McDonald's removes 'Kisses'




McDonald's remove 'Kisses'

A McDonald's in the Netherlands has agreed to remove urinals that are shaped liked wide-open red lips.

The decision was taken after a shocked American customer complained to the McDonald's head office in the US. Owner Giel Pijper said the bright red, mouth-shaped urinals, named 'Kisses', are works of art. But a different view is taken of them in America. The urinals are being removed and will be sold off.

Virgin Airways was forced to scrap plans in 2004 to install two of the 'Kisses' at New York's John F. Kennedy airport after complaints they looked like women's mouths.

They are the work of Dutch woman Meike van Schijndel, designer at the Utrecht-based firm Bathroom Mania! Speaking to Expatica in 2004, she said the urinals were designed as a fun cartoon mouth and not as a woman's mouth.

She stressed that the idea her urinals represented a man peeing into a woman's mouth never occurred to her, nor to many men and women she had spoken to.


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Degrading to women or toilet humour? What do you think?

Guest: Dj Bj (102 days ago)
haha i think its great, R kelly that shit, drip drip drip pee on you
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Guest: Ginger (419 days ago)
i dont care as long as is not to mean or any thing
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Guest: wasteage (529 days ago)
Neither disagree or agree cos I don't understand it all :) :P
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Guest (555 days ago)
I would feel really uncomfortable peeing in one of those but only because they're a bit weird not beause they're women degrading. For God's sake they were made by a woman!
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Guest: kkk (595 days ago)
I would definitely want to go for a pee in those toilets - so they can suck my dick.
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Guest: Denis sheldon (676 days ago)
And the disco they were sold to in the UK has a line up outside waiting to use them. Remember Yanks, when in Rome do as the Romans do, so when in Holland go piss in the lips see the next edition bushes!!
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Guest: Yank Doodle (676 days ago)
Mcdonald's food is offensive. Maybe we should all complain. Definitely we should eat elsewhere. The only reason to go to a Macd's is to use the toilet anyway.
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Guest: person (676 days ago)
Rly funny.
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Guest: Brandy, Fort Myers, FL (676 days ago)
I am to an American woman, and I would love to have a toilet like that. It's a very nice pair of lips I'm sure everyone would love to sit on.
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Guest: lewis (676 days ago)
It brings fun to having a piss, lol.
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Guest: Emma T Towell (676 days ago)
I think the woman should get a life and smile more. Seeing one of those in real life would brighten up the shittest of my days. She is obviously the kind of person who is banning conkers, yoyo's and all other symbols of fun from the playground. SAD.
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Guest: Linda Margaret Clugston (676 days ago)
It's offensive to pee in anyone's mouth, male or female, or the third, fourth and sixth gender. Are we catering for the perverted?
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Guest: Optimus (676 days ago)
I think it's a great fun sexy way to pee in.
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Guest: smiffy jr (676 days ago)
I think they were there for a bit of fun, and if people want to take them the wrong way, then that's their problem, but they shouldn't spoil it for everyone else!
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Guest: FJD (676 days ago)
I don't care what's hanging on the wall, sitting on the floor or cut into concrete as long as it's OK to relieve myself there. You all know that when you gotta go you gotta go. Whoever thought a urinal could be degrading to women needs to have her mind checked out. How could a urinal of any kind represent a woman... that very thought is degrading in itself isn't it?
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Guest: Uri Nal (682 days ago)
I think she was "taking the piss". But I bet many men didn't make a mess on the floor with this to aim at!
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Guest: Shane Howell, E.Riding, UK. (685 days ago)
Holland should tell USA to fuck off and take all the McD's with them... they are shite anyway. Wankers!!
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Guest: Anne (686 days ago)
I'm an American woman and think that it's funny and sexy at the same time. Lighten up people!
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Guest: bianca bircham (688 days ago)
I think it's hilarious, that's so funny and I'm a woman. It's not taking the piss. Men of all I thought would like it.
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Guest: mr X (688 days ago)
I want that toilet!!!! I'd have so much fun making gestures with my winky!
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Guest: lippers (688 days ago)
I think it's a bit demeaning but hell, there's humor there. and no it's not gay, get a vocabulary, please.
