Submitted by: Macy’s in downtown Chicago (high end department store) via Submit a Kludge!
Favorite Comment: Fixer Lee says, “Does water go right through you? Are you tired of being thirsty and having to go at the same time? Are you fed up with your underwear becoming wet as soon as you take a drink of water? Well, get the Fountainurinal and never pee your pants again! Call 1-800-555-PISS NOW!”
Editor’s Note: The above comment only works if you use Billy Mays voice.
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That would make a really nice urinal!
Except the splashback.
Pretty sure that was a urinal when the store was still called Marshall Field’s!
Pretty sure it wasn’t a urinal. That thing is not in a bathroom, it’s in a hallway. All the water fountains in the store look like that. I always wonder why they don’t “pretty” them up a bit.
It wasn’t a urinal? *That* explains all the angry looks I got!
It was a joke
Sorry you did not get it. Macy’s was MF’s in Chicago though and I did quite a lot of shopping at the one downtown!
Me, I live in Chicago. I’ve done my fair share of shopping there too.
Classy!
Apparently Macy’s water makes you a little tipsy.
yo dawg, i heard you like fountains, so we put a fountain in yo fountain so you can drink while you drink
MMMMM-I SO need a drink. No wait, maybe I need to potty. I’m so confused!
“Does water go right through you? Are you tired of being thirsty and having to go at the same time? Are you fed up with your underwear becoming wet as soon as you take a drink of water? Well, get the Fountainurinal and never pee your pants again! Call 1-800-555-PISS NOW!”
Skype turned that into a clickable number for me. I’m not calling it.
If Billy Mays (R.I.P.) was still alive, he could sell it!
They turned a decorative fountain into an ugly abomination without even cutting the pipes to the proper lengths? My head hurts, I have to go lay down.
marcel duchamp would be proud.
No way I’m sticking my face in there, or drinking that water. It probably still smells like a urinal cake.
Still have that taste in your mouth from the time someone told you they were mints, eh?
*facepalm* That is NOT a urinal. Repeat, NOT A URINAL! That is one of those little fountains you can put into a wall like you see in a garden. Someone converted it, badly, into a drinking fountain.
Just because something is taller than it is wide doesn’t make it a urinal. This is either what jamisings says (a decorative fountain) or an old-fashioned water fountain with the works removed. Whatever it was, it looks like it’s been through the Cultural Revolution.
Your point is well taken, it is rather well-made to be a place to pee. But from a distaff point of view, without much access to the “real thing,” it looks like a urinal.
If it had been a urinal at one time you would still see evidence of there once been a handle to flush it – if not the handle itself.
There is no such sign. Therefore it is an old fountain that has been uglified into a drinking fountain.
Even Dr. Watson on his most unobservant day would see that.
Awesome, I have always wanted to be able to drink and pee at the same time. I honestly didn’t know it was that simple.
I’ve been drinking out of those fountains for years (this used to be a Marshall Fields store) and they’ve never bothered me. There are a number of them and they all look like that. I just appreciate that they didn’t tear out all the pretty marble when they installed the new plumbing.
That’s what happens when 1900′s fixtures run up against 1980′s plumbing code revisions – and some doofus at City Hall has never heard the term “Grandfathered”, he wants it upgraded, NOW.
The creater obviously taking a new slant on religion themed fixtures.
I can’t believe someone would deface such an beautiful work of art by combining it with that eyesore. I mean, couldn’t they have mounted it somewhere more deserving than up against that ugly old marble thing?
To my eyes, the pièce de résistance is the crooked mounting.
Bravo, Dono. Bravo. You never fail to please.
Who ever approved of that, should be shot. Who ever installed it, should have to pull the trigger.
Amen
YO DAWG! I HEARD YOU WAS THIRSTY, SO I PUT A FOW-EN, IN YOU FOW-EN! SO YOU CAN DRINK WHILE YOU DRINK!!!
Holy water for the mass!
That’s what it reminded me of at first. Mind you, I’ve only been in a few Catholic churches (they had free exorcisms!) but it made me think of the holy water thingy by the entrance.
This is just wrong
Oh, this is disgusting! And in Macy’s, yet. Doesn’t anyone care any more about anything? I would kill to have that marble fountain in my garden. This reminds me of when a beautiful store with Italian murals handpainted on the walls, marble floors, gold and crystal chandeliers – went out of business, was taken over by H&M (“sleazewear made in sweatshops for the aspiring sleaze”.) They painted over the murals with purple paint and stuck flat screen TVs up on the walls playing rap videos from 10 a.m till closing. HURL! Someone, save that fountain!
Aw, beat me to it! I had the picture sitting around and forgot to send it. Love Marshall Field’s…
Tragically, this is something Federated/Macy’s Inc cannot fix, in spite of how they view Macy’s as this grand store. I guess the funding must have went to the bonuses the top execs received after cutting 7,000 jobs. At least that store has water fountains. All the water fountains were removed in Herald Square.
I see my plumber has been working in the USA recently!
OYG!!! I remember seeing that when i was in Chicago recently!! Didnt really think much of it at the time…