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World Toilet Day

Wed, 19 Nov 2008

Yup, that's right its World Toilet Day! Whilst us Brits have always had a tongue-in-cheek snigger about toilet humour, typified by Adam Hart's wonderful Thunder, Flush and Thomas Crapper and, appropriately on WTD, a piece (or piss?!) by BBC News item (from TearFund) titled Britons' toilet pastimes revealed, there is a slightly more serious side that WaterAid/TearFund are trying to get across. Namely that 2.5B people worldwide don't have proper sanitation. And of course:

"One gram of faeces can contain 10 million viruses, one million bacteria, 1,000 parasite cysts and 100 parasite eggs."

At the very least have a go at playing TurdlyWinks. Go on, you know it makes sense!!

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Ken Field wrote at 2008-11-21 18:17:

Shame on you....I'd have thought you might have at least mentioned that Toilet Day shares it's date with GIS Day!!!


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