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TXlib Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-25-04 10:16 AM
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Check out the Loo with a View!
A new way to view London: from a toilet
Usable bathroom exhibit boasts one-way mirrored walls


Jennifer Carlile / MSNBC.com

An art exhibit of a usable toilet enclosed in a cube of one-way glass is seen across the road from London's Tate Britain Museum. The person inside the outhouse can see passersby while remaining invisible to them.



By Jennifer Carlile
Reporter
MSNBC
Updated: 9:10 a.m. ET Feb. 23, 2004

LONDON - Visitors to Britain will find a new stop on London’s site-seeing route this spring: a usable public toilet enclosed in one-way mirrored glass situated on a sidewalk near the River Thames. The contemporary art exhibit, which allows the user to see out while passers-by cannot peep in, toys with the concepts of privacy and voyeurism.

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GOPisEvil Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-25-04 10:38 AM
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1. Ha! I love it!
:D
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bif Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-25-04 10:44 AM
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2. The "See & Pee"?
n/t
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Bronco69 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-25-04 10:50 AM
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I wish we had
those here. :-) Now I gotta go!
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nini Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-25-04 10:50 AM
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3. Good Lord.... it would take me forever to be able to pee
Edited on Wed Feb-25-04 10:51 AM by nini
LOL

I don't think I could get beyond feeling someone seeing me.

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Nihil Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-25-04 11:02 AM
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4. Hmmm ... specialised clientele?
It's ideal for exhibitionists ... can stand there bollock-naked,
playing with themselves in the fantasy of "you can see me" but
without actually offending anyone!
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