My most embarrassing university memory? Sitting on a toilet for a day

Unquestionably the most embarrassing thing I did at university was to attempt a world record for sitting on the lavatory. The miserable porcelain beast was established on a platform at the entrance to the student union. I sat on it with my trousers round my ankles for 24 hours. A screen was dragged around me on the thankfully rare occasions when I actually needed to "go". We raised £1,200 for the somewhat self-indulgent cause of an overland exchange with students in India. At the end of it

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