[Flick Lives]

Never mind the forgotten concrete. how did people forget about indoor plumbing, flush toilets, and baths during the Middle Ages?

[nicollo]

Never mind the forgotten concrete. how did people forget about indoor plumbing, flush toilets, and baths during the Middle Ages?

Lingering, terrifying memories of the Roman dual-use of the tersorium as common toothbrush and toilet paper scared Europeans away from running water for two thousand (and counting in some places) years.



(Just kidding about the toothbrush... Romans just rinsed with urine.)

[SunkenCiv]

Did you ever consider that maybe they *liked* tossin’ their bedpans onto the passersby? ;^)