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andrewducker

Interesting Links for 14-01-2015

Jan 14, 2015 11:00

3 Dead After Cadbury’s Creme Egg Protest Turns Violent In Dublin
(tags: chocolate satire funny )
Charlize Theron Negotiates $10M Raise After Sony Hack Reveals Male Costar Was To Be Paid Millions More
(tags: movies money sony hacking patriarchy women )
The Apollo missions left 96 bags of bodily fluids on the moon
(tags: moon space faeces urination ( Read more... )

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Comments 62

Toilets danieldwilliam January 14 2015, 11:40:55 UTC

I think the gender unspecified single occupant toilet is a bit of a no brainer.

I often see sets of toilets where the Ladies and the Gents are both identical single occupant. The gendering seems pointless to me and I quite happily skip past any queue and interlope into the “wrong” toilet.

I think making Ali McBeal style gender unspecified mass occupant toilets is harder, mainly because I think men peeing in toilets rather than urinals is wasteful of water.

Re: Toilets andrewducker January 14 2015, 11:50:13 UTC

Yes, mass toilets would be trickier. And a separate urinals section makes sense to me.

But I totally agree - there's no reason why entirely standalone cubicles can't be used by anyone.

Re: Toilets cmcmck January 14 2015, 14:19:33 UTC

I'm being mighty amused to consider the reaction of the usual far right 'ZOMG trannies in the ladies' brigade! :o)

Showers danieldwilliam January 14 2015, 11:42:06 UTC

I often find myself feeling a little grubby or stale if I don’t have a shower everyday.

I wonder if I would get used to it if I cut the daily shower down to four a week.

101 Ways to Win an Election danieldwilliam January 14 2015, 11:43:14 UTC

I have a copy of this, and of Cicero's brother's letters to him giving him election advice.

I must actually get round to reading both.

Moon Waste Products danieldwilliam January 14 2015, 11:44:21 UTC

Do we know what the likelihood of the bacteria in the human waste on the Moon surviving a leak and becoming native is?

Re: Moon Waste Products andrewducker January 14 2015, 11:51:45 UTC

Good question. My first thought is "Exposure to vacuum would be nigh-instantly lethal".

But I don't actually know - and it seems that some of them can survive a considerable time in space:
http://www.natureworldnews.com/articles/6877/20140503/bacteria-survive-space-travel-iss-research-shows.htm

Re: Moon Waste Products danieldwilliam January 14 2015, 12:05:31 UTC

There does seem a big change from bug evolved to live in dark, moist, conditions full of food at about 38 degrees centigrade to living in vacuum, in full sunlight, with no food at temperatures between minus a lot and plus a lot.

Re: Moon Waste Products supergee January 14 2015, 12:06:15 UTC

It suggests a theory of where life on Earth came from.

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Charlize Theron danieldwilliam January 14 2015, 11:46:54 UTC

Theron re-negotiating for more money reminds me of the local authority (Birmingham I think) who, after losing a sex discrimination case on their historical policy of paying cleaners (women in the main) less than refuse collectors (bin, um, men in the main) confounded the expectation of the cleaners that they would get a pay rise by cutting the pay of the refuse collectors.

It still makes me laugh - a bitter, cruel sense of humour failure mode laugh.