This lovely set of instructions on how to use the toilet appeared in our professors' bathroom today.
I'm wondering if the person who felt the need to tell professors not to urinate on the floor and leave the bathroom seat up for some unfathomable reason could first figure out that "every time" are two separate words.
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I've often heard that Professors exist in their own little worlds, oblivious to the reality around them. However, it's more than a little disturbing that someone felt that this reminder was necessary.
Rather than be concerned about their misuse of English - I would be more concerned with what prompted the posting. Perhaps your colleagues aren't as fastidious as one would hope from educated professionals.
Professors have territorial anxieties.
Ol.
Emerging from the desire to dismantle progressive movements that privilege assimilation to one school of thought over another, we ask you not to piss on the damned floor.
The bathroom is also used by disabled people, so maybe a disabled person had an accident or something. But the professors don't pee on the floor. They just pee on each other's doors as I wrote recently.. :-)
I'm tempted to print out Jonathan's version of the announcement and put it up on the bathroom wall.
My money is on the janitor putting it up.
Have you checked to see whether the students' bathrooms have the same sign?
That's a good suggestion, actually.
Maybe I should do it after the classes end and everybody leaves. I usually feel very uncomfortable about going into student bathrooms.
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