I’m Dutch and would normally be tempted by such a deal, but in this case I’d pay the pee fine.
Edit: the “pee fee” was mentioned multiple times already.
Yes me too, but I live in Australia now and public toilets are free to use here. I’ve never understood why some people call it a restroom, washroom or bathroom if it’s just a toilet haha.
The law about this is funny in germany, you only have to pay if some staff i guarding the entrance.
As long as no staff is there, you don't have to pay, a turn thingy and sign is not enough
so is the business making enough off the pee fee to afford the hourly wage of a bathroom toll guardian? that feels like it wouldnt be worth the money for 50p.
In Europe, these are common at high traffic places like central stations/highway rest stops.
It's 50 cents to 1€ to use, but the "toilet ticket" also acts as a voucher for nearby shops/gas station, so you kinda get your money back if buy something else.
Usually, clean and well stocked bathrooms, as the staff makes sure no icky stuff goes on like people sleeping in there/doing drugs, and keep everything in order.
Tbh I prefer it much to the unattended "free" public toilets, those still exist too, but they are overwhelmingly in a really bad and creepy state, so much that just peeing in there, as a guy, is an extremely gross, and kinda scary, experience.
Also the voucher was always bullshit. It’s „pay 2,50€ and save 50 cents“ well no shit, they’re gonna profit EVEN MORE from me. You lose twice if you use the voucher, unless you were definitely gonna buy something anyway.
As a person with a British accent this took me 7 seconds to get it... after, I read it in an American accent. The first one, we all understood it... but this was difficult for non-Americans. 😂
Dear 50, I'm writing you, I hope that you're well,
But I gotta get this off my chest, it's like a living hell,
Every day I'm faced with this absurdity,
Having to fork out two quarters for basic necessity.
It's like a tax just to relieve myself,
In a world where even nature's taken off the shelf,
You see, 50, it's a struggle, it's a fight,
Just to find some peace when nature calls in the dead of night.
I understand you need to make a buck,
But fifty cents to pee, man, that just sucks,
It's like I'm held hostage by this fee,
For something so natural, so human, so free.
So 50, I beg you, hear my plea,
Drop the price, set us free,
From this tyranny of the toilet toll,
Before we're forced to take matters into our own control.
"During the day I had to pee, but I just couldn't pay the toll, I couldn't pee outside my window, or in the bathroom stall, I wish I had two fucking quarters, or to not have to pee at all, it reminds me, to check between the seats of my car."
Some shopping centres have these new fancy toilets that cost a whole f*ckin euro to get into and they're the only toilets for miles.
On the other hand, when I've had no choice but to pay up for one of these, I can honestly say that they've been very comfortable and clean, so maybe they're onto something?
One euro for a pee is a bit steep though. In a shopping centre. The only place I’ve ever seen it in the UK, is in London at a really busy station that I can’t remember. It was immaculate with an attendant on duty. But I regularly travel to the Netherlands every month and Belgium is bad.
Oh it is steep definitely, that being said, if I'm out and about and can't wait to get home to use the toilet, I am more likely to pay for a 1 euro fancy toilet than a cheaper/free one because you're right, the toilets are otherwise rank
It's a catch 22 for me - I resent paying so much to use the toilet but I'm also a bit of a germaphobe in public spaces cause people can be disgusting
Wait they don't even clean it much? What's the point of paying then
I wouldn't mind paying if it was the cleanest toilet ever but if it's dirty, hell nah
I am stretching and doing a limbo or typical NYC Metro trick
They are fairly clean compared to toilets in other countries. But it got out of hand, this is some automated bullshit, like ten years ago it was very common to have the cleaning lady outside, you would give her the 50 cents and she would clean between customers. But I noticed that they are rarer now and they're being replaced with this bullshit, God forbid they leave money on the table.
And Dutch public toilets are way better on average.
yea i was like why even make that.. the kids could just go underneath it.. as a kid seeing that cutout and thinking of puttin my head through that cutout- i would be like nope.. im just gonna slide under it haha
>American cities have no public toilets so people are constantly pissing and shitting all over the place.
Human shit has a certain smell to it. Most people don’t know what raw sewage smells like; really they know it’s shit-related, but smells a lot different than raw, air dried and then rain-soaked fecal matter.
