Talk:Pay toilet

Hi, I live in the USA and I'm doing research on Pay Toilets.

I know there are more public restrooms in Europe than in American.

Can anyone help me by telling me what they think about them and are they clean and safe?

It depends what city (and neighborhood of the city) you are in. -CunningLinguist 02:38, 8 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Take any city and consider the major tourist areas as a starting point. Then consider areas around the city in various neighborhoods.

I think each city can be said to have some neighborhoods more desireable than others.

Thanks for the reply.

What about Urinetown the Musical, shouldn't it get a mention? It is after all a hugely popular broadway production set around pay toilets.

Cost

Could someone familiar with pay toilets add the usual spectrum of cost? Having never visited and area that has pay toilets, I don't have any idea how much is generally charged. I presume it varies, of course. Phasmatisnox 02:58, 17 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Well, there's the old bathroom-wall-poem, which may not be accurate anymore, but doubtless used to be:

Here I sit, broken-hearted, paid my dime, but only farted, Very next day, I took a chance, Saved my dime, but soiled my pants.

They way I've always heard it it went: Here I sit ALL broken hearted, tried to shit but only farted. As an aside, when I was in Russia in 1993, at the airport in Samara getting in is no problem, you have to pay to get out. Kielhofer 04:17, 14 August 2011 (UTC)

San Francisco offers pay toilets in many tourist areas where lack of toilet facilities exist, these include public plazas, the Cable Car turnaround, and the Wharf where there is a long distance between restroom facilities typically offered at restaurants. The pay toilets are green color and automated; when first installed, they were considered high quality facilities that were well kept, clean, and safe. Today, standards have dropped causing lack of features including hand soap, hot water, and acts of criminal activity (examples: drug use and prostitution). Use of the pay toilet facilities are relatively affordable: $0.25 cents to $0.50. It should be noted that San Francisco also provides public restroom facilities that are free, however they have a reputation of being in poor condition. Akit 09:18, 21 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

womens rights

ive read that they were shut down (in only us or otherwise im not sure) when womens groups complained and/or sued because they felt discriminated because they had to pay to piss but men could just use the urinal. any truth?Д narcistPig (talk) 23:01, 8 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

difference between toilets and urinals

what is the difference between urinals and toilets? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 208.102.211.132 (talk) 02:41, 21 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]