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Spending a Penny........

NorthStandUltra
NorthStandUltra Posts: 2,540
edited June 2010 in Not Sports Related
Just cost me 30p to use the loo at Fulham Broadway tube - unbelievable!!!!!

Thought I'd share that with you all!
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  • MrOneLung
    MrOneLung Posts: 26,890
    50p at Paternoster Square by St Pauls !!!!
  • cafc-4-life
    cafc-4-life Posts: 1,308
    Or you just walk through the gap to the side of them...
  • Elthamaddick
    Elthamaddick Posts: 15,834
    most mainline stations are 30p now
  • Ketman
    Ketman Posts: 6,796
    It's £80 if you use most Shop Doorways nowadays.
  • adamtheaddick
    adamtheaddick Posts: 8,664
    20p on eastbourne seafront for a tinkle on Saturday, money well spent tho was busting like a mo fo after 4 pints in the sun.
  • Leroy Ambrose
    Leroy Ambrose Posts: 14,442
    edited June 2010
    Straight over the barrier. F***ed if I'm paying 30p to take a leak when the khazis absolutely stink and the cubicles are swimming in piss.
  • Algarveaddick
    Algarveaddick Posts: 21,172
    [cite]Posted By: Leroy Ambrose[/cite]Straight over the barrier. F***ed if I'm paying 30p to take a leak when the khazis absolutely stink and the cubicles are swimming in piss.

    Spot on!
  • Friend Or Defoe
    Friend Or Defoe Posts: 18,113
    [cite]Posted By: Ketman[/cite]It's £80 if you use most Shop Doorways nowadays.
    Nice one!!

    If you pull the barrier towards you, you can usually get in for free.
  • surely it's a false economy for councils because im sure there are a few people who will take the free option behind a sign or whatever, which will then cost money to clean up.

    Then again, there's more chance of seeing pigs fly than there is of seeing a council cleaner
  • Miserableoldgit
    Miserableoldgit Posts: 21,458
    [cite]Posted By: Ketman[/cite]It's £80 if you use most Shop Doorways nowadays.

    Brilliant !
    I really did LOL !!

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  • RalphMilnesgut
    RalphMilnesgut Posts: 1,751
    [cite]Posted By: Ketman[/cite]It's £80 if you use most Shop Doorways nowadays.

    Do you have a map of the free ones?
  • charlton_hero
    charlton_hero Posts: 4,671
    I had to spend 30p at Charing Cross yesterday..
  • SoundAsa£
    SoundAsa£ Posts: 22,496
    I flatly refuse to pay....I climb over the barrier...still not too old to do that.
    Bloody liberty....born and bred in this country and until recently wasn't expected to have to pay to have a slash.
    Let the tourists pay, if they must.............I won't.
    Had a row with an attendant in Westminster a year or two back by the time he finished trying to encourage me to leave I had my pee and walked out.
  • MrOneLung
    MrOneLung Posts: 26,890
    [cite]Posted By: Algarveaddick[/cite]
    [cite]Posted By: Leroy Ambrose[/cite]Straight over the barrier. F***ed if I'm paying 30p to take a leak when the khazis absolutely stink and the cubicles are swimming in piss.

    Spot on!

    Nah - just find a handy bar, use their facilities then walk off again......
  • LenGlover
    LenGlover Posts: 31,670
    Absolutely scandalous to charge for toilet facilities.

    This country is the pits now.
  • pilchard
    pilchard Posts: 3,763
    edited June 2010
    It's absolutely disgusting that this nonsense is allowed to continue by the powers that be, its a scam and a f@@king rip off and should be made illegal. I will never pay to piss. Amazingly in America you can use the facilites anywhere, shops petrol stations, restaurants etc and nobody ever as much as gives you a funny look. Every council over here is a fingerless glove wearing mizer! The lovely welcoming smiling side of Britain. Tight arse penny pinching arsewitts. Do any other countries put up with this shite? Please tell me this isn't just a British thing!!
  • JorgeCosta
    JorgeCosta Posts: 1,035
    [cite]Posted By: LenGlover[/cite]Absolutely scandalous to charge for toilet facilities.

    I'm not so sure about that. 30p seems very good value to me for a morning after the night before beer and curry session.
  • LargeAddick
    LargeAddick Posts: 32,633
    so you want clean toilets but arn't prepared to pay for the upkeep of them. Oh well.
  • SoundAsa£
    SoundAsa£ Posts: 22,496
    [cite]Posted By: LargeAddick[/cite]so you want clean toilets but arn't prepared to pay for the upkeep of them. Oh well.

    WTF are you on about Large, we pay through our rates don't we........it's simply another stealth tax???
  • Henry Irving
    Henry Irving Posts: 85,271
    [cite]Posted By: LenGlover[/cite]Absolutely scandalous to charge for toilet facilities.

    This country is the pits now.

    Now? C'mon Len

    Paying for toilets is hardy new, hence the term "spend a penny" as that was the amount you had to pay to use the new fangled public conveniences in the 1850s. That's 160 years ago!

