So....went to Birmingham yesterday to visit the VFS. Birmingham New Street station - 30 pence to use the toilet facilities.

It's illegal to urinate in the street (and rightly so) but it's not illegal to not have any cash on you. What then???

Unbelievable!

When in Rome do as the Roman's do! ha! ha!

I had to go twice - 60 pence. I waited with crossed legs for the train for the third time !

Always nervous of train toilets in case I get the locking system wrong!. Have been on a train when someone pressed the emergency button by mistake.
Birm. station is gradually being renovated perhaps they will get cash machines as in London stations. The worst thing at Birm. is having to run up the stairs at speed when a platform is changed at last minute (no time to use the lift). Not all the platforms have escalators .

Cash machines?....they do have them in Birmingham. It's not the not having cash because you've not been to a machine, perhaps some people don't have 30 pence to spare!

It's your human right to be able to go to the toilet. It's not something you have a choice about. How dare they charge!!!

No sorry I meant 'change machines'. There is a McDonalds just outside Birm. station
always useful for free toilets.
I am in Norfolk at the moment Norwich rail station 'ladies' is free but it is usually 'filthy' and sometimes flooded and unusable.

It's just taking the piss, innit?


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Literally!!

AND......the toilet is situated right out side the bar lounge, and guess what?.....the bar has no toilet facilities, you have to use the 30 pence one!!! Bloody expensive.

We went to London yesterday to renew our Passports,the same thing everywhere there also.Between me and the wife we must have spent £2 just using the bloody things.

John

Well leave out having pints!

Grumpy old men!

Do you think Prince Phillip is a grumpy old man?
Are you offended by his "bloomers" ?
Loved the interview with him last night felt very sorry for Fiona Bruce the interviewer (think that was her name)

Outrageous !
That said - it costs the first time Goa tweekers £1 to go when the women who hover round the toilets ask for money for you using the loo !!!!

Dread - x

I am scottish and I was not offended about him asking the driving instructor how he kept us all sober enough to teach. His 'bloomers' may not be very PC but I don't think they should really be taken seriously. This is the man that said, about his daughter, if it doesn't fart and eat hay she's not interested'!

I didn't watch last night but I watched the one with Alan Titchmarsh interviewing, it was awful. He just shot Alan down with laughter and 'what a stupid question'.

He is definitely not PC, but hay! - life is too short not to laugh at him.

Why should it be free to use a toilet? If it is a public toilet there might just might be a case however when the afore mentioned facility is part of a commercial business why should it be free? Someone has to pay for the cleaning, for the paper, not to mention the water rates and electricity! Would you consider putting a notice outside your home on the lines of ''Caught Short? Feel free to use my toilet, just ring the bell; no charge". Why should anyone expect something for nothing?