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[JPGhost]

I certainly saw men excreting in the rivers at Jogjakarta

So does our ancestors right? ^^

 

[bankside]

Your fixations are just weird.

It isn't as though buying phones precludes having indoor plumbing.

The lack of a tax base large enough to fund the type of infrastructure in 2nd and 3rd world countries for sewage systems is the problem.

By the way. We live in the country. On a very 1st world farm. And in order to save precious water and just to commune with nature....we have an outhouse and have no problem shitting outdoors. My grandmother lived on a farm and when they moved into our first world village when they retired...it was 1967 before every house in our community had a toilet on public sewage.

In densely populated 3rd world cities....it will be impossible to provide the type of sewage systems that the brits were able to slap down when they stole clear land from the aboriginals. Different solutions will be required.

In Canada and the US and I dare say Austreyeliah...there are more bears shitting in the woods than you know about.

The truth is Grimshaw...you don't know shit about shit.

Actually London did provide itself that kind of sewer system because they found death by cholera to be an inconvenience, and London is not built on land stolen from Aboriginals unless you count the Romans taking it from the Celts.

 

[rareboy]

^ Uh.... I'm talking about Grimshaw's home.

As far as London and Europe, it hasn't been all that long in the scheme of things that our toileting habits became so refined....not when you realize that over 2500 years ago Minoans already had indoor plumbing.

 

[bankside]

^ Uh.... I'm talking about Grimshaw's home.

As far as London and Europe, it hasn't been all that long in the scheme of things that our toileting habits became so refined....not when you realize that over 2500 years ago Minoans already had indoor plumbing.

Sorry I was not aware G lived in a densely populated third world city.

Which is pretty much what London was when it decided to tackle the problem.

 

[rareboy]

^ In fairness. England didn't tackle the problem until they were rulers of the world with almost immeasurable wealth pouring into the city.

And when the Brits starting laying out their colonial cities all over the world in the 19th century, they started with a tabula rasa and could more easily introduce sanitary services before growth would nake it next to impossible.

So for Grimshaw, in the arid wastelands of Australia...the Brits quite easily provided water and sewage as services almost by right to a relatively middle class urban population by world standards.

There's no question that if India and other 3rd world cities were to start razing the slums and re-building their entire cities and infrastructure as London did after the great fire and European cities did after war...getting that sewer running through the streets becomes a lot simpler proposition.

 

[xbuzzerx]

Rareboy got there first. If London was a third world city, everywhere else was 6th world at the time.

 

[palbert]

First world problems.

A 15-ton massive blob of food fat and baby wipes, dubbed Britain's largest-ever "fatberg," has been removed from a London sewer, local water authorities said Tuesday.

The utility company Thames Water spent three weeks working to remove the fatberg, which was about the size of a bus. The giant mass was discovered after nearby residents reported issues with flushing their toilets, Thames Water said in a statement.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2013/08/06/fatberg-london/2624511/

 

[pat grimshaw]

First world problems.

This JUB thread is another first world problem—
http://www.justusboys.com/forum/thr...heir-own-restroom/page2?p=9472944#post9472944

especially when more than a billion Indians defecate in the open without their own "restroom".

BTW: I hear Indian transgenders have a special role in Indian society; they were in the news last week

 

[xbuzzerx]

especially when more than a billion Indians defecate in the open without their own "restroom".

But fixating on this issue which in no way affects you, when no one really believes your concern for Indian hygiene is altruistic, is definitely first world problems. Have you considered perhaps making a facebook update about it to inform other Australians? Or maybe a petition?

Or you could get involved with something like Habitat for Humanity, and actually put your concern where your mouth is.

 

[pat grimshaw]

^ Are you being ironic?

Do you think Facebook or Neal Gottlieb or that fool from San Diego makes one IOTA of difference to what happens in another continent on the other side of the world?

 

[rareboy]

^Do you think that your sterile, malevolent rants make any difference?

 

[pat grimshaw]

^Do you think that your sterile, malevolent rants make any difference?

As opposed to your fertile rants? You are the JUB Queen of Rants!

 

[rareboy]

Hardly. I think we'll leave you with that title.

 

[pat grimshaw]

^ If I am Queen, you must be The Empress!

 

[pat grimshaw]

But fixating on this issue ...

Fixating

You must tell me about my fixation(s)— and your intercontinental perceptions of them.

 

[rareboy]

^ Well Grim.

We all know you are fixated on shit.

One might almost assume that you may suffer from copraencephalopathy.

 

[pat grimshaw]

….We all know….

One might almost assume...

Catholics are brought up to believe in myths and superstitions.

 

[pat grimshaw]

^ Enough of the childish sectarian bickering!

And back on topic, the new leader, Narendra Modi, campaigned on a slogan Toilets before temples!.

http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/bab8489c-da92-11e3-8273-00144feabdc0.html#axzz326vn4jNb

 

[rareboy]

You do realize Grim, that the bickering is all one sided on your part? You have the same obsessive pre-occupation with Catholicism as you seem to have with shit.

Have you ever spoken to a mental health care professional about this?

 

[pat grimshaw]

I know some JUBbers don't like the unpleasant things in life but I have to mention that the outdoor communal toilet was the scene of the rape in Uttar Pradesh two weeks ago. You can google for the pictures of the two Dalit untouchable cousins hanging in a mango tree. And today's news says another was gang-raped and murdered today— but it doesn't say if they were a Dalit untouchable or not.