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To: AugustWest who wrote (359)	9/25/2002 10:14:44 AM
From: SIer formerly known as Joe B.	Respond to of 430

Worker unravels toilet roll rip-off Wed Sep 25, 8:42 AM ET story.news.yahoo.com LONDON (Reuters) - Counting toilet roll sheets has proved a success for a vigilant worker who won his employer thousands of pounds in compensation after he discovered that some rolls were not as long as they should be. West Somerset District Council said on Wednesday it went to court after its employee Ian Jewell counted several rolls and found they had only 200 sheets, not the 320 stated in the contract with its supplier. Jewell became suspicious after staff of the western England council said they felt they ran out of toilet roll too quickly. "We immediately discovered the errors and realised there was a large cost implication to the council which needed to be recovered," Jewell said. The council, which uses an estimated 40,000 toilet rolls a year, won 18,000 pounds in compensation and said it was now considering to give Jewell time off for his detective work. The supplier, Allscan, declined to comment.

To: AugustWest who wrote (359)	10/4/2002 10:00:13 PM
From: SIer formerly known as Joe B.	Respond to of 430

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To: AugustWest who wrote (359)	10/25/2002 11:18:06 PM
From: SIer formerly known as Joe B.	Respond to of 430

Your Chance to Spend More Time in Public Toilets Fri Oct 25,12:58 PM ET story.news.yahoo.com BERLIN (Reuters) - A German psychologist is touting a cure for paruresis, fear among men of using urinals, and seeking volunteers to spend time in public toilets. Philipp Hammelstein, a researcher at the Heinrich Heine University in Duesseldorf, believed, however, it was not necessarily linked to the size of the sufferer's genitals. "All healthy men should be capable of using a urinal," Hammelstein told Reuters on Friday. Though findings show six percent of men have an irrational fear of urinating next to others. Hammelstein said he had already cured several patients and was seeking 60 volunteers for clinical trials to test his cure. The therapy lasts three months and encourages patients to drink a lot, as well as spend more time in public toilets. He said men usually develop symptoms during puberty. "It arises through humiliating experiences to do with masculinity," he said.

To: AugustWest who wrote (359)	11/14/2002 1:19:37 PM
From: SIer formerly known as Joe B.	Respond to of 430

Customer fails to see the toilet humour story.news.yahoo.com STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - A customer in an international hamburger chain outlet in western Sweden lost his appetite when he discovered the restaurant's toilet seats were being washed in its dishwasher alongside the kitchen utensils. The man noticed on a visit to the bathroom in the restaurant in Arvika, Sweden, that all the toilet seats had been removed. When he asked staff about the missing seats, an employee took them out of a dishwasher where they had been cleaned together with trays and kitchen utensils, the Swedish TT news agency reported on Thursday, quoting the regional newspaper Nya Wermlands-Tidningen. The employee tried to reassure the customer by saying that the freshly washed toilet seat would be warm and pleasant to sit on. A senior representative of the restaurant chain said the incident was a mistake and not standard company procedure. Arvika's environmental and health inspector later visited the restaurant.

To: AugustWest who wrote (359)	1/29/2003 12:18:18 PM
From: SIer formerly known as Joe B.	Respond to of 430

