Automatic toilets in Slate

We are going highbrow today Poo-readers - Slate has an article about automatic toilets and their shortcomings. While most automatic toilets I have seen have a little button you can push in case your butt doesn't register, I'd see why that would be annoying if there was not button. (Thanks to Poo-operative "Donkey Kong" for the article).

I also like the writer's defense of floor-pedal toilets:

Put me in the camp that says there are some things you just can't put a price on. The ability to flush my own turds happens to be one of them.

I also wrote something about automatic toilets in a previous life.

"Behold the power of poop"

Looks like San Francisco is going to mine their dog parks for doggie doo doo to use for fuel. Seems kind of gross, using dog poo to power your house or whatever. But maybe like dogs' mouths being cleaner than peoples', dog poop might be cleaner than human poop.

CNN article

Be a Toilet Flusher, get paid

The Louisiana Cajun Dome needs experienced toilet flushers to make sure the dome's pipes work. After being a home for refugees, workers found bricks, shirts, and diapers in the pipes, and want to make sure everything functions before they host an event. I guess you could take a dump while you work too, might as well see if the pipes work under real world conditions. The other flushers might get angry at your booty smell though.

No word on what selection of toilet paper will be used.

CNN Article

"Big Piece Of Poop" Withdraws From Mayoral Race

One of my poo-operatives forwarded this to me: a British Columbia activist who calls himself "Mr. Floatie" and dresses up like a big piece of poo to highlight sewage dumping has withdrawn from the mayor's race in Victoria, BC.

James Skwarok, the man inside the costume, said the city apparently took issue with his candidacy because only real people can run for municipal office. "Of course I'm not a real person," Skwarok said earlier this week. "I'm a big piece of poop."

It's a blow for poo-related candidates everywhere. But keep on pushing, James, it'll come out in the end.

"Condi, I have to poop"

The president has to make a doodie. Or maybe a wee-wee.

From the BBC

This really burns my bottom!

If a man can't poo and smoke in peace, what is he? Honestly though, do many smokers smoke on the toilet? I guess it conceals certain odors.

Man sues for $10M in West Virginia toilet explosion

"We just hope they're not laying sea dumps."

Ah, New Jersey. Watch out for floaters when at the Jersey shore: public restrooms are few and far between.

Spotty potties at NJ beach towns

Makes me think of that scene in "Caddyshack" with the Baby Ruth in the pool. Except no delicious nougat filling. Depending on what you ate, I suppose.

Welcome

Welcome to the first post of Poo News! This blog will have poo poo and doody related news articles and commentary. Nothing sexual, or at least not sexual and related to poo, just interesting stuff. For example:

Suspect atop crane for third straight day

How does he poop? Is he holding it in? Does he poo off the crane? Or in his pants? That's one smelly fugitive.

Yahoo has photos of him. Not pooping, thankfully. But no other news articles mention anything about bodily functions. Honestly, the public wants to know!