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December 11, 2006 12:03 AM
Broken: Toilet information location
Alex Protsenko writes in:
Loaded with nearly 20 kg of luggage, I descended several flights of stairs and followed the arrow to enter this toilet at London's Waterloo train station.
When I got to the restroom at bottom of the stairs, I discovered a sign informing me that there is a stairless toilet elsewhere.
It would make a lot more sense to put this sign above at the top of the stairs, along with directions to the "accessible toilet."
To add to the inconvenience of it all, there was a 20 pence charge to use the bathroom!
All the train stations toilets in UK charge 20p...I know because I live in the UK and regularly go past stations like King's Cross and Waterloo. I try not to use them unless I really had to!
Great shades of Caesar's ghost! A pay privy? Now that's truly broken! Whenever I encounter these here in the good ole U. S. of A., I just go outside and use nature's restroom. If you don't like me pissin' on your lawn or sidewalk, then don't try to charge me for something that I can do for free.
"I suppose whoever placed this sign was thinking of the people at the bottom who didn't want to go up."
Good thinking, but I don't think that's the case. The sign says "...for those having difficulty using the stairs." If you were at the bottom of the stairs when you got off your train, it wouldn't make sense to climb up stairs to use "accessable toliets" when the main ones are right there. This sign doesn't even have that going for it.
Absolutely broken in every way. At least you can read it, I guess... :D
"Whenever I encounter these here in the good ole U. S. of A., I just go outside and use nature's restroom."
You realize that they're not after your money. You're paying for the privilege of using a stall that isn't permanently occupied by a smelly man with a shopping cart and a can of Sterno.
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_@_v - ebay does the same thing - they foist on you some of the slowest-loading most bloated pages possible first then offer you a link to a stripped-down fast-loading text-olny version of the same page.
_@_v - and don't get me started on the concept of "printer friendly" pages. why didn't you make it "printer friendly" in the first place? and wouldn't you know "printer friendly" pages are starting to get just as bloated by the "unfriendly" page...
" _@_v - and don't get me started on the concept of "printer friendly" pages. why didn't you make it "printer friendly" in the first place? and wouldn't you know "printer friendly" pages are starting to get just as bloated by the "unfriendly" page..."
no one got you started... you just started to talk about something off topic all on your own...
but since you started;
personally, I like the printer friendly thing. I like being able to browse a web page with frames and cool graphics and all, at least for me it tends to make the page easier to use. To then give you an option of printing something off without having to worry about things not printing because they are off the margin, or having to switch modes, or any of the silly things you have to do when there isn't a printer friendly option is a great idea. I will personally say a mea culpa to you for the inconvenience of clicking on one key to make something print out nice and neat.
Sorry... having a bad day today and I vented here...
I was just wondering what the sign says at the top right of the stairs in the first picture... it looks like it might have that same "i" in the circle for information at the top left of the sign.
"no one got you started... you just started to talk about something off topic all on your own...
but since you started"
_@_v - well didn't i specifically ask you not to get me started on that topic?
_@_v - and it's not the 'bother' of having to click one measly key to get a page that hasn't been bloat-loaded with krep it's the three or four minutes it takes to fully load, dump and render to the screen and for the processor to be released from lock-down because it had to chew on some wonky style sheet or dodgy java script code.
OK.. if its taking your computer 3 to 4 minutes to put up the page, then I can see your issue, but I don't think I have ever had any printing page take that long.
Maybe the problem is with your computer? (seriously, I'm not trying to be dumb with that comment, I have never heard of a print friendly page really take more than maybe 10 to 20 seconds to load... usually done in like 3 - 5 seconds...)
Look at Sheremet'evo airport in Moscow. All their toilets are downstairs and elevators are always out of order...
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Charge for using a bathroom?! Insane.
I suppose whoever placed this sign was thinking of the people at the bottom who didn't want to go up. So still broken, but not so much.
Posted by: Serpent_Guard at December 11, 2006 01:32 AM