 If you use a pee bottle (blokes), what size do you find works OK? Is 500ml enough, or do you find you need 750ml or a full litre? I've finally had enough of lying in my tent with the rain/snow flooding down outside and desperate for a leak!
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 A full litre or you risk making a mess! 
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 Seconded; one litre is the absolute minimum! Otherwise you'll be up in the night anyway, or suffer overflow - AAARRRgh!!!
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 An old 2 litre milk bottle. Just to be on the safe side 
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My fave's the Nalgene 1.5L collabsible canteen - nice wide mouth and folds up - from uncle Bob at backpackinglight.
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 Erm.. pee bottle! You lazy bu****s!
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Thanks guys, looks like 1 litre should be a safe option for me!
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 Seconded Hayden . Just get outside and enjoy the night-time elements!!
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 If you use a pee bottle (blokes), what size do you find works OK? Is 500ml enough, or do you find you need 750ml or a full litre? I've finally had enough of lying in my tent with the rain/snow flooding down outside and desperate for a leak!
Ahem. Girls* need pee bottles, too! I find that 0.5 litre works for one pee but then it needs emptying... . . * with a Shewee
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Ninja PC: I know all about some aspects of a girl's needs..... I was working on the assumption that male and female bladders are probably different sizes, given the two sexes have various other different bits and pieces to fit into that area.
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 Ah, I asked Rog about that on the windy thread, Zubald, cos he's a doctor n all, and he says bladders are about the same size!
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 Looks like a possible gear test article is needed... and perhaps we could test out bladder capacity at an OM meet?
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 A big old wide neck Comfort bottle does me.
I peed in a Nalgene bottle once and the wife asked what was in it the next day.
'Nature's olive oil' I said...
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 http://www.psychovertical.com/?pissbottle You must have missed this link, that I put up onto the grand old OM Forum a few months back ago then there, Z! As it tells you most everything all you may need to know upon this important, but often editorially neglected, key outdoors improvised kit subject! After all, everyone needs to take a leak out in the dark sometime or other! So for climbers kipping halfway up a cliff face, for desert/jungle travellers in hammocks or tents-where there are quite possibly venemous nighttime active snakes outside the camp area-or just plain for hikers or campers tent-bound in extremes of bad weather, the pee bottle is often very necessary kit indeed there!
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Mine is an old Nalgene bottle by the way! Not too big, not too small! It is a rectangular shaped bottle-16oz 500ml, made from the now thought hostile to mankind's health HDPE type of plastic! So I may as well use it as a pee bottle-particularly if due to the said dangers now supposedly posed health risks wise of this type of Nalgene mix of plastic- if I cannot now safely drink plain water from it!
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And yes, 500ml is usually good enough for one wee for me, as I am a lightweighter, when it comes to pee bottles, at least! 
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 Two pint milk bottle seems to be about right for me. And it's light, free, and not mistakeable for drinks bottles...
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> I was working on the assumption that male and female bladders are probably different sizes Yes; women's bladders are generally smaller, as they have more stuff in there to take up space; knitting, fluffy bunnies, chocolate, etc. But I suspect the basic fluid throughput is about the same (allowing for bodymass variation). Which means that they might have to pee more often.
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And, whilst I might value AndyK's advice on ice axes, alpine bivvying and other kit, I think I can just about work out the requirements for a pee bottle for myself... However, since I often use my Duossal Trangia pans as pee pans, this does put me in AndyK's 'expert' category...
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