Tagged With "Toilet"

And not the first time for a toilet as a museum exhibit. The Guggenheim in New York last year had a solid-gold working replica by Maurizio Cattelan, entitled America, that could be used by visitors. And, famously, in 1917, Marcel Duchamp challenged concepts of art and esthetics by exhibiting a 'readymade,' a standard urinal turned on its edge, signed as if by an artist, and labeled... Fountain.

I keep a toilet roll on my work bench. Perfect size for drying WD 40 off my machine parts and grease off my fingers. Everyone who spots it says it's disgusting. Maybe I should call it Bathroom Tissue !

Rob, I believe this is a catapult, not a toilet for the elderly. It's all in the speed of the lifting device.

Perhaps the most bizarre travel/service startup I've ever seen, Airpnp (will Airbnb's lawyers show up soon?) is advertising on its web site that you can rent a pee break or a freshen-up in private homes, offices, and more, for fees ranging from $1 to...

"Electric raised toilet seat for elderly"       Photo: Chris 73 / Wikimedia Commons. TOTO, known in Japan for its bidet equipped toilets,  will be opening a toilet museum in the company headquarters city of Kitakyushu. It will have...

DrFumblefinger shares images of the most unusual drinking fountain he's ever encountered during his travels, this in his home city of Calgary.

A clever plan to pay restaurants for public use of their toilets brings relief in a number of German cities, and now to Munich

New York's Guggenheim Museum has a solid-gold, functioning, available-to-the-public-for-the-obvious-purpose toilet, which doubles as a sculpture by Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan.

Paris is adding more public toilets, and making more of them 24/7 as use grows. Fines for public urination have also been increased.

AirBnB will never let them get away with it. Considering the service, they could have done better with a name, I think. I can come up with four or five rather quickly that I won't bother listing. And I'm not sure when you were last at a Starbucks, PHeymont, but I'm not sure if you can even get the tiniest cup of coffee there for $2 anymore -- most tabs run in the $5 range. But that includes a comfortable place to sit and hang-out and fast free wifi, too.

I'm still uncertain whether this is a send-up or not, but fear it isn't. The $2 figure was from jaunted.com. On the other hand, while I'm not a fan of Starbucks (cheap bitter beans), as of September 2014, the corporate standard price for a brewed coffee (small, they call it tall) was $1.75, and $1.95 for a medium (they call it grande). Tea starts at $1.95. Check all the details HERE Here's the sad part. When I was a kid and out and about and thirsty, I could stop at a neighborhood store and...

I'm sure for certain events it will be used ,like as they say for Mardi Gras. I guess the name they choose will give them publicity but we will see if they are allowed to keep it. I can back up the $2 range for a standard cup of coffee at I've went to quite a few on my last roadtrip. I like Starbucks because you can use their relatively fast wifi while traveling and warming up and they do have some good locations.

I haven't been to a Starbucks since moving back to Canada, where we have the excellent coffee/breakfast/lunch chain called "Tim Horton's". To my palate, better coffee than Starbuck's at half the price. I guess we'll need to have a Gumbo convention in the Great White North sometime.... http://www.timhortons.com/ca/en/index.php

Actually, we've had Tim Horton here in Brooklyn for several years. And now the company belongs to Burger King, which has moved itself to Canada for tax reasons...but yes, let's go north!

This is a tale of two "sitties." Japan is pushing to install thousands more of the high-tech toilets that have become the national standard in advance of the 2020 Olympics, while China is pledging to upgrade its public toilets, mostly squatters.

Vienna, a frequent winner of livability awards and home to a more extensive collection of public toilets than anywhere else, is starting a multi-year upgrade that will reduce the number of facilities but give users a decidedly modern and sometimes posh experience.