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Guest: mandy (689 days ago)
I think it's funny. People take things way to seriously nowadays.
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Guest: christopher rowley (689 days ago)
I think that's gay.
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Guest: Longtooth (689 days ago)
People like this make it embarrassing to be an American.
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Guest: BIG MICK (689 days ago)
The Americans again trying to tell everyone how to live their lives. Lighten up u lot and let a bit of fun into your lives, you really are a sad lot of gits. GET A LIFE.
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Guest: Mike (689 days ago)
Maybe travelling Americans should learn to go to places other than McDonalds when travelling - I've seen many unusual things in Holland!! ;-)
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Guest: Lips Urinal (689 days ago)
Thanks mate, I'm now out of work.
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Guest: darren (689 days ago)
Get a life.
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Guest: Ceallai (689 days ago)
Why point out things like this by making them taboo? Only really dirty-minded people would think they were degrading anyway, and such people should keep their thoughts to themselves! I was BROUGHT UP feminist, and even I don't find them offensive.
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Guest: Charlie (689 days ago)
Oh dear. PC gone mad - again! Personally, to ensure that they were entirely PC, I'd have asked the artist to do some more masculine mouths...
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Guest: John from Woking (690 days ago)
I can't believe all the double standards that prevail throughout the world. It's a laugh for god's sake, which the Americans are patently unable to do unless they are told to. May be we could put an American flag in the pissior and see what reaction that brings - WMD?
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Guest: gabriele (690 days ago)
People offended by this must have quite a weak life... disgusting, offensive, what tha fuck, r u all so silly? You should take it easier and shit or pee wherever it is meant to be, whatever shape it has... and then even worse from American people, which neither have a proper culture, made by our ancesters and just able to be overweight and steal someone else ideas... loose weight and learn to cook you fat morons!
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Guest: JJ (690 days ago)
I dunno y women r bovered, they don't use them.
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Guest: Flying dude (690 days ago)
Those people (men and women alike) who want to be offended will always find a way to fulfill their want. The Dutch as a nation are renowned for their liberal minds and innovative ways. If Americans want to travel and see the real world non-Disney version of everything then they had better accept it the way others want it to be and if you don't like it then just accept it and move on. There are far more offensive things in Holland than a stylish urinal, if you want to be offended that is.
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Guest: tiffany (690 days ago)
OMG Americans are sooo over the top it's a joke. Lighten up!! If i was a man and used a urinal I would think it was quite amusing and funny but Americans are over the top about everythink! xxx
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Guest: kate (690 days ago)
They're not degrading, or a reflection on the USA's political stance... they just look shit.
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Guest: Dan dare (690 days ago)
You have to laugh at them. As usual, travel to another country and stuff your fat face with McBastards. Ever thought of trying local cuisine? Maybe make a G.Bush shitter, now there's an idea.
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Guest: david (690 days ago)
OMG! Lips in a toilet! It must be banned!
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Guest: me (690 days ago)
It's just a harmless bit of fun and I don't see anything wrong with it. Think about it, it could be worse.
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Guest: MrHotMonkeyLove (690 days ago)
What do you expect? Americans are morons, inflicting their backward views on another country. Sure, if it was a tortured 'terrorist' suspect as a urinal it would be fine. Next they'll be complaining about toilet paper with the American flag printed on it! Save a urinal, piss on an American today. :-)
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Guest: Yankbasher (690 days ago)
When you start listening in the UN, then we'll give a fuck to what you Yanky wanks want.
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Guest: take that (690 days ago)
You fuck heads who think this is cool, should just buy the thing and grow up, you perves.
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Guest: Canada (690 days ago)
I am not an American and I find that repulsive. And those who like it - really just shows how much class they have.
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Guest: Mailloux (690 days ago)
As a woman, I think it is extremely disgusting and offensive. I find it hard to believe that the designer had never thought that the toilets resemble a woman's mouth. That is not art.
