Things that make you go.......WTF?

[HAL]

That should keep you busy.

[stui magpie]

So the ATO is putting Squat Toilets in it's new building.

http://www.sbs.com.au/yourlanguage/hind ... -workforce

Pauline Hanson has called for a Please Explain and while I don't necessarily agree with her language, I tend to agree with the premise.

The reasoning apparently is that 20% of the ATO workforce is from a non-english speaking background. That's nice, how many of that 20% actually grew up in a country that used a squat toilet? I'm tipping it's a much smaller number of total staff.

Stupid fkn decision for mine. Most office buildings have barely enough dunny's as it is, making some of them squatters to pander to a small minority who would most likely have western style dunnies in their home anyway is ridiculous and an OH&S hazard waiting to happen.

If people are too dumb to figure out how to use a western style toilet, I really don't want them playing with my tax information.

[5150]

So the ATO is putting Squat Toilets in it's new building.

http://www.sbs.com.au/yourlanguage/hind ... -workforce

Pauline Hanson has called for a Please Explain and while I don't necessarily agree with her language, I tend to agree with the premise.

The reasoning apparently is that 20% of the ATO workforce is from a non-english speaking background. That's nice, how many of that 20% actually grew up in a country that used a squat toilet? I'm tipping it's a much smaller number of total staff.

Stupid fkn decision for mine. Most office buildings have barely enough dunny's as it is, making some of them squatters to pander to a small minority who would most likely have western style dunnies in their home anyway is ridiculous and an OH&S hazard waiting to happen.

If people are too dumb to figure out how to use a western style toilet, I really don't want them playing with my tax information.

Looks like they would be real hygienic too. Most of the squat toilets in the sub continent have a fern bush, mound of dirt or an Anaconda snake at the back of them not the nice white porcelain.

[HAL]

Carefully.

[stui magpie]

So the ATO is putting Squat Toilets in it's new building.

http://www.sbs.com.au/yourlanguage/hind ... -workforce

Pauline Hanson has called for a Please Explain and while I don't necessarily agree with her language, I tend to agree with the premise.

The reasoning apparently is that 20% of the ATO workforce is from a non-english speaking background. That's nice, how many of that 20% actually grew up in a country that used a squat toilet? I'm tipping it's a much smaller number of total staff.

Stupid fkn decision for mine. Most office buildings have barely enough dunny's as it is, making some of them squatters to pander to a small minority who would most likely have western style dunnies in their home anyway is ridiculous and an OH&S hazard waiting to happen.

If people are too dumb to figure out how to use a western style toilet, I really don't want them playing with my tax information.

Looks like they would be real hygienic too. Most of the squat toilets in the sub continent have a fern bush, mound of dirt or an Anaconda snake at the back of them not the nice white porcelain.

If I had to take an urgent dump and that was the only cubicle available, I'd shit in the hand basin instead

[think positive]

Apparently it's good for you to squat when you, um, go! A nice open, free passage! Hmm, I'm sure a few dates works just as well!

[stui magpie]

It's also apparently good to just squat down and pop out a kid while weeding the rice paddies, pick it up and keep weeding but I can't see it catching on here.

[Morrigu]

^ That would be grand as then all the midwives would be out trying to catch the slippery little suckers!

And then I could just sit back and think "ah how's the serenity"

[stui magpie]

^

God, we can't have a lot of unemployed midwives, we'd need more psych wards.

[think positive]

nah nah nah women should be allowed to milk it for everything they can get!!

[David]

So the ATO is putting Squat Toilets in it's new building.

http://www.sbs.com.au/yourlanguage/hind ... -workforce

Pauline Hanson has called for a Please Explain and while I don't necessarily agree with her language, I tend to agree with the premise.

The reasoning apparently is that 20% of the ATO workforce is from a non-english speaking background. That's nice, how many of that 20% actually grew up in a country that used a squat toilet? I'm tipping it's a much smaller number of total staff.

Stupid fkn decision for mine. Most office buildings have barely enough dunny's as it is, making some of them squatters to pander to a small minority who would most likely have western style dunnies in their home anyway is ridiculous and an OH&S hazard waiting to happen.

If people are too dumb to figure out how to use a western style toilet, I really don't want them playing with my tax information.

I'm calling for a "please explain why anyone should care about this".

[stui magpie]

^

Read my post and try again.

[David]

I read it. Still think it's a tabloid storm in a teacup that plays nicely to One Nation types but that's about it.

[stui magpie]

So, considering toilets are precious real estate in office buildings, why do you think reducing the number of toilets to install squatters that cater to a tiny minority that could easily use the normal ones is an appropriate thing?

[think positive]

Couldn't they just have a kiddie stand so they can get up there?