h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

I wondered why they would want to examine their by-products. I always thought it was so that you could get the full benefit of the turdy smell before it was flushed away.

Worst loo I've experienced was a hole in the ground type in Turkey, except the "ground" was a train. No means of flushing, it just went straigh out onto the track. Dribble of handwash water if you were lucky. And this was an overnight sleeper!
Worst part was the smell the morning after and having to get yourself and your baggage past the loo and off the train past the remains of what hadn't made it onto the track!!!

Toilets on trains always have a sign telling people not to flush when the train is in the station. Myself and the missus have often observed 'fallout' on the track from these 'station flushers' activities whilst waiting for a train.

Haaaaah, then you have not travelled in Norn Iron yet???? Public toilets here are a luxury. Travel from one end of the countryy to another and go to the loo in a field! The 'quare lads' with their pseudo fervent religion, either close the loos on a Sunday - or hide them altogether! It makes for a very interesting tour of that 'grand wee country' and puts a whole new slant on our claim to bbeing the 'Emerald Isle'.......Now you know the true meaning behind the title. Everybody has to go to the loo in the fields!

Post 100 was in Mansfield, wasn't it?

I've been in some pretty grotty public toilets recently... which hasn't improved my life in any great way... I'm sure they seem to be getting worse, on average... and less and less likely to find any hot water, bog rolls soap or working lights and/or handtowels in them

Any public toilets that are cleaned 'automatically' rather than by a person should be nuked from space immediately. And the person responsible for their widespread uptake by councils in NZ should be inside one when it happens.

I reckon they're getting worse too 2legs. Having said that, when I was younger the standard public toilet at places like playgrounds and grassy picnic areas was a concrete block building with stainless steel toilets with no seats. They seemed to get cleaned once a month or so and were always grotty. Then you had Rest Rooms in town, very comfy and well appointed buildings where women could go and change the baby and have a rest (there was a separate room for sitting in). Both of those seem to have disappeared now.

Actually, I'm probably not even talking about 'public' ones... I don't think we've hardly any of those left anymore... They had to remove them, because drug addicts would go into them to shoot up drugs; and of course, its widely known that its better for people to shoot up drugs in open spaces and leave their needles on the grass in playing fields, parks and graveyards, or just on the corner of the street..
Its just general toilets in places like pubs, rail stations etc., the one's in the bowling alley we use, they're... well generally they're so ungood that you really* notice it when you walk into a moderately* clean one
Having said which, the portaloos at the Cambridge beer festavil seemed really clean both on the Monday (when the festavil started), and again on the Saturday/yeserday (the final day of the festavil)... so at least someone was making an effort there to clean them each day I guess