Fortified toilets

[isomeme]

Lately I've noticed that a lot of formerly quasi-public spaces are being secured against intruders.  My own office building recently reduced the hours during which you can enter the lobby without a key card.  The building across the alley from us has locked the corridor which used to provide easy access to the Promenade.  And it's effectively

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[baal_kriah]

I can just hear, as the availability of restrooms in public spaces gets rarer and rarer, more and more complaints about and calls for police action against urinating and defecating on the street.

[omegabaphomet]

You can't be too safe. We wouldn't want anyone stepping outside a control corridor ...

[elseware]

New Internationalist magazine ran an issue on toilets, noting that they are vital to both health and dignity. Especially in places like India where the rules of behavior are significantly different for women.

As, I think it was Michael Marshall Smith, wrote some years ago, camera tech will get so cheap and small it'll be everywhere. There are only really the options to allow everyone to have it or just the government and criminals, you'll not be able to ban it.

Society will inevitably change. As mobile phones have changed are expectations of manners, it's now possible to make and change plans for more easily than 15 years ago.

I think the public restroom (Loos to us) thing is far more regulated in the UK. I noticed the comparative lack of them when I moved to the city, as I grew up at the seaside, and tourists on walks and the beach really need them so they were very common.

http://www.findatoilet.mobi/toilet.php5?id=884 for example...

[chimpstop]

All those other theories are nice faere tales of what's going on, but in reallity this is THE CONSPIRACIES last and final attempt to prevent you from being able to Excremeditate properly and attain true enLITEnment at will.

Excremeditation Adepts have been aware of this for quite some time, and have learned to focus their bowels for specific "holey" times of the day, defeating the CON's desperate efforts to disrupt the rapture of this most holy and primal release.

But, dear seeker, what if you cross paths with the One True Chimichanga Burrito robed in Sour Creme and Real Quacamole, the Burrito that chooses it's own time of departure from your mortal coil? It has been known that the Power of the One True Burrito can blast the lock off any Business Restroom Door at a range of 300 meters. This may be linked to, or a cousin, of the despised LAShTAL formula...