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I spent most of the day looking after my chicken poxy son. We did some science experiments with food dye and crystals. He was hoping to make a magic wand by mixing the coloured water together and adding some chewing gum and alcohol-free beer. That’s the beauty of science - you never know - you have to try everything. He didn’t make a magic wand, but I wouldn’t let him have any of my beer, so that might be why. I wonder if Marie Curie’s dad stopped her having radium to begin with. If so, good dadding mate, that stuff killed her.
We ended up with hands (and clothes) stained with good dye. But it had been good dirty fun. And maybe science will never make a magic wand, but then again, maybe it already has. Our phones would seem pretty magic to anyone from even fifty years ago. I should know. I am from nearly 55 years ago and I am bamboozled.
Later I had a glamorous dinner in Starbucks (everything else in Hitchin is closed after 5pm) whilst Phoebe did her drama club. The unisex toilet had one of those crescent toilet seats on it, with a little gap at the front so that people who like to stand when urinating can do so without lifting the lid. I am always surprised to see this style of toilet seat out in the wild. Surely everyone knows by now that it does not work. It relies on supreme accuracy from the wee-er. I am presuming only those with a penis will try (though to be fair anyone without one has as much chance of standing success). It very much over estimates penis-owners ability to shoot straight and if anything encourages them to have a go, when they might otherwise have taken the more sensible option to lift the bottom seat up (they should also consider the even more sensible option of sitting down to wee - but they are less likely to do that due to the toilet seat being sprinkled with urine from the last person who thought they could get it into the target without spillage or misdirected flow or just lazy aiming. Please, people with toilets (and surely these are only used in public spaces, I hope no one has them in their homes) do not use these toilet seats. And please, people who stand up to piss, do not attempt to do so when there is any kind of toilet seat on the toilet, either crescent or the full surround version. You might think you can wee with the requisite accuracy, and maybe you can manage to do it every now and again. Even if you do it 99 times out of 100, please lift the fucking lid and then wash your hands if you’re worried. Also put the lid down afterwards (and then wash your hands). It’s really not that much of a problem and wouldn’t be a problem at all if no one had the lid down when weeing (there is the chance of a sprinkle from seated position I suppose, but wipe up after yourselves you animals).
Please ban these crescent toilet seats - or if you insist on having them make the hole at the front a lot bigger. I guess they’ve tested it so that it needs to be that small so that people’s bums fit on the seat and there’s no chance of genital hitting porcelain in the seated position. Starbucks, you should be ashamed of yourselves. But I guess there comes a point when you are so full of shame that a bit more doesn’t matter.
