Are University Students Really This Thick?

[Peter Parka]

If so, no wonder the country is in such a state! :wtf:

[h=1]Swansea University puts up toilet instruction posters[/h] The university said the posters were having a positive effect
Posters have gone up around a university campus instructing students on how to use the toilet properly.
Swansea University says it has produced them to help address cultural differences.
The posters include images showing students what they should and should not do.
Some students have called them ridiculous but others say they are a good idea to help keep the toilets clean and hygienic.
The images on the posters show a drawing of someone standing on a toilet seat with a red cross and another with a figure sitting correctly with a green tick.
It asks students to ensure used toilet roll is placed in the toilet and to make sure they flush it properly for the next person to use.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-south-west-wales-16983788#story_continues_1 [h=2]“Start Quote[/h]

The informational posters were produced, for use in both male and female facilities, to help address cultural differences that were unfortunately causing damage and hygiene issues”
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Swansea University

In some countries in South East Asia where people squat to use the toilet there are posters informing Westerners how to use them.
In parts of the Middle East where plumbing systems cannot cope there are posters informing people not to put toilet roll down the toilet but in bins.
A university spokeswoman said: "Swansea University is a multi-cultural campus community and the informational posters were produced, for use in both male and female facilities, to help address cultural differences that were unfortunately causing damage and hygiene issues.
"The information was produced in conjunction with the International College Wales Swansea (ICWS) and displayed in key areas around the campus.
"Since the inception of these posters, the situation has greatly improved in the affected areas."
Images of the posters have appeared on Twitter with some students criticising them.
Student James Trott told BBC Wales: "It's a bit stupid really... it's just pretty damn funny."
But Temi Coker said she thought they would be useful to some students.
"There's nothing demeaning about it. It's just an instructional poster."
Her friend Teresa Jenkins said she welcomed any move that would improve hygiene on the campus.
"It is important to do as much as possible to keep the toilets clean," she added.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-south-west-wales-16983788

 

[Kyle B]

Sounds more like students just being slobs.

 

[Tim]

sounds like neither of you read the article

 

[Peter Parka]

Multi cultural or not, people over here should at least learn to use a toilet first, its not that difficult.

 

[Kyle B]

I read the article.


Maybe they should use the same reasoning to put signs above urinals so people don't poop in them.

 

[Tim]

Multi cultural or not, people over here should at least learn to use a toilet first, its not that difficult.

Isn't that the reason for the sign? It shows them how to properly use it... This is how people learn.

 

[Zorak]

I don't care what the article says, Kyle is obviously right. But S.U can't just come out and say "our students are disgusting and shit everywhere". That's not a great advert lol

 

[darkcgi]

no sign is going to change anyones habbits like that
the sign is a waste of money and time

 

[Tim]

no sign is going to change anyones habbits like that
the sign is a waste of money and time

"Since the inception of these posters, the situation has greatly improved in the affected areas."

:dunno I guess they are lying

 

[Kyle B]

:dunno I guess they are lying

In one of the bathrooms at the community college I went to there was a sign that read something like "Please don't defecate in the urinals, it causes more difficulty for our cleaning staff." smh lol

 

[Abcinthia]

We had similiar posters in the girl's toilets at school. Not how to use a toilet but how to use the tampon/sanitary towel bin, to please stop sticking them to the ceiling/wall, not to pooh in the bin and to stop flushing tampons/towels down the toilets as they were blocking the pipes.

Made no difference and anyone with a brain learnt to run to ASDA or John Lewis and to use their nice, clean toilets during the break. It was better to get put in isolation for truancy than to worry about a used sanitary pad falling on your head whilst pissing.

 

[Panacea]

There's a sign on the wall in my college women's bathrooms that says "Do not throw toilet paper, towels, and sanitary napkins on the floor. This is your bathroom, help keep it clean."

Seriously every time I'm in there, there are used tampons on the floor, piles and piles of towels stacked on the garbage cans because no one knows how to push downward, apparently...that and toilet paper all over the floor.

I'm telling you, college students can be fucking idiot slobs. Maybe the understatement of all time.

 

[skyblue]

i wish they'd put these up where i work

 

[clancy]

I wonder how much difference putting a sign up makes.

 

[Dana]

sounds liker brits being brits...

 

[Boomerang]

Whoa. The first way looks incredibly difficult to do. That takes some serious balance.

 

[freakofnature]

Whoa. The first way looks incredibly difficult to do. That takes some serious balance.

Have you tried it? :ninja I'm tempted to try it. :ninja

 

[Boomerang]

Have you tried it? :ninja I'm tempted to try it. :ninja

Standing on the toilet itself? I have not. I don't think it would go very well though.

 

[mclovin1]

That would be tough to do.

 

[Big Al1]

I think it can be done.