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The Girl from 'Impeenema' (Brazil Ecos Urge Public to Pee in the Shower to Save Water)
MNN ^ | Matt Hickman

Posted on 08/05/2009 6:57:32 PM PDT by DogByte6RER

The Girl from 'Impeenema'

A TV ad campaign in Brazil urges folks to urinate in the shower to conserve water ... and save the rain forests.

No matter how long we stay in or what kind of showerhead we use, we all have unique shower routines and rituals, some more complex than others. The Brazilian environmental group SOS Mata Altantica, via a cute, kid-oriented TV ad campaign called "Xixi no Banho," suggests that citizens add one more task to their soaping-up, shampooing, conditioning and shaving routines — peeing.

The group believes that by adding a yellow stream to the morning's shower, one toilet flush can be prevented. If one flush is avoided each day in a single household, 4,380 liters (1,157 gallons) of water is saved per year.

As you'll see in the below, um, "PeeSA," Gandhi, Michael Jordan and Alfred Hitchcock are portrayed emptying their bladders while rinsing off. Now if that's not inspiration for young Brazilians to tinkle in the tub, I don't know what is.

(Excerpt) Read more at mnn.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Miscellaneous; Unclassified
KEYWORDS: algore; athletesfoot; brazil; chat; environment; goinggreen; goldenshowers; greenieweenies; h2o; ipanema; liberalism; thirdworld; weird
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Posted By Anonymous - Wed, Aug 05 2009 at 4:41 PM EST

PEE

I've been doing this my whole life, and I'm American. What of it? Pee in the drain. When it's fresh it's sterile. I really don't see what makes this so disgusting.

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Posted By Anonymous - Wed, Aug 05 2009 at 4:23 PM EST

what's the big deal?

You Americans are really funny. I don't see what the big deal is. I always peed in the shower. Never had fungus, athlete's foot or anything of the kind. Eating McDonald's hamburgers is way more disgusting. Over half of the US population eats crap in their meat and now "oh, peeing in the shower! disgusting! Let's weigh 300 lbs, but peeing in the shower? no way!". Besides, this advertisement does not mean all 190 million Brazilians agree with that. Of course I'm siding with my native country, But since I live in California, my peeing in the shower saves water here :) You're welcome!

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Posted By Anonymous - Wed, Aug 05 2009 at 6:14 PM EST

Mellow Yellow

Peeing in shower better than eating McDonald's hamburgers? I say drinking urine is probably better for you than eating a McDonald's hamburger! I'm an American who pees in the shower AND (since I pee more often than I shower) follows the rule: If it's yellow, it's mellow. If it's brown, flush it down.

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Posted By Anonymous - Wed, Aug 05 2009 at 7:22 PM EST

correction

Just a slight correction, for future purposes. The phrase is actually:

If it's yellow, LET it mellow. If it's brown, flush it down.

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Posted By Anonymous - Wed, Aug 05 2009 at 3:48 PM EST

Athletes Foot

I've been peeing in the shower for as long as I can remember. I pee right on my feet. I never get athletes foot.

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Posted By Anonymous - Wed, Aug 05 2009 at 3:40 PM EST

Leprosy

Peeing in the shower will not increase the rate of leprosy. Most people are immune to leprosy and it is not highly contagious. Further, a lot of the symptoms traditionally believed about leprosy are wrong. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leprosy

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Posted By Anonymous - Wed, Aug 05 2009 at 3:32 PM EST

What about the first movement of the day?

Suddenly, it doesn't seem like such a great idea.

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Posted By Ritch - Wed, Aug 05 2009 at 3:17 PM EST

Leprosy

guess this will help with the high rate of leprosy in brazil....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Lepra_2003.png

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Posted By Anonymous - Wed, Aug 05 2009 at 7:26 PM EST

Wrong

You are definitely out of the loop and incorrect. I am glad I studied abroad and lived in Brazil last year, to attest to the fact that you are indefinitely incorrect by making such an outlandish statement. Where's the diplomacy?

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Posted By Anonymous - Wed, Aug 05 2009 at 4:32 PM EST

have you ever been there, moron?

The high rate of leprosy does not have anything to do with peeing in the shower. Have you been to Brazil? I lived there for the first 26 years of my life, so I know what I'm talking about. Unfortunately, Brazil still struggles with poverty, which leads to lack of information, education and access to health care. Therefore, many people end up looking for help when it is too late and the disease is fully developed. You know, I love California, where I currently live, and I've come to love and admire several American people I've met, but it is people like you who really upset me with their lack of information and single-minded judgment.

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Posted By Anonymous - Wed, Aug 05 2009 at 3:14 PM EST

while your at it...

piss in the sink too!

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Posted By Anonymous - Wed, Aug 05 2009 at 3:03 PM EST

Seinfeld

Don't tell George Costanza.

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Posted By Anonymous - Wed, Aug 05 2009 at 3:15 PM EST

Pipes

It's all piples, what's the difference!?

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Posted By Anonymous - Wed, Aug 05 2009 at 2:55 PM EST

hot water

makes me piss anyone else??

