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	Toilet - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The most common type of toilet in the West is the flush toilet, although the squat toilet is still somewhat common in public restrooms in southern and eastern Europe (including parts of France, Greece, Italy, and the Balkans) as well as East Asia (China and Japan) and other places.
		Separation by sex is characteristic of public toilets to the extent that pictograms of a man or a woman are used to indicate where the respective toilets are.
		Sex-separated public toilets are often difficult to negotiate for transgendered or androgynous people, who are often subject to embarrassment, harassment, or even assault or arrest by others offended by the presence of a person they interpret as being of the other gender (whether due to their outward presentation or their genital status).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Toilet (3090 words)

	Pay toilet - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A pay toilet is a toilet for which you need to pay in order to use it.
		However, the earliest pay toilets were erected in Ancient Rome in 74 AD during the rule of Vespasian, after a civil war in Rome affected greatly the Roman finance.
		Pay toilets are almost unknown in the United States.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pay_toilet (362 words)

	Printable Version (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The toilet in Herald Square, and its twin three blocks away in Greeley Square, cost the 34th Street Partnership a total of $587,000 to design and install, and $52,000 a year to maintain.
		Biederman first came across the pay toilets while vacationing in Paris in the early 1990s, and made a point of trying them out on his trips to London and other European cities.
		By the partnership's count, the two existing pay toilets are now used an average of 450 times a week, or about 25,000 times a year.
	www.helenair.com /articles/2003/08/10/national/a03081003_01.prt (633 words)

	Property Grunt: Pissed off
		According to the Gotham Gazette in 1975 pay toilets were outlawed in New York State because, well those facilities discriminated against women.
		It seemed that pay toilets were on their way to liberate the bladders of its residents when it was stopped dead in its tracks once again accused of discrimination since not all of the toilets that were to be installed were handicapped accessible.
		Communities also banded against pay toilets due to their concerns that would not be well maintained and serve as a beacon for child molesters and other flotsam of society.
	propertygrunt.blogspot.com /2005/07/pissed-off.html (665 words)

	Rick Steves' Europe: Archive: Toilet Tips
		The only private toilet stall was being used by someone who by the sounds of things was not going to be relinquishing his throne for some time, so I suffered a severe case of stage/camera fright and sucked up the loss of my 40 eurocents.
		Those pay toilets on the streets in Paris aren't too bad and came in very handy when we were there this summer.
		The was one toilet in an enclosed stall, a urinal, and a hole in the floor.
	www.ricksteves.com /graffiti/archives/toilets.htm (9770 words)

	Wired New York Forum - View Single Post - City Finally Proclaims Deal for Public Toilets
		When that happens, one or both of the pay toilets now in place can be out of commission for days, even weeks, while a replacement part is ordered from Sweden.
		While city officials have yet to choose which new toilets to bring to New York, they are bound to encounter some of the same issues of toilet etiquette.
		Biederman is the first to admit that the pay toilets have their drawbacks.
	www.wirednewyork.com /forum/showpost.php?p=1924&postcount=7 (1087 words)

	Pittsburgh first: A $250,000 automatic public pay toilet, 25 cents per visit
		The city's $250,000 automatic public toilet -- APT for those in the business -- is one of only 19 in the world, Richard R. Grasso said proudly.
		Grasso, who flew in from New York for yesterday's grand toilet opening, is vice president of business development for Clear Channel Adshel, which provided and installed the APT free of charge.
		At the same time, the toilet bowl turns 180 degrees and also is disinfected.
	www.post-gazette.com /lifestyle/20030212publicpot0212p2.asp (709 words)

	Gotham Gazette -- Public Toilets
		The plan to install some toilets that were handicapped-accessible and some that were not violated the Americans with Disabilities Act.
		As with the toilets in San Francisco, users pay 25 cents for a maximum of 20 minutes and the toilets clean and disinfect themselves after each use.
		The 24 available toilets average 80 uses per day, offering 20 minutes of toilet time for 25 cents (20 minutes was recommended by the mayor's task force for the handicapped.) The coin revenue does not begin to pay for the $200,000 cost of the toilet, or for its daily maintenance.
	www.gothamgazette.com /iotw/bathrooms (2024 words)

	City Finally Proclaims Deal for Public Toilets - Wired New York Forum
		They say it is unfair to ask them to pay for the new stands, they want part of the revenue from the ads, and they object to the city's choosing the locations for the stands.
		The nearest freestanding pay toilet, or sanisette, to my house is in the Place Monge, cunningly disguised as a kiosk covered with film posters.
		Weinshall said only that she expected a contract to be completed by the end of the year, and that the new toilets could appear on the streets as early as 2007.
	www.wirednewyork.com /forum/showthread.php?t=3103 (6692 words)

