Paying for a poop

[Super Nova]

Blame the poms. It's magic.


This is where the first paid-access toilet was installed.

Location: Royal Exchange, London

Description: In the hot summer of 1858 when the country was bathed in a prolonged heatwave, The Pong, so writers of the time recorded, was significant, London was described as The Big Stink.

The government made the installation of a new sewer system a priority and encouraged entrepreneurs to open new, privately owned public loos.

One of the first such ventures was built here outside the Royal Exchange in London and the proprietors approached magician Maskelyne to design a device that would enable them to charge users for the privilege.

Maskelyne was already known for his inventions; the bus conductor's ticket punch, a typewriter, the film projector, all manner of theatrical props and - of crucial importance to the development of public lavatories - mechanical tableaux that came to life when a coin was dropped into the slot were all invented by Maskelyne.

With his know-how, the design for a loo lock operated by a penny piece was patented by Maskelyne, worked well and was manufactured in thousands to appear in public conveniences in all parts of Britain and the empire.

The euphemism 'spending a penny' was popularized in gags and songs by performers on the music hall stage, although the first record of it appearing in print was not until 1945 in a novel by H. Lewis called 'Strange story'.

[freediver]

You have to pay for many of them in Germany. So all the homeless people urinate wherever they happen to be at the time. No idea where they go for a dump.

The homeless in Sydney do that too. One man sleeps on a small set of steps leading up to a pub on one side and a cafe on the other, in busy Kent Street. He climbs out from under his blanket and bottles and sprays onto the busy footpath as people are walking past and lining up for their morning coffee. It's disgusting!

Perth now has a system where he could join the queue and get a free coffee, which should solve all the problems.

[IQS.RLOW]

You have to pay for many of them in Germany. So all the homeless people urinate wherever they happen to be at the time. No idea where they go for a dump.

The homeless in Sydney do that too. One man sleeps on a small set of steps leading up to a pub on one side and a cafe on the other, in busy Kent Street. He climbs out from under his blanket and bottles and sprays onto the busy footpath as people are walking past and lining up for their morning coffee. It's disgusting!

Perth now has a system where he could join the queue and get a free coffee, which should solve all the problems.

Perhaps you could link to what you refer to in the hope that context will make sense of your post?

[skippy]

Maybe the owner of the forum is saying BO is in Perth, wot
Or, maybe he was just saying street people can get free coffee in Perth nowadays, wow, IQ, talk about paranoid, you got something to hide?

[IQS.RLOW]

Maybe the owner of the forum is saying BO is in Perth, wot
Or, maybe he was just saying street people can get free coffee in Perth nowadays, wow, IQ, talk about paranoid, you got something to hide?

Look skip, an idiot QLDr has spouted something about free coffee and Perth. Coming from Perth, we have the most expensive coffee (beer,wine, restaurants, lunch bars etc) in Australia.

We don't have the socialist dildos over here like you do, so it was merely curiosity if one of you socialist filth had decided to set up shop here and strain coffee grounds through his dreadlocks into handwoven cups and give them away in some kind of lefty anti-Starbucks campaign before they mysteriously disappeared without a trace.

[freediver]

we have the most expensive coffee (beer,wine, restaurants, lunch bars etc) in Australia.

IQ are you saying we should give them free wine also?

[IQS.RLOW]

Are you joking?

If they are already getting free carbon polluting coffee but have no incentive to purchase solar or wind powered heated coffee because they are getting it free then they should be killed on site for destroying the economic modelling of the carbon scam and the earth.

[freediver]

You sound like a communist.

[IQS.RLOW]

You sound like a communist.

Funny how that works eh?

[AiA in Atlanta]

I paid for a poop once and got quite a nice turd for my money.