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Re: Yet another reason that Australia is the coolest country EVER
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Mon, 3 Dec 2001 03:32:29 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.fun, Ross Crawford writes:
> In lugnet.off-topic.fun, Lindsay Frederick Braun writes:
> >
> > This has to be one of the most interesting internet services
> > I've ever seen:
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> > http://www.toiletmap.gov.au/
> >
> > I'd pay taxes for one of these in the UK, thasfersure.
> > (Fortunately a public privy isn't any farther than your
> > local Golden Arches or other chain store 'round here.)
> > But I do have to wonder how useful it is to have this on
> > the internet, which most people presumably use from home
> > or from work, and where I would expect they have their
> > own (easily-located) toilet?
>
> Tis supposed to be part of the "National Continence Management Strategy"
> http://www.health.gov.au/mediarel/yr1999/bb/bb99046.htm put together by our
> (locally) infamous minister Bronwyn Bishop (who enjoys sitting in the garden
> http://www.greenweb.com.au/garden/html/ministerial_statement.html). Didn't
> influence my vote - I don't suffer incontinence, and didn't know about it at
> election time, and didn';t vote for the Libs anyway! Maybe they sent out
> pamphlets to all incontinent people before the election????
>
> And it seems it's more important to non-Australians:
> http://www.guardian.co.uk/elsewhere/journalist/story/0,7792,557202,00.html
The author of that piece has obviously NEVER been to the
Continent, or even in the English countryside:
"Australia's long distances and empty roads have traditionally
fostered a relaxed habit of taking a leak at the side of the
road, a practice than would be impractical or frowned upon in
the congested countryside of Europe."
I can't even TELL you how many times I saw people urinating
by the side of freeways or busy country roads--not even in
the shrubbery, but RIGHT THERE ON THE SHOULDER. I was totally
gobsmacked--in the USA, you do that only with the *greatest*
of contrition and embarassment, even way out in the sticks.
My favorite was people doing their business right on the
drain sluice on the Breestraat--the central street in the
city center--in Leiden (on a Friday night). Very classy.
You'd think they could at least get to a canal, like every-
one else...
best
LFB
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