Imagine:
It’s 72 degrees, 9am, blue skies, green trees, you’re under just a bit of shade, there’s a cool, fresh breeze, and
shittingsitting on a bench like the one in the picture with your honey, both giggling while the sounds of a river directly underneath you sweep away and clean all the waste as birds chip and you both talk about something inane like how jjk is just naruto on adderall and what’s going to be for breakfast.We used to have it all
You didn’t mention the communal ass wiping sponge!
The scary part was the communal sponge
The navy called and want their head back.
Imagine if you’re taking a shit and a thicc brother sits beside you and now you are touching butts
Me using this in Roman times.
Roman 1: Is that poor guy dying?
Roman 2: No that’s just him every morning.
Romans had a lot of fiber in their diet from eating a lot of grains.
You misunderstand. I don’t have an issue with things not moving enough. Mine is moving too much.
Fiber helps with that as well.
My problems are beyond your fiber’s skills or magic. I was born with IBS and I will die with it.
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.
costco fiber pills
you don’t understand how bad it is until you do (not you specifically), I always just lived with it
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
water soluble powder
Oh god I’m having flashbacks… That shit is nasty.
Quit trying to kill me with your fiber! I assure you I have tried it. It doesn’t like me.
Ah, no need for a courtesy flush if there’s flowing water!
And shared a sponge stick to wash their ass.
Current research doesn’t support that.
Most likely, the sponge sticks were used as a toilet brush, and pieces of cloth were used to wipe.Source?
I don’t mean that in an “I don’t believe you” way.
I literally mean that in an “I majored in Archaeology and would be interested in reading that since it’s been more than 20 years since my knowledge was up to date.”
- Gilbert Wiplinger: “Der Gebrauch des Xylospongiums – eine neue Theorie zu den hygienischen Verhältnissen in römischen Latrinen”. In: SPA . SANITAS PER AQUAM. Tagungsband des Internationalen Frontinus-Symposiums zur Technik – und Kulturgeschichte der antiken Thermen Aachen, 18. – 22. März 2009. Frontinus-Gesellschaft e.V. & Peeters, Leiden 2012. ISBN 978-90-429-2661-5. pp. 295–304.
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xylospongium
Also “without privacy” is also in question, because you could use cloth partitions hanging from a rod; something known to be used in stadiums to separate class.
Afaik there’s an original source that makes fun of a guy who hung out on the toilet all day, hoping to strike up a conversation that’ll get him invited to dinner.
That would imply it was a social thing.It would imply that guy thought it was a social thing. Y’never know, maybe he was a weirdo even then. He could’ve been the proto-creeper whose descendants haunt public restrooms to this day.
You can do that in a stall. My proof that there were no curtains would be the temptation to wipe an ass on them. My guess is most people wore enough robes to cover up their stuff while sitting
Uh, it seems I haven’t kept up to date on butt wipe history.
Good to know, i had a hard time anyway believing that humans of any societal development stage would literally share a feces encrusted rag on a stick, to clean themselves. Certainly would be less nasty to just get up and leave without wiping at all.
They had running water there. My guess would be it was a rinse and share situation
i just assumed everyone is just grossed out by it regardless of whether they fucking cleaned it in bleach, there’s simply no way to make a shared sponge feel acceptable
The mistake is attributing modern social norms onto people from thousands of years ago.
We are all products of the conventions of our times.
less than 100 years ago, certain people were grossed out by sharing a diner counter with an African American. 300 years before that, some people thought that bathing was the cause of disease since it unclogged your pores and made you susceptible.
Just because you (and I…let’s be clear) think it’s gross today, doesn’t mean we would have back then.
This so much. I would use virtually anything else before I would willingly go near a public asshole cleaner.
Where’s the fun in that?
Cloth was not easy to make and what would they do with it?
you repurpose old fabric. same as with rags. as for what they’d do with it: likely wash and reuse them. same as with cloth diapers nowadays.
the alternatives would be leaves from certain plants or water and a hand.
This is my interpretation: They’d use scraps left over from making clothes, collect them in a bin and have slaves boil and wash them to re-use.
And it was likely a thing for rich people, the poor would just use their left hand and eat with the right.
Who…! Does! …… number 2…. Work… for!?!
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.
Faustinus: Corn for dinner last night, Octavius?
Octavious: No, what’s corn?
Marius: might want to see a doctor or a spiritual medium about that
When you think about it, this is what we do too today… Says I while I sit on the loo…
Our diets have changed, so the sponge has been replaced with the poop knife.
The great equalizer
old timey shit-together
still an upgrade from getting swifty
