Wts '04

[lizard]

And this, kids, is why I LOVES da Interweb

A Preview on World Toilet Summit 2004

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Somehow, this managed to slip under the radar. I have no idea how…. Clearly, my crack reporting staff has been asleep at the switch. Oh, wait…I don’t have a reporting staff. Oops….

Summit Highlights:

• A Global Perspective - Relationship between Toilets & Quality of Human Life
  
• World Class Tourism & Toilets
  
• Entrepreneurship: Social & Economic Returns on Investments
  
• Maintenance - Good Toilets Improve Heartland Community Living
  
• Design - The Challenges and Considerations in Establishing the Code of Practice for Toilets.
  
• Catering to the diversity of Culture - toilets for different cultures
  
• Water Conservation: The Cost Effective Use of a Valuable Resource, Water
  
• Toilet - The Past, Present and Future of Public Toilets in Beijing
  
• Many more….
  

Wide ranging toilet-related topics covered by the Experts!

Benefit from an interesting mix of plenary sessions covering in-depth situational studies and invaluable experiences from not less than 25 international and local speakers on Tourism, Design, Maintenance, Water Conservation, and Challenges and Considerations of the Toilet Code of Practice!

Network, exchange and share ideas, knowledge and skills with industry experts and your peers from around the world

Celebrate World Toilet Day on 19 November 2004!

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Yeah, well, I missed the Big Day. Just imagine the excitement! Think of all the “Flush twice, it’s a long ways to the kitchen!!” jokes that we missed out on.

Hey, if we can started planning for Christmas the day after Halloween, can’t we get an early “heads-up” on World Toilet Day?? Is that too much to ask for??

Posted by northstar at 06:20 AM | Now why didn't I think of that??

 

[avi]

scarily enough, this is not the first time I've heard about the WTS

 

[lizard]

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

From the Anchorage Daily News:

Principal Steve Unfreid, who said he was inspired in his choice of disciplinary tactics by the actions of Jesus, asked teacher Joe Brost to whip him in front of two male students in the school's basement last month after the boys were caught kissing girls in the locker room for the second time in a week.

Unfreid, in an interview Friday at his home, acknowledged he should have called the boys' parents first but expressed no regret for his behavior.

The school's board of directors unanimously decided in a closed door session Sunday to fire Unfreid.

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Unfreid violated school policy by not notifying parents before going ahead with discipline, particularly with "anything that unusual," school board president and acting administrator Scott Richardson said Friday.

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When the two seniors, 17 and 18, got caught kissing girls in front of younger students in late October, Unfreid said that while contemplating what discipline to hand out, he woke at 3 a.m. and prayed how to avoid expelling them. He said that was when he remembered years ago he had cured his son of chronic lying by telling his son to hit him with a wooden ladle instead of spanking the youngster.

Later at school, Unfreid walked the boys down to a basement room with Brost. He told them, " 'Guys, this has gotta stop,' " he said. " 'I've let the atmosphere get too lax. I share in this discipline. This is a one-time deal.' "

Then the principal took off his belt, gave it to Brost, and instructed the teacher to "discipline me like you would discipline your own son," he recalled.

He told the teacher to stop only when the students acknowledged their mistake. The whole thing, starting with the trip downstairs, lasted 5 to 10 minutes, he said.

 

[xfer]

god forbid an 18-year-old should kiss a girl!

 

[lizard]

and god forbid a manly principal should enjoy a rigorous strapping in front of teenage boys
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would have been even kinkier tho if he had dropped trou, no mention of that.

 

[lizard]

Alex, did you see the basketball riot (there's really no other word for it) on the news?

 

[xfer]

multiple, multiple times. there's going to be assault charges and prison time, right?

 

[lizard]

they've already suspended artest for the rest of the year (he loses like 4 mil) but you've gotta figure there'll be lawsuits and criminal charges.

 

[mindspell]

I hope so. Artest has been out of control since he came into the league, somebody has to sit his ass down.

He asked for a month off a few weeks ago to promote his hip-hop record... he earns 4-5 millions a year putting a ball in a net and asks for a month off to promote a hobby... fuck that...

 

[lizard]

man, if Wonkette.com ever goes offline, the world will be a slightly sadder place.

Will the Last World Leader Out Please Shut the Barn Door?

In the next shot, Bush asked Koziumi to "pull my finger."
No wonder Cheney's in charge.

[AP Photo/Ricardo Mazalan via Atrios]