Bathroom Mystery
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Warning: icky visualizations ahead. I have a mystery that I have so far not been able to solve. While there are some people that don't seem to know how to use a toilet, I have come across an instance in which I don't know how somebody used a toilet. It's baffling. I walked into a stall at work and noticed a toilet in a peculiar state (no, not Arkansas). There is a good amount of yellow liquid on the back of the seat, and an even larger amount on the front underside of the seat. Also, there are strange materials on the front half of the seat. Mostly black. Perhaps some pieces of rubber. :wtf: My best guess is that the guy stood on the seat (facing the wall), squated down, urinated at an angle and it slid off the back of the seat, landed in the water, and much of it splashed back up to the underside of the front of the seat. Whatever the guy did, I'm certain it was non-standard procedure. And I still don't have an explanation as to why somebody would do this. :~
Martin Fowler wrote:
Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand.
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Warning: icky visualizations ahead. I have a mystery that I have so far not been able to solve. While there are some people that don't seem to know how to use a toilet, I have come across an instance in which I don't know how somebody used a toilet. It's baffling. I walked into a stall at work and noticed a toilet in a peculiar state (no, not Arkansas). There is a good amount of yellow liquid on the back of the seat, and an even larger amount on the front underside of the seat. Also, there are strange materials on the front half of the seat. Mostly black. Perhaps some pieces of rubber. :wtf: My best guess is that the guy stood on the seat (facing the wall), squated down, urinated at an angle and it slid off the back of the seat, landed in the water, and much of it splashed back up to the underside of the front of the seat. Whatever the guy did, I'm certain it was non-standard procedure. And I still don't have an explanation as to why somebody would do this. :~
Martin Fowler wrote:
Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand.
I'm as baffled as you are, but this might be the only time I'll ever have just cause to link to this article, so here goes: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_defecation_postures[^] He may have been trying to invent some kind of new backwards-facing 'squatting' position and it backfired (literally) by which time the damage was done. At this point he probably figured that fleeing the scene would be the best course of action and left the stall in the sorry state you found it in. You never know.
A programming language is to a programmer what a fine hat is to one who is fond of fancy garden parties. Just don't try wearing any .NET language on your head. Some of them are sharp.
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Warning: icky visualizations ahead. I have a mystery that I have so far not been able to solve. While there are some people that don't seem to know how to use a toilet, I have come across an instance in which I don't know how somebody used a toilet. It's baffling. I walked into a stall at work and noticed a toilet in a peculiar state (no, not Arkansas). There is a good amount of yellow liquid on the back of the seat, and an even larger amount on the front underside of the seat. Also, there are strange materials on the front half of the seat. Mostly black. Perhaps some pieces of rubber. :wtf: My best guess is that the guy stood on the seat (facing the wall), squated down, urinated at an angle and it slid off the back of the seat, landed in the water, and much of it splashed back up to the underside of the front of the seat. Whatever the guy did, I'm certain it was non-standard procedure. And I still don't have an explanation as to why somebody would do this. :~
Martin Fowler wrote:
Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand.
Warning is appreciated, but really this belongs in the backroom unless there is an even more unsavoury place where we can hide it.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity RAH
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Warning: icky visualizations ahead. I have a mystery that I have so far not been able to solve. While there are some people that don't seem to know how to use a toilet, I have come across an instance in which I don't know how somebody used a toilet. It's baffling. I walked into a stall at work and noticed a toilet in a peculiar state (no, not Arkansas). There is a good amount of yellow liquid on the back of the seat, and an even larger amount on the front underside of the seat. Also, there are strange materials on the front half of the seat. Mostly black. Perhaps some pieces of rubber. :wtf: My best guess is that the guy stood on the seat (facing the wall), squated down, urinated at an angle and it slid off the back of the seat, landed in the water, and much of it splashed back up to the underside of the front of the seat. Whatever the guy did, I'm certain it was non-standard procedure. And I still don't have an explanation as to why somebody would do this. :~
Martin Fowler wrote:
Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand.