	New York Daily News - Home - City may be flush in pay-toilet deal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		It was unclear exactly where the 20 self-cleaning pay toilets Cemusa Inc. wants to build would be placed, how much it would cost to use them and how soon they would make it to the streets.
		But the figure that's caught the city's eye is Cemusa CEO Toulla Constantinou's pledge to pay $1 billion over 20 years for the right to plaster advertising on the toilets - as well as on the newsstands and bus shelters.
		The city's pay toilet plans date back more than a decade, and except for a couple of pilot programs, they have come to nothing, much to the annoyance of New Yorkers who have too few places to go while on the go.
	www.nydailynews.com /front/story/348736p-297541c.html (372 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Public toilets are based on the pay & use basis where people pay for maintenance of the system.
		Toilet complexes in urban areas are being used for advertisement also.
		Provision of individual toilet and pay & use public toilets are going on since 1974.
	www.changemakers.net /journal/300508/displayfec.cfm?ID=87 (656 words)

	Print news - IPS Inter Press Service (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Yet where there is an attended public toilet, as with the unit next to Karachi's City Court, the pattern of use indicates a continuing apathy towards such a facility.
		He reminds those who use the toilet to pay the charge, which is the equivalent of 34 U.S. cents.
		The CPLC toilet facilities are designed as units with four toilets each, two for women and two for men.
	www.ipsnews.net /print.asp?idnews=21004 (947 words)

	AUTOMATED SELF CLEANING PUBLIC TOILETS AND TECHNOLOGY
		My board members are very supportive of doing this." Plumbing for five toilets was installed along Main Street during downtown's recent face-lift, and Rivers and her staff have started researching the array of self-flushing, self-sanitizing toilets on the market....
		toilets anticipated for downtown likely would cost 50 cents per use, but free tokens would be available for children, the homeless and pedestrians in dire need.
		In San Francisco, a 25-unit pay toilet system was installed about six years ago, some in areas of heavy tourist traffic, and others in areas frequented by the homeless.
	www.americanrestroom.org /apt (2110 words)

	Plumbing information by theplumber.com
		City hall wants the $1-million toilet on the dink bridge open to the public -- even if it's in the middle of a swanky, martini-serving restaurant on the footbridge's 4,000-square-foot plaza.
		And that means the million-dollar toilet -- a 2003 winner of the Canadian Taxpayers Federation's Teddy Awards for wasteful spending -- still hasn't seen its first flush.
		Besides, excluding non-patrons from the $1-million toilet wouldn't be fair to the city's low-income people, who probably won't be able to afford a plate of duck a l'orange at the new diner.
	www.theplumber.com /milliondollartoilet.html (506 words)

	Queen's Journal - Britain losing pay toilet edge to Asia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		However, that public toilet is now closed and there is fear that the public toilet is rapidly disappearing.
		"The number of public toilets in the U.K. is limited and declining, particularly for women, who have about half as much provision as men to start with," said Clara Greed, an academic from the University of the West of England who studies public toilets.
		The busiest toilets in Britain are in central London.
	www.queensjournal.ca /article.php?point=vol130/issue11/postscript/lead1 (733 words)

	ajc.com \| News \| Russian school tries to establish pay toilet system \| ajc.com
		For a short time, students at a high school in the southern Russian city of Taganrog had to do more than raise their hands an ask for permission to use the bathroom -- they had to fork over cash, NTV television reported Tuesday.
		School officials instituted a plan to charge pupils for toilet trips in order to pay for repairs that were needed after students vandalized bathroom fixtures, NTV said.
		The network broadcast part of what it said was an amateur video taken in a school hallway, showing a boy asking a cleaning woman whether he could use the bathroom.
	www.ajc.com /news/content/news/1103/19payschool.html (144 words)

	Staff made to pay for toilet breaks - National - smh.com.au
		Employees at a company owned by Australia's second-biggest telco say their bosses have ordered them to record the amount of time they spend in the toilet.
		The practice of logging employees' toilet time has drawn the ire of two leading urologists.
		Dr David Golovsky of the St Vincent's Clinic said the problem at RSL COM reminded him of the condition once known as "switchgirl's bladder", where receptionists were once restricted to their desks.
	www.smh.com.au /articles/2003/08/16/1060936101893.html (468 words)

	New York Daily News - City News - City seeks pay toilet cash flow (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Miller said the pay toilets would give as much relief to the public as to the city's coffers.
		The plan for bus shelters, newsstands and pay toilets would rake in more than $400 million over its 20-year life, Deputy Mayor Daniel Doctoroff has estimated.
		Bloomberg and Miller will decide where the toilets will go, but they have yet to work out stickier questions of how to renovate newsstands, split ad revenue and get newsstand owners to work with contractors.
	www.nydailynews.com /news/local/story/102837p-93085c.html (377 words)

	Dinky's Pay Toilet! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Well, long story short, I spent the most amazing and incredible five hours of my life in Dinky's Pay Toilet, and for the first time, I really feel like a woman.
		I was afraid to use the public restroom because I didn't want to be recognized, so I went into Dinky's Pay Toilet.
		Anyway, long story short, I had my manager buy a Pay Toilet from Dinky and I had it installed in my house in Beverly Hills.
	www.linkydinky.com /paytoilet.shtml (229 words)

