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NearToilets – Airbnb of toilets, earn from toilets for rent

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Re: NearToilets – Airbnb of toilets, earn from toilets for rent

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Just walk into a restaurant an ask nicely?

I did this once in Paris and they told me to pay 2 euros.

I was genuinely shocked to follow signs to a WC in a Brussels train station and find a pay toilet. Stupid thing wouldn't take my CC so when nature calls... I stepped outside the station and was hit with a slap of piss stink. Makes sense! Added my own, what else am I to do?

I loved my time in Brussels but it really was gross how often I'd randomly smell piss.

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Trying it here and it is showing toilets inside of the public school that you can’t just stroll into. I’m not sure how the data is gathered, but that’s just wrong. Those are not public use at all. I gave it my exact location and hit emergency and it put me pretty far from my actual gps. Was this just a vibe coded project? Sure seems like it. There’s existing apps like this though: https://www.loofind.com/ https://www…

School or college? Many colleges around me in NJ don't ask for ID - I used to often go work in the library, use cafe, etc.

Re: NearToilets – Airbnb of toilets, earn from toilets for rent

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What was once satire is now reality: https://theonion.com/new-e-toilet-to-revolutionize-online-sh...

I remember lolling when the razor companies ACTUALLY went to five blades

https://theonion.com/fuck-everything-were-doing-five-blades-...

Re: NearToilets – Airbnb of toilets, earn from toilets for rent

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not all places and towns are so friendly. Many places love money so much that they'll say it's only for paying customers, not any customers.

maybe one of those unpaying customers shat up the walls. you think im being facetious but its surprisingly common in the first world

Never seen that in a men's bathroom, but apparently women's can be vile.

Re: NearToilets – Airbnb of toilets, earn from toilets for rent

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What was once satire is now reality: https://theonion.com/new-e-toilet-to-revolutionize-online-sh...

iToilet, an app which directs you to the nearest decent toilet any where in the world, was also how Costanza made his millions(before losing it to madoff) in the seinfeld reboot that happened within the Curb Your Enthusiasm universe

Re: NearToilets – Airbnb of toilets, earn from toilets for rent

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In France I heard they had toilets that you had to pay to keep the door from opening. A real “captive audience” and “impulse buy” if I do say so. In general, owning a gas station on a highway is far more profitable than owning it on a street.

No, it’s just that you pay for the system, and the lock engages after you’ve paid. It’s not supposed to be used for free, but you can if you hold the door yourself, although I believe the electric system doesn’t turn on (including lighting).

If you shit fast enough and in the dark, you get to shit for free. Speedrunning shit. Losers get to have someone see them poop.

Randomly recalls to me a core memory: adolescent me at my buddy's house. Fat nerd, anxious about everything. My buddy's older brother was playing warcraft 3 with us and I thought he was such a cool guy, he wore jean jackets always covered in paint. We finished a match and both said at the same time, "I gotta take a shit!" He said, "race you!" and ran to the closest bathroom, and I was relieved because the lock was broken on that one and I was super anxious to poop when someone might walk in, so I was happy to use the upstairs bathroom instead. I warned him that the lock was broken. "So what?" he said. "Well, what if someone walks in on you while your pooping?" I asked. He replied, "I'll say, 'Get out of here, I'm pooping!'"

I learned to actually think about my worries. My anxiety was ill defined - someone might walk in on me pooping! But in reality, that's just the whole ordeal, someone walks in and then leaves, you won't explode and die about it.

Re: NearToilets – Airbnb of toilets, earn from toilets for rent

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not all places and towns are so friendly. Many places love money so much that they'll say it's only for paying customers, not any customers.

maybe one of those unpaying customers shat up the walls. you think im being facetious but its surprisingly common in the first world

I thought you were being fecetious

Re: NearToilets – Airbnb of toilets, earn from toilets for rent

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I'm confused. The title does not describe the site at all. The site is a database of public toilets, with leaderboards for people who help update the information. I can't find anything on it about earning money from toilets or being an "AirBNB of toilets".

Perhaps it would be scheme like those Toilet service champions in Gentleman clubs in US. Guys handing napkins and mints to hassled bathroom visitors for couple of dollars.

Re: NearToilets – Airbnb of toilets, earn from toilets for rent

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Just walk into a restaurant an ask nicely?

I did this once in Paris and they told me to pay 2 euros.

British slang for going to the toilet is (or used to be) to "spend a penny" since some public bathrooms required you to put a large pre-decimal penny to open the stall door lock.
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