Posted on 11/24/2015 2:37:43 PM PST by Angels27
Did you celebrate World Toilet Day? The recent holiday is a good reminder to rejoice as you read this article on your phone, maybe even while sitting comfortably on a modern, porcelain toilet, which flushes with water so crystalline clean you could, in hard times, drink it without too much fear of dying. (We do not recommend doing that, by the way.)
Going to the toilet wasn't always such a pleasant, risk-free experience for everyone, and even today, many people in America still go without proper sanitation. As recently as 1990, the rural stereotype of dropping trou in a shack out back was a reality for more than 1.1 million American households. If you think that's a lot of people, here's a little math for you. That represented 0.04 percent of the U.S. population back in 1990. Right here in 2015, a full 13 percent of the entire world's population are still living without access to an improved sanitation facility and are forced to defecate in the open. That's close to a billion people.
(Excerpt) Read more at theweek.com ...
I personally believe, that US Americans don’t have toilets. Therefore such as...
“Right here in 2015, a full 13 percent of the entire world’s population are still living without access to an improved sanitation facility and are forced to defecate in the open.”
Who exactly is forcing them?!?
Is there a man with a gun following them around saying “don’t you even think about digging that septic tank...”?
LOL
How could you post something like that?
That man is NOT WEARING A SEAT BELT!!!!
My first thought was to a woman I knew 30+ years ago. She spent some HS time somewhere in Idaho, and said the local paper had a big spread on the "decommissioning" of the last outhouse in the area.
It’s about 0.4 percent not 0.04 percent.
"Here in the embassy, we've installed a device to make our toilet flush the correct, American way!"
Decomissioning? Was there a ceremony with local dignitaries in attendance?
We have a family shack in the north woods of Minnesota. It had an outhouse for almost 60 years. With my mom and dad inheriting it, and them getting older, dad was going to add on a little room for a “mud room” (entry) and a bathroom.
Before one can make any improvements you need to get a survey done. So dad gets a survey done and it shows the lot line farther over onto the one neighbor’s property. The neighbor sees the stakes and wonders what the heck is going on.
So the neighbor hires a surveyor (or maybe my dad got another survey?) - and it now shows the lot line way over onto the other neighbor’s - and cutting off about a foot of OUR shack!
Dad got another survey done - and that ended up somewhere else.
So now it has been almost 100 years that it has an outhouse. Although the new one we put in 20 years ago is all cedar, with a gabled cedar-shack roof! (Although not a double seater like the old one.) Also it just sits over a septic tank so it can get pumped out once in awhile.
The view of the lake from the outhouse is better than where the bathroom would have been built anyway.
The big deal they make about the “1 percenters”? I guess I could say I’m one of those 0.04 percenters!
As a man, the world is my urinal.
The post said that 0.04 percent of the 1990 US population amounted to 1.1 million households. This is mathematically preposterous.
The US population in 1990 was 250,000,000. The figure of 0.04 percent is 1/25 of 1 percent, which is 1/25 of 1/100. Thus, 0.04 percent of the 1990 US population was 1/2500 times 250,000,000—which amounts to 100,000 Americans, not 1.1 million American households.
That, and she actually took a bath a few times a week.
The problem is that today, if someone sees you dewatering, you could end up on the sex offender registry.
The world has gone insane.
If Al Bundy OR Archie Bunker were to run, they would guarantee a ‘New Ferguson’ in every home.
Get a chuckle out of A. Bundy flushing his new ‘Ferguson’ and the Chicago Fountain ‘dipping’.
NOW that is a Full Flush...
Sign on plumbers truck...
A straight flush beats a full house every time.
Don’t remember the details, but whether it was sledges, axes, farm equipment, or a pickup, it was probably an excuse for a party more than anything else.
What was the homeless population in 1990?
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.