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All the Ways We’ve Wiped: The History of Toilet Paper and What Came Before Among tools people used in the past were moss, sponge on a stick, ceramic pieces and bamboo 'spatulas.'
https://www.history.com ^ | APR 15, 2020 | CRYSTAL PONTI

Posted on 06/25/2021 9:48:45 AM PDT by Red Badger

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To: setter

Diet has a lot to do with it as well. High protein is the way to ‘go’...............................


61 posted on 06/25/2021 10:47:47 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: Bob434

It’s Friday..................


62 posted on 06/25/2021 10:48:17 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: Farmerbob

I totally agree. Once you try it, you don’t like not having one.


63 posted on 06/25/2021 10:51:17 AM PDT by dforest (huh?)
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To: Red Badger

I pass by Tremont Street regularly. Next time I see #27 I’ll think of the invention of all ages! ;-)


64 posted on 06/25/2021 10:53:18 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Trump: "They're After You. I'm Just In The Way")
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To: Red Badger
I often wonder what I would do if I had no arms....
65 posted on 06/25/2021 10:54:19 AM PDT by Manic_Episode ( “Extremism in defense of liberty is no vice. Moderation in pursuit of justice is no virtue.”)
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To: Manic_Episode

The 2nd Amendment protects you.................. for now.................


66 posted on 06/25/2021 10:57:11 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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Sit vs. Squat
While Americans and other Westerners have always sat on the toilet, people in Asia and Africa squat
when they go. In these cultures, people consider squatting to poop a more natural position than sitting.

The problem with sitting is that it keeps the kink in your lower bowel. That forces you to work harder
to push out the poop. Squatting relaxes your puborectalis muscle more and straightens out your colon,
giving the poop a straight route out. As a result, you can go more easily with less straining.

https://www.webmd.com/digestive-disorders/squatty-potty-what-is#:~:text=When%20people%20use%20posture%2Dchanging,often%20a%20result%20of%20straining.


67 posted on 06/25/2021 10:57:25 AM PDT by deport ( )
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To: Red Badger

The colored TP was destroyed by the white supremacist TP.


68 posted on 06/25/2021 10:59:18 AM PDT by Stravinsky
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To: Red Badger

Tongs, cantilevers, nunchaku, unbarked tree limbs, corkscrews, corn cobs, tableware, candlesticks, pineapples, banana peels, palm fronds, nutcrackers, wood rasps, spurs, hairbrushes, toothbrushes, potrzebies, and veeblefetzers.


69 posted on 06/25/2021 11:04:48 AM PDT by yefragetuwrabrumuy (Do kids in Iceland still play "The Floor Is Lava?")
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To: Red Badger

“Diet has a lot to do with it as well. High protein is the way to ‘go”

Yep, I am on a veggie and fruit diet to lose weight to lower my bp. Pooping is a mess with that diet. Takes a 1/4 roll of tp to clean. I don’t even wipe anymore-just go straight to shower and wash off.

High protein diet and really strenous work and little to no wiping.


70 posted on 06/25/2021 11:06:26 AM PDT by setter
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To: Red Badger

Two of the worst places I’ve used were in m**ic*...in the poorer towns in the countryside.
One was a woven reed surrounded area with a hole in the ground. On top of the whole was a hole was a 3x4 foot piece of wood with a big hole in it. One straddled and squatted and squeezed. For t.p....old novela type comic books strewn on the dirt floor.
2nd one in the town square...a closed raised closet with a worn out wooden seat with a hole. Not too bad, but the whole back side of the closet was exposed below the seat level. So one could actually watch the physics of the drop from behind the closet.
Remember going to pasadena rose parade two days later in an area with beautiful buildings, paved roads, private running water toilets and saying “ why is everybody complaining so much and so unhappy with what they have or don’t have?”


71 posted on 06/25/2021 11:07:48 AM PDT by Getready (Wisdom is more valuable than gold and diamonds, and harder to find.)
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To: yefragetuwrabrumuy

Potrzebies! Don’t forget the poiuyt!


72 posted on 06/25/2021 11:10:09 AM PDT by Getready (Wisdom is more valuable than gold and diamonds, and harder to find.)
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To: a fool in paradise

Maybe the three seashells would work...


73 posted on 06/25/2021 11:12:01 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: Red Badger

bump


74 posted on 06/25/2021 11:12:57 AM PDT by Albion Wilde ("Let us not talk falsely now, the hour is getting late." —Bob Dylan)
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To: Red Badger

Medieval Europe used leaves and grass. Lords had servants in charge of delivering fresh grass for the toilet.


75 posted on 06/25/2021 11:27:14 AM PDT by AZJeep (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0AHGreco RomNQkryIIs)
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To: AZJeep

They still do......................


76 posted on 06/25/2021 11:28:46 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: setter

You can eat meat, just no fat, or very little. And the lefties want us to stop eating meat....................


77 posted on 06/25/2021 11:34:29 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: ifinnegan

Years ago made a trip to Japan and spent a couple days at my Japanese friends’ house.

They had a Panasonic heated toilet seat that would wash and dry you!


78 posted on 06/25/2021 11:58:58 AM PDT by lizma2
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To: Red Badger

Over is the right way.

Under is a sacrilege.


79 posted on 06/25/2021 11:58:59 AM PDT by Az Joe (FREE CHAUVIN!)
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To: Red Badger

You can eat meat, just no fat, or very little. And the lefties want us to stop eating meat...............

Raises bp too much. I plan to go back to meat when my bp and weight come down.


80 posted on 06/25/2021 12:03:45 PM PDT by setter
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