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He’ll skip the chocolate glaze.

Paul Kerouac is suing Dunkin’ Donuts after he says a toilet at a Florida outlet exploded while he was doing his business, leaving him traumatized and coated head-to-toe in poop.

Kerouac said the stomach-turning blast on Jan. 6, 2022, left him “covered with debris, including human feces and urine,” according to the lawsuit filed in Florida’s 9th Judicial District on Wednesday.

“Following the explosion of the toilet plaintiff emerged from the men’s room and sought assistance from employees and managers of [the] defendant’s business to clean himself, as he remained covered with human feces and urine after emerging from the men’s room,” the complaint says.

Making matters worse, Kerouac claims that workers at the Orange County coffee shop conceded they were aware there were “problems with the toilet.”

He’s asking the coffee giant to fork over $50,000 and legal fees, claiming that he now “requires mental health care and counseling as a direct result of the trauma he experiences in the restroom at defendant’s building, and from the continuing trauma following the event.”

Kerouac says the messy mishap left him suffering “bodily injury and psychological damages,” as well as “permanent and significant emotional injury, mental anguish, loss of the capacity for the enjoyment of life, expense of medical care and treatment.”

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A poster in the southern Spanish city of Seville that depicts a young, handsome Jesus wearing only a loincloth has unleashed a storm on social media, with some calling it an affront to the figure of Christ and others posting lewd remarks and memes poking fun at the image.

The poster by internationally recognized Seville artist Salustiano Garcia Cruz shows a fresh-faced Jesus without a crown of thorns, no suffering face and minuscule wounds on the hands and ribcage. It was commissioned and approved by the General Council of Brotherhoods, which organizes the renowned and immensely popular Holy Week processions ahead of Easter in Seville.

As soon as it was unveiled last week criticism of it went viral on social media and a debate erupted over how a resurrected Christ should be depicted. Many called it a disgrace, inappropriate, too pretty, modernist and out of line with Seville’s Easter tradition.

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In another interview published by El Mundo daily, Garcia responded to criticism from conservative groups that the depiction of Jesus was “effeminate” or “homoerotic.”

“A gay Christ because he looks sweet and is handsome, come on! We are in the 21st century,” Garcia said.