Most of these have night toilet facilities and are attended.
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Added Lincoln City public toilets
Friday, July 17th, 2009Closing toilets in beauty spots during the winter has repurcussions
Monday, March 30th, 2009It’s been reported that the closure of public toilets in a popular beauty spot Rogie Falls, just outside Contin in Ross-shire, which attracts thousands of tourists and local dog-walkers every year, is now suffering from people using the area outside as a public toilet instead.
Human waste has been seen directly outside the toilets which is now going to cost the council a lot of money to clean up. Not only is the mess unsightly, smelly and unsanitary but it beggars belief that the excuse for closing them is put down (as usual) to the running costs. How much will the clean up cost? How much will the local tourist industry be hit when people come once, but don’t return because of the bad impression given by open air toilets? Could these not be weighed against the cost of keeping them open all year?
When will councils realise that we all have to go sometime and it’s their duty to provide facilities for us?
Do you use your mobile on the loo?
Monday, January 19th, 2009A recent survey by Microsoft on mobile phone usage found that 48% of Australians will admit to using their phone while on the toilet, while 66% of Chinese people admit to the same thing!
I don’t know about you but I think that sounds a bit unhygienic. After all I can’t imagine how you can pull your knickers up without putting the phone down first. One handed knicker-pulling just isn’t possible and I can’t think of a single public toilet where I’d dream of putting my phone on the floor.
Even at home I’d be reluctant to use my phone in the loo. Can you use an anti-bacterial wipe on your phone without misting up your screen permanently?
And aren’t there some obvious drawbacks like the echoing acoustics and the possibility of unwanted - ahem - background sounds?
Okay, maybe if you know someone well enough, perhaps they’d make allowances, but I wouldn’t think it was very appropriate for business calls!
Just recently I had an email to this site from a woman who had locked her phone in a public loo stall and couldn’t get it back. Of course I had to explain to her that just because I have a database of public toilets didn’t mean I could visit them all and open a specific one just for her. But the point is, she’d been using her phone in the toilet, so it’s happening here in the UK as well!