Australia: Immigrants Need Toilet Training

We’re all one race, the human race, even if we do our business on the floor. Right? And yes, someone had to apologize too.

It looks more like the kind of ‘amusing’ poster a university student might have up on their wall.

But these explicit toiletry lessons have actually been posted on cubicle doors at Sydney’s Macquarie University after cleaners complained overseas students were not aware of Western WC procedures.

Just to make sure that those whose English might not be up to it, the diagrams make it clear on how to behave when nature calls.
And there are explicit instructions for the ladies on how to dispose of personal effects – not down the bowl but in a waste bin.

Others inform the toilet unaware that the seat cover must be lowered after use and hands must be washed.

A spokesman for Macquarie University said: ‘We received a complaint from our cleaning contractors about the state of some toilets.

‘They believed that some students may have been squatting above the toilet rather than using them in a conventional Western fashion.’

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2012-01-11