	WiFi and the pay toilet
		When considering for-pay and for-free hotspots (as well as truly free network projects), I can certainly see the value in one free resource that makes all of these valuable propositions possible: public spectrum.
		I have been telling everyone who would listen (and many who wouldn't) that pay Wi-fi is doomed.
		And even worse, after paying that amount, you only get access at locations with Wi-fi operated by the service you subscribed to.
	www.oreillynet.com /pub/wlg/3917 (512 words)

	isen.blog
		asks a Computerworld article entitled, "Free [Wi-Fi] hot spots pay dividends." The article notes that the days of pay toilets are over.
		It's been years since I've seen a pay toilet.
		Was it because people thought they had a right to use an existing toilet without paying, and defeat or circumvent the coin lock?
	www.isen.com /blog/2003/10/what-is-roi-on-bathroom.html (121 words)

	pay
		to pay for (goods, services, etc.) at the time of purchase, as opposed to buying on credit.
		to pay income tax by regular deductions from one's salary or wages.
		to pay (someone) everything that is due that person, esp. to do so and discharge from one's employ.
	www.infoplease.com /dictionary/pay (373 words)

	IHTFP Hack Gallery: Pei Toilet (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Since the building's architect is I. Pei '40, the building is often called the "Pei Toilet" in jest.
		On registration day for Spring semester, 1994, students turned this verbal wordplay into a hack, taking an opportunity to parody a number of other current events on campus in the process.
		The Hack was accompanied by a flyer explaining how the Pay Toilet would solve many of MIT's current problems.
	hacks.mit.edu /Hacks/by_year/1994/pei_toilet/pei_toilet.html (259 words)

	Microsoft's MSN's Business In The Toilet \|\| The Mac Observer
		MSN reveals it is also in talks with toilet paper manufacturers to produce special web paper for surfers "in need of URL inspiration".
		We hear that the architect of the iLoo is none other than John Crapper, the great-great-grandson of the inventor of the flush toilet.
		You know, if you put a "g" in iLoo, you'd get igloo, which would be appropriate as it would be a cold day in Hades before we'd surf the Internet in a public pay toilet, or use a pay toilet where those who came before us could surf the Internet.
	www.macobserver.com /article/2003/05/02.11.shtml (881 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Sims in current family use this for free, visitors pay 20 Simoleans per helping.
		Useful with the pay toilet to increase revenue!
		There is a pay door that also does clothes changes on the door page
	www.simlogical.com /sl/Sims2Pages/Sims2FamilyBusiness.htm (383 words)

	Phuket Forums: General - Pay for toilet?: Originally Posted by allybabba22 I have never
		I have never been charged in any country in europe for the use of toilets in a pub/club etc...
		But i agree with you 5baht is nothing and if there's is any BMs that dont like to pay the 5baht then whatever you do dont go around to soi seapearl because you might have a heart attack they charge a whopping 10BAHT
		Looks like you were being had at Soi Seapearl, the toilet are 5 baht, I go they on a regular basis and use their toilet facilities.
	www.phuket-info.com /forums/41278-post9.html (134 words)

	High-tech toilet is drawing only a piddling number of customers
		None gave more than a sideways glance at the large green structure tucked in the corner of an 18th Street parking lot.
		Drunks don't need public toilets while the bars are still open.
		Come to think of it, they don't seem to need public toilets after bar time either.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/907328/posts (329 words)

	The Progressive: New England's pay toilet.(fight against US radi... @ HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The Progressive: New England's pay toilet.(fight against US radi...
		In 1991, the state of Texas drew a box around a small section of Hudspeth County in the far western part of the state and announced its intention to build a low-level radioactive waste dump there.
		All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.
	highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?docid=1G1:20452299&refid=ink_tptd_mag (530 words)

	ESPN.com - SOCCER - Savage must pay for toilet incident
		LONDON -- Midfielder Robbie Savage was found guilty of improper conduct by the English Football Association on Friday for using the referee's toilet before a premier league match in April.
		The Welsh international was reprimanded, warned as to his future conduct and fined $15,350 plus costs at the hearing called to consider the incident before a match between his former club Leicester City and Aston Villa on April 20.
		The 27-year-old, who has since joined newly-promoted premier league club Birmingham City, had been fined two weeks wages by Leicester.
	espn.go.com /soccer/news/2002/0816/1418799.html (134 words)

	Merseytalk1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		These usages are arranged alphabetically, all having something to do with the theme of "toilet, privy, and bog." For more information about each usage, see the main list.
		caught short, to be: to be in need of a toilet
		To avoid the dangers of pay toilets: "I always cook it until I get home"
	www.louisville.edu /~tavan001/Merseytalk1.html (172 words)

	EDITORIAL: Don't Turn Russia Into A Pay Toilet
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	www.themoscowtimes.com /stories/1999/07/27/031.html (140 words)

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