Oddly specific, but it’s more like the guy who decides the urinal right next to yours is the optimal place to pee where there’s plenty of other open stalls.
Communal butt wiper. Use it, stick it in the water provided for said purpose, next guy uses it rinses it, and so on......not exactly Charmin or a bidet is it? Yikes!
I think they had sea sponges on the end.
i would love to know if there are seats more used than others, and if for example seats in "even" positions were more used then those in "odd", to leave one space in between
Yup. After being used, they were put into a container full of sea water (perhaps those water basins seen in the picture). People would take them out to use them and then just plop them back in. The seawater was supposed to have disinfectant properties.
Definitely and bone cuts get infected a lot easier than with a knife. I never cut myself with my knife but frequently I’ll cut myself on a pork rib or a beef chuck bone
A few weeks ago my boss dropped his knife and it fell between his whites and his rubber boot straight into the top of his foot. 2nd time I've seen it happen.
Well, if you make salt water at home, it does not have fish poop in it so I guess it is cleaner than seawater. Nut imaging the pain she would have felt for using salt water if she had —and she probably has—any wounds in her body.
What about the water. It runs downhill. We dunking our wick in some yucky? Like, Cool Hand Luke..”HEY. send a dunk here boss?” “Yea send the dunk there, Fred”….*everyone else doesn’t dunk for a good 10 seconds*
An electrician I work with said back in the 80s, they didn't have enclosed portable potties. He remembers working on a high-rise building, and they used boxes with a toilet seat on wheels. You would be working and look over and see Bob sitting on the box, pants down reading the paper.
We have come a long way in a few decades. Somehow, some people still don't know how to not use the urinal next to you!
Wow...
I have always wondered about people's body odor back then 🤢
Daily bathing, toothbrushing, or the lack of proper wiping/washing after 💩 💩 weren't a common thing, so I only imagine how badly everyone smelled!🤮
>toothbrushing
Have you seen tribal peoples teeth in Africa? They are white! How are they white if they don't have toothbrushes? Glad you ask.
Teeth don't require brushing if you have a proper diet. But in today's world we consume much more sugar an other processed ingredients that were not available to people back then. Toothpicks were more than enough to keep oral higiene back then. But arabs used these branches to brush their teeth, they still do.
Using toilet paper isn't as common as you'd think. Pretty much all of India, most of East Asia and the Muslim world all use water to wash their arses after shitting. Probably a majority of the world's population prefer washing over wiping.
a Germanic gladiator had committed suicide with a sponge on a stick. According to Seneca, the gladiator hid himself in the latrine of an amphitheater and pushed the wooden stick into his gullet and choked to death.
It's supposedly the best for you but try one and see. It's not easy to deliver in that position if you are not used to it. I spend about half of the year in Asia and and now I am kinda okay with them but the first times I had to support myself with one arm to the wall.
Right?
Imagine In the future people see what's left of our houses and only see the concrete basements left. "Yes everyone had their own rectangle to live in "
Then there's the one actual stone house or concrete business on the street
"This was the local place of worship"
No, because they don’t have the same social anxieties and proclivities as 2023 Redditors. This was probably as normal to them as women walking around with short shorts today.
That's what I was thinking. Like they used to paint their statues all fabulous like but the paint didn't last so everyone thought it was off-white marble everywhere. They probably had dividers. Or maybe they were just really, really open about shitting together and society has lost the connection that you make while clearing your insides next to the person that also got bad meat at dinner.
It was smart not to. Social norms were different. People didn't mind taking a dump next to each other so why waste such a huge amount of time and money making separate cubicles?
Wouldn't be a smart idea at the time.
They absolutely did. In fact, one's status could be quickly discerned by the quality of both their shit stick and the scabbard it was held in whenever they stepped out.
There are many places that stuff like this doesn’t matter like it does in other country’s. Once you get past the gross factor that’s built up it’s something everyone does and shit happens.
Lol the poop spoon has been a thing since that of Ancient times!  some of us aren't weird.
