Toilet articles
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What’s the perfect movie length? Only a lightweight needs toilet or food breaks
US research suggests that 92 minutes is the optimum length for a film. But I have sat through long films that felt short and short films that felt buttock-annihilatingly long I can still remember sitting down to Theo Angelopoulos’s legendary epic film The Travelling Players and noting that it was 222 minutes long and thinking sure, cool, two hours and twenty-two minutes, tiny bit on the long side, OK, nothing I can’t handle. The truth hit me just as the house lights were starting to dim and...
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Relief as San Francisco public toilet finally opens – and not for $1.7m after all
Bathroom in Noe Valley neighborhood, which became focus of ire for reported $1.7m cost, actually came in at about $200,000 San Francisco made international headlines in 2022 when news broke that a project to build a public restroom in a town square would cost $1.7m. This weekend the toilet affair finally came to an end as the city celebrated its newest lavatory.Residents gathered for a toilet-themed party in the Noe Valley town square on Sunday that was designed to poke fun at the whole saga and...
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School bans pupils from using the toilet during lessons to crack down on fears they are vaping
Winton Community Academy in Andover, Hampshire, claims a policy that bands children from using the toilet during lessons is to 'protect students from exposure to vaping'.