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Feedback: Plumbing to be proud of

6 August 2014

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Plumbing to be proud of

FEEDBACK’S random-access piling system has thrown up Wayne Plummer’s intriguing photograph of a sign in a hotel in Saffron Walden, UK. “This en-suite bathroom,” it declares, “is fitted with a Saniflow toilet which will not allow alien products to pass through its system…”

Has the European Space Agency been informed of this advanced detector of extraterrestrial matter?

Max Lang was the first reader to forward a photo of a sign in a cycleway reading “Caution: signage in…

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