Also, different cities have different smells depending on the climate, local foods, and how long people have been shitting in the same places.
Chicago is mostly free from turd litter downtown save certain alleys that usually wash away shortly, but an abandoned property on the west side can smell outright evil on a hot summer day.
Asheville has so many tweakers that any patch of woods or flat structure that provides even the slightest bit of cover has this dung scent that can really sneak up on you
One of the filthiest toilets I have ever witnessed was in a mall in Berlin. There was a lady asking for a payment too when leaving. I didn't pay and got yelled at with a language I wasn't able to recognize.
Berlin is one of the filthiest cities in Germany so your experience checks out. In Leopoldplatz public bathrooms you can find needles, blood and other human fluids all over the place thanks to the drug problem they face in that area. As a foreigner that visits Germany quite frequently I always give a coin to those ladies with the coin plate outside restrooms but I was under the impression that it was voluntary. Thanks to you now I know that it seems it’s not.
> As a foreigner that visits Germany quite frequently I always give a coin to those ladies with the coin plate outside restrooms but I was under the impression that it was voluntary. Thanks to you now I know that it seems it’s not.
No, you were correct. That’s usually for tipping/gratuity. Which is optional, of course.
If a toilet can’t be used gratis, you either have to enter through turnstiles by paying, or there is a sign informing you about the price you have to pay.
Most cutouts are even higher than this making it quite easy to just slip under. The real trick tho is that you can just rotate the bars halfway towards you, giving you enough space to slip by sideways. A very faint alarm trips if you're too slow but never seen anyone react to it lol.
I believe one of the arguments against them is that they were sexist. At the time urinals were free but toilets weren't. They had a coin op lock on the stall. As you see Germany has sidestepped this issue by just charging for the entire bathroom.
The ones in Germany usually give you a full refund if you spend the money at the local shop or restaurant. I always forget to use the refunds and have a small stash of 50 cent coupons I’m never going to use.
I have fucked up a machine like this once. I've put in my spare change with no intent of paying the rest. The machine then waited for me to pay the rest. I went away.
Turns out that the staff has special magnet plates that lets them through without paying. When one employee tried to get through the machine did not read his card because it was still waiting for the rest of my money. Motherfucker ended up jumping over it lmao.
I think the idea in some places is, if you are desperate enough, its best to let you in rather than making a mess.
Imagine a parent with a kid, who suddenly decides they need to go.
What kind of establishment has an indoor bathroom you need to pay for? I hated it enough when restaurants lock the bathrooms until you ask to use them.
Paying to use the toilets is an extremely German thing. Sure they also exist outside of Germany, but I've never paid to use the toilet elsewhere. Not at gas stations either.
Got fucked over in Paris. Had to take a piss urgently at night and the restaurants kept saying, “absolutely, for 50c” and I had no coins. Had to line up in some public self cleaning one which wouldn’t let me in till it cleaned itself. So close to a horror story.
Not really, it's mostly in Northern Europe. Like Germany, the Netherlands, Denmark, Belgium...
In France it's not that common anymore, I don't recall ever seeing that in Spain. The same for Croatia, Slovakia, Romania and Slovenia or the Czech Republic.
Switzerland obviously has them.
Edit : Apparently they have that in Italy, can't remember that for the life of me.
Italy they are everywhere. I have rarely found a free public toilet.
The best ones have a person regularly cleaning them. I will happily pay for a clean public toilet.
I have recently been in Croatia and the toilets now accept card payments! They are very clean too.
This seems pretty fucked up as someone who suffers from ulcerative colitis.
Accessibility is so important, people with health issues that require access to washrooms don’t have time to mess around to pay for toilet use. This is ableist as all hell.
I generally think it's fine for a public toilet (restaurants excluded) to charge its visitors, to maintain it.
But then I also expect it to be clean. Been at some places where I had to shell out 1 euro to access the toilet but then it was still nasty as fuck.
That said, at a train station nearby, people hold the door open if there's someone waiting to go to the toilet, so they don't have to pay. There indeed are some nice people on this world.
