Faustinus: Corn for dinner last night, Octavius?
Octavious: No, what’s corn?
Hey, does my poop look right to you?
People are so prissy about bodily functions and genitals and so on these days.
The scary part was the communal sponge
If there is flowing water beneath just rinse it
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.
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.
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.
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.
I don’t think that’s the case here
You didn’t mention the communal ass wiping sponge!
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
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
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.
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.
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
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!
/s
water soluble powder
Oh god I’m having flashbacks… That shit is nasty.
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.
