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Water, water, everywhere... (reddthat.com)
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[โ€“] SoonaPaana@lemmy.world 17 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Meanwhile 1000 generations of Indians stare at you disgusted by your over reliance on technology.

[โ€“] bravesilvernest@lemmy.ml 19 points 10 months ago (1 children)

"Technology" in this instance is "little nozzle pointed at bum" ๐Ÿ™ƒ

[โ€“] djdadi@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Don't forget the seat / water heater! And the butt-dryer

[โ€“] fosho@lemmy.ca 2 points 10 months ago

heater and dryer not necessary or common

[โ€“] pingveno@lemmy.ml 1 points 10 months ago

Dryers don't work, from what I've heard.

[โ€“] GBU_28@lemm.ee 14 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Sorry what's the joke here? Big parts of India has issues with sanitation

[โ€“] SoonaPaana@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Sorry! Didnt mean to offend! Indians typically use their hands to wipe their butts with water. I think it is cleaner and uses less water relatively. The joke I intended to make was that India has been using water to wash themselves for several years whereas the west needed the invention of a bidet to force the change.

[โ€“] ikidd@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Its almost like westerners came up with the germ theory of disease tranamission and adjusted their sanitation methods to prevent it.

[โ€“] SoonaPaana@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

I agree! But also both Hinduism and Islam had cleanliness rituals baked into their religion. Maybe they were able to notice historically that periodic bathing multiple times a day, helped them to avoid diseases!

[โ€“] s_s@lemm.ee 2 points 10 months ago

Sino-Asian countries only drink hot drinks for similar reasons...

[โ€“] Tartas1995@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 10 months ago

Honestly humans are stupid and it is so interesting what we learned to do for sometimes awful reasons that turned out to be pretty good for us. I mean a lot of medicine was "getting the devil out of you" for a long time and it sometimes happened to work because people would just do random shit.