Didn't 1 vote but ... complain to HR. We don't need to know about this. I think it's worse than a programming question. And your mention of a donkey earlier??? :~
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Warning: icky visualizations ahead. I have a mystery that I have so far not been able to solve. While there are some people that don't seem to know how to use a toilet, I have come across an instance in which I don't know how somebody used a toilet. It's baffling. I walked into a stall at work and noticed a toilet in a peculiar state (no, not Arkansas). There is a good amount of yellow liquid on the back of the seat, and an even larger amount on the front underside of the seat. Also, there are strange materials on the front half of the seat. Mostly black. Perhaps some pieces of rubber. :wtf: My best guess is that the guy stood on the seat (facing the wall), squated down, urinated at an angle and it slid off the back of the seat, landed in the water, and much of it splashed back up to the underside of the front of the seat. Whatever the guy did, I'm certain it was non-standard procedure. And I still don't have an explanation as to why somebody would do this. :~
Martin Fowler wrote:
Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand.
Guy with weak bladder, wearing liquorice flavoured condom, in failure to get there in time incident
MVVM# - See how I did MVVM my way ___________________________________________ Man, you're a god. - walterhevedeich 26/05/2011 .\\axxx (That's an 'M')
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Warning is appreciated, but really this belongs in the backroom unless there is an even more unsavoury place where we can hide it.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity RAH
Mycroft Holmes wrote:
this belongs in the backroom unless there is an even more unsavoury place where we can hide it
In a toilet would have been nice, but that was apparently too much to ask for. :((
Martin Fowler wrote:
Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand.
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Didn't 1 vote but ... complain to HR. We don't need to know about this. I think it's worse than a programming question. And your mention of a donkey earlier??? :~
RC_Sebastien_C wrote:
complain to HR
So they can... uh... put a sign up? Hold a seminar to teach everybody to go potty? Install cameras? Have a conversation with me about the value of compromise and the necessity of dealing with the eccentricities of others?
RC_Sebastien_C wrote:
And your mention of a donkey earlier?
Why do you hate donkeys?
Martin Fowler wrote:
Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand.
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Guy with weak bladder, wearing liquorice flavoured condom, in failure to get there in time incident
MVVM# - See how I did MVVM my way ___________________________________________ Man, you're a god. - walterhevedeich 26/05/2011 .\\axxx (That's an 'M')
_Maxxx_ wrote:
Guy with weak bladder
That may be a possibility. Or maybe some sort of ostomy bag mishap.
Martin Fowler wrote:
Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand.
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I'm as baffled as you are, but this might be the only time I'll ever have just cause to link to this article, so here goes: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_defecation_postures[^] He may have been trying to invent some kind of new backwards-facing 'squatting' position and it backfired (literally) by which time the damage was done. At this point he probably figured that fleeing the scene would be the best course of action and left the stall in the sorry state you found it in. You never know.
A programming language is to a programmer what a fine hat is to one who is fond of fancy garden parties. Just don't try wearing any .NET language on your head. Some of them are sharp.
:laugh: Perhaps this is the position he assumed, though he would have needed to point certain things in strange configurations for that to explain it completely.
Martin Fowler wrote:
Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand.
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Warning: icky visualizations ahead. I have a mystery that I have so far not been able to solve. While there are some people that don't seem to know how to use a toilet, I have come across an instance in which I don't know how somebody used a toilet. It's baffling. I walked into a stall at work and noticed a toilet in a peculiar state (no, not Arkansas). There is a good amount of yellow liquid on the back of the seat, and an even larger amount on the front underside of the seat. Also, there are strange materials on the front half of the seat. Mostly black. Perhaps some pieces of rubber. :wtf: My best guess is that the guy stood on the seat (facing the wall), squated down, urinated at an angle and it slid off the back of the seat, landed in the water, and much of it splashed back up to the underside of the front of the seat. Whatever the guy did, I'm certain it was non-standard procedure. And I still don't have an explanation as to why somebody would do this. :~
Martin Fowler wrote:
Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand.
I think most offices have at least 1 closet pig ignorant asshole. There was an incident in one of the previous places I worked where someone managed to miss the bowl completely with something solid, and apparently walked away and left it on the floor. The cleaners were close to quitting over having to clean it up (and I don't blame them). There was also another time in the same office where I was using a cublicle all the while having to listen to a repetitive wet sound from the cubicle next to me. He was at it when I arrived into the toilets and was still going when I left. swome people are just dumb animals.
Pete
