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NEWS ABOUT: bathroom

bathroom stories: 16 news summaries
NOT SO APPETIZING APP

Finally, a Way
to Track Your, Ahem, Business

Poo Log for iPhone serves as interpreter
of your bowels

Nov 5, 09 11:56 AM CST
(Newser) - At last, a hi-tech way to keep track of No. 2: the Poo Log iPhone app. Recording such critical factors as delivery ("smooth like butter, baby"), size/shape (pebble or liquid), and number of particles, the app is based on best-selling What's Your Poo Telling You? In addition to... More »

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bathroom • toilet

COMMENTARY

Pinched Writer Picks Up
the Toilet Brush 


Aug 17, 09 1:19 PM CDT
(Newser) - Even with two degrees and a book deal, Rebecca Golden has had a tough time keeping her bank balance above zero, she writes for Salon, so she's turned to an edifying, if often terrifying, sideline: cleaning houses. “I suppose I could find other ways to make ends meet,”... More »

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economic indicators • recession • bathroom • toilet • cleaning • part-time jobs • economic downturn • recession depression • maid

 Movie Site IDs Best Time 
 for Bathroom Breaks 

Website says when to empty your bladder at the movies

Aug 8, 09 5:21 PM CDT
(Newser) - You’re in the theater, watching the latest Harry Potter flick, when suddenly nature calls. What to do? Technology finally has the answer: A website called RunPee.com identifies scenes you can stand to miss when you jog off to the bathroom, the Los Angeles Times reports. In Harry Potter,... More »

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film • website • bathroom • movie theaters • urine

(Newser) - The fan kicked out of Yankee Stadium last August for trying to use the bathroom during God Bless America won a moral victory (and a payday) today, NY1 reports, with the Yankees and New York City settling the man’s discrimination suit. The team publicly stated that it has no... More »

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Boston Red Sox • New York Yankees • Yankee Stadium • lawsuit • bathroom • baseball

(Newser) - Ryanair’s CEO isn’t joking about ripping two of the three toilets out of his planes and charging for the use of the remaining one, the Guardian reports. “We are serious about it,” said Michael O’Leary, nicknamed “Michael O’Really” by industry skeptics. “... More »

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Europe • airline industry • Ryanair • bathroom • airplane • fees • Michael O'Leary

 Old Library Gets
 New, Uh, Reading Room 

Patrons no longer have to go somewhere else when they, er, have to go.

Nov 21, 08 3:48 PM CST
(Newser) - The library in Roxbury, Vt., installed wireless Internet ages ago, and last week finally caught up with 20th-century technology by adding indoor plumbing. “I used to say, ‘We’re the Wi-Fi library without a pot to p--- in,’” the library director tells the AP. Since 1934,... More »

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Vermont • bathroom • public restrooms • toilet • library

 Burger King Bather in Hot Water 

Public health uproar ensues after prank video goes online

Aug 12, 08 5:03 PM CDT
(Newser) - Diners in Ohio are feeling queasy after an internet video surfaced yesterday showing a young man taking a bath in a local Burger King’s sink. In the video, employees and a store manager watch a heavily tattooed “Mr. Unstable” relax in a bubble bath. Burger King reps tell... More »

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hygiene • Ohio • public health • fast food • restaurant • bathroom • health code • Burger King

 Amid Selloff, 
 Gold King 
 Won't Flush 
 His Throne 

Hong Kong merchant melts down palace to capitalize on rising prices ... except for toilet

Jul 7, 08 2:53 PM CDT
(Newser) - With gold prices hovering around $1,000 an ounce, one Hong Kong jeweler is melting down the shining palace he spent a decade building, unloading chandeliers and armored knights—everything but his 24-karat toilet, the Wall Street Journal reports. "I don't care if gold hits $10,000 an ounce,... More »

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Hong Kong • bathroom • toilet • gold • commodities • jewelry • Lam Sai-wing

