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But like the classic pissoir, they are typically only usable by people without disabilities and those who can easily use the bathroom while standing.

So, in praise of the public pissoir, here are some of London's toilet-based tales you didn't know you'd been waiting for.

Its title, America, is another Duchamp echo: “What has America given if not its plumbing?” asked the Frenchman who, coming from the land of the pissoir, clearly found US hygiene obsessions absurd.

Outside was a pissoir and stacked crates of empties.

To call a pissoir Fountain was to urinate on high culture – and that could not be a neutral gesture in 1917.