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Mon Mar 6, 11:30 PM ET

SYDNEY, Australia - Sturdier toilets may be on their way in Australia to cope with the country's increasingly obese population.

Standards Australia, a nongovernment group that establishes safety and design standards, is considering recommending strengthening loos for larger users, a spokeswoman said Tuesday.

Obesity levels have been rising for years in Australia.

Standards Australia spokeswoman Kate Evans said the current industry standard for toilet seats is just 100 pounds and that the group is looking to increase it to 330 pounds.

Experts will examine the seats "from the perspective that people are getting bigger," Evans said.

Steve Cummings, a committee member for Standards Australia and head of research and development at toilet maker Caroma Dorf, told Sydney tabloid The Daily Telegraph that toilet seats need to be strengthened for larger Australians.

"If you are going to sit on it, you want it to hold you," he said.

I do not know which is funnier, this article or the fact that someone in Australia thought this was newsworthy!

Fortunately, here in the States, we've been researching this problem for the last 20-30 years.
I'm sure we've got some big boy seats we could send 'em

Damn skip, the toilets even in POS restrooms are thick as loaves of bread man, and just as nasty..! Damn Australians, I tell ya...Sittin' on them seats shouldn't even be an issue..!

While I have no first hand knowledge of this, I think the "hover technique" would be prohibitively difficult once you start pushin 3 bills.

Does anybody even USE public toilets nowdays..? Other than the auto-cleaning ones in the ciry, LoL
Anyway, I'm sure my buttocks will fit in a toilet seat for a few years, so it shouldn't be an issue until then.. h

"toilet seats need to be strengthened for larger Australians.

"If you are going to sit on it, you want it to hold you," he said."

LMMFAO!!! I don't know why, but that shit seriously had me rolling... LOL