PCness gone nuts:
Multi-Culti Crappers
A university in New Zealand is installing a number of in-the-floor squat toilets in order to be more sensitive to the needs of its international students, reports the New Zealand Herald.
The university claims it has had trouble with confused international students standing on the regular toilet seats and creating hygiene problems. One student even reported finding stiletto marks on one seat.
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If these students cannot master a dumpster, what the hell are they doing in university?
One of my old bosses was known as the Phantom Sh!tter at his University. (Because you didn't see his legs under the stall door).
They even had a cartoon in the paper about him.
His company just went public, and he's doing QUITE well, thank you...
These are the teacher's assistants, tutors, and graduate researchers for the school. They come with full-ride scholarships to study and get advanced degrees in the engineering school which has set-aside slots for these people.
Never mind that they squat and don't get hemorrhoids. They will design the user-interfaces on the computer products and write the user manuals shipped with them for future products you will purchase.
When the on-line phone help begins by asking you to press 2 for Swahili, 3 for Maori, and 4 for Hmong, you will know the people who setup the rest of the system. Time to get busy and welcome them with open arms. They need your time, money and patience.
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