Comments on: NFSWednesday: Living in the Loo

By: Chris

Chris — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 09:12:19 +0000

If you check the streetview link, there used to be another building to the side of it that sold ice cream and did tea et al. As for the loo that had been closed for at least 10 years before it got bought so it’d been a long time since it was used for that purpose. There are still public loos in Scarborough but most are located in areas with a higher volume of people, such as the castle to the left, as well as in the bay round the other side of the castle.

Really something needed to happen to the building as to let it rot further would have compromised the road above so might as well live in it.

By: Hmmm

Hmmm — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 21:27:51 +0000

Well a FOAF has one of the Queens pubes in a matchbox.
Y’see if the Queen visits somewhere there has to be a toilet set aside just for her.

So the Queen went to visit where my friend of a friend works. She had to pee so went use the special Queens only loo.
The FOAF went in straight after her and there was a pube on the seat. He nabbed it and stuck it in a matchbox.

By: Vivian

Vivian — Mon, 31 May 2010 15:36:10 +0000

Americans think it absurd to pay to use a public bathroom. (I’m avoiding the word “restroom” since when I asked for one in the UK, they looked at me like I was out of my mind.)

I’m rather torn on the subject. On the one hand, the ability to take care of necessary business in an authorized, private place, whether or not I have cash on me, is very important to me. I understand the problems caused when the cash-strapped are forced to use street corners. On the other hand, I can see in the European lavatories the nice results of such funding. When I arrived by train in Venice at 5:30 a.m., one cold February morning, and NOTHING was open, I gladly paid a Euro to sit in the Ladies’ room for an hour or two, as it was the warmest and cleanest place in the whole train station, and provided me a nice quiet stall to sit and read a book.

By: Sara

Sara — Mon, 31 May 2010 15:27:40 +0000

That’s what Starbucks is for — in the US, anyway.

By: N/A

N/A — Mon, 31 May 2010 00:41:23 +0000

The UK has lost a ridiculous number of public facilities in recent years, 40% over 12 years if memory serves. It used to be that you could find one without much trouble at all but now when you find one they usually want money to use it too.

By: Lisa W

Lisa W — Sat, 29 May 2010 10:28:24 +0000

The true meaning of the word ‘throne’.

By: Dennis Eldridge

Dennis Eldridge — Fri, 28 May 2010 14:10:25 +0000

I don’t know, once you’ve finally got rid of George Michael it probably isn’t so bad…

By: Dennis Eldridge

Dennis Eldridge — Fri, 28 May 2010 14:07:39 +0000

My wife has had the pleasure of sitting on the Queen’s “throne” She was visiting (i.e. snuck in after a drunken night out) the dormitory at Cambridge which had been occupied by Prince Charles and a special facility had be installed for Mummy when she came to visit herself (presumably somewhat less inebriated though), and had the opportunity to feel what it was like to be queen for a few minutes *grins*.

By: Dawn

Dawn — Fri, 28 May 2010 13:21:18 +0000

Hee!

By: Dawn

Dawn — Fri, 28 May 2010 13:20:55 +0000

Same here.