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England left with ‘toilet deserts’ as public facilities decline by 14% in a decade
(www.theguardian.com)
You guys have public toilets?
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Maybe we should just privatize the public toilets, that should fix the problem.
In Manchester around Piccadilly Gardens the only remaining public toilets are in the Arndale Centre, so when the pubs empty out and that’s all closed up there are no public toilets. But there are the glass fronts of corporate offices in quiet backstreets.
I read this as toilet dessert and got confused
You've never snacked on a urinal cake?
I feel like it would be classified as a pudding for some reason. I watch a lot of British TV and still don’t understand their version of puddings.
"Pudding" and "dessert" are pretty much synonymous in the UK, though it probably varies regionally. If someone said "pudding" in a dessert sense, they're more likely to be talking about a baked dish than, say, ice cream or pie.
"Pudding" is historically also a broader term, and can also describe some specific savoury dishes, but it's old fashioned.
Let them eat cake.
thats how you get paris level public urination levels.
do you want that?
That explains the increasing amounts of sewage detected in their waterways. Due to lack of public toilets, people go back do doing their business the old fashioned way.
No, that’s just the privately owned water utility companies dumping untreated shit in the rivers to save money for dividends. It’s free market efficiency, we’re told.
Have you been to a rest stop near the German Autobahn recently? The toilets charge 70 cents or 1 Euro (even just to pee). Because of those ridiculous prices all the truckers started going number 1 and 2 in the bushes years ago - It is seriously disgusting, you can't even take a dog for a walk there anymore.
You take your dog for a walk by the autobahn? Are there not nicer places to go?
The autobahn is just a highway, so likely they're rest stops while traveling along the highway.
I assume they mean taking their dog for a walk when they stop at a rest stop. Dogs need the toilet during long journeys too.
Yeah, I drive from Zurich to Northern Germany every other month.
Consider taking the grain, much more relaxed. And much cleaner. Zürich-Berlin or Zürich-Hamburg is just ~8h, and you can relax or work during that time.
I would love to, unfortunatley the village I am heading to is pretty much disconnected from public transport and my parents don't drive anymore so it's better if I bring a car to run errands for them as well.
The noble goal of austerity comes ~~at a cost~~ caked in shit.
You can't let your dog shit in the bushes because there's too much shit in the bushes?
Oh no!
I actually pick up my dogs poop when we go for walks, as does everyone in Switzerland. I don't know why that's so uncommon in other countries.
The point is, you can't take your dog for a walk around human feces - it's disgusting!