People are so prissy about bodily functions and genitals and so on these days.
The scary part was the communal sponge
You wanted to be first in line for the new sponge, that’s for sure.
Current research doesn’t support that.
Most likely, the sponge sticks were used as a toilet brush, and pieces of cloth were used to wipe.
If there is flowing water beneath just rinse it
Flowing water with bobbing turds.
Nope, the separator structures just didn’t survive so we don’t know how “communal bathrooms” looked they could have had wooden walls around them but you know wood doesn’t last very long.
We have more to go off, though.
Surviving texts speak of the social aspect of shitting.Yes but Rome was huge to apply one scenario to all the empire is kinda silly.
Is that an opinion among history experts, or a deduction based on your observations? I’ve never heard this theory before, but I’d love to read more if you’ve got information.
I too want to read more about historical toilets.
I mean, the spacing looks like it would be pretty squishy if you had little wall separators between each spot
I don’t think that’s the case here
Really but for most of human history your parents having sex with you in the room or same bed wasn’t an issue? People didn’t care it’s the way things where.
You didn’t mention the communal ass wiping sponge!
Me using this in Roman times.
Roman 1: Is that poor guy dying?
Roman 2: No that’s just him every morning.
Romans had a lot of fiber in their diet from eating a lot of grains.
You misunderstand. I don’t have an issue with things not moving enough. Mine is moving too much.
Fiber helps with that as well.
My problems are beyond your fiber’s skills or magic. I was born with IBS and I will die with it.
True. If your gut has decided that its purpose is to hate you and everything you eat, then no amount of fiber will convince it otherwise.
IBS isn’t always lifelong though. I hope you can work out a diet that avoids angering the growling intenstinal gremlins.
No I’m pretty sure fiber will fix it
costco fiber pills
you don’t understand how bad it is until you do (not you specifically), I always just lived with it
but these pills literally changed my life
it pretty much resolved my ibs, eating fiber and the water soluble powder never did a thing for me but these pills have been magic
water soluble powder
Oh god I’m having flashbacks… That shit is nasty.
Metamucil?
Quit trying to kill me with your fiber! I assure you I have tried it. It doesn’t like me.
Stop resisting and swallow your fiber! We know better how your gut works than you!
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Imagine:
It’s 72 degrees, 9am, blue skies, green trees, you’re under just a bit of shade, there’s a cool, fresh breeze, and
shittingsitting on a bench like the one in the picture with your honey, both giggling while the sounds of a river directly underneath you sweep away and clean all the waste as birds chip and you both talk about something inane like how jjk is just naruto on adderall and what’s going to be for breakfast.We used to have it all
Faustinus: Corn for dinner last night, Octavius?
Octavious: No, what’s corn?
Ah, no need for a courtesy flush if there’s flowing water!
I haven’t seen one in a while but a “two hole drop” is a rural Australian long drop toilet. One bench seat with two pooping holes in it.
In the US that’s called a two seater
Dual wielding
When you think about it, this is what we do too today… Says I while I sit on the loo…
Our diets have changed, so the sponge has been replaced with the poop knife.
my family’s old farmhouse has communal outhouses. this was the norm until like 150-200 years ago, and was still common here into the early 1900s.
150?
Try 60
The navy called and want their head back.
Hey, does my poop look right to you?
Who…! Does! …… number 2…. Work… for!?!
Some places in China still have the shitter trough. Pro tip is to sit upstream or else it all goes by you. Last time I went in one of though was in a smaller* town’s bus station. Still cracks me up that two uncles were both using it and one of them got up and turned to the other and said 慢慢拉. This phrase is typically used for something like 慢慢来 to mean take your time but he used it to say poo slowly or take your time pooing. Makes it even better that these squat stalls on the trough were like four feet tall so when you stand up you can see everyone.
Also makes me think of my father’s story from playing football in college. The toilets were facing each other with no stalls so men setup a table and played chess as they pooped. Simpler times.
How long are these people pooping for??
Maybe it’s a quick game. They gotta get back on the field
