Going on a long car journey? Ensure you take a pee
ChiChi1 said
12:17 PM Dec 6, 2011
"That is the warning from a group of Melbourne researchers who have discovered that a full bladder can be as distracting to a driver as major sleep deprivation or drinking alcohol
According to Caulfield Hospitals aged psychiatry research coordinator Dr Matthew Lewis, a full bladder has a negative effect on attention and memory.
In other words, riding in a car with a teetotal driver who has forgotten to urinate can be just as dangerous as travelling with a tipsy driver, or someone who has been awake for 24 hours.
The study, published in the Neurology and Urodynamics journal, also reveals that a full bladder can reduce the speed at which drivers make decisions.
The research won an Ig Nobel prize, which recognises the weirdest scientific breakthroughs that first make people laugh, and then make them think. " Yahoo!7
Interesting. I found that out on the Pacific Hywy. Stopping places are few and far between. Would like better signs too.
Gerty Dancer said
12:19 PM Dec 6, 2011
Wow! Amazing trivia. But they are right, its very distracting. Somebody should tell the SA RTA and maybe they'd put toilets in their rest stops.
kandagal said
12:54 PM Dec 6, 2011
Besides which it's hard to drive safely with your legs crossed
jules47 said
12:58 PM Dec 6, 2011
You could always use a wide mouth juice bottle if desperate enough!
Happywanderer said
01:03 PM Dec 6, 2011
Know the feeling, when you have to go you have to go. You can't stop thinking about it either until you've been. Very distracting. Just as well I carry a portaloo now, I know I can always pop in the back if I can't find a public toilet.
_wombat_ said
01:57 PM Dec 6, 2011
there was a topic on here sometime ago about a pee device for women, BUT it was only for standing up to go, just had a look at some site's after googleing and I do not want to put the link on here, so you girl's can google it for yourself if you so desire.
ChiChi1 said
01:59 PM Dec 6, 2011
No I hope the RTA reads t and adds more stops or at least more sinage so I can turn off in time
Vic said
02:11 PM Dec 6, 2011
Our "emergency" items (not having porta potti) are Jilly Jug (with lid) and Billy Bottle (with cap)......never leave home in our RV without them, lol
Tim Robinson said
03:47 PM Dec 6, 2011
The various state RTA's will never install more road side toilets. Those pesky "Grey Nomads" will keep stopping and using the parking areas for free camping!!!!!
JRH said
03:52 PM Dec 6, 2011
Tim Robinson wrote:
The various state RTA's will never install more road side toilets. Those pesky "Grey Nomads" will keep stopping and using the parking areas for free camping!!!!!
Geez we are a naughty lot are we not.LOLOLOL
Boroma577 said
03:52 PM Dec 6, 2011
Happywanderer wrote:
Just as well I carry a portaloo now, I know I can always pop in the back if I can't find a public toilet.
I have done this more than once with the loo in the van...comes in very handy.
Another advantage.......I was realy tired coming home after a weekend away one time so pulled over and had a catnap in the van as well
Boroma577 said
03:54 PM Dec 6, 2011
_wombat_ wrote:
there was a topic on here sometime ago about a pee device for women,
Disgusting thing it is too. If women were made to pee standing up, their plumbing would have been designed differently.
signwilson said
04:11 PM Dec 6, 2011
my wife loves hers works great
Beth54 said
04:25 PM Dec 6, 2011
This is it..the Shewee! A friend gave me one a long time ago as a joke. I tried to use it once, in desperation, but 'made of mess of it'.
I can't crouch any more Baroma,,,crook knees,, so standing up was a good idea, in theory. Thank goodness I now have the porta loo.
I think it's funny that it took a group of researchers to discover this! I could've told them!
Happywanderer said
05:20 PM Dec 6, 2011
I was on an online shopping site the other day and now I can't remember which one. They had both a mans and a lady's bottle. The mans looked just like the ones they have in the hospital, can't remember what the lady's one looked like and if I could remember the site would go back for another look. For the life of me Beth, I can't work out how that would work. You might as well just squat on the ground. Its open both ends isn't it?
valnrob said
05:51 PM Dec 6, 2011
Wouldn't it be great to just pop behind a tree like the blokes do. I am going to buy one and have a few practice uses!! I think there is one that's foldable, bendable can carry in your pocket. Not sure how you would clean it once used though and return to pocket???
Cruising Granny said
05:57 PM Dec 6, 2011
It's ok for the boys to get out and stand to pee on the left wheel, but that doesn't work for wee girls. (sorry-pun) It really hampers the vision when the eyeballs are floating. There are some eco-toilets on parking bays in SA and NSW. Vic has great truck service centres close to the metro area but the country can go to hell, again, as usual. We camped with a wide load at the Cobar weigh pad which has shelters and toilet. Every state has a different approach to parking bays and the facilities they'll provide. I think the same approach applies to free camping areas. Some councils in SA have even closed parking bays because people were using them and filling the rubbish bins. Unheard of! How dare they! I don't think I'll try the bottle.
Vic said
06:03 PM Dec 6, 2011
Here is the "Go Girl" link, also one on other urinals;
OK you guys this is getting out of control. My point was particularly on a new highway eg the pacific around Taree etc, I needed to go and found it difficult to find a spot to pull over safely. Didn't even need a toilet have one on board. Missed a couple because I had a ruddy great truck pushing me along. Most uncomfortable for quite a way.
Beth54 said
06:46 PM Dec 6, 2011
Sorry ChiChi, you should know by now that if you bring up a subject like this, there's bound to be trouble.
valnrob said
07:12 PM Dec 6, 2011
Boroma577 wrote:
valnrob wrote:
Not sure how you would clean it once used though and return to pocket???
