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happy world toilet day!
no really, it’s world toilet day! don’t tell me you forgot!!!! geez!
from the website:
19 November is World Toilet Day – a day to celebrate the humble, yet vitally important, toilet and to raise awareness of the global sanitation crisis.
Imagine life without a toilet. No toilets in your home or at work, no public toilets, no toilets anywhere. Imagine the mess. Imagine the disease.
WaterAid is working hard to change this, using simple and low cost solutions, and there are many easy and fun ways you can get involved.
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normally, i do not like talking about anything that has to do with bathrooms, cos gross, but this is a really important issue! like, did you know that 2.5 billion people do not have somewhere safe, private or hygienic to go to the toilet? in all seriousness, this is totally my worst nightmare, which is why i don’t go to ACL anymore. or that one gram of faeces can contain 10 million viruses, one million bacteria, 1,000 parasite cysts and 100 parasite eggs?
OK OMGGG NO MORE STATISTICS! speaking of nightmares!!!! for the love of sweet fancy moses, i believe you, world toilet day! enough with yr poo references!
well, ok, maybe a few more. cos you guys, there are some AWESOME GAMES ON THIS WEBSITE!!!!
POOPLA!!!!! i can’t say that without shaking my fist in the air. POOPLAAAA!!!!
POOPLA PANTS!!!!
anway, in celebration of world toilet day, i want to give a big shout out to my toilet at home. i love you toilet! thank you for working and being clean (well, with my help) and being in a private room and being comfortable and letting me sit on you every single day. i really appreciate yr existence so that i don’t have to use something like this:
(cue “psycho” creepy stabbing soundtrack EEEEEEE)
and, in all seriousness, thank you to wateraid for making me actually appreciate the indoor plumbing i mindlessly use every day. someday, i hope that toilets will be accessible to all people… and maybe even elephants!
now, who wants to play turdlywinks?!
p.s. special thanks to mark p. for notifying me about this v. important holiday.
LINKS
another installment in “different animals being friends”: a dachshund raising a little baby pig named PINK!!!! SWEET CRACKER SANDWICH i can barely handle the squee in these pictures!! thanks for posting about this preciousness, jennie!
oh what, you want more? well, what about a bunny eating cookies?!!! NOM to the SQUEE!! matt s., i love you for sending me this picture.
you MUST watch this video from the “wallace & gromit” creators, in which animals are inteviewed about their lives, including “self-image” and “feeding time.” totally charming and hilarious!!!
x-men + gossip girl = oh yes yes please.
josh and erica’s photographer posted some gorgeous pictures from the wedding, with a major shout out to EL OCHO!! and i am extremely proud of the fact that their wedding album will actually feature photos of apple roulette. josh and erica, you can thank me later.
whoah, there are furbys in real life?!! and they don’t eat up batteries?! WANT!!!!
remember that lady who has the perfect memory? (is there a joke in there somewhere?) anyway, well, she was on oprah!
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Now I feel like watching the Australian film “Kenny” in honor of World Toilet Day! (For those who may not know, it’s a really quotable, funny film about a guy who cleans port-a-potties for a living.)
There was a thing on NPR last week about how important toilets are, but how rarely people who go volunteer in third world countries – particularly famous people volunteering for photo opps – decide to spend time on pooping. They prefer to get their pictures taken next to the nice clean water spout they installed, apparently.
And while obviously water is important, I thought it was interesting to think about the fact that people don’t naturally think about the importance of where we put stuff when we’re done with it because we’re always focused on how to get the stuff we want and need in the first place.
I wish that Creature Comforts Aardman animation clip had featured some gorillas throwing their poo in it. That would’ve fit this post much better, and I’m kinda surprised that I haven’t seen that in one of those pieces yet.
Hey! I love world toilets! Except the “Ladies” one upstairs because it’s either broken, or the ladies on that floor don’t want other people to use it. So I have to go down 2 flights of stairs and then back up.
Anyway, this is the best one I took a picture of in Africa:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/91756673@N00/53217448/
Although it’s definitely not the grossest one I used. But I’ll spare you. Yay! Toilet talk! I didn’t think people did that in America, but it’s something you do abroad. A lot.
Did you ever go to Mexico with the church??? Well, if you did, you’ll certainly remember the hole in the ground with a “shack” that you could see through…I held it and held it and held it and held it until I could not hold it anymore…yuck.
Although, the grossest “toilet” I used was while I was at boot camp. We had to dig a hole in the ground, pretty deep, and balance above it. That was it. Then, we had to place fresh dirt over our business. I guess it was good that a tent tarp was placed over the hole for privacy. Ahhh, the memories of survival training. All I can say is that guys really do have it easier in the woods!!!
Soooo, YAY FOR TOILETS!!!!!
olivia and jen, you girls are totally my heroes. seriously, there should be toilet day medals, and then i would award them to you.
but yeah, it is an important issue, and if i was scarjo or angelina, i would totally work on installing toilets in third world countries. mostly cos then i could use them!
Thanks for bringing attention to this important issue, Posh! I am 100% pro-toilet. And almost as importantly, I am 100% pro-OMG SQUEE LITTLE BABY PIGGY BEING RAISED BY A DACHSHUND!!!
I second the need to check out Kenny. It just came out on DVD in the US a couple of months ago so you should be able to rent it. It’s in my list of top ten australian films.
you are so weird.
Henri blew my mind by me thinking about where exactly people like Angelina Jolie go when they’re on their goodwill missions. They can’t POSSIBLY just “twosie” in the woods, can they?
Angelina has her poo extracted from her body and injected back into her face.
My thing is the no-toilet-squatting-thing so popular in many Eastern countries. I mean, your thighs get a great workout but . . . . eep.
I don’t know, there was a clip where Cameron Diaz got really giggly about peeing outside in Central America or something. But probably they have a whole toilet staff…
Also those squat toilets are CRAP (ha no pun intended etc.) for when you’re drunk and they’re slippery. Ew.