{"id":1106,"date":"2019-12-13T13:26:05","date_gmt":"2019-12-13T13:26:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/subtext\/?p=1106"},"modified":"2019-12-16T18:50:15","modified_gmt":"2019-12-16T18:50:15","slug":"game-of-thrones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/subtext\/2019\/12\/13\/game-of-thrones\/","title":{"rendered":"GAME OF THRONES"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><span style=\"font-family: 'Courier New', monospace;font-size: 10pt;color: #000000\">A lighter note now. Your subtext correspondent was astonished to find a toilet seat in their building split in two, and even more so to find that a colleague in ISS had seen the same thing. Over decades of toilet use, neither had ever seen such a thing before. They wondered just what the scale of the problem might be, so did the only natural thing: issued an FoI request to the University asking how many toilet seats they had got through over the last few years.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: 'Courier New', monospace;font-size: 10pt;color: #000000\">In 2016, the University purchased 337 seats. In 2017, 271. In 2018, 163. University residents and visitors do appear to be getting less destructive in their sitting, but 163 is still almost one every two days.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Courier New', monospace;font-size: 10pt;color: #000000\">Just who are the granite-bottomed monsters responsible for this overlooked slaughter?<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A lighter note now. Your subtext correspondent was astonished to find a toilet seat in their building split in two, and even more so to find that a colleague in ISS had seen the same thing. Over decades of toilet &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/subtext\/2019\/12\/13\/game-of-thrones\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":568,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[205],"tags":[161,13,76,537],"class_list":["post-1106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newsflash","tag-comedy","tag-facilities","tag-freedom-of-information","tag-issue-191"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p99sHo-hQ","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1232,"url":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/subtext\/2020\/03\/27\/subtext-presents-a-solution-to-toilet-paper-shortage\/","url_meta":{"origin":1106,"position":0},"title":"SUBTEXT PRESENTS: A SOLUTION TO TOILET PAPER SHORTAGE","author":"Johnny Unger","date":"March 27 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"1) Receive this latest issue of subtext 2) Print off this latest issue of subtext 3) Problem solved","rel":"","context":"In &quot;special feature&quot;","block_context":{"text":"special feature","link":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/subtext\/category\/special-feature\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":94,"url":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/subtext\/2017\/10\/12\/the-building-plot-thickens\/","url_meta":{"origin":1106,"position":1},"title":"THE (BUILDING) PLOT THICKENS","author":"Johnny Unger","date":"October 12 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"The University continues to resemble a building site, as rumours continue to circulate about a completion date - the latest word to reach the subtext warehouse is sometime in September 2018. 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