Toilet Poem Causes 20% Less Toilet Paper Use, Says Study

Metro.co.uk:

Poetry in the loo can cut down on paper use too, says a Japanese group campaigning to save toilet paper as part of the country's battle against global warming.

Simply pasting a "toilet poem" at the eye level of a person seated in the cubicle can help cut toilet paper use by up to 20 per cent, a study by the research centre Japan Toilet Labo showed.

"That paper will meet you only for a moment," reads one poem. "Fold the paper over and over and over again," says another. Or just: "Love the toilet."

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Comments

[lmvd3]

07:28 PM on 01/31/2009

Oh. I thought it said "poverty", which would be much more accurate, frankly.

[Kungfublood]

05:24 PM on 01/30/2009

Yes not only are most poets anal retentive it should be apparent that one load of crap per sitting is sufficient.

[AmbivalentGuy]

02:46 PM on 01/29/2009

This is the same culture that makes a feces analyzer in some toilets isn't it?

[alvdh1]

11:46 AM on 01/29/2009

Here I sit all broken hearted, because I just gave birth to another Texan. Now I see the link to reduced TP use.

[Semaj51]

11:26 AM on 01/29/2009

New title -- "An Ode to the Toilet"

[DiogenesOfAlaska]

06:22 PM on 01/29/2009

this is it.

We're now officially back in the 1970s. Take out your aerosol cans and make sure there's no public toilet without a poem inscribed into it.

Macbeth shall sleep no more...
he's too busy doing graffiti.