Posted on 08/05/2009 6:57:32 PM PDT by DogByte6RER
The Girl from 'Impeenema'
A TV ad campaign in Brazil urges folks to urinate in the shower to conserve water ... and save the rain forests.
No matter how long we stay in or what kind of showerhead we use, we all have unique shower routines and rituals, some more complex than others. The Brazilian environmental group SOS Mata Altantica, via a cute, kid-oriented TV ad campaign called "Xixi no Banho," suggests that citizens add one more task to their soaping-up, shampooing, conditioning and shaving routines — peeing.
The group believes that by adding a yellow stream to the morning's shower, one toilet flush can be prevented. If one flush is avoided each day in a single household, 4,380 liters (1,157 gallons) of water is saved per year.
As you'll see in the below, um, "PeeSA," Gandhi, Michael Jordan and Alfred Hitchcock are portrayed emptying their bladders while rinsing off. Now if that's not inspiration for young Brazilians to tinkle in the tub, I don't know what is.
(Excerpt) Read more at mnn.com ...
Comments
Posted By Anonymous - Wed, Aug 05 2009 at 4:41 PM EST
PEE
I've been doing this my whole life, and I'm American. What of it? Pee in the drain. When it's fresh it's sterile. I really don't see what makes this so disgusting.
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Posted By Anonymous - Wed, Aug 05 2009 at 4:23 PM EST
what's the big deal?
You Americans are really funny. I don't see what the big deal is. I always peed in the shower. Never had fungus, athlete's foot or anything of the kind. Eating McDonald's hamburgers is way more disgusting. Over half of the US population eats crap in their meat and now "oh, peeing in the shower! disgusting! Let's weigh 300 lbs, but peeing in the shower? no way!". Besides, this advertisement does not mean all 190 million Brazilians agree with that. Of course I'm siding with my native country, But since I live in California, my peeing in the shower saves water here :) You're welcome!
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Posted By Anonymous - Wed, Aug 05 2009 at 6:14 PM EST
Mellow Yellow
Peeing in shower better than eating McDonald's hamburgers? I say drinking urine is probably better for you than eating a McDonald's hamburger! I'm an American who pees in the shower AND (since I pee more often than I shower) follows the rule: If it's yellow, it's mellow. If it's brown, flush it down.
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Posted By Anonymous - Wed, Aug 05 2009 at 7:22 PM EST
correction
Just a slight correction, for future purposes. The phrase is actually:
If it's yellow, LET it mellow. If it's brown, flush it down.
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Posted By Anonymous - Wed, Aug 05 2009 at 3:48 PM EST
Athletes Foot
I've been peeing in the shower for as long as I can remember. I pee right on my feet. I never get athletes foot.
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Posted By Anonymous - Wed, Aug 05 2009 at 3:40 PM EST
Leprosy
Peeing in the shower will not increase the rate of leprosy. Most people are immune to leprosy and it is not highly contagious. Further, a lot of the symptoms traditionally believed about leprosy are wrong. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leprosy
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Posted By Anonymous - Wed, Aug 05 2009 at 3:32 PM EST
What about the first movement of the day?
Suddenly, it doesn't seem like such a great idea.
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Posted By Ritch - Wed, Aug 05 2009 at 3:17 PM EST
Leprosy
guess this will help with the high rate of leprosy in brazil....
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Lepra_2003.png
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Posted By Anonymous - Wed, Aug 05 2009 at 7:26 PM EST
Wrong
You are definitely out of the loop and incorrect. I am glad I studied abroad and lived in Brazil last year, to attest to the fact that you are indefinitely incorrect by making such an outlandish statement. Where's the diplomacy?
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Posted By Anonymous - Wed, Aug 05 2009 at 4:32 PM EST
have you ever been there, moron?
The high rate of leprosy does not have anything to do with peeing in the shower. Have you been to Brazil? I lived there for the first 26 years of my life, so I know what I'm talking about. Unfortunately, Brazil still struggles with poverty, which leads to lack of information, education and access to health care. Therefore, many people end up looking for help when it is too late and the disease is fully developed. You know, I love California, where I currently live, and I've come to love and admire several American people I've met, but it is people like you who really upset me with their lack of information and single-minded judgment.
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Posted By Anonymous - Wed, Aug 05 2009 at 3:14 PM EST
while your at it...
piss in the sink too!
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Posted By Anonymous - Wed, Aug 05 2009 at 3:03 PM EST
Seinfeld
Don't tell George Costanza.
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Posted By Anonymous - Wed, Aug 05 2009 at 3:15 PM EST
Pipes
It's all piples, what's the difference!?
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Posted By Anonymous - Wed, Aug 05 2009 at 2:55 PM EST
hot water
makes me piss anyone else??
