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The Home Office

At work we share a building with the Home Office, who have just downgraded the TERRORZ status to Black Special. We were LIVING ON THE EDGE there for a moment at AMBER, but Black Special basically means "Yeah, Whatever", so I guess we're now safe. Anyway, I happened to use one of the home office loos last night and was amazed by the dizzying array of posters by the urinals.
"Please do not urinate on the floor."
"Please do not block the toilets."
"The contents of your nose are for your handkerchiefs, not the walls."
Now, I've always thought that concerns about the UK immigration policy were just fear mongering from your right wing hate press like the Daily Wail, but now that I realise that the immigration policy is being implemented by people that require large signs giving them clear unambiguous instructions on how to go to the loo, I'm not so sure.

Sunday, August 28, 2005 11:18 AM

2 Comments:

Blogger Chris said...

What's also great about the Home Office is that they don't know which floors are theirs, because in the mens toilets on the 6th floor, there is a Home Office sign there too!

6:52 PM  
Blogger Tony Ruscoe said...

I just assumed that you weren't supposed to urinate on the floor, block the toilets or wipe the contents of your nose on the walls.

Since there are no signs explicitly explaining this in the 5th floor toilets, can I safely assume that it's fair to do all three until told otherwise?

Perhaps they should have a Bikini Alert status for the toilets so that we know when it's safe to do these things and when we should be extra careful...

9:54 AM  

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