And the best part is that once you become an accredited Toilet Ambassador, every restroom in the world is now your embassy under international law and you can use them to claim diplomatic immunity.
I’m so glad I went.
Those three portraits on the front page? I had to look very carefully before I realized that they’re carefully-cropped photos of people on the loo. Class.
I must say that I like the headline MY WAR WITH CONTINENCE on the Health Issues page. I mean, I could never really get behind the WAR ON DRUGS, but I think that MY WAR WITH CONTINENCE is something that I’d be willing to push for.
THE MOVING HISTORY OF THE W.C. is actually a bit too clever to be intentional, isn’t it?
I’m pretty sure that the author of The Toilet As A Social Space is taking the piss, though:
I can kind of see how economic development is expressed in that microcosm. I mean, this bit clearly represents Enterprise, right?
Sometimes public toilets can be cool. Check this one out http://flatrock.org.nz/topics/photographs/hundertwassers_ultimate_stand.htm http://www.fndc.govt.nz/Toilets/ihunderwasser.asp
Damn groovy. I am biased though, my brother and cousin were the tilers. There instructions from Hunderwasser were “no straight lines of tiles, have fun”. There is a sperm whale on the wall in the mens because they drank far too much while they were up there. Hunderwasser loved it.
He died not long afterwards but he made the worlds coolest loo stop place! It’s a bloody hard place to have a pee though, last time I was there German men were busy taking photos in the ladies.
Isn’t that the slogan on their bumper stickers?