    Of course it was mainly women who had to pay as urinals were free but men had to pay as well for a cubicle.
    [cite]Posted By: MrOneLung[/cite]
    [cite]Posted By: Algarveaddick[/cite]
    [cite]Posted By: Leroy Ambrose[/cite]Straight over the barrier. F***ed if I'm paying 30p to take a leak when the khazis absolutely stink and the cubicles are swimming in piss.

    Spot on!

    Nah - just find a handy bar, use their facilities then walk off again......

    bar owners like you to do this and will often refuse to let you buy a drink even if you wanted to : - )

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  • RedZed333
    RedZed333 Posts: 3,103
    30p for pish....?

    I'd want a shite to go with that...
  • vancouveraddick
    vancouveraddick Posts: 1,674
    [cite]Posted By: SoundAsa£[/cite]
    [cite]Posted By: LargeAddick[/cite]so you want clean toilets but arn't prepared to pay for the upkeep of them. Oh well.

    WTF are you on about Large, we pay through our rates don't we........it's simply another stealth tax???

    Someone has to pay for Network Rails executives:

    Network Rail fat cat bonuses (Dailyl Mail article)

    What a smart move nationalising the railways was.................................................................................
  • LenGlover
    LenGlover Posts: 31,670
    [cite]Posted By: Henry Irving[/cite]
    [cite]Posted By: LenGlover[/cite]Absolutely scandalous to charge for toilet facilities.

    This country is the pits now.

    Now? C'mon Len

    Paying for toilets is hardy new, hence the term "spend a penny" as that was the amount you had to pay to use the new fangled public conveniences in the 1850s. That's 160 years ago!

    Of course it was mainly women who had to pay as urinals were free but men had to pay as well for a cubicle.

    It wasn't right then and it isn't right now!
  • Friend Or Defoe
    Friend Or Defoe Posts: 18,113
    Did Ryan air go ahead with their £1 toilet tax?
  • Leroy Ambrose
    Leroy Ambrose Posts: 14,442
    [cite]Posted By: LargeAddick[/cite]so you want clean toilets but arn't prepared to pay for the upkeep of them. Oh well.
    That's the point though, isn't it? Most places you pay to use the khazis they are absolutely f***ing disgusting. Best example is the bogs in the upstairs shopping bit at Victoria station. They are an absolute, utter disgrace - yet they charge you for using them. Where the f*** is the money going? It certainly ain't going on keeping them clean.
  • Henry Irving
    Henry Irving Posts: 85,271
    [cite]Posted By: LenGlover[/cite]
    [cite]Posted By: Henry Irving[/cite]
    [cite]Posted By: LenGlover[/cite]Absolutely scandalous to charge for toilet facilities.

    This country is the pits now.

    Now? C'mon Len

    Paying for toilets is hardy new, hence the term "spend a penny" as that was the amount you had to pay to use the new fangled public conveniences in the 1850s. That's 160 years ago!

    Of course it was mainly women who had to pay as urinals were free but men had to pay as well for a cubicle.

    It wasn't right then and it isn't right now!

    But it hardly qualifies as a recent problem if it's 160 years old : - )
  • Algarveaddick
    Algarveaddick Posts: 21,172
    [cite]Posted By: MrOneLung[/cite]
    [cite]Posted By: Algarveaddick[/cite]
    [cite]Posted By: Leroy Ambrose[/cite]Straight over the barrier. F***ed if I'm paying 30p to take a leak when the khazis absolutely stink and the cubicles are swimming in piss.

    Spot on!

    Nah - just find a handy bar, use their facilities then walk off again......


    And don't forget to take the toilet roll with you...
  • LenGlover
    LenGlover Posts: 31,670
    [cite]Posted By: Henry Irving[/cite]
    [cite]Posted By: LenGlover[/cite]
    [cite]Posted By: Henry Irving[/cite]
    [cite]Posted By: LenGlover[/cite]Absolutely scandalous to charge for toilet facilities.

    This country is the pits now.

    Now? C'mon Len

    Paying for toilets is hardy new, hence the term "spend a penny" as that was the amount you had to pay to use the new fangled public conveniences in the 1850s. That's 160 years ago!

    Of course it was mainly women who had to pay as urinals were free but men had to pay as well for a cubicle.

    It wasn't right then and it isn't right now!

    But it hardly qualifies as a recent problem if it's 160 years old : - )

    One used to "spend a penny" long ago that is true but gradually pay cubicles were replaced by free ones so that paying became the exception rather than the rule. Decimalisation may well have been the catalyst.

    Hence my comment that this country is the pits now.

    If they could find a way to enforce it the bastards would charge us to breathe God's air.

    It is wrong, wrong, wrong.
  • BlackForestReds
    BlackForestReds Posts: 17,952
    [cite]Posted By: Friend Or Defoe[/cite]Did Ryan air go ahead with their £1 toilet tax?

    No that was a gimmick to get themselves some free advertising.
  • BlackForestReds
    BlackForestReds Posts: 17,952
    I'm with Len on this one, it costs the local councils to run these things, but that's what we pay council taxes for.