Holy Christ.
I mean…I just…
I don’t think I needed instruction to do that? I just do it? Because I like being clean?
Exhibit #100,000,000,067 on how bias hurts the biased also.
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You mean like Vegetarians?
Though I have never been through military basic training, I am reliably informed that a failure to wipe your bottom properly in the British military will attract considerable adverse comment from NCOs, and has done from long before they started to win awards for equality policies.
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What kind of houses do you frequent that have urinals?! I’ve been in a bunch of states, a couple of countries, and I don’t think I’ve EVER seen a urinal in a private home. I’ve seen them in places that used to be private homes but have been turned to public use, but… seriously? in a regular old 3 br split level suburban little boxes all the same house?
Question for you, when YOU are on high-horseback, do you sit on the saddle?
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Macho Skidmarkman, “I’ll be buggered if I wipe my arse!”
The way some folk see the world really makes me wonder if I’m not so odd after all.
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And diaper cream. If you start using it during the first part of the purge, it can eliminate a lot of irritation from the bile fluids touching skin, especially during the last part when you are pretty much expelling just bile.
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The Romans used sponges on sticks. They also had communal toilets. I guess if you were shy, retiring or worried about your masculinity it was a case of go in the woods, and perhaps get killed by a German or a Pict.
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Are they related to Karl Marks?
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tbh sometimes the chilliness helps get things a-flowing as a method of last resort.
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Let us not forget the eternal wisdom of the classic work Gargantua and Pantagruel, in which they discover that the best bum-wiping is to be done with the neck of a goose.
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Gargantua/Chapter_XIII
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How about "the toilet bowl has been extensively designed over a period of years to minimise the risk of transmission of infection and fungal or bacterial growth*, there is a reason for the lift up seat and you’re doing it wrong?
If you were a heroin addict, would you share needles? Seems pretty innocuous…to somebody totally ignorant of basic biochemistry.
*as has the design of the bathroom sink, the bath, faucets and the like. As is usual with such things, most people are totally ignorant of the amount of technical input needed to make them safe. Five years in the business was an eye opener.
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As an aside, at least one family of descendants of Karl do spell their name Marks these days. I knew them years ago when I lived in that part of the world. Really nice people. Despite the spelling change they still used to go and pay their respects at Highgate cemetery on his anniversary, sometimes being there at the same time as the delegation from the Soviet Embassy.
If one of them had taken up dragster racing I guess he could have been nicknamed “Skid” Marks.
I’m delighted to see the Urquehart/Motteux translation is available on Wikisource. I have the limited edition with the Papé drawings which I intend to leave to whichever grandchild I find most worthy, as having the most depraved sense of humour.
Rabelais was a physician who is supposed to have written to amuse his patients, while secretly promoting Protestantism (though not the Bible Belt variety, but the advanced intellectual progress variety). He appears to have been totally embarassment-proof. It’s a pity he isn’t around to let us have his thoughts on things like septic masculinity on Twitter.
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I was talking to a bloke who used to arrange homosexual parties and he said it was tricky finding enough “bottoms” (the receiving end as it were), but that “tops” were never in short supply.
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They aren’t even universal in the US. As of 2014, something like 1.6 million people didn’t have “complete indoor plumbing.” Hell, my sister once lived in a house that, while it had indoor toilets, she was the first resident who had them; previous residents had to use the outhouse.
Also: Misleading article title. This has nothing to do with “masculinity.” It’s neurosis.
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Not half as fun as the appointment itself, I bet!
The purge is by far the worst part of a colonoscopy; next time, that is the part I wanna be unconscious for.
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That ratio varies widely depending on the particular party.
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How is it defined? There are things like composting toilets which are perfectly OK to use in rural areas but are not “plumbed” in the usual sense, and may be in an outhouse. Many London houses had toilets in an attached outhouse which has now been incorporated into the main building with a bit of extra roof and wall; the gain in utility is not very great (except when it rains or snows, which is less often than foreigners think).
Alaska something something bears, but elsewhere it seems mainly rural areas.
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