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Posted By Anonymous - Wed, Aug 05 2009 at 2:25 PM EST
Behind
Way ahead of you Brazil!
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Posted By Rodney Stone - Wed, Aug 05 2009 at 2:18 PM EST
well
I pissed in the shower before it was cool.
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Posted By RHS - Wed, Aug 05 2009 at 2:11 PM EST
Eveyone does it
Ping...
You may want to comment on this.
Kills athletes foot
“Haters want to hate, lovers want to love, I don’t want none of the above, I want to piss on you...scooby doo...”
Wouldn’t it save even more water if they just went outside and peed and showered in the rain? ;)
Oh yeah...
Does anybody really thin that Al Gore does this? Weird!
I’d be willing to bet thousands of people here do this anyway.
How many will admit to it?
Bottom line, peeing in the shower is the last thing you'd worry about. Typically I'm more worried about the loose wires connected to that dang hot water thingy and getting fried in the process. If I had pants on I'd piss them in the shower...
Brasilian shower thread ping!
Don’t pee on my feet and tell me it’s showering
Doesn’t everybody?
You would not beleive most of the showerheads in Brazil. I like the place, but having dangling wires with a 220Volt little UNGROUNDED water heater connected to water right over your head is scary (few places have hot water). Maybe its shocking the pee out of em.
It’s called multitasking. ;-)
Now I have that frikin’ song going through my head just like after listening to Rush on the Mark Sanford babe!
Sing it Frankie!... (I’m in the shower)
Tall and tan and young and lovely
The girl from Ipanema goes walking
And when she passes, each one she passes goes - ah!
Damn! Since when is my shower golden?
95% of those who say they don't are lying.
“Pee .... all that you can pee! .......”
If it’s good enough for Madonna.
Considering the fact that the low flush toilets only use 1-2 gallons/water per flush while your average shower uses a lot more water than that. I don’t see there’s much water savings here. One gallon/day is supposed to be something?!
Probably depends some on how much you pay for water, or what capacity your well has.
Didn’t George Costanza and Elaine had a debate about this in a Seinfeld episode?
I don’t see what the problem is. The PVC Schedule 40 from the shower drain meets up with the toilet drain pipe about 16 inches away from the shower. It goes to the same place.
So it’s like another activity then?
The great wild world of your backyard awaits you.
And it doesn't use any water at all.
I'm peeeeing in the rain,
Just peeing in the rain.
What a glorious feelin'
I'm happy again.
( ^ 8 }
The deck works for me. My water bill was down a dollar this month.
Athletes Foot
I’ve been peeing in the shower for as long as I can remember. I pee right on my feet. I never get athletes foot.
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This is hysterical - thanks for posting! :)
It’s threads like this that really piss me off.
Uh, BRB....
I have to go pee on a tree.
At least they’re not doing the whole Triple S in the shower
More encouragement for people to pee in swimming pools. Great.
Get over your “inhibitions”.
REAL environmentalists would poo poo the idea of taking showers altogether.
You can take a BATH once a week and each family member can take turns reusing the bathwater that has been drawn. Please don’t pee in the bathwater...
Kramer: “Well, thank you.”
Elaine: “Here's to Peggy, on her first week of being germ-free, free.”
[all four make toast]
Kramer: “Yeah. And here's to David Puddy for helping me install a much needed and much appreciated garbage disposal in my bathtub.”
[all four make another toast]
Peggy: “You have a garbage disposal in your bathtub?”
Kramer: “Oh, yeah, and I use it all the time. Yeah, I made this whole meal in there.”
Elaine: “This food was in the shower with you?”
Kramer: “Mm-hmm. I prepared it as I bathed.”
[Peggy, Elaine, and Puddy all gag and wretch]
Puddy: “Oh, germs. Germs. Germs!”
< /seinfeld >
Try millions.
Good point! From now on, to conserve water, I will be bathing in my toilet!
(Now if the the neighbors would just quit complaining.) ;-)
I decreased my pool-to-toilet trips by simply peeing off my balcony. It was awesome, I felt like a little kid again, except I was a kid with guns awaiting the looters, while drinking warm beer.
I never asked my downstairs neighbors what they felt like, but they were probably a little sad that their plants died from all the uric acid.
I can't find the links, but IIRC, there was a science experiment some time ago that found out that restaurant toilets were cleaner than the restaurant ice makers. Another study supposedly showed that people clean their toilets more than they clean their kitchen sinks or bathtubs.
I meant thousands on Free Republic alone.
I’m pretty sure it’s well, well, well into the millions in the U.S.
Peeing in the shower while showering is one thing.. going in to the shower to pee is another
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