Posted on 01/08/2016 1:49:16 AM PST by SunkenCiv
The parasites are from not cooking foods thoroughly. Crapping in a toilet or in the dirt isn’t gonna change that. The damned parasites neither prove nor disprove anything.
I do wonder about the baths, though. No chlorine. How often was that bath water changed during the day? Seems to me that public baths in that era served as no more than petri dishes.
Warm water, oils and other nutrients from skin and such like... mix in masses of bacteria from hordes of bathers...
http://www.impetigopictures.org
Say what you want about the French, but the rest of the world are heathens compared to them when it comes to the Bidet... seriously, here’s some tissue paper, keep whiping till your clean... vs, heres some water and soap to wash it all away..
I think that lone gives them a bit of a right, as much as we hate to admit it, to be a little smug.
Someone I’ve known online for years related a story about a woman who entered the Peace Corps, wound up in, I believe it was, S Korea. She’d never used an outhouse before.
She’d definitely never used one in rural Korea before.
The outhouses back up into the pig pens, for, uh, shall we say, recycling, sustainable animal husbandry, and diversity?
She got ‘snouted’.
Next plane home.
Is that like being 'schlonged'?
The Romans didn’t use valves very much, so all the baths had slow-in, slow-out water flow, iow, analogous to the way large buildings in the modern era change over the air. Baths which were not fed by aqueduct (like Aquae Solis, at modern Bath in England) were spring-fed, and the water cycled in, was used, and cycled out. The biggest problem would have been typhus, and there aren’t any known large outbreaks of that during Roman times. The plague in Athens during the Age of Pericles has been attributed to typhus, and it was a commonplace in the Nazis’ extermination camps.
;’)
... In addition to that, test the wine for lead...
Kim chee waste plus snorting hot wet pig snout butt snorkling in the dark... we are the world, sing it girl!
What’s the Korean word for Surprise!
;>)
They'd talk about the local parasites and, as an aside, mention that they were avid readers of Sears and Roebuck periodicals as well paying tribute to some unknown god of agriculture by tossing corn cobs into the pit.
...and somehow work global warming and gay marriage into the paper.
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Posted on 01/07/2016 7:00:24 PM PST by BenLurkin
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Neanderthals boosted our immune system
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Posted on 01/07/2016 10:51:53 PM PST by SunkenCiv
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3381108/posts
I visited my brother a couple of years ago and he had one in his bathroom
Fancy clicker and all
Now, I have a bidet ....
I don't understand why Americans don't adopt it
It is a testament to the effectiveness of the systems, when one considers military encampments and assemblages of refugees in much more modern times ravaged by epidemics, that the sanitation systems of the Romans permitted so many to live so close without massive ill effect.
Yep,concur!
Squee? Oink? Chop Sooo-eeee?
Most Roman homes didn’t have kitchens, that was something found in finer homes. Many people ate wherever they found themselves when they were hungry, so there were a lot of streetside takeaways. It just shows how tough humans actually are, and how we probably coddle ourselves too much nowadays.
Or drink wine or low alcohol beer, the old method of assuring safe “drinking water”.
>>Mitchell also found that, despite their famous culture of regular bathing, ‘ectoparasites’ such as lice and fleas were just as widespread among Romans as in Viking and medieval populations, where bathing was not widely practiced.<<
Nit picking wasn’t invented yet?
They didn’t have the internet, so, no. ;’)
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