Author: The Bathroom

This story has been all over the web. Here’s how the Daily Mirror (UK) tabloid saw it, with bits added by us. STAR’S RUDE REVELATION It can take her three hours to put on her outrageous outfits, so it’s no surprise Lady Gaga takes a short cut when she’s, er, caught short… If you’ve ever…

Let’s face it, what do you do if you get caught short on a train, and there aren’t any toilets around? It’s bad enough on a regular journey, even worse if  you get caught up in an emergency. However, in the Netherlands at least, they have found an answer in this report from the BBC:…

In many workplaces, people are often monitored by their managers on bathroom/toilet breaks. This news article picked from Metro UK looked at one manager who certainly had taken things too far. A factory boss who ordered women workers to wear a red sign around their necks when they wanted to use the toilet is facing…

A police officer’s normal shift is never routine. They can’t have a break by set times, and they often cannot just nip off to the toilet when they’re desperate. It’s worse when they have to cover demonstrations and riots. Their desperate plight is highlighted in an article from Metro (UK): Officers’ fury over lack of…

UK singer Charlotte Church had responded to earlier claims in the tabloids that she was filmed having sex with her boyfriend. From The Sun: Charlotte Church insists she was NOT having sex when she was filmed with her knickers around her knees- but was just caught short. The singer, 25, says she had been on…

From the current issue of Private Eye satirical magazine, found in the Funny Old World column: “The idea came to me during a city centre protest,” artist Marcel Walldorf told a press conference at the Academy of Fine Arts in Dresden, “when I thought about the riot cops who were there all day.”

Not a day goes by without people reading in newspapers about risks to our health and safety, as this article from freesheet Metro explains: