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Re:India Is Winning Its War on Human Waste by eru on Wednesday April 26, 2017 @05:36PM (#14207231)
The Wikipedia article you linked says that the lotus flower shape was rejected as well.
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Re:India Is Winning Its War on Human Waste by jellyd0ts on Wednesday April 26, 2017 @05:52PM (#14207378)
I don't know what he meant with "Dice.", but after that he did say that it was fish-shaped ingots that worked out.

Does dice tend to mean success in this scenario?

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Re:India Is Winning Its War on Human Waste by arfar on Wednesday April 26, 2017 @06:09PM (#14207508)
It could be a typo. "no dice" is an idiom in English for an "unfavorable result".

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/no_dice

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Re:India Is Winning Its War on Human Waste by Larrikin on Wednesday April 26, 2017 @06:01PM (#14207449)
The phrase is "No dice"
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