{"id":428,"date":"2007-02-08T17:12:18","date_gmt":"2007-02-08T09:12:18","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-09-04T11:23:51","modified_gmt":"2011-09-04T03:23:51","slug":"courses-for-toilet-cleaning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thefazz.com\/blog\/428\/","title":{"rendered":"Courses for toilet cleaning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Are we truly bad when it comes to toilet cleanliness?<\/p>\n<p>Regardless this, it would appear that some quarters believe that we need to have special courses to ensure that we understand how to keep toilets clean. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chron.com\/disp\/story.mpl\/ap\/world\/4535745.html\">An article from chron.com<\/a> highlights this amusing&#8230; and rather embarassing i must say article.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia \u2014 It&#8217;s never too late for toilet training. Some Malaysian colleges may soon offer courses on how to keep public restrooms clean, the national news agency reported Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The effort is meant to help Malaysia&#8217;s public lavatories become as hygienic as those in countries such as Britain and Singapore, Deputy Housing and Local Government Minister Robert Lau was quoted as saying by Bernama news agency.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Clean toilets cannot merely be judged by the eyes,&#8221; Lau was quoted as saying. &#8220;This matter also involves the use of cleaning equipment, soap, fragrances and proper tissues.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Courses would involve managing washrooms by the highest standards in design and sanitation technology, said Lau.<\/p>\n<p>Malaysia&#8217;s government recently said it wanted to start a &#8220;toilet revolution&#8221; in a country where public restrooms have long nauseated citizens and tourists with their lack of basic items such as toilet paper, soap and sometimes even toilet seats.<\/p>\n<p>Lau said his ministry plans to soon introduce a system for the public to lodge complaints about filthy toilets via cell phone text messages.<\/p>\n<p>Other recent measures have included setting up modern self-cleaning toilets in popular shopping districts of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia&#8217;s largest city, and scrapping the business licenses of restaurants found to have foul lavatories.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Now, self cleaning toilets. A bit of overkill huh?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Are we truly bad when it comes to toilet cleanliness?<\/p>\n<p>Regardless this, it would appear that some quarters believe that we need to have special courses to ensure that we understand how to keep toilets clean. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chron.com\/disp\/story.mpl\/ap\/world\/4535745.html\">An article from chron.com<\/a> highlights this amusing&#8230; and rather embarassing i must say article.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nKUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia \u2014 It&#8217;s never too late for toilet training. Some Malaysian colleges may soon offer courses on how to keep public restrooms clean, the national news agency reported Thursday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,381],"tags":[1714,476,475],"class_list":["post-428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ideasprinciples","category-peopleculture","tag-culture","tag-government","tag-policy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thefazz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thefazz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thefazz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefazz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefazz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=428"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thefazz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1683,"href":"https:\/\/thefazz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428\/revisions\/1683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thefazz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefazz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefazz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}