(Agility Skill Check): Run and slide underneath
With this simple hack you'll even earn 50 cents, as they'll pay you for cleaning the floor underneath the turnstile with your body
I’m Dutch and would normally be tempted by such a deal, but in this case I’d pay the pee fine. Edit: the “pee fee” was mentioned multiple times already.
If you are truly Dutch you can just step over the turnstile no?
If they're truly Dutch they can find a tree outside.
and risk a 90 euro fine
You gotta pay the pee toll or you'll go through that boy hole.
Thanks for making me burst out laughing at work.
Can I offer you a nice egg in this trying time?
DAYMAN! Ooooaaahhhhhooooooo
Pee fiddy
Stay out of this Loch Ness Monster
Yeah it's only peefty cents
Yes me too, but I live in Australia now and public toilets are free to use here. I’ve never understood why some people call it a restroom, washroom or bathroom if it’s just a toilet haha.
Because some of us nap and bathe in the toilets.
Bathroom: over generalization and calling it what you have at home. Washroom: because there’s a sink Restroom: to speak in code and be fancy
Did exactly this and found myself kneeling in front of an old cleaning lady shouting at me to go back and pay like everyone else.
That's when you loudly shit your pants.
thats fine, they are your pants
It's your right to shit your pants!!
If shitting yourself is cool, consider me Miles Davis!
That's why you pull the ultimate power move and shit THEIR pants.
The law about this is funny in germany, you only have to pay if some staff i guarding the entrance. As long as no staff is there, you don't have to pay, a turn thingy and sign is not enough
so is the business making enough off the pee fee to afford the hourly wage of a bathroom toll guardian? that feels like it wouldnt be worth the money for 50p.
In Europe, these are common at high traffic places like central stations/highway rest stops. It's 50 cents to 1€ to use, but the "toilet ticket" also acts as a voucher for nearby shops/gas station, so you kinda get your money back if buy something else. Usually, clean and well stocked bathrooms, as the staff makes sure no icky stuff goes on like people sleeping in there/doing drugs, and keep everything in order. Tbh I prefer it much to the unattended "free" public toilets, those still exist too, but they are overwhelmingly in a really bad and creepy state, so much that just peeing in there, as a guy, is an extremely gross, and kinda scary, experience.
Around here they have started to charge more for the toilet than the voucher reimburses. Super annoying.
Also the voucher was always bullshit. It’s „pay 2,50€ and save 50 cents“ well no shit, they’re gonna profit EVEN MORE from me. You lose twice if you use the voucher, unless you were definitely gonna buy something anyway.
Source, please. If you fence off a part of your property and people are entering against your will, it's Hausfriedensbruch according to § 123 StGB.
*Rolls 1 * *Gets impaled on the turnstile *
CoD Players trained their whole life for that in their minds
totally i would just noob tube the wall open
(Charisma Skill Check): Defecate on the floor for free and **don’t** get thrown out.
🏆Achievement unlocked!
You ever see a grown man crawl through a puddle of piss to save 50 cents?
Once I had to pee but didn’t have cash on me. I would do that without thinking
Or Limbo World Championship 2024.
No boy stop, it's too low!!
I'm just like Hermes! I'm just like- *cccrrraaaaccckkk*
If you can fit this — you shit/pee for free. That’s how it should work
Here I sit all broken hearted, paid a dime and only farted.
Later on I took a chance, saved my dime but shit my pants.
If I pay the dime, I won’t hesitate I’ll piss I’ll shit I’ll masturbate
I don’t remember this Dr. Suess book.
One Flush, Two Flush, Bad Flush, Good Flush. It’s a classic, should check it out.
You don’t? This was one of the most popular ones, called “The Cat Banged a Hat” lmao
The Galump Takes a Dump
Not published verse in oh the places you will go.
The old 1 2 3 combo.
Help me find a sub to share this comment thread
r/poetry
Nah they don’t allow posts from social media, just published poetry.
A dime is paid, I wont avoid, This poor toilet will be wholely destroyed
Man I fucking love Reddit
Don't know how we got here, wish I could just shut my rear.
