Talk:Pay toilet

2005 USA

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)

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.

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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)

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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)

Thanks for adding your opinion Akit, I disagree on the state of public, non pay toilets. They are usually kept in very good condition, and are much better than popping ones pants or seeing others lay numbers on the pavement on the way to work. In contrast, every pay toilet has been horribly maintained, plaster falling off walls and generally a rip off, when pissing on the street is free! 86.158.96.109 (talk) 13:35, 8 October 2018 (UTC)

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)

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)

check out the Wikipedia articles on urinal and toilet - I think the difference is quite clear. EvM-Susana (talk) 20:21, 16 August 2015 (UTC)

Merge with article on public toilets?

I think this should be merged into the article on public toilet as there is a lot of overlap. I will also put the same on the talk page of public toilet. EvM-Susana (talk) 20:21, 16 August 2015 (UTC)

Have added the merge templates today. Discuss on talk page of public toilet article.EvMsmile (talk) 12:36, 3 January 2017 (UTC)

I'm not sure about merging this pretty good article with Public toilet article. The Public toilet article needs to carry an awful lot as it is Cryacrem (talk) 22:45, 19 March 2017 (UTC)

This discussion was carried out on the Public toilet talk page. No consensus developed for a merge, so i have removed the template. (Apparently one was already removed.) Carbon Caryatid (talk) 20:19, 17 June 2018 (UTC)

Just like to say, that my vote wasn't counted, and I would not like to see an article on paying money and not paying money merged. Ta 86.158.96.109 (talk) 13:40, 8 October 2018 (UTC)

Why age of a technology does not guarantee moral legitimacy

You can discuss why you reverted the edit here 86.158.96.109 (talk) 13:29, 8 October 2018 (UTC)

Photo says "Toilettes acces gratuit" which basically means "free toilet"

However, those toilets are free only to people with valid Metro tickets. Perhaps the photo should be changed. Bartosik (talk) 12:34, 26 September 2020 (UTC)

I changed the photo to the same one for Sanisette Bartosik (talk) 20:49, 6 October 2020 (UTC)

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