In 2006, Jennifer—the co-founder of popular parenting/consumer advocacy site Z Recommends—took her two-and-a-half-year-old to the bathroom at the local Toys R Us store. What she didn't know was that this particular store featured the awesome striking power of the Action Toilet Stall with...

   With the following installment in said adventures...    So today I finished getting all the tiles (metal and ceramic) off the walls.  Then it was on to cutting off some wall board, which is actually plaster/cement stuff.  I totally wore down the blade on my reci...

Filed under: Airlines, News We'd forgive you if you accused us of being pro/anti Ryanair (depending on what you read). In the past week we broke the news that the Ryanair CEO was considering introducing coin operated bathrooms on his flights. Then we reported on remarks of a Ryanair spokesperson who...

   So, I haven't posted because I've been putting off the work in the bathroom - and then doing the Cantab (yesterday) and then finally getting down to the dirty business (today).     I knew going in that this could get ugly.  I had an inkling based on the material...

The following reprinted from Uncle John's Giant 10th Anniversary Bathroom Reader. Got an idea but no paper to write it down? Don't worry, just do what these people did and grab whatever's in front of you and start scribbling: Written on: A cocktail napkin By: Rollin King and Herb Kelleher The Story:...

The Aquapeutics (now to be known as AquaPEWtics) luxury steam shower has everything a person could want, plus a whole bunch of other crap, and a $4,300 pricetag. This spaceship-worthy shower is loaded up with two handheld showers, a waterproof LCD TV, a radio, massage jets, a steam box, overhead lig...

We have heard references to websites devoted to ranking public rest rooms, but we’ve never taken the time to look.  Until now. Cintas - yep, the uniform people - has a service division, where they will clean and stock your facilities.  To promote those services, each year they look for Ameri...

you could start with a basic visual aid… or perhaps appeal to their sense of patriotism… …or go with a not-so-veiled threat. of course, you could just let your ass do the talking. but remember to cite your sources. (thanks to ryan in west palm beach, heather in delaware, julie in m...

Filed under: Airlines, Video OK, so the whole Ryanair paid bathroom thing was probably just a hoax by the Ryanair CEO, or another of his cheeky ways to create some free publicity for his low cost airline. But it turns out that we here at Gadling were not the first to make fun of the concept of a pai...

The Maryland Court of Appeals has overturned a previous ruling that would have required a website that was being charged with defamation due to comments from anonymous ‘users’ to turn over their identities immediately. All of this stems from a case where a Dunkin Donuts franchise receive...