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Letter: Eat your words

Published 7 November 2012

From Bernard Cooke

Feedback hints at the problem faced by those with toilet systems that clog easily in phrasing delicately what may be placed in the pan (20 October). The captain of a cruise ship on which I recently travelled advised passengers succinctly that, other than toilet paper, if “you haven’t eaten it, don’t put it in the toilet”.

Bristol, UK

Issue no. 2890 published 10 November 2012

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