{"id":19073,"date":"2002-08-20T12:45:01","date_gmt":"2002-08-20T16:45:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yummy-wakame.com\/archives\/2002\/08\/20\/\/"},"modified":"2002-08-20T12:45:01","modified_gmt":"2002-08-20T16:45:01","slug":"262","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/2002\/08\/262\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/pics\/toilet.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"oldblogthumb\" \/>Okay I know Im being cheeky and its not all British men, but why do so many of them love to spontaneously spit so much? I&#8217;m constantly having to dodge giant fermenting gob splats on the pavements and the offending snort-and-gob machines.<\/p>\n<p>They also seem to have no problem with peeing on any public building\/shop\/toilet\/beach\/church\/office on the way to and from the pub, at any time of day or night. Pungent fumes fill my bedroom every night when I open the windows to get some &#8216;fresh air&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;A few years back, British Telecom, as part of its &#8220;exciting&#8221; &#8220;new&#8221; look, decided to remove the country&rsquo;s distinctive red telephone kiosks. Admittedly, the kiosks had one basic flaw, which their designer, Sir Gilbert Scott, had not foreseen: The British were wont to use them as public toilets. This tended to discourage long phone calls. Nonetheless, the announcement of their demise prompted a public outcry: That&rsquo;s to say, the British denounced the removal of their red kiosks for about ten minutes and then found somewhere else to urinate late at night.&#8221; (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theamericanenterprise.org\/taema97y.htm\" rel=\"external\">source<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Okay I know Im being cheeky and its not all British men, but why do so many of them love to spontaneously spit so much? I&#8217;m constantly having to dodge giant fermenting gob splats on the pavements and the offending snort-and-gob machines. They also seem to have no problem with peeing on any public building\/shop\/toilet\/beach\/church\/office [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[212],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogalog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19073","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19073"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19073\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}