{"id":5169,"date":"2012-09-22T18:13:28","date_gmt":"2012-09-22T17:13:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ryan.hellyer.kiwi\/?p=5169"},"modified":"2025-07-12T21:58:46","modified_gmt":"2025-07-12T20:58:46","slug":"public-urination-in-norway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.hellyer.kiwi\/ryanhellyer\/2012\/public-urination-in-norway\/","title":{"rendered":"Public urination in Norway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve seen some weird shit in my travels around the world, but close to the top has to be the public urination in Norway. I always assumed that going to the toilet in public was something relegated to third world countries, but it seems that it is totally acceptable in Norway! They even have little stall thingies kicking about so you can just flop your wang out and take a slash in the middle of the city. I don&#8217;t think they poo in these things, but I didn&#8217;t stick around to find out.<\/p>\n<p>The following photo was taken in the Oslo city center at the finishing line for the Oslo Marathon.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/ryan.hellyer.kiwi\/2012\/09\/22\/public-urination-in-norway\/ryan-peeing\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ryan.hellyer.kiwi\/files\/2012\/09\/ryan-peeing-680x510.avif\" alt=\"\" title=\"Ryan Hellyer peeing in public\" width=\"680\" height=\"510\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-5170\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wordpress.hellyer.kiwi\/ryanhellyer\/files\/2012\/09\/ryan-peeing-680x510.avif 680w, https:\/\/wordpress.hellyer.kiwi\/ryanhellyer\/files\/2012\/09\/ryan-peeing-768x576.avif 768w, https:\/\/wordpress.hellyer.kiwi\/ryanhellyer\/files\/2012\/09\/ryan-peeing-900x675.avif 900w, https:\/\/wordpress.hellyer.kiwi\/ryanhellyer\/files\/2012\/09\/ryan-peeing-250x188.avif 250w, https:\/\/wordpress.hellyer.kiwi\/ryanhellyer\/files\/2012\/09\/ryan-peeing-1000x750.avif 1000w, https:\/\/wordpress.hellyer.kiwi\/ryanhellyer\/files\/2012\/09\/ryan-peeing.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 680px) 100vw, 680px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><small>Thanks to Yelitza Magarita for taking the photo.<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I assumed that going to the toilet in public was relegated to third world countries, but it seems it is totally acceptable in Norway!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[365,385],"class_list":["post-5169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-oslo","tag-picsofme","last-post"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.5 - 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