Author’s Remarks:
You can, of course, if you so wish dismiss this poem simply as toilet humour, which naturally is your entitlement to do. But for me: a very staunch and an assuredly ongoing hygienist all my life, there’s a serious purpose to this poem that I’ve most consciously written.
Personal hygiene, unfortunately I have to say, isn’t a very strong point or customary practice in public facilities across Britain, and with many Britons – and you rightly know this – very much involved in that repulsive state of affairs. Public toilets and restaurants being two amongst other venues that are wholly culpable in this; and one dreads to think of what actually goes on in many private UK homes.
Particularly so, when it’s well documented that significant numbers of British children of normal school age are turning up for school and the classes therein but who themselves have not even been properly potty-trained.
This conjoined with what is the customary situation in Britain – and please don’t try to deny this as the visible proof is there for anyone with eyes to see – where the routine washing of one’s hands after using the toilet is a rarity for many Brits; and consequently is on a par with winning the Euro-Millions jackpot lottery. So do something positive about your unhygienic practices, please!