ZERO GRAVITY TOILET PASSENGERS ARE ADVISED TO READ INSTRUCTIONS BEFORE USE The toilet is of the standard zero-gravity type. Depending on requirements, System A and/or System B can be used, details of which are clearly marked in the toilet compartment. When operating System A, depress lever and a plastic dalkron eliminator will be dispensed through the slot immediately underneath. When you have fastened the adhesive lip, attach connection marked by the large "X" outlet hose. Twist the silver coloured ring one inch below the connection point until you feel it lock. The toilet is now ready for use. The Sonovac cleanser is activated by the small switch on the lip. When securing, twist the ring back to its initial-condition, so that the two orange line meet. Disconnect. Place the dalkron eliminator in the vacuum receptacle to the rear. Activate by pressing the blue button. The controls for System B are located on te opposite wall. The red release switch places the uroliminator into position; it can be adjusted manually up or down by pressing the blue manual release button. The opening is self adjusting. To secure after use, press the green button which simultaneously activates the evaporator and returns the uroliminator to its storage position. You may leave the lavatory if the green exit light is on over the door. If the red light is illuminated, one of the lavatory facilities is not properly secured. Press the "Stewardess" call button on the right of the door. She will secure all facilities from her controll panel outside. When gren exit light goes on you may open the door and leave. Please close the door behind you. To use the Sonoshower, first undress and place all your clothes in the clothes rack. Put on the velcro slippers located in the cabinet immediately below. Enter the shower. On the control panel to your upper right upon entering you will see a "Shower seal" button. Press to activate. A green light will then be illuminated immediately below. On the intensity knob select the desired setting. Now depress the Sonovac activation lever. Bathe normally. The Sonovac will automatically go off after three minutes unless you activate the "Manual off" over-ride switch by flipping it up. When you are ready to leave, press the blue "Shower seal" release button. The door will open and you may leave. Please remove the velcro slippers and place them in their container. If the red light above this panel is on, the toilet is in use. When the green light is illuminated you may enter. However, you must carefully follow all instructions when using the facilities duting coasting (Zero G) flight. Inside there are three facilities: (1) the Sonowasher, (2) the Sonoshower, (3) the toilet. All three are designed to be used under weightless conditions. Please observe the sequence of operations for each individual facility. Two modes for Sonowashing your face and hands are available, the "moist-towel" mode and the "Sonovac" ultrasonic cleaner mode. You may select either mode by moving the appropriate lever to the "Activate" position. If you choose the "moist-towel" mode, depress the indicated yellow button and withdraw item. When you have finished, discard the towel in the vacuum dispenser, holding the indicated lever in the "active" position until the green light goes on...showing that the rollers have passed the towel completely into the dispenser. If you desire an additional towel, press the yellow button and repeat the cycle. If you prefer the "Sonovac" ultrasonic cleaning mode, press the indicated blue button. When the twin panels open, pull forward by rings A & B. For cleaning the hands, use in this position. Set the timer to positions 10, 20, 30 or 40...indicative of the number of seconds required. The knob to the left, just below the blue light, has three settings, low, medium or high. For normal use, the medium setting is suggested. After these settings have been made, you can activate the device by switching to the "ON" position the clearly marked red switch. If during the washing operation, you wish to change the settings, place the "manual off" over-ride switch in the "OFF" position. you may now make the change and repeat the cycle. ee.ryerson.ca:8080/~elf/aso/zeroGtoilet.html

To: AugustWest who wrote (359)	9/4/2003 5:43:34 PM
From: SIer formerly known as Joe B.	Respond to of 430

50 weeks go by pretty fast, don't they? Cleaning a Toilet Is Better Than Spam Wed Sep 3,10:12 AM ET By JUSTIN BACHMAN, AP Business Writer story.news.yahoo.com Frustrated by clogged inboxes, e-mail users think spam purveyors ought to face some sort of punishment, according to a survey of nearly 28,000 people. The irritation has reached such a level that more than three out of four people said it was less aggravating to clean a toilet than to wade through the junk messages in their e-mail. Of those, nearly a third said spammers should face stiff fines while one in five said people in the spam trade ought to be deluged with junk mail at their own homes. About one in six said spammers' business licenses ought to be revoked, while one in twelve felt a jail term was appropriate. On the other hand, a quarter of respondents said spam was merely a job, and spammers ought not be penalized. The online survey was conducted last month by Yahoo! Mail, the free e-mail service associated with Yahoo! Inc (NasdaqNM:YHOO - news).

To: AugustWest who wrote (359)	9/27/2003 10:40:40 AM
From: SIer formerly known as Joe B.	Respond to of 430

Hey man, Isn't my bathroom still good enough for you? It's been over a year. Portable Toilet "Imprisonment" Prompts Lawsuit wcbs880.com Sep 27, 2003 10:16 am US/Eastern NORFOLK, Va. (AP) A sudden, irresistible urge. A portable toilet. A confrontation with an angry construction worker. Now, a federal lawsuit. William Tremmel, 68, of Altoona, Pa., needed to go. Badly. So he dashed to the nearest portable toilet on the Virginia Beach boardwalk. Problem was, it belonged to construction workers for Weeks Marine, a company hired by the city to replenish the beach. And those workers were fed up with outsiders using the company can. They retaliated, Tremmel claims in a lawsuit filed last month, by driving a bulldozer or front-end loader to the toilet and blocking the doorway, pinning him "inside the rank tomb." Tremmel is seeking $100,000 for the Aug. 19, 2001, incident. Weeks doesn't deny its employee blocked Tremmel in the toilet but says the worker was within his rights. Tremmel says he was locked inside for 25 minutes. He claims members of his family shouted at the worker, but the man left and returned with his foreman, who chastised Tremmel through the closed door and accused him of trespassing. Tremmel says the "abduction and false imprisonment" caused him "humiliation, mortification, shame, vilification, injury to his feelings, mental suffering, insult and indignity." Tremmel and his wife were celebrating their anniversary. The lawsuit also says Tremmel has emphysema, was recovering from prostate surgery and had undergone double-bypass heart surgery. Weeks Marine denied that the workers chastised Tremmel or that he was locked in the toilet for almost half an hour. Weeks says in court papers that its workers believed blocking Tremmel's exit was "reasonable" because he was "wrongfully using the port-o-let." No hearing date has been set.