h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

That the world summit has its own official toilet paper, containing handy facts about sanitation.

The roll carries messages highlighting the plight of the millions of people around the world without access to sanitation and clean water.

It carries messages such as "Hygiene is not a soft issue" and "A flush is not the only winning hand".

http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_662367.html?menu=news.latestheadlines

Does the phrase 'bunch of arse' spring to my mind alone?

Sending the environmental message down the toilet.

A straight flush is better than a full house?

http://www.itechnology.co.za/index.php?click_id=13&art_id=iol1030945263712T432&set_id=1

An onlooker said it was a nice read while answering nature's call.

How we laughed as the worlds leaders s**t thier maldigested caviar and pissed away thier champagne, wiping thier asses with the worlds problems on a bog roll.

At least now we can assume that some of the delegates learn something while they are there.

That's dangerous because you know what to assume does ........






It makes an ASS of U and ME

However it would appear they are using open air, communal toilets, why else would there be an onlooker present to note this?

I just hope that it's recycled paper!

Recycled toilet paper?

Toilet paper made from recycled paper, maybe I should have been clearer.

I read somewhere that this conference cost $50Million to host. In the midst of abject poverty. So this is what they spent all that money on.

Ste

Quite a good idea though, don't you think, Ste? You've got them where they can't move for 30 seconds - how much is 30 seconds of a state leader's time worth to a lobbyist type?

But shouldn't it be in 30 different languages - that's a big distance between perforations

Maybe they could have had video monitors on the cubicle doors showing an interactive account of all of the poverty, injustice and atrocity that takes place daily in the world with "DO SOMETHING, YOU F*****G IDIOTS!" in big aggressive red writing above it.

With a hammer simultaneously and repeatedly smashing them on top of the head.

Ste

LOL with Ste, hitting them on the head wont do anything, you need to find a part of the body that is not filled with self absorption.

What we should do is sneak into their toilets and replace the toilet rolls with subliminal type messages about being brave enough to actually do something rather than just appearing to care a bit.

Or restricting the kinds of food they can eat. I suggest that wherever they have the next conference that they are only allowed to eat and drink locally grown of otherwise produced comestables. Say within 50 miles of the conference centre. Or 100 miles if the 50 mile limit doesn't include enough farmland. It might (though only might) make them sympathic to local problems.

I like you're alternative Ste - but bet it's even more pricey!

Perhaps aspirational toilet paper should be available to all of us?

The food idea is a good one

Well $50 million can buy a lot of loo. You might as well make them do something useful. The whole conference seemed to go down one also, so it's probably appropriate anyway.

I think I would pay a lot for "aspirational loo roll". Maybe you can already get them at those dreadful "Successories" shops, you know, the ones with big pictures of rock climbers with the words "succeed" underneath and whales fins with the words "power" or something. Kind of like this http://my.ece.ucsb.edu/jhaaheim/Failure.bmp but the opposite

Ste

If they can put children's cartoons on loo paper, then surely they can put useful stuff on them.
the problem would be, do people want to be enlightened in the loo or do they prefer it to be a place of ignorance?

To me the loo is a place of deep elightenment. Dunno 'bout anyone else.

The ultimate contemplation?

To me the loo is a place of lightenment, particularly after a hot curry.