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Guest: Lajoc (690 days ago)
Degrading? This is just the Americans taking things literally and having no sense of humour, what's new?
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Guest: djD (690 days ago)
Fucking disgrace, bloody Yanks ruin everything!!!!
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Guest: svenski (690 days ago)
As long as she doesn't blow...
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Guest: San78 (690 days ago)
How funny, yes I am an American but yet as I read through all the remarks from people from somewhere other than the US, I have to laugh! Because it is so true, that in the land of the "FREE" that we might just have too much freedom to speak our minds. Because anything that is not acceptable to common society, in most Americans' eyes, must be changed! It's bull shit if you ask me. Quite frankly, I'm jealous that the women's restrooms didn't have toilets like that! What's wrong with a little diversity? It's fun!
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Guest: Ron (690 days ago)
How many " Ls" in what a load of bo--ocks!
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Guest: andrew (690 days ago)
Why don't you spastic Americans fuck off home if you don't like it. Nobody invited you here. You have to realise that you are barely tolerated guests, not only in this country, but in this life!!!
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Guest: corsair (690 days ago)
I think it is amazing that McDonald's, whose advertising is directly aimed at children, should install these toilets. While I am sure a number of adults would find these amusing, it seems highly inappropriate to encourge children to urinate in anyone's mouth.
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Guest: Matt, swedish medical student (690 days ago)
It's funny! Just forget about it, everything doesn't have to be politically correct. I would love to have one of those at my local bar!!!
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Guest: imp (690 days ago)
Typical Yanks.. spending too much time in McDonald's.
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Guest: butchermaggot (690 days ago)
Everything seems to have been said. But then again, this line can't be stressed enough: Fucking Yanks! Don't like the pissoirs in other countries? Then explode on your fucking bladder and hold it till you're back home in good ol' Alabama with your redneck friends you fuckers!
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Guest: Lee (691 days ago)
I don't get why women were in the men's toilets anyway.
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Guest: Sam (691 days ago)
Usual America, political correctness gone mad.
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Guest: snuffy (691 days ago)
What a ridiculous reaction to a very humorous piece of furniture. To be honest, the thing that upsets me most is that this man, who clearly deserves nothing in life due to his backwards attitude to it, has cooked up such a storm. People with these kind of viewpoints should be laughed at in the streets and not pandered to. You cannot remove something based on one complaint in a premises that serves countless people day in day out. Totally ridiculous. Will this idiot be removed from any public places I visit? Because he offends me.
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Guest: jimmy (691 days ago)
Crazy Yank. I'd love them in UK, just to piss in somenoe's mouth.
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Guest: io (691 days ago)
Just fucking American hypocrite. USA is the biggest producer of porno all around the world... but then, hey, a mouth shaped toilette... Jesus Christ...
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Guest: Jammo UK (691 days ago)
I prefer to go to a more up market place to eat anyway, the kind of place that has golden showers in the bathrooms... (well gold plated at least).
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Guest: Austin powers (691 days ago)
I think it's degrading!! That's not what God wanted us to use our lips for.
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Guest: Daphne from Scheveningen (691 days ago)
America: Land of the free??? Don't f****ng think so. This title belongs to Holland and this sad American just proved that again. Go back home, we don't need people like you here!
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Guest: RJ (691 days ago)
Haven't eaten there in 3 years because of far more unsanitary happenings... so it's the least of my worries. Though, it makes me wonder that the American went to Amsterdam and it took a toilet in McD's to shock him!?
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Guest: jpm (691 days ago)
What a fucking loser! Doesn't he have anything better 2 do with his time!! Typical fucking yanks!! No oil involved so complain about urinals,,,
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Guest: james from Amsterdam (692 days ago)
I'd worry more about the food in Mcdonald's and less about where I was going to piss, but that's the Americans for you - will eat any crap and moan about anything and everything. (Bring back our lips so I can go for a piss).
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Guest: carl (692 days ago)
People should grow up and stop being offending by everything they see.
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