November 19, 2008
Fittingly, to mark World Toilet Day - yep, World Toilet Day - comes the latest contender for the 'No s**t, Sherlock' comment of the year.
Tony Smith, chief executive of the Consumer Council for Water, cleared his throat and gave this golden nugget of wisdom to the world: "Having your home flooded with sewage," he announced, "is very unpleasant."
Guru is glad Smith pointed this out. He would otherwise have been off to see what he could do to get his home flooded with sewage. Telling Mrs Guru not to flood the home with sewage should do the trick.
Apparently, three in four sewer blockages are caused by people putting things they shouldn't down the toilet - which makes Guru wonder what the other one in four are caused by.
Perhaps the nervous bowel movements of employees facing redundancy are partly to blame. Or could it be that HR professionals are filling toilets with vomit at the latest messages from their tanned and relaxed chief executives that "we are all in this recession together..."?
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