19 November is World Toilet Day...

[HarryKuntz]

...a day to celebrate the humble, yet vitally important, toilet and to raise awareness of the global sanitation crisis.

Imagine life without a toilet. No toilets in your home or at work, no public toilets, no toilets anywhere. Imagine the mess. Imagine the disease.

http://http://www.wateraid.org/uk/ge...ay/default.asp

[HarryKuntz]

wouldn't it be shitty!

[Automatic Monkey]

Originally Posted by HarryKuntz

...a day to celebrate the humble, yet vitally important, toilet and to raise awareness of the global sanitation crisis.

Imagine life without a toilet. No toilets in your home or at work, no public toilets, no toilets anywhere. Imagine the mess. Imagine the disease.

http://http://www.wateraid.org/uk/ge...ay/default.asp

There was life before toilets. It was a bit messier, and there usually had to be people assigned to human waste handling, but rural people were already accustomed to handling manure so it was manageable. I'm glad for toilets, though.

[newb99]

I've read in a couple of places that the humble toilet - the enamel WC thingy with the seat with a hole in it - is largely responsible for the common Western medical complaint of haemarroids, and that they're virtually unheard of in third world countries (where people squat over holes). There's also the issue of the obscene amount of drinkable water used across the world every day to flush them.

So perhaps there's a price to pay for the convenience of a convenience.

Now they're some thoughts.

:-)

[Automatic Monkey]

Originally Posted by newb99

I've read in a couple of places that the humble toilet - the enamel WC thingy with the seat with a hole in it - is largely responsible for the common Western medical complaint of haemarroids, and that they're virtually unheard of in third world countries (where people squat over holes). There's also the issue of the obscene amount of drinkable water used across the world every day to flush them.

So perhaps there's a price to pay for the convenience of a convenience.

Now they're some thoughts.

:-)

I'll take the hemorrhoids. The Third Worlders don't live long enough to get hemorrhoids, but most of them will die of communicable disease. Millions of people a year die of contagious diarrheas alone. Western sanitation would prevent this.

[BigEd]

I guess you think Japan is third world huh! I wounder why they outlive us?

Originally Posted by Automatic Monkey

I'll take the hemorrhoids. The Third Worlders don't live long enough to get hemorrhoids, but most of them will die of communicable disease. Millions of people a year die of contagious diarrheas alone. Western sanitation would prevent this.

[glovesetc]

I used to squat all the time and it rally pissed me off . I would drop a dump and it would hit the water and splash up and all over the place .

[Automatic Monkey]

Originally Posted by BigEd

I guess you think Japan is third world huh! I wounder why they outlive us?

Genetics. Japanese-Americans live just as long as Japanese, and in America they use a toilet just like the rest of us.

[zengrifter]

Originally Posted by BigEd

I guess you think Japan is third world huh! I wounder why they outlive us?

They have a superior diet - includes more veggies and lots of omega3-rich fish.
They are exposed to more pollution and they smoke more and they still live longer. zg

[aslan]

The previous two posts are at odds. What's the real skinny on Japanese longevity? Genes or greens?