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IamNobuddy@lemmy.world to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 months ago

TIL ancient Romans used communal toilets—stone benches with keyhole-shaped holes—where people sat side by side without privacy, chatting while waste drained beneath them using flowing water.

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TIL ancient Romans used communal toilets—stone benches with keyhole-shaped holes—where people sat side by side without privacy, chatting while waste drained beneath them using flowing water.

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IamNobuddy@lemmy.world to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 months ago
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Toilets in Ancient Times: Hygiene and Poop Practices Explained
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Discover how ancient toilet tech evolved into today’s sewage systems, and why 4.2 billion people still lack safe sanitation.
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    mistakes were made

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    Imagine if you’re taking a shit and a thicc brother sits beside you and now you are touching butts

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      Don’t stop!

      I’m almost there…

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    The navy called and want their head back.

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    still an upgrade from getting swifty

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    Ah, no need for a courtesy flush if there’s flowing water!

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    Me using this in Roman times.

    Roman 1: Is that poor guy dying?

    Roman 2: No that’s just him every morning.

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      Romans had a lot of fiber in their diet from eating a lot of grains.

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        You misunderstand. I don’t have an issue with things not moving enough. Mine is moving too much.

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          Fiber helps with that as well.

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            My problems are beyond your fiber’s skills or magic. I was born with IBS and I will die with it.

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              No I’m pretty sure fiber will fix it

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              True. If your gut has decided that its purpose is to hate you and everything you eat, then no amount of fiber will convince it otherwise.

              IBS isn’t always lifelong though. I hope you can work out a diet that avoids angering the growling intenstinal gremlins.

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              costco fiber pills

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              but these pills literally changed my life

              it pretty much resolved my ibs, eating fiber and the water soluble powder never did a thing for me but these pills have been magic

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                Quit trying to kill me with your fiber! I assure you I have tried it. It doesn’t like me.

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                water soluble powder

                Oh god I’m having flashbacks… That shit is nasty.

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                  deleted by creator

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            Instructions unclear, I still have diarrhea but now with 10Gbps internet

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    When you think about it, this is what we do too today… Says I while I sit on the loo…

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      Our diets have changed, so the sponge has been replaced with the poop knife.

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    Love me some co-op shitting

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    Hey, does my poop look right to you?

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    old timey shit-together

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    And shared a sponge stick to wash their ass.

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    my family’s old farmhouse has communal outhouses. this was the norm until like 150-200 years ago, and was still common here into the early 1900s.

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      150?

      Try 60

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    Some places in China still have the shitter trough. Pro tip is to sit upstream or else it all goes by you. Last time I went in one of though was in a smaller* town’s bus station. Still cracks me up that two uncles were both using it and one of them got up and turned to the other and said 慢慢拉. This phrase is typically used for something like 慢慢来 to mean take your time but he used it to say poo slowly or take your time pooing. Makes it even better that these squat stalls on the trough were like four feet tall so when you stand up you can see everyone.

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      Also makes me think of my father’s story from playing football in college. The toilets were facing each other with no stalls so men setup a table and played chess as they pooped. Simpler times.

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        How long are these people pooping for??

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          Maybe it’s a quick game. They gotta get back on the field

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    I haven’t seen one in a while but a “two hole drop” is a rural Australian long drop toilet. One bench seat with two pooping holes in it.

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      In the US that’s called a two seater

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        Dual wielding

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    The scary part was the communal sponge

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      You wanted to be first in line for the new sponge, that’s for sure.

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      If there is flowing water beneath just rinse it

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        Flowing water with bobbing turds.

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