If 2.5 billion people don’t have toilets, it isn’t surprising that dancing is a favorite pastime. Dancing from one foot to the other (degage, it is called) was popular eons before the introduction of the Texas Two-Step. Can you imagine 2.5 billion people dancing? It’s either dancing, or following each other around picking up poop with hand-held plastic bags or pooper scoopers. Personally, I’d rather shimmy.
World Toilet Day, November 19th 2008 (World Toilet Organization)
Don’t laugh, a successful ‘big job’ is a big deal (The Straights Times)
May I also request you demand for clean toilets because that is another reason you could be holding back your urge and that is so unfair to your colon.
Quotation from Jack Sim, Founder, Restroom Association of Singapore
The authentic! I said
rising from the toilet seat.
The radiator in rhythmic knockings
spoke of the rising steam.
The authentic, I said
breaking the handle of my hairbrush as I
brushed my hair in
rhythmic strokes: That’s it,
that’s joy, it’s always
a recognition, the known
appearing fully itself, and
more itself than one knew.
Poem by Denise Levertov, Matins
as someone who’s just been hovering over a toilet in the same posItion (migraines always make me vomit), I can truly empathise with your alter ego today Sera
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I read somewhere that they want to stop making flushing toilets and switch to ones that separate the sewage into liquid and solid. The liquid would be used to water the garden, and the solid to fertilise the strawberries.
I think the drought has gone too far when they start talking like that.
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Did you get this idea from Cheri who recently had to clean latrines with her daughter’s Girl Scout troop? Both posts made me laugh out loud! xo!
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Did SF get around to voting in the proposal to rename its sewage treatment after GW Bush? The celebratory mass flush was planned to happen on Jan 20th.
“In President Bush’s case, we think that we will be cleaning up a substantial mess for the next 10 or 20 years. The sewage treatment facility’s job is to clean up a mess, so we think it’s a fitting tribute,”
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From my blog, summer 2002:
Yesterday, in the restroom at the mall, I noticed a sign on the paper towel dispenser that had the usual spiel about how, if the surroundings aren’t sanitary enough, let someone know, because they want to do their best for us, blah blah blah, and on the sign was a photograph of a smiling woman in a restroom attendant’s uniform, and the smiling woman was none other than Sarah Ferguson. I’m thinking, what, Weight Watcher’s doesn’t pay this poor woman enough and now she’s having to clean up our pee to make ends meet?
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Toilets are so important! And to think that so many live without them…
Great one!
If I had to choose between picking up poo and shimmying, it would be a hard call. But I think I’d go for the shimmy.
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Well, I’ve lived a few places on the ‘no-toilet’ list. The best was the hole in the ground in Sudan, with 3 flimsy walls around it… and spiders down there that were the size of a small hand. Let me tell you, I didn’t take a magazine with me to that throne.
Happy T Day
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Ok, I have my own toilet story, only in Tanzania, they’re called “choo.” We actually dug one for an orphanage when we were there. And when we were in Nyamuswa, our choo was a hole in the ground. I never did have to “clean” it, though.
Choo cha kuogeo kiko wapi?
That’s “Where’s the restroom in Kiswahili.” =)
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I have heard of this “world toilet day” and it makes a lot of sense. Access to basic sanitations should be a human right.. unfortunately, a lot of us take it for granted.
Silly thing, but when I first came to Canada, I was surprise to notice that many houses have two or plus toilets. I mean, how many do you need????
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Having a day in the year for something (thanksgiving, Valentine’s, mother’s, father’s, gingers, toilets, etc.) reminds also of having “an employee of the month” or an “employee of the year”. All these special days and persons’ days are stemming from the USA or, in this case, Canada. Is it something Anglo-saxon? I would be curious why “days” are assigned to things or people (or animals – October 4th). Anyway, it gives rise to entertaining talks and encouragements. The Roman Catholics have their Saints who also stand for specific values and virtues.
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