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Posted By Anonymous - Wed, Aug 05 2009 at 2:25 PM EST

Behind

Way ahead of you Brazil!

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Posted By Rodney Stone - Wed, Aug 05 2009 at 2:18 PM EST

well

I pissed in the shower before it was cool.

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Posted By RHS - Wed, Aug 05 2009 at 2:11 PM EST

Eveyone does it

1 posted on 08/05/2009 6:57:32 PM PDT by DogByte6RER
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To: Slings and Arrows

Ping...

You may want to comment on this.


2 posted on 08/05/2009 6:58:29 PM PDT by DogByte6RER ("Loose lips sink ships")
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To: DogByte6RER

Kills athletes foot


3 posted on 08/05/2009 6:59:01 PM PDT by clamper1797 (An Kenyan KGB agent could not do a better job as president)
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To: DogByte6RER

“Haters want to hate, lovers want to love, I don’t want none of the above, I want to piss on you...scooby doo...”


4 posted on 08/05/2009 7:01:08 PM PDT by Clemenza (Remember our Korean War Veterans)
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To: DogByte6RER

Wouldn’t it save even more water if they just went outside and peed and showered in the rain? ;)


5 posted on 08/05/2009 7:01:23 PM PDT by DemforBush (Somebody wake me when sanity has returned to the nation.)
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Oh yeah...

Does anybody really thin that Al Gore does this? Weird!


6 posted on 08/05/2009 7:01:49 PM PDT by DogByte6RER ("Loose lips sink ships")
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To: DogByte6RER

I’d be willing to bet thousands of people here do this anyway.

How many will admit to it?


7 posted on 08/05/2009 7:02:31 PM PDT by flintsilver7 (Honest reporting hasn't caught on in the United States.)
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To: DogByte6RER
That's gonna change the world.
8 posted on 08/05/2009 7:03:13 PM PDT by john in springfield (One has to belong to the intelligentsia to believe such things.No ordinary man could be such a fool.)
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To: DogByte6RER
Piss in the shower? Anyone ever taken a shower in Brasil? They don't have hot water in most places. They use one of those little hot water heaters mounted on top of the spigot if you're lucky, and those don't really work.

Bottom line, peeing in the shower is the last thing you'd worry about. Typically I'm more worried about the loose wires connected to that dang hot water thingy and getting fried in the process. If I had pants on I'd piss them in the shower...

9 posted on 08/05/2009 7:05:56 PM PDT by Caipirabob (Communists... Socialists... Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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To: martin_fierro

Brasilian shower thread ping!


10 posted on 08/05/2009 7:07:01 PM PDT by Caipirabob (Communists... Socialists... Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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To: DogByte6RER
What's wrong with that idea?


11 posted on 08/05/2009 7:07:48 PM PDT by 50mm (One Sheet Please!)
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To: DogByte6RER

Don’t pee on my feet and tell me it’s showering


12 posted on 08/05/2009 7:08:20 PM PDT by Never on my watch (Obama, what's the name of the soldier on your bracelet?)
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To: DogByte6RER

Doesn’t everybody?


13 posted on 08/05/2009 7:09:14 PM PDT by grobdriver (Proud Member, Party Of No! No Socialism - No Fascism - Nobama - No Way!)
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To: DogByte6RER; MeekOneGOP; Conspiracy Guy; DocRock; King Prout; Darksheare; OSHA; martin_fierro; ...
Environmentalists peeing in their showers is still less disgusting that socialists peeing on our Constitution.


14 posted on 08/05/2009 7:09:16 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows (Crazy is the new sane.)
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To: DogByte6RER
Oh - you mean your own shower. Hope my neighbor isn't too mad at me...
15 posted on 08/05/2009 7:10:49 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: flintsilver7
Me.
16 posted on 08/05/2009 7:11:07 PM PDT by Dallas59 (Hows My Posting? Please Contact flag@whitehouse.gov)
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To: DemforBush

You would not beleive most of the showerheads in Brazil. I like the place, but having dangling wires with a 220Volt little UNGROUNDED water heater connected to water right over your head is scary (few places have hot water). Maybe its shocking the pee out of em.


17 posted on 08/05/2009 7:12:29 PM PDT by dusttoyou (Remember the Alamo Tea Party - PALIN 2012)
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To: flintsilver7

It’s called multitasking. ;-)


18 posted on 08/05/2009 7:14:07 PM PDT by doc1019 (Obama? Not so much.)
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To: DogByte6RER

Now I have that frikin’ song going through my head just like after listening to Rush on the Mark Sanford babe!

Sing it Frankie!... (I’m in the shower)

Tall and tan and young and lovely
The girl from Ipanema goes walking
And when she passes, each one she passes goes - ah!

Damn! Since when is my shower golden?


19 posted on 08/05/2009 7:15:48 PM PDT by Pharmer (Palin in 2012! We are so screwed! Go Phillies!!!!)
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To: flintsilver7
I’d be willing to bet thousands of people here do this anyway. How many will admit to it?

95% of those who say they don't are lying.

20 posted on 08/05/2009 7:18:10 PM PDT by SeaHawkFan
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