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Water, water, everywhere... (reddthat.com)
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[โ€“] SoonaPaana@lemmy.world 17 points 8 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 8 months ago (1 children)

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

[โ€“] djdadi@lemmy.world 4 points 8 months ago (2 children)

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

[โ€“] fosho@lemmy.ca 2 points 8 months ago

heater and dryer not necessary or common

[โ€“] pingveno@lemmy.ml 1 points 8 months ago

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

[โ€“] GBU_28@lemm.ee 14 points 8 months ago (2 children)

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

[โ€“] SoonaPaana@lemmy.world 8 points 8 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 8 months ago* (last edited 8 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 8 months ago* (last edited 8 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 8 months ago

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

[โ€“] Tartas1995@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 8 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.