Having worked at a wal-mart, I can tell you that the toilet bowl seems to be a strange and confusing plumbing mystery to a great many people, who then become distressed and shit all over the walls and tear off the door.

That was my experience with retail as well, and I'm assuming pretty much anywhere with a public restroom. Everyday was a swastika and a turd somewhere neither belonged. (For future reference, they both belong in toilets.)

When I was 16 I worked for a grocery chain in Tennessee called Food City, and being the most expendable, I was called in to the bathroom to clean up a mess. When I got in there, I found a Hillshire Farms Summer Sausage sized turd inside and coming OUT of the toilet. I can't even imagine the colon on the guy who made it.

So I got my manager for advice and tools for... getting it back down the toilet, and she later came out of the break room with a set of plastic cutlery. I ended up having to cut the massive thing into slices with a plastic butter knife while holding it in place with a fork. It went down after repeated flushings, but I will never eat meatloaf again.

I worked at a local fast food joint when I was in highschool. We had a single-occupant bathroom setup, which gave customers more privacy but also encouraged pranks. One night, two particularly methed-out looking individuals grabbed the men's bathroom key and disappeared together for ten, maybe fifteen minutes. Now I thought that was kinda weird, since it was a single-occupant bathroom and two methheads going in there together?

So after they left I went to the bathroom to check out what had happened. Somehow, they'd managed to shit on the toilet seat, on the floor behind the toilet, in the sink, on the wall behind the toilet, and the piece-de-resistance, a massive steaming pile in the corner of the room, which they'd then proceeded to smash and flatten with the bathroom's metal trashcan. The splatter pattern reached three feet up the wall in some places.

I didn't say a word. I snuck out and feigned ignorance, and later, my best friend found it and had to clean it up.

Sadness.

But I can see that already!

Nothing. You can't see ghosts, even of the living dead.

You're asking WAY too much, there, sport. I can give you... maybe a Y, but that's it; I got kids that have to spell stuff, too, so go out and earn the rest of 'em yourself.

Abolitionists eventually defeated slavery. Maybe anti-capitalists can one day achieve something.

The onus is upon the government and industry to regulate things like this. Most consumers are just trying to reconcile a semblance of their and their family's former lifestyle to their wallets.

We do still have a huge manufacturing sector. If China and the rest of the world had the same or better minimum wage laws America has, it still wouldn't change much; it would just mean it would be more economically feasible to have robots sew your undergarments.

Except what a lot of the people (or at least the Republicans pushing for more tax cuts for the rich) don't get is that without money, nobody would buy the stuff the robots make. If jobs and income are taken away, you have no consumer base, and even if you make the products for a fraction of their current price, you won't have the consumers with disposable cash to buy it.

I agree with you Kleenex, but I think manufacturing jobs are a lost cause. Anything assembly line can either be done by a relatively unskilled worker or automation if workers are expensive enough in comparison.

If the citizens of western nations want to continue to live the lifestyles we've become accustom to, then we need real investments in real education, and jobs that aren't two steps up from sorting glass on a conveyer belt.

Otherwise, we have to compete with workers in poor nations who are happy to have any job that keeps them from subsistance farming.