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  • FishFace@piefed.socialtoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world•Perks
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    3 days ago

    Generally paid public toilets are not charging enough to make money; it’s a fee to discourage people from using it as a private space to be antisocial by vandalising it for fun.

    It is not 100% effective and has downsides, but it’s not a capitalist money making scheme, usually.


  • First one no idea, only a couple of vowels are not English-sounding.

    Second, blocked in the UK

    Third, Slavic - there’s a characteristic touch of palatalisation/raising of her pronunciation of the “a” vowel. I would never have guessed she had the same native language as the first person though - I don’t hear that in his speech.

    From my own knowledge, someone with an extremely good English accent (like #1) whose native language is Slavic is most likely to be Polish, due to the number of polish people who settled in the UK, and many of them will have brought young children with them who therefore have near-native accents.