it's a funny old world ....

Not being too concerned with the global meltdown, Dutch National Railways have been concentrating their managerial efforts on a more pressing domestic issue, trains without toilets.

Being careful to reassure people that no particular incident has led them to address this issue, they have announced that toilet-less commuter trains are to start carrying emergency plastic bags that people can urinate into. 

The idea being that if your train breaks down somewhere for a few hours then, stranded passengers can somehow, somewhere use these so called 'wee bags ' to alleviate themselves.

A report by the BBC says that these so called 'wee bags' are made by a firm called Travel John (!)  and  are attached ' to a spout and filled with a powdered substance that turns into a gel'.

Any one not lucky enough to be stranded on a dutch train can buy their own wee bag from Amazon for just over a fiver, or fourteen quid for a pack of six if you're a frequent traveller ( or drink a lot )