Did I just write, "pee sticks and pee pockets?"It has always seemed bizarre to me that we're supposed to shit next to where we brush our teeth.
Perhaps this is a natural extension of our biology? We shit and piss out of the same, or very near our baby making, pleasure zones. Doesn't that seem odd? Hell, if we can stick our pee sticks in their pee pockets, we can wash our hands next to a toilet, right?
You did, and honestly this entire article raises questions I really don't want answers to.
I've been given to understand that the "brushing teeth by toilet" issue is centered upon the amount of bacteria/whatever that actually becomes airborne when the toilet is flushed. I thought quite seriously about this for a while, but then realized I'd never heard of someone who died from inadvertently brushing their teeth with a toilet-flush/waste-tainted toothbrush.
Except it isn't a "human" thing, it's an "american" thing.Before running water, washing up, bathing, and shitting happened in different places. Washing took place at a washstand in the bedroom, with a pitcher and a bowl; shitting happened in the outhouse or the chamber pot; bathing, when it occasionally happened, was often in a tub by the stove in the kitchen, where the hot water was. Nothing was fixed in one place (other than the outhouse) because nothing was connected to anything.