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mhh5th was kind enough to send along a link to a toilet paper related story, but I’m so annoyed by it I an hardly bring myself to write. Let’s see here…

1) There are people out there who call themselves memeticists.

2) Apparently some people are stupid enough to believe that humans only spread memes which are useful or interesting.

3) This was all in a talk at TED, which is inherently annoying in and of itself.

4) Magnus Lindkvist (read the first comment).

Anyways, somewhere in there is something about how maids in hotels fold the toilet paper.

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By all accounts (none of which I can be bothered to dig up and link to here), Microsoft’s Vista operating system is a big pile of crap. Now that we’ve got the obligatory pun out of the way, check this out - toilet paper with the features of Vista’s first service pack (SP1) printed right on it! Yes, you would be correct in assuming that the exclamation point there is a little bit forced. Seems like nothing more than to put more dyes into Japanese sewer systems…

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Here at the ICBE we usually consider bathroom stall doors to be a good thing. After a recent incident however, it appears as if Darren Fletcher, a player for Manchester United, might not be in agreement. Seems he was just minding his own business when a stall door fell on his head, bloodying him up and knocking him unconscious.

Unconscious? According to his wikipedia page, Fletcher stands just over 6 feet tall. Most bathroom stall doors don’t even reach that high, so what I want to know is, if he wasn’t actually taking a poop at the time (and it doesn’t sound like he was), is how did this door even hit his head, much less with the required velocity to knock him out?

I call shenanigans…

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PS: While doing a Google image search for Fletcher, I came across this goal diagram at the BBC of Fletcher scoring a goal in during Euro 2004 that was simply too awesome not to post…

Remember that scene in Lethal Weapon? No, not that one - the one where Danny Glover’s character is stuck on the toilet for a few days because there’s a bomb rigged to go off as soon as he gets up. Anyways, if you think he spent a long time on the can, can you imagine how a woman felt after sitting on the toilet for two straight years?

Details are pretty limited on the story, but it appears as if the woman’s skin had actually grown around the seat, which needed to be removed and transported with her to the hospital.

Ugh.

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Got an old Mac lying around? You know, one of those classic, all-in-one designs? Do what this guy did, and turn it into the geekiest (and quite possibly largest) toilet paper dispenser possible!

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I’ve seen a lot of disturbing urinals in my day (that’s a lie, there aren’t many disturbing urinals out there), but this is one of the worst. It’s a clown urinal that aside from being very scary looking, actually seems to move up and down while you pee! Look you urinal manufacturers, you’re supposed to make it easier for us guys to aim, not harder!

Anyways, as is so often the case, there’s very little information to accompany the video, but I’m guessing this one’s going down in Japan.

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First of all, we want to sincerely thank everybody out there who takes urinal and bathroom etiquette seriously. Sure, it may not be as important as world peace, but it’s a step in the right direction.

That said, try to keep in under control, okay? Sure, not everybody is going to be as well versed in the finer details of urinal usage as you are, but that doesn’t mean you have to punch them!

On the incident:

Speaking in his defence, counsel Liz Bulger said: “This incident arose from what I understand to be urinal etiquette.

“When the victim spoke to the defendant he was effectively smirking. The defendant was outraged.”

Yikes! Thanks to MikeM on this one.

Depending on where you live, you may or may not be used to the custom of certain walls in your city being unofficially designated as piss-walls. One enterprising artist in San Francisco decided to brighten up one of these piss-walls with the addition of some painted on urinals…

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There’s some discussion about the purpose of this toilet spotted in London (and some discussion about the typeface used in the signage too), but you can’t deny that it’s a handsome unit.

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Ever wonder why sometimes, right after you pee, you shiver? I always figured it was just an issue of my privates getting a little cold. Recently though, a complete lack of research has revealed the following:

Inadequate government funding toward piss-related mysteries has lead to several “educated guesses” as to why the shaking occurs. Some have offered a highly technical and uninteresting explanation involving changes in the nervous system when the bladder is relaxed.

In other words, nobody has any idea.

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