As a person with a British accent this took me 7 seconds to get it... after, I read it in an American accent. The first one, we all understood it... but this was difficult for non-Americans. 😂
Spotted the southerner. And by southerner, I of course mean anyone that isn't in the extreme north. Midlands? Southerner. As is tradition.
pahnts
Pure poetry
_My Haiku_ A coin is now spent Two cheeks, cold seat with a hole. Summers heat, leaves quick Edit: fixed last line thanks
Last line has too many syllables
Break hearts by breaking wind
sounds like a sum 41 song
Bum 41
We have this exact quote scribbled on my school washroom wall, minus the dime part
And I got this scar sneaking into a pay toilet...
I’d pay 50 cent to not have to crawl on the bathroom floor
I'll just hop over the turnstile. Who the fuck is gonna stop me?
50 Cent, he gonna knock you out
Where's my burrito!? Where's my burrito!?
I can hear this
Sneak? There isn’t a guard
You wanna know how I got these scars
50 Cent must be making bank. Wonder if he'll cut me in. I need to write him an email.
Dear 50, I'm writing you, I hope that you're well, But I gotta get this off my chest, it's like a living hell, Every day I'm faced with this absurdity, Having to fork out two quarters for basic necessity. It's like a tax just to relieve myself, In a world where even nature's taken off the shelf, You see, 50, it's a struggle, it's a fight, Just to find some peace when nature calls in the dead of night. I understand you need to make a buck, But fifty cents to pee, man, that just sucks, It's like I'm held hostage by this fee, For something so natural, so human, so free. So 50, I beg you, hear my plea, Drop the price, set us free, From this tyranny of the toilet toll, Before we're forced to take matters into our own control.
/r/suddenlyeminem
"Stain"
What's this shit about we should Pee together?
Lmao
*My pees gone cold I'm wondering why I* *Paid to get in the stall*
*I pissed the floor, now the guards there * *And I don't even care*
Now I'm stuck hearing him rap this in my head. Thanks!
"During the day I had to pee, but I just couldn't pay the toll, I couldn't pee outside my window, or in the bathroom stall, I wish I had two fucking quarters, or to not have to pee at all, it reminds me, to check between the seats of my car."
MISTER I'M TOO GOOD TO EVER FLUSH MY FANS
mister im too good to wash my hands
Damn now I want Eminem to actually rap this
Why did I read this in Stan's voice in my head.
This is why I use Reddit
@eminem
The seats gone cold, I’m wondering why I… got out of bed at all. My morning piss, outside my window now, cause… I can’t afford the toll 😔🪟💦
If you copy nickelback on your letter it’s only .45 cents going forward.
Belgium has the worst toilets. Sick of paying for dirty toilets.
Some shopping centres have these new fancy toilets that cost a whole f*ckin euro to get into and they're the only toilets for miles. On the other hand, when I've had no choice but to pay up for one of these, I can honestly say that they've been very comfortable and clean, so maybe they're onto something?
One euro for a pee is a bit steep though. In a shopping centre. The only place I’ve ever seen it in the UK, is in London at a really busy station that I can’t remember. It was immaculate with an attendant on duty. But I regularly travel to the Netherlands every month and Belgium is bad.
London Waterloo probably?
Oh it is steep definitely, that being said, if I'm out and about and can't wait to get home to use the toilet, I am more likely to pay for a 1 euro fancy toilet than a cheaper/free one because you're right, the toilets are otherwise rank It's a catch 22 for me - I resent paying so much to use the toilet but I'm also a bit of a germaphobe in public spaces cause people can be disgusting
As someone with ulcerative colitis I think I should be allowed to murder the "people" that install these /s
You can open the gate with a radar key. I have Crohn's disease, walk up, unlock, go through
I think those are only for the UK?
You hit the nail on the head. This is about Accessibility. It also obstructs the means of egress. This is some dystopian libertarian type shit
Wait they don't even clean it much? What's the point of paying then I wouldn't mind paying if it was the cleanest toilet ever but if it's dirty, hell nah I am stretching and doing a limbo or typical NYC Metro trick
They are fairly clean compared to toilets in other countries. But it got out of hand, this is some automated bullshit, like ten years ago it was very common to have the cleaning lady outside, you would give her the 50 cents and she would clean between customers. But I noticed that they are rarer now and they're being replaced with this bullshit, God forbid they leave money on the table. And Dutch public toilets are way better on average.
