[OT] Re: [Gllug] Surprised...

[Pete Ryland]

WARNING: Off-topic toilet talk.

On Mon, Jan 26, 2004 at 05:57:06PM +0000, John Winters wrote:
> On Mon, 2004-01-26 at 13:50, Formi wrote:
> [snip]
> >  Honestly never thought about it until you mentioned it, my text-crazy
> >  flatmate managed to drop her mobile in the toilet.
> > 
> >  I kicked myself when I couldn't find a camera in the house to take
> >  a photo of her in rubber gloves attempting the rescue.
> 
> The wife of one of my colleagues at school managed to flush hers down
> the loo the other day.  She says she dropped it just after flushing the
> loo, figured it would rest in the bottom of the U bend and so waited
> until the torrent had stopped before trying to retrieve it. 
> Unfortunately, her flush was sufficient to have carried it beyond the U
> into places unknown.

Many years ago, as a holiday job at uni, I did some work at the Bondi[*]
Sewerage Treatment Plant.  It was phenomenal the amount of jewelry that came
through the system.  There were different filters for various sizes and
densities of non-soluble stuff.  The biggest pile was always the corn one -
apparently the human body can only digest a small amount of corn, the rest
going pretty much straight through.

Pete

[*] Yes, Bondi as in Bondi Beach, the one that Australians generally
recommend to English tourists. ;-)
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