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London will piss-shame you for urinating on Thatcher's grave while offering this standard of public facilities.
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I always forget people get charged to use bathrooms in Europe, very odd
I don't think it's as common in the UK nowadays compared to the 90s (they seem to have removed almost all of their public toilets instead), but I recently found one that charged 20p and only accepted card payments. I don't know how it's even worth them taking payments unless the card providers waive their fees.
i mean it seems like a roundabout version of the same system in some US cities too. there are essentially no public toilets in NYC and the cities' official guideline is to go into businesses to use the bathroom which will often only be open to paying customers. have to imagine it's a problem more or less in any city in capitalism, they're hostile spaces to humans where you're supposed to buy stuff or fuck off basically
In the city I'm at in the US there is essentially no public bathroom, and nearly all of those in businesses are customer only, so it's basically a charge system here too. There are libraries that have free bathrooms, but transit stations have none except the larger train stations.
san francisco is probably the worst example of this and they wonder why there's so much shit on the streets.