Is this what Eton Mess is? The school is closed because the sewers nearby can’t cope with over 1,000 boys taking care of their morning business.

Of course, the bathroom situation at Eton is not the United Kingdom’s most pressing issue. But the incongruity of such a grand institution being laid low by a mundane problem could not help but attract some smiles here and there.

Indeed it does. Thoughts and prayers to all those poor wealthy parents who have to raise their sons themselves for a while.