The toilets in some Michigan bars may potentially freak out some patrons in the coming months. The state is distributing urinal cakes which play a recorded message to bar-goers, urging them to get a cab or a lift with someone sober rather than drive drunk. The message also ends on a hygeinic note: “Oh, and […]
Toilet Humour? A woman found herself super Glued to a toilet seat in a Walmart “restroom”. And it wasn’t the first time that someone had been glued to a loo seat at the multinational retail corporation. The woman was using the toilet in the Monticello store when she realised she was stuck to the seat. […]
Police have taken a cleaning lady into custody after she broke into a Westlake, Ohio home, did a bit of light cleaning, then left a bill. “Victim” Sherry Bush thought a cleaning company had made a mistake and she called the number the intruder had left. But the “cleaning fairy” told her there was no […]
A tidy desk means a tidy mind. Or at least that’s what a majority of office workers think. Almost 60 percent of US office workers judge their colleagues on how clean their desk is, according to a poll commissioned by temp agency Adecco. And almost half admitted they would look on someone negatively if their […]
Suspicious: Janitorial trolley Police are recovering up to 27 tonnes of stolen office supplies from the apartment of a 69-year-old janitor from Stuttgart, Germany. After an anonymous tip-off, the man was questioned by police and admitted to multiple thefts of stationery and cleaning equipment over several decades up to his retirement in 2007. He then […]
Leo Deis is a man perplexed by odd broom behaviour. The 76-year-old from Regina, Canada witnessed his broom strand up straight on its britles without support for 45 minutes. “We were in shock when it actually stood there,” says Deis. “I took a lot of physics and chemistry at one time in my life and […]
Toilets have been hitting the international news recently. In Mumbai, a man was killed last month for taking too long to use a public toilet. Simon Lingeree, 26, was using the shared toilet of his chawl – an tenement block, usually with shared facilities – while a neighbour was waiting outside. When Lingeree emerged, the […]
Someone has typed out Herman Melville’s 1851 novel Moby Dick on six rolls of toilet Paper for a bet. As the seller on ebay explains, “My friend and I once joked that toilet Paper should have instructions printed on them for certain people. One day, the conversation grew from there and turned into a wager […]
A Singapore resident spent two and a half years on the toilet and is now explaining why, reports The Daily Mail. Mee Yan Leong sat down on her bathroom’s toilet bowl on March 25, 2009 and spent the next 902 days there, eating and sleeping in the same position and only showering 18 times throughout […]
Maths students at St. Mark’s School in Southborough, Massachusettts, have broken the Paper-folding record. A huge length of toilet Paper – made up of a number of industrial, 1.2 kilometer length rolls –was folded 13 times. The final folded result was a 1.5-metre wide, 76-centimetre high wad comprising 8192 layers of Paper. It had long […]
How to plan the office Christmas party Whether you count down the days, or desperately scrabble around for an excuse not to go, the office Christmas party is an event on almost every company’s calendar. So, how do you plan a party that everyone will enjoy? It’s a tricky balance to get Bob from Accounts […]
Top tips to improve your time management skills Despite what people say, time is not a commodity. It cannot be traded, expanded or reduced. It is fixed. Our perception of time, however, is another concept. How often do you think at 4pm “Where has the day gone?” and go into panic mode to try to […]
Planning in business is essential Everything from the monthly sales drive to a new product launch or project needs planning. It promotes joined-up thinking and good decision-making throughout the whole organisation. “A goal without a plan is just a wish”, observed the famous writer Antoine de Saint-Exupery, summing up a key business principle. Each business […]
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