I was in work today and there was a problem

It is a goverment building and there is a fair number of Muslims that work in the building.

It is in Preston,England
I Am from Canada
Now there is a Muslim Employee taking the building managment to court.
They are sueing cause they are falling off the loo when they Poo.
the reason being cause they are squatting when they Poo.

now this is a Muslim Loo



now do we allow squatters rights.



can they not learn to sit



This thread is not to be racsist in any way...it is about common sense.
I have traveled and lived in many places in the world.
including all over the middle east..and i have learned to use their facilities without injury,i have learned to cope.
Now if this case wins it will be a disgrace,cause someone cannot learn to Poo in a Loo.

why should they not be able to learn the ways of the natives and why should we bend over to theirs.

so stand up for sitting down.

don't become forced to be a squatter.

There are no squatters rights.

To Sue Or To Poo,
That is truely the question.

[edit on 013131p://f31Saturday by plube]

Well i was stunned to hear that it is even being taken seriously...and i did try to lean a bit on the humor side...but all things aside it is a serious matter as we are taking things the complete wrong direction....i dont know what is the ABSOLUTE way to POO....but when in England i POO as you DOO.

I will sit down...It works for me.

[edit on 023131p://f02Saturday by plube]

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Funny story.

1) I refuse to use public toilets. Why? Because everyone else uses it. (For number 2 -sitting down :: I will use them for #1 standing up)

2) Why can't this guy just sit down anyways? How does he use the toilet at his home? Ohhh busted. He's trying to con $$$ obviously for BS.

3) I was raised speaking American English and at 29years of age, I have never heard anyone say "Loo". You mean toilet though, obviously.

Is this slang term "loo" popular in the UK? It's just weird I have never heard anyone say it before. Odd.

Anyways, I hope this guy loses the court case. It's absurd in every way possible. AND it proves our court systems are a complete total joke. Sigh...

I'm in the UK (English/British/whatever) and I've worked with a few Muslim guys - almost all lovely blokes... it is considered taboo to sit on a toilet seat used by others, much in the same way pork (yum) is considered a no-go.

As a side note, most I know just sat and denied it in public!!!

A few of the really strict guys I knew smoked, but cigarettes cannot touch the lips (taboo) so they used to kinda cup it in their hands and then smoke through their hands.

Strange world...

I wouldn't want to use a squatting loo, I eat too much spice.

Could this be what fianlly condemns our species to ex-stink-tion?


Our inability to learn how to use unfamiliar toilets?



In "2001: A Space Odessy" there is a scene wherein the character, Dr. Heywood Floyd, is shown reading the instructions on the use of a zero-gravity toilet aboard a trans-lunar shuttle.



This scene may well prove to be apocryphal, if, as the OP suggests, we, as a species are intellectually incapable of adapting our excretory behaviours to the demands of new environments.


If we canot learn how to safely "poo in a loo", how will we ever learn to void our bowels on a journey through the void of Space?



Are we thus doomed to be marooned on this one pitiful Rock,

nasty nappies in hand?

OOh, something I haven't really looked into But now I'm curious.

I have known a lot of foreign men who either by religion or tradition would go to the loo with a bottle of water but I never really thought about the squatting thing. I suppose I thought they stood on the floor with their bum kind of hovering in the air over the hole. So do they squat with their feet on a normal toilet seat or do they lift the seat first? I imagine lifting the seat up would make it a bit wobbly for them, uncomfy on the feet, and a bummer if you're on the heavy side. But if you're actually putting your feet on the seat where I'm supposed to put my bottom then that's quite offensive to me when I come to think about it. Can you get verrucas on your bum then?
Back to the story. I bet this guy sues and wins. This is the UK we're talking about isn't it? Aye, he'll win.

Its done because its considered unclean, just as eating with the hand that you wipe with, and its insult to wave that same hand at someone, because you are implying some things.

Anyway, it is unclean. That's why most people use disposable toilet covers.



[edit on 7-8-2010 by Zaxxon]

This is just too funny to give a # about lmao
sorry mods I just couldnt resist

flagged for lulz.


this is a true conspiracy in the making. do not conform to squatters.

Damn I feel like I learned something today!!! I never even knew of such things/problems. Well in America we always say sh*t or get off the pot right!!!! Sometimes I wish these issues were the extreme of what was at hand in the world issue department. How simpler life would be lol..This is the laugh I needed today.

Wow. Well not to be disrespectful at all to other cultures, but someone was saying that it's considered unclean to sit on a public toilet seat, and such, but from looking at the photo of the loo in the OP, all I can think of is how nasty the floors and rims of toilets in public places can be! Pee on the floor, ick!

But on another note, I did read somewhere that squatting was how our bodies were meant to take a poo.

Well, I loves me some toilet though - quite the convenience.

So, Tigger was looking for Poo. . .