My point exactly....what the hell would you do with it once it has been used?
Checked out on Ebay, they come in a little container, could use a wipe on it and put back into the container. At the end of the day wash it out with disinfectant. Worth a try instead of being uncomfortable and not a toilet in site. Often you come across toilets that are not fit for use. Will let u know how it goes with mine when I get it Boroma.
Geoff n Jen said
07:45 PM Dec 6, 2011
Wouldn't be game to google such a thing - ya never know what you might come up with in the results We have a loo on board too, only way to go
goinsoon said
08:54 PM Dec 6, 2011
When I was a little boy, my mother always said before we went out " have you been to the toilet"
Well guess what, I am 67 now and my wife has turned into my mother
Ma said
08:57 PM Dec 6, 2011
Funny thing how wive's HAVE to start mothering again after all the kids have left home isn't it..................wonder why that is?
Elle on Wheels said
11:31 PM Dec 6, 2011
Ma wrote:
Funny thing how wive's HAVE to start mothering again after all the kids have left home isn't it..................wonder why that is?
Spot on Ma
Geoff n Jen said
09:43 AM Dec 7, 2011
No wee have to get out and go for a wee walk and find a wee (getting bigger) tree
Elle on Wheels said
11:50 AM Dec 7, 2011
You could always convert the drivers seat to a commode then you wouldn't even have to pull over
"That is the warning from a group of Melbourne researchers who have discovered that a full bladder can be as distracting to a driver as major sleep deprivation or drinking alcohol
According to Caulfield Hospitals aged psychiatry research coordinator Dr Matthew Lewis, a full bladder has a negative effect on attention and memory.
In other words, riding in a car with a teetotal driver who has forgotten to urinate can be just as dangerous as travelling with a tipsy driver, or someone who has been awake for 24 hours.
The study, published in the Neurology and Urodynamics journal, also reveals that a full bladder can reduce the speed at which drivers make decisions.
The research won an Ig Nobel prize, which recognises the weirdest scientific breakthroughs that first make people laugh, and then make them think. " Yahoo!7
Interesting. I found that out on the Pacific Hywy. Stopping places are few and far between. Would like better signs too.
You could always use a wide mouth juice bottle if desperate enough!
there was a topic on here sometime ago about a pee device for women, BUT it was only for standing up to go, just had a look at some site's after googleing and I do not want to put the link on here, so you girl's can google it for yourself if you so desire.
Our "emergency" items (not having porta potti) are Jilly Jug (with lid) and Billy Bottle (with cap)......never leave home in our RV without them, lol
The various state RTA's will never install more road side toilets.
Those pesky "Grey Nomads" will keep stopping and using the parking areas for free camping!!!!! 
Geez we are a naughty lot are we not.LOLOLOL
I have done this more than once with the loo in the van...comes in very handy.
Another advantage.......I was realy tired coming home after a weekend away one time so pulled over and had a catnap in the van as well
Disgusting thing it is too. If women were made to pee standing up, their plumbing would have been designed differently.
This is it..the Shewee! A friend gave me one a long time ago as a joke. I tried to use it once, in desperation, but 'made of mess of it'.
I can't crouch any more Baroma,,,crook knees,, so standing up was a good idea, in theory.
Thank goodness I now have the porta loo.
I think it's funny that it took a group of researchers to discover this! I could've told them!
They had both a mans and a lady's bottle. The mans looked just like the ones they have in the hospital, can't remember what the lady's one looked like and if I could remember the site would go back for another look.
For the life of me Beth, I can't work out how that would work. You might as well just squat on the ground. Its open both ends isn't it?
It really hampers the vision when the eyeballs are floating.
There are some eco-toilets on parking bays in SA and NSW. Vic has great truck service centres close to the metro area but the country can go to hell, again, as usual.
We camped with a wide load at the Cobar weigh pad which has shelters and toilet.
Every state has a different approach to parking bays and the facilities they'll provide. I think the same approach applies to free camping areas.
Some councils in SA have even closed parking bays because people were using them and filling the rubbish bins. Unheard of! How dare they!
I don't think I'll try the bottle.
Here is the "Go Girl" link, also one on other urinals;
http://www.gogirlaustralia.com.au/
http://www.google.com.au/search?q=ladies+urinal+photo&hl=en&rlz=1T4ADFA_enAU425AU430&prmd=imvns&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=XrzdTvSjHYGXiAfpqM2xBQ&ved=0CCkQsAQ&biw=972&bih=438
DON"T do anything with women's plumbing
-- Edited by _wombat_ on Tuesday 6th of December 2011 07:31:25 PM
My point exactly....what the hell would you do with it once it has been used???
I can't squat Marj...the knees just won't allow it.
And this how it's done, supposedly.
If I remember rightly, I had some antibacterial wipes to clean it afterwards.
-- Edited by Beth54 on Tuesday 6th of December 2011 06:40:25 PM
Sorry ChiChi, you should know by now that if you bring up a subject like this, there's bound to be trouble.
Wouldn't be game to google such a thing - ya never know what you might come up with in the results
We have a loo on board too, only way to go
When I was a little boy, my mother always said before we went out " have you been to the toilet"
Well guess what, I am 67 now and my wife has turned into my mother
Funny thing how wive's HAVE to start mothering again after all the kids have left home isn't it........
..........wonder why that is?
Spot on Ma
No wee have to get out and go for a wee walk and find a wee (getting bigger) tree
