• £50,000 toilet to be built on island which is empty for 6 months a year
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[B]A public toilet is being built at a cost of £50,000 on a tiny isle that is uninhabited for six months of the year. [/B]The loo on Handa off Scotland's north west coast is being constructed in such a way that it can withstand gale-force winds and be eco-friendly. The Scottish Wildlife Trust (SWT), which manages the isle, said it was needed for about 6,000 birdwatchers who visit over spring and summer. The island now has a small bothy and toilet for volunteers and SWT staff However, the facilities cannot cope with the annual influx of birdwatchers. The foundations for the new toilet [B]need to be two metres (7ft) deep to stop it from blowing into the Atlantic[/B].[B] With no running water on the island, people who use it will sprinkle sawdust after a visit. It will be cleared out every two years. [/B]Highland Council and the Scottish government have contributed towards its cost. [URL]http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-17338746[/URL]
i dont understand
Cleared out every two years? NOPENOPENOPE You think for 50k they could pump in seawater.
[quote]It will be cleared out every two years.[/QUOTE] Oh god, I can't even imagine how it'll look like after that much time.. let alone the smell.
lmao this reminds me when i was visiting Breda's city hall for school. they built a public toilet there for 100.000 euros. (not in the city hall ofc but in a public park) so crazy just go take a pee in the shrubs
I imagine some pretty nasty shit being put in that toilet £50,000 though for one toilet? shit is dumb.
And people say America is wasteful
It better be gold plated and bird-friendly (birds need a place to shit too).
[QUOTE=NO ONE;35111141]It better be gold plated and bird-friendly (birds need a place to shit too).[/QUOTE] They're called statues.
All that money flushed down the toilet
[QUOTE=OrangeElimin;35111053]Cleared out every two years? NOPENOPENOPE You think for 50k they could pump in seawater.[/QUOTE] It will probably be filled with Lime, Ammonia, or whatever they can use, most likely a shitload of lime.
I guess I'll be there as first person for the opening, I'll make sure to eat cheesecakes, burrito, and heaps of spicy Chinese food.
Squat in the woods, use leaves for TP. Problem solved and they pocket £50k
They should just educate more people on how to take a shit outdoors in an eco-friendly way... £50k is pretty fucking excessive, I don't quite believe it.
I've heard owners of those sawdust toilets say there's no smell to it.
After a while you don't smell it, you just are so used to the smell that your brain doesn't bother registering it.
[QUOTE=Badunkadunk;35111619]After a while you don't smell it, you just are so used to the smell that your brain doesn't bother registering it.[/QUOTE]It's true only if you live in the toilet. Otherwise no.
How about instead of making a 50k shit ditch that you need to empty every 2 years you make a toilet that flushes listen flushes the shit [I]into the ocean[/I] I can assure you that the birds they're watching shit in the ocean [I]all the time.[/I] Maybe they can just leave make a hole for just the toilet paper, instead. Or use biodegradable toilet paper. If such a thing is different from just regular toilet paper. I wouldn't know, I'm not a toilet paper scientist.
Whoever proposed this plan must be the biggest dip shit in office.
It's made out of gold.
Expected some state of the art filtration system. Got sawdust.
That's a shitty way to spend cash.
As soon as I read the title, this popped up in my head: [video=youtube;zOLQ4fj9VZM]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zOLQ4fj9VZM[/video]
In the maritimes, if you lived near a cliff overlooking the ocean, chances are the outhouse hung over the edge a few feet.
50k for what they could do with a shovel and some wood?
It's being built by the Scottish Wildlife Trust, not the government, so it's not taxpayer's money
I can imagine that short pause before you hear your shit hit the bottom. I wonder if there's gonna be a toilet ceremony where the toilet president shits in the toilet and everyone takes photos.
Easy solution, charge one pound per visitor to the island, and then we don't pay a cent
id feel like royalty being the first one to shit in it after the once in 2 years cleanup
The thing is cause it isn't running it'll only cost £50,000. Sawdust is next to nothing, at a local reservoir their toilets use sawdust and you'd think they'd be able to have running toilets, what being right next to a reservoir.
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