 Poo-Poo to Navel-Gazing: 
 Look Lower 

Enough navel-gazing; looking lower will yield clues into your inner workings

Mar 12, 08 9:00 PM CDT
(Newser) - Poop isn't just joke fodder, Leslie Crawford writes in Salon, it can also be a vital way to assess your health and well-being, and Americans are being prompted to scrutinize (and rhapsodize over) what they produce in a variety of media. From Oprah to the popular book What's Your Poo ... More »

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health • toilet paper • Oprah Winfrey • bathroom • toilet • poop • bowel movements

Germaphobes Get a Handle
on Bathrooms

Inventors help the wary leave the loo without touching doorknobs

Feb 15, 08 2:40 PM CST
(Newser) - For germaphobes, few sights elicit as much terror as doorknob in a public bathroom. Sure, you washed your hands, “but then someone else didn’t wash their hands and you have to touch the same door handle,” explains the inventor of the SanitGrip, an L-shaped, elbow-operated handle that... More »

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bathroom hygiene • bacteria • restrooms • inventions • bathroom • toilet • germaphobia • SanitGrasp • James Vallee • Safe-T-Gard • Sanidoor • Simon Sassoon • HYSO • Sanihandles • Matthew Fulkerson

Americans Neglect to Wash Their Hands

Only 77% soap up in public restrooms; Ewwwwww, say experts

Sep 17, 07 5:22 PM CDT
(Newser) - Americans are forgetting to wash their hands. A new study shows that only 77% of people wash their hands after using public restrooms—that's down 6% from two years ago. And notably, 92% of Americans SAY they do. Unsurprisingly, men are the big offenders: their number was 66%. "Very... More »

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health • hygiene • Americans • bathroom • handwashing

Standing Up
for Bathroom Diversity

Not afraid to 'gross women out,' man
seeks home urinal

Sep 1, 07 4:20 PM CDT
(Newser) - Why can't a man have a urinal in his home? Screenwriter Joel Stein sought to fulfill his lifelong dream but then ran into a neighbor who “explained that urinals, to my shock, gross women out.” Unsanitary lidlessness, along with an unfortunate name—which conjures the word “crapinals”... More »

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men • bathroom • urinal • Joel Stein • home urinal

College Johns Go Coed

Some schools address transgender concerns by creating gender-neutral bathrooms

Sep 1, 07 1:18 PM CDT
(Newser) - When students return to Emerson College in Massachusetts this month, they’ll be greeted by silhouettes of a man and woman on a single sign outside some two-dozen campus restrooms. In response to growing transgender discomfort with single-sex bathrooms, many colleges are making their johns gender-neutral, the Boston Globe reports. More »

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restrooms • transgender • Tufts University • University of Vermont • Emerson College • bathroom

Mystery Man Dumps Cash in Bathrooms

Flush benefactor has Japanese investigators following the money

Jul 12, 07 12:02 PM CDT
(Newser) - The yen is in the toilet once again. Someone has left over 400 bundles, each containing about $80 worth of the stuff, in men's bathrooms all over Japan. The cash is being discovered in the powder rooms of government offices, along with notes enjoining the lucky gentleman who finds the... More »

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philanthropy • Japan • yen • bathroom

China Opens Giant Public Loo

Visitors take their pick from 1,000 toilet stalls

Jul 7, 07 4:28 PM CDT
(Newser) - Time for tourists to ditch the Great Wall and head for the city of Chongqing in southwest China, which recently opened a startling new attraction: a sprawling public restroom. The free facilities lie behind an Egyptian facade that conceals 1,000 toilets spread over four stories and almost 33,000... More »

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China • bathroom hygiene • restrooms • bathroom • toilet

Physicist Wants To Wipe Out Toilet Paper

New one-ply TP is a step to a paperless bathroom

Apr 25, 07 9:20 AM CDT
(Newser) - A German physicist is engineering toilet paper that he says is more efficient  and softer than the familiar white roll. TP visionary Siegfried Hustedt claims a single ply of his new paper—which can "hold its shape longer under pressure"—will be sturdy enough to do the job,... More »

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climate change • global warming • environmentalism • Proctor • hygiene • bathroom hygiene • toilet paper • bathroom • toilet • Sheryl Crow

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