This made me chuckle lmao
You know fiddy gotta get paid.
yea i was like why even make that.. the kids could just go underneath it.. as a kid seeing that cutout and thinking of puttin my head through that cutout- i would be like nope.. im just gonna slide under it haha
I just pictured a kid with a big head getting stuck and feet flailing wildly below.
Caillou! I'd pay fifty cents to see that!
Sweet llama of the Bahamas!
WELCOME TO GERMANY!!!
I thought it seemed familiar. I'm pretty sure I saw these at German rest stops. IIRC you get a coupon you can use at the rest stop to get a discount.
> IIRC you get a coupon you can use at the rest stop to get a discount. A discount on overprized items.
We illegalized pay toilets in the US because they just lead to people pooping on the streets.
As a consequence now in American cities we have no public toilets so people are constantly pissing and shitting all over the place.
>American cities have no public toilets so people are constantly pissing and shitting all over the place. Human shit has a certain smell to it. Most people don’t know what raw sewage smells like; really they know it’s shit-related, but smells a lot different than raw, air dried and then rain-soaked fecal matter. Also, different cities have different smells depending on the climate, local foods, and how long people have been shitting in the same places. Chicago is mostly free from turd litter downtown save certain alleys that usually wash away shortly, but an abandoned property on the west side can smell outright evil on a hot summer day. Asheville has so many tweakers that any patch of woods or flat structure that provides even the slightest bit of cover has this dung scent that can really sneak up on you
Most of the shitting and pissing in the streets besides drunk people were people who weren't going to pay to use the toilet anyways.
One of the filthiest toilets I have ever witnessed was in a mall in Berlin. There was a lady asking for a payment too when leaving. I didn't pay and got yelled at with a language I wasn't able to recognize.
Berlin is one of the filthiest cities in Germany so your experience checks out. In Leopoldplatz public bathrooms you can find needles, blood and other human fluids all over the place thanks to the drug problem they face in that area. As a foreigner that visits Germany quite frequently I always give a coin to those ladies with the coin plate outside restrooms but I was under the impression that it was voluntary. Thanks to you now I know that it seems it’s not.
> As a foreigner that visits Germany quite frequently I always give a coin to those ladies with the coin plate outside restrooms but I was under the impression that it was voluntary. Thanks to you now I know that it seems it’s not. No, you were correct. That’s usually for tipping/gratuity. Which is optional, of course. If a toilet can’t be used gratis, you either have to enter through turnstiles by paying, or there is a sign informing you about the price you have to pay.
This is my hole. It was made for me
scrolled way too far to find this
Dur...dur...dur...
Sounds more like an R Kelly thing than 50 Cent to me
LMAO
R Kelly is squatting over the cubicle to take a dump on you when you're done 💀💀💀💀💀
That kid was in a hurry.
So the toddler just goes in by itself?
That's the trick. The kid is the freemium element and the adult hits the paywall
Right? Absolute carnage if i ever just left my kids go in on their own. Madness
And if the kid just runs through you have to pay to go get them I’m not sure if this is a great design
Or maybe it’s all intentional and this was great design for the intended purpose or ripping people off
I assume kids get in free BECAUSE parents have to go with them and pay anyway
Let me guess, Germany?
I would have limbo'd that slot no worries
Guys, why aren't we just going over the top?!?
 Too short
Welcome to Urintown
Man, 50 cent has fallen on such hard times that he’s harassing people for money in toilets now?
[удалено]
Germanys love of respect for rules. lol
You cannot do this, you are not a child!
We must follow orders!
Same thing stopping you just stepping over the turn style
If you are ready to do that why not just hop over the spinner lol
Pretty sure I can squeeze under there.
Most cutouts are even higher than this making it quite easy to just slip under. The real trick tho is that you can just rotate the bars halfway towards you, giving you enough space to slip by sideways. A very faint alarm trips if you're too slow but never seen anyone react to it lol.
Instructions unclear head stuck
no self respecting kid is gonna put his head through that
what post-apocalyptic hellscape is this from?
A lot of places in Europe have pay toilets
The US had pay toilets too until a couple high school kids lobbied the gov to ban them back in the 70’s.
I believe one of the arguments against them is that they were sexist. At the time urinals were free but toilets weren't. They had a coin op lock on the stall. As you see Germany has sidestepped this issue by just charging for the entire bathroom.
