"The plan also promised a "toilet revolution", prompted by wide-spread complaints about toilet hygiene levels at China's tourist spots and said the country would aim to build or renovate as many as 100,000 public toilets over the period."Back when I lived in the devil's armpit, (Toronto) I was sitting on a bench in a subway station and an oriental?, asian? male... (whatever the pc term is these days)... spat up a sizable nose oyster onto the floor right in front of us.
When I looked over at this guy in disgust & disbelief, his response was to put his foot on the green lump and wipe it around in a circle. Had I not been carrying my infant son at the time, I suspect this would have been a very different interaction.
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RELATED: In other "cultural" news
In 1974, Patricia Hearst, kidnap victim-cum-SLA revolutionary, posed next to the banner of her alleged captors, a seven-headed cobra. Each snake head stood for one of the SLA's revolutionary principles: Umoja, Kujichagulia, Ujima, Ujamaa, Nia, Kuumba and Imani -- the exact same seven "principles" of Kwanzaa.
