’ve lived here nearly half a decade and I’ve always been amazed at how frightened most suburbanites are of downtown.
– oooh, that smelly man is asking me for money, and he’s not being friendly about it! RUN AWAY, RUN AWAY!!!
pussies, the lot of ’em.
@Todd. +1 hee-larious. +10 eeeeewh, that’s nasty!