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Saturday 19 Nov 2016



Have A Bad Day Day

There’s nothing wrong or evil about having a bad day. There’s everything wrong with making others have to have it… with you. – Neil Cavuto

And that, ladies and germs, is precisely why you should embrace the glory that is “Have a Bad Day Day”. When you’re having a bad day, you shouldn’t have to suffer alone, so wish everyone you meet “Have a Bad Day”, but do it with the brightest, cheeriest smile you can put on your face.

Chaos, my friends, is the heart of the revolution, and all revolutions started on a Bad Day.

History of Have a Bad Day Day

There’s a job out there that ensures that you’re going to have a Bad Day, possibly dozens of times a day.

What job is that?

Anything in the customer service industry. If you’ve never worked in the customer service industry it’s important to understand that your soul is impeccably clean, and you’ve never truly known a day of suffering.

We are all customers at some point in our lives, and unfortunately, that means that we all join the ranks of the truly walking dead. Retail customers, be afraid friends, be afraid.

But Have a Bad Day Day gives our heroes in the customer service industry a chance to strike back… Every agent has to end their spiel, no matter how rotten the customer was, with the phrase “Have a Nice Day!”, but on Have a Bad Day Day, they get a reprieve from this monotonous platitude and get to instead assail their customers with that most delightful of passive- aggressive phrases.

“Have a Bad Day!” announced in the cheeriest tone they can manage, and then they revel in the confusion as their customers try to make out whether or not they’ve just been insulted.

They’ll never know.

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World Toilet Day



World Toilet Day…at first glance, this seems like an unlikely candidate for a holiday and more like some sort of joke, but the day is nowhere as trivial or humorous as it may seem.

All in all, it strives to draw attention to various sanitation issues around the world and work towards resolving them. Despite access to proper sanitation being declared a basic human right, one in three people across the globe, so some 2.5 billion people in total, do not have regular access to a toilet.

Additionally, even amongst those who do have such access, unclean and unsafe toilets pose problems of their own, including contributing towards the spread of diseases like cholera, typhoid and hepatitis—in some parts of Africa, diarrhoea is one of the main child-killers.

Open defecation is also responsible for increasing the number of sexual assaults perpetrated on women and children.

Furthermore, when young girls begin menstruating, the lack of privacy forces them to stay home from school, thus limiting their chances of getting a basic education and, what comes after that, a decent job in the future.

World Toilet Day’s ultimate goal is to allow everyone on the planet to take care of their most basic needs without having to fear for their safety.

The History of World Toilet Day World

Toilet Day was created by the World Toilet Organization in 2001. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon of the United Nations said: “We have a moral imperative to end open defecation and a duty to ensure women and girls are not at risk of assault and rape simply because they lack a sanitation facility.”

He went on to talk about how having to defecate openly infringes on human safety and dignity, and how women and girls risk rape and abuse as they wait until night falls to relieve themselves because they lack of access to a toilet that offers privacy.

Another issue is that toilets generally remain inadequate for populations with special needs, such as the disabled and elderly.

Since its inception, World Toilet Day has played a vital role in challenging governments, businesses and other groups to make changes. It has also worked towards breaking various taboos surrounding the topic, in order to facilitate discussion and lead to the creation of better, safer solutions.

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November 19 Birthdays


Calvin Klein - 74



Jodie Foster - 54



Meg Ryan - 55



Larry King - 83



Indira Gandhi - (1917-1984)



James A. Garfield - (1831-1881)



Ted Turner - 78








November 19th

2007: Quiet Riot singer Kevin DuBrow died of an accidental cocaine overdose at his home in Las Vegas, NV. His body was discovered six days later. He was 52 years old.

1998: Motley Crue opened their retail store S’crue in Los Angeles on Melrose Avenue. The store would close two months later.

1994: Nirvana entered the Billboard 200 Album Chart at number one with MTV Unplugged in New York which went on to sell five million copies in the U.S.

1994: Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers appeared on Saturday Night Live with Nirvana drummer Dave Grohl filling in on drums. On the same day Petty entered the Billboard 200 Album Chart at its peak position of number eight with his second solo album Wildflowers which went on to sell three million copies in the U.S.

1988: Bon Jovi reached the top of the Billboard Hot 100 Singles Chart for the third time as “Bad Medicine” began a two week run at number one.

1983: Quiet Riot peaked at number five on the Billboard Hot 100 Singles Chart with their cover of Slade’s “Cum on Feel the Noize” which was their first and only top ten single in the U.S.

1983: Loverboy made their first and only appearance on Saturday Night Live where they performed “Working for the Weekend”.

1975: The J. Geils Band recorded their second live album Blow Your Face Out during a concert at Cobo Hall in Detroit. Portions of the live album were also recorded four nights earlier at Boston Garden.

1965: During The Who’s set in London on a bill with The Kinks, The Hollies and Wilson Pickett, Roger Daltrey stormed offstage and quit the band after they experienced trouble with their P.A. Daltrey would shortly return to the group.



Birthdays:

Matt Sorum - Drummer for The Cult, Guns N’ Roses and Velvet Revolver born in 1960