London gets huge Defecator Enthroned statue for World Toilet Week
Your face can be on it, if you GiveAShit. Excrement!
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A giant squatting man has been erected outside the offices of the London mayor in a bid to raise "awareness" of the toilet.
The 5-metre high squatting figure next to London's Tower Bridge turns its head to look at passersby and on its face - comprising four large screens - the bending statue hosts photos of members of the public. People who want to be seen giving a crap can sign up via Facebook and do their bit for the loo.
The Public Toilet installation
A stunt for "breaking the taboo around toilets" and raising awareness of sanitation, the statue will remain on Boris Johnson's front lawn for the duration of World Toilet Week this week, from 17 to 21 November.
It's not a realistic depiction of a pooing man, looking more like a glued-together selection of white Rubix cubes, but the technical achievement of the Public Toilet statue is to pull in crowd-sourced images of members of the public.
If you like, you can go and look at the statue at the time when your face will be displayed on it. Alternatively, you can watch the passersby looking at it on the live webcam.
Sign up over on Facebook here. You can't suggest another person, sadly.
Boris, on his official Twitter account at least, has made no remark on the statue.
Key World Toilet Week facts:
One in three people globally have no access to a toilet
1.1 billion people defecate in the open
Diarrhoeal disease is the number two cause of child death worldwide
1 gram of poo is home to 10 million viruses, 1 million bacteria, 1k parasites and 100 worm eggs
An estimated 10 grams of fecal matter are consumed a day by people without a toilet
More people die from disease caused by not having a toilet than from HIV/Aids, malaria and TB combined
Toilets have added 20 years to the human lifespan over the past two centuries, claiming the title of the invention of the past 200 years that has saved most people's lives
More people have a mobile phone than a toilet
The campaign, IGiveAShit can be found here. ®
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COMMENTS
Meanwhile, on the other side of the river...
There is a tiny little memorial no-one knows about, to a man called Joseph Bazalgette who led the construction of London's sewer system, the very first modern one, saving countless lives by eliminating cholera and other diseases.while turning the Thames back into a river only brown from mud rather than human faeces.
But it would never do to promote the achievements of a white male engineer when there's FACEBOOK available.
Re: Meanwhile, on the other side of the river...
Bazalgette's was a truly great achievement, so sad his descendants now pump cr*p back into London via the TV set :(
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