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 ...
Well they made two math mistakes.
1. Decimal point 0.4 instead of 0.04.
0.4% of the U.S. pop in 1990 would be about 1.1 million PEOPLE.
2. They conflated households with people. Which is it: 1.1 million people or 1.1 million households.
In 1990, there were 2.6 persons/household average.
So! Are we talking about 1.1 million ppl, or 2.9 million ppl?
Hard to tell per the article.
Government doesn’t keep Indians on the reservations. The reservations are like the big city housing projects, full of the dead-enders and left-behinds. Most folks with get up and go have long since gotten up and gone. There are a scattering of good jobs for those who remain, and people drive off reservation to work in town or on neighboring ranches and farms, but the percentage of career welfare clients is very high. Alcoholism is also a factor. Most Indians do NOT live on the reservations.
1.1 million Households would be 1.1% of the U.S. pop in 1990, given 2.6 persons per household......
If you like your toilet, you can keep your toilet.
For a few years growing up on the farm in MN, we used a 5-gallon pail in the house in the winter time, and a piece of wood to cover it, because the outhouse was too far and too cold. So ask me if I care about these whimps.
Yep I know a couple of Native Americans. They basically married White People and blended in with the rest of us.
No toilet.
But you know what ... ?
That hasn’t stopped a single one of them from crapping.
Or eating, for that matter.
Well then let’s bring in some more third world filth and add to the party.
America is copulated unless we grow some stones and isolate the lazy and evil. if they that want to own us won’t step into the light, let’s expose them ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKVVEE5iGzA
Yeah, the media ain’t too good at arithmetic.
That would be nice for those times when you’re stuck in a traffic jam.
Pine Ridge?
Been tellin’ the wife & youngin’s that fer years - “ we’re men, the WORLD is our urinal “ . . . . ah, the beauty of a properly arched golden stream on target.
Seems the older you get the closer in the targets need to be.
Before I bought my farm I hired the local sanitary code enforcer to test the septic and well since my engineering firm deals with him for soils testing. When I pointed to the 1926 (literally) brick shithouse out back he said, “sure, we can get you a permit for that”. I laughed out loud. The dude’s got another think coming if he thinks will neve ask permission from or pay a fee to ANYONE, let alone a government agency, so that I may pinch one off in a hole in the ground on my property.
I have three of them. Four if you count the RV.
I still like the occasional midnight dump in the neighbors yard. It’s fun to watch them try to figure out what kind of a dog made it.
Does that mean that the Sears catalog will be coming back? Do I need to look at the futures market on chamber pots?
I was going to point out the same thing — they’re off by at least an order-of-magnitude.
Also, I was going to mention — Big Whup! I’ve lived for extended periods without indoor ‘facilities’ — much of that in a sub-arctic climate. It’s not that big a deal.
Daddy used to build us a nice toilet when we had to use
outdoor facilities. He dug the hole, threw in a generous
amount of lime. . then he built a nice traditional shed
up around the wooden accommodation . . then he painted it
with a sort of brick red creosote type of “paint”. No
half moons cut out of the door. The Sears & Roebuck
served as toilet paper & was free. Never smelled bad. -
We had metal chamber pots for night time use.
All of them are democrap. This is why they are full of shiittte
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