Where's the toilet: This hilarious Twitter thread will change the way you look at portraits
Oxford professor Jonathan Healey is behind this clean and hygienic post.
A picture, they say, speaks a thousand words. Understandably, different people hear different sets from those 1,000.
Jonathan Healey, an associate professor in Social History at Oxford University, recently took it upon himself to give voice to portraits of famous military generals, ranging from Antony to Napoleon, Alexander the Great to Churchill. He re-imagined these great commanders, whose exploits gave a new direction to history, performing another noble duty – giving those in need directions to the nearest toilet.
Healey started “Historical generals pointing out the toilets: a short thread”, on Twitter, and soon, more people joined in. Here is a collection of some of the most hilarious posts.
Historical generals pointing out the toilets: a short thread. pic.twitter.com/WYzsnRlszj
— Jonathan Healey (@SocialHistoryOx) January 5, 2018
Keppel is concerned that the toilets are quite some distance away and you look like you might be desperate. pic.twitter.com/Zbq4ShF3up
— Jonathan Healey (@SocialHistoryOx) January 5, 2018
Frederick the Great suggests that you go behind that bush over there. pic.twitter.com/DzuZvqjdHy
— Jonathan Healey (@SocialHistoryOx) January 5, 2018
Leclerc is cross, and thinks you should have gone before the battle started. pic.twitter.com/5ZhgmlSbjq
— Jonathan Healey (@SocialHistoryOx) January 5, 2018
Kleber is suspicious that you might actually need a poo, and wants you to go a long way away from him. pic.twitter.com/FYX85nKsOe
— Jonathan Healey (@SocialHistoryOx) January 5, 2018
Anthony wants Cleopatra to know that whilst weeing in a nearby pot is fine, there are also perfectly good toilets in the next room, and they have nice Molton Brown soap. pic.twitter.com/ks5mJDVAB9
— Jonathan Healey (@SocialHistoryOx) January 5, 2018
Soon, other good samaritans joined in.
Monty locates the only proper bogs in France; the rest are mere squat-holes, chaps. pic.twitter.com/LSUVxyFQP4
— Steve Tonkin #FBPE (@Tetenterre) January 6, 2018
Napoleon unsure about strategy: whether to go now while there is a break (but he doesn’t *quite* need to) or risk the whole sword/flag/cummerbund palaver later on pic.twitter.com/bb2yM6ibmZ
— Rebecca Lyons (@beccal100) January 6, 2018
Admiral Sir Charles Saunders points out you walked right past one and isn’t sure how you missed it pic.twitter.com/mXMLrDXy4U
— Matthew Willis (@NavalAirHistory) January 6, 2018
Women did not go unrepresented.
And Joan said ladies is over there pic.twitter.com/L4JXfJYdsW
— Gary A Ashley (@garyashley5) January 6, 2018