Green bathroom
At work, we've installed alternate flush toilets (up for fluids, down for solids) and waterless urinals. These aren't the clunky kinds of the past; the fluid separator isn't bulky and it just looks like a mod bowl with a drain. All the replaced appliances have a "Go Green" placard at eye level, which is amusing in itself.
But today, I found a picture of a sign, reprinted on a B/W laser printer posted under the "Go Green" sign at the ummm... device:
"A step closer helps keep it cleaner" under some Chinese characters.
Oh. How. Precious!
One of my favorite RSS feeds is from http://www.passiveaggressivenotes.com/ but this didn't quite fit. It didn't seem hostile enough. It actually didn't seem hostile at all. What gives? Unsolicited signs are *always* hostile! And the Chinese characters were an enigma.
An internet search only gave one hit: http://bkinbj.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!3536FC44D7E60924!724.entry
So it seams that at the summer Imperial Palace, there is a similar sign.
"I'll end this post with some toilet humor. In the men's urinals, they had a sign that said "向前一小步，文明一大步 - A step up closer helps keep it cleaner." First of all, I completely support the posting of this sign. However, the Chinese is so much more poetic than the translation! It's more like Armstrong's moon landing declaration. "Forward a small step, civility a big step" (Sorry, that's the best I can do. Chinese can be hard to translate at times, which is how you get "Garden of Harmonious Interests" and the like - that's their translation, not mine.)"
Not hostile. Kind of groovy. My ire for unwanted signs is replaced by a sense of peace and balance in the universe.
But today, I found a picture of a sign, reprinted on a B/W laser printer posted under the "Go Green" sign at the ummm... device:
"A step closer helps keep it cleaner" under some Chinese characters.
Oh. How. Precious!
One of my favorite RSS feeds is from http://www.passiveaggressivenotes.com/ but this didn't quite fit. It didn't seem hostile enough. It actually didn't seem hostile at all. What gives? Unsolicited signs are *always* hostile! And the Chinese characters were an enigma.
An internet search only gave one hit: http://bkinbj.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!3536FC44D7E60924!724.entry
So it seams that at the summer Imperial Palace, there is a similar sign.
"I'll end this post with some toilet humor. In the men's urinals, they had a sign that said "向前一小步，文明一大步 - A step up closer helps keep it cleaner." First of all, I completely support the posting of this sign. However, the Chinese is so much more poetic than the translation! It's more like Armstrong's moon landing declaration. "Forward a small step, civility a big step" (Sorry, that's the best I can do. Chinese can be hard to translate at times, which is how you get "Garden of Harmonious Interests" and the like - that's their translation, not mine.)"
Not hostile. Kind of groovy. My ire for unwanted signs is replaced by a sense of peace and balance in the universe.