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Thailand to Host World Toilet Summit
Yahoo News ^
| 04/13/2005
| staff writer
Posted on 04/14/2005 6:51:54 AM PDT by bedolido
BANGKOK, Thailand - Thailand plans to upgrade hygiene in its public toilets to meet international standards as it prepares to host the World Toilet Summit next year, a health official said Wednesday.
"Toilets are very important for the country's image in the eyes of visitors," said Somyos Chareonsak, a senior official of the Public Health Ministry.
The conference is to be held in May 2006.
The first summit, organized by the World Toilet Organization, was held in 2001 in Singapore. China, where toilet facilities are often in need of upgrades, hosted one last year.
Topics discussed at the meetings include toilet design and technology, toilet management and hygiene and energy-saving measures.
TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; Foreign Affairs; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: host; summit; thailand; tidybowel; toilet; uranus; urine; world; yourin
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posted on
04/14/2005 6:52:01 AM PDT
by
bedolido
To: Junior
Stories like this make my day!
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posted on
04/14/2005 6:53:31 AM PDT
by
cjshapi
To: bedolido
To: bedolido
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posted on
04/14/2005 6:53:39 AM PDT
by
byteback
To: bedolido
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posted on
04/14/2005 6:55:42 AM PDT
by
Dominick
("Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought." - JP II)
To: bedolido
World Toilet Organization - "Our motto is "SH** Happens!"
To: bedolido
You would think they would hold this summit, where else, but Flushing Meadows, New York.
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posted on
04/14/2005 6:55:57 AM PDT
by
dfwgator
(Minutemen: Just doing the jobs that American politicians won't do.)
To: cjshapi
I didn't know they had toilets in Thailand!
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posted on
04/14/2005 6:57:05 AM PDT
by
bedolido
(I can forgive you for killing my sons, but I cannot forgive you for forcing me to kill your sons)
To: bedolido
No doubt, the meeting will be held outdoors.
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posted on
04/14/2005 6:58:38 AM PDT
by
miele man
To: PBRSTREETGANG
Ah yes. The green house gas generator.
To: bedolido
There was a thread a few weeks ago about big concrete toilets for elephants. For some reason am thinking that was in Thailand too.
Talk about a technology boom!
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posted on
04/14/2005 7:00:55 AM PDT
by
cjshapi
To: bedolido
This will teach me not to read these items while I'm having breakfast!
To: bedolido
How about this one, the toilet in the emergency room at a fine communist hospital in Havana.
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posted on
04/14/2005 7:02:59 AM PDT
by
Lockbar
(March toward the sound of the guns.)
To: bedolido
Organizers are hoping the weather isn't s4itty.
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posted on
04/14/2005 7:03:07 AM PDT
by
Fierce Allegiance
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To: bedolido
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posted on
04/14/2005 7:03:08 AM PDT
by
GeekDejure
( LOL = Liberals Obey Lucifer !!! -- Impeach Greer !!!.)
To: bedolido; cyborg; Petronski; Miss Behave
Pingies. World Toilet Summit? 'It's a good thing', to quote Martha.
Would it be in bad taste to suggest to them to add to the conference a segment on this product and it's uses?
To: Lockbar
I forgot to say, bring your own seat and paper.
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posted on
04/14/2005 7:03:52 AM PDT
by
Lockbar
(March toward the sound of the guns.)
To: fortunecookie
Would it be in bad taste to suggest to them to add to the conference a segment on this product and it's uses?There are all sorts of "personal absorbancy appliances" they could discuss. I won't post pictures.
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posted on
04/14/2005 7:04:51 AM PDT
by
Petronski
(I thank God Almighty for a most remarkable blessing: John Paul the Great.)
To: miele man
Since this is a "summit", I presume there will be a "throne".
To: Lockbar
How about this one, even worse than the one in Cuba. This one is from Russia. Bring you own Mr. Clean and a barf bag.
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posted on
04/14/2005 7:10:32 AM PDT
by
Lockbar
(March toward the sound of the guns.)
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