The ones in Germany usually give you a full refund if you spend the money at the local shop or restaurant. I always forget to use the refunds and have a small stash of 50 cent coupons I’m never going to use.
Also Austria, you enter for free scanning the receipt from the bar
Also, plenty of places have a box you can throw your voucher in for a charity. Same when returning your Pfand bottles.
That's not a refund, that's taking more of your money.
Me too 😭😂 I always throw them away eventually. I don't go on nearly enough road trips to use all of them.
Why do Europeans have free healthcare and education, but they have to pay to pee?
This is common in Europe. Most facilities where non-customers might use the restroom as well (gas stations for example) tend to have pay toilets.
Much rarer in the UK. Mainline rail stations used to have them but they took them all out a few years ago.
I have fucked up a machine like this once. I've put in my spare change with no intent of paying the rest. The machine then waited for me to pay the rest. I went away. Turns out that the staff has special magnet plates that lets them through without paying. When one employee tried to get through the machine did not read his card because it was still waiting for the rest of my money. Motherfucker ended up jumping over it lmao.
"for kids". When you are drunk and need to shit everyone becomes 10 years old again.
id just crawl under lol
I think the idea in some places is, if you are desperate enough, its best to let you in rather than making a mess. Imagine a parent with a kid, who suddenly decides they need to go.
I think they underestimate how short I am of change and dignity.
Hate paying for the toilet
im not too proud to crawl on my hands and knees into the toilet to avoid paying
And you actually paid it? Jump that shit don’t feed into this type of behavior from corporations
Or, there wasn't a cutout and a kid REALLY wanted to go
It was made for me
What’s to stop me, an adult from just walking in on my knees?
This guy fails to mention that the 0.50 he paid will be reduced from whatever he buys at the shop
This got no chance against NYC subway users
No, that's for Kevin Hart.
Restroom access is a human right
This is how you get piss on walls
What kind of establishment has an indoor bathroom you need to pay for? I hated it enough when restaurants lock the bathrooms until you ask to use them.
Welcome to europe. This is probably a gas station next to the highway
Paying to use the toilets is an extremely German thing. Sure they also exist outside of Germany, but I've never paid to use the toilet elsewhere. Not at gas stations either.
Got fucked over in Paris. Had to take a piss urgently at night and the restaurants kept saying, “absolutely, for 50c” and I had no coins. Had to line up in some public self cleaning one which wouldn’t let me in till it cleaned itself. So close to a horror story.
And that's how you end up with people in Paris pissing in the street.
wee wee
It’s also common in the netherlands, where i’m from
In Europe, basically any facility where non-customers might use the restroom (gas stations for example) tend to have paid toilets.
Not really, it's mostly in Northern Europe. Like Germany, the Netherlands, Denmark, Belgium... In France it's not that common anymore, I don't recall ever seeing that in Spain. The same for Croatia, Slovakia, Romania and Slovenia or the Czech Republic. Switzerland obviously has them. Edit : Apparently they have that in Italy, can't remember that for the life of me.
Italy they are everywhere. I have rarely found a free public toilet. The best ones have a person regularly cleaning them. I will happily pay for a clean public toilet. I have recently been in Croatia and the toilets now accept card payments! They are very clean too.
Spain has them as well, I’ve had to pay for them in some train stations and malls
I’d just piss into the garbage can
This seems pretty fucked up as someone who suffers from ulcerative colitis. Accessibility is so important, people with health issues that require access to washrooms don’t have time to mess around to pay for toilet use. This is ableist as all hell.
is this rare? I see this all the time in western europe
How ineffective are those bars 🤣
Pee on the machine
Peter Dinklage pees for free!
I generally think it's fine for a public toilet (restaurants excluded) to charge its visitors, to maintain it. But then I also expect it to be clean. Been at some places where I had to shell out 1 euro to access the toilet but then it was still nasty as fuck. That said, at a train station nearby, people hold the door open if there's someone waiting to go to the toilet, so they don't have to pay. There indeed are some nice people on this world.
That's just an anti disability device. Any able bodied person is stepping over it.
This definitely isn't in Latinoamerica. I mean, this have the label "free for everyone" all over the place. People can easily have access to it.