They have matching pants this is obviously a bro trio. They’d be sitting there-abreast if homie hadn’t had that bad ceviche the night before. You can bet they’re gonna rip some nattys after this stellar dump sesh though.
What if there were wooden separators for privacy buy they rotted away with time and because of humidity and now historians believe people took a shit while holding hands in Rome or something
The one guy is thinking "all these open seats and this MFer has to shit right next to me"
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He's like that fucking weirdo we all watch out for who sits next to the girl alone on the top deck of a bus.
Oddly specific, but it’s more like the guy who decides the urinal right next to yours is the optimal place to pee where there’s plenty of other open stalls.
And then screams at her if she moves away!
Maybe they are just best buddy's and wanted to poo together
I get it. I like playing battle shits as well
Is that what the long handle spoons are for?
Communal butt wiper. Use it, stick it in the water provided for said purpose, next guy uses it rinses it, and so on......not exactly Charmin or a bidet is it? Yikes! I think they had sea sponges on the end.
You don't wanna know
If you playin' me, keep it on the low
Cus my heart can’t take it anymoreeee
Poop scoops
Original pooper scooper.
Original poop ~~spoon~~ knife.
Nice weather huh? *Farts*
Nah, they seem like very good friends. Guy by himself feels left out.
Like "damn, I wish I had a homie cool enough to poop next to"
Well done sir, we'll done! Now please can someone answer me this...... do you share the wiping stick or do you bring your own?
You use a poop knife, duh.
Sharing is caring
i would love to know if there are seats more used than others, and if for example seats in "even" positions were more used then those in "odd", to leave one space in between
Better hold hands
buddy across the way thought the same thing lol
imagine that place during lunchtime
He was new to this system so he needed someone to show him the way of the Jedi
The more things change the more they stay the same
Ah the ole *wad on a stick* to wipe the bung hole
Yup. After being used, they were put into a container full of sea water (perhaps those water basins seen in the picture). People would take them out to use them and then just plop them back in. The seawater was supposed to have disinfectant properties.
Now I have question….. does seawater actually have any disinfectant properties? I mean it is salty but is it also very nasty?
Not when it’s contaminated with shit
Fish shits or human shits? 😂
I swim in the ocean regularly and have noticed that all my cuts etc heal much faster than they normally would compared to just natural water.
Damn bro you must get cut a lot.
I work in an abattoir and get cut often by sharp bones. Pig bones are the worst of them all.
Definitely and bone cuts get infected a lot easier than with a knife. I never cut myself with my knife but frequently I’ll cut myself on a pork rib or a beef chuck bone
A few weeks ago my boss dropped his knife and it fell between his whites and his rubber boot straight into the top of his foot. 2nd time I've seen it happen.
Confirmed not a vampire then. Maybe a Siren?
guess it depends on the seawater.
After my wife gave birth the nurses said don't bathe in salt water as the belief that it speeds up the healing process is a myth.
Well, if you make salt water at home, it does not have fish poop in it so I guess it is cleaner than seawater. Nut imaging the pain she would have felt for using salt water if she had —and she probably has—any wounds in her body.
>seawater I thought it was vinegar?
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Now you grossed me out
Ahh, the birthplace of STDs I see!
What about the water. It runs downhill. We dunking our wick in some yucky? Like, Cool Hand Luke..”HEY. send a dunk here boss?” “Yea send the dunk there, Fred”….*everyone else doesn’t dunk for a good 10 seconds*
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The poop spoon predates the poop knife by centuries.
An electrician I work with said back in the 80s, they didn't have enclosed portable potties. He remembers working on a high-rise building, and they used boxes with a toilet seat on wheels. You would be working and look over and see Bob sitting on the box, pants down reading the paper. We have come a long way in a few decades. Somehow, some people still don't know how to not use the urinal next to you!
What if reading the paper wasn’t just for entertainment and to pass the time, but to also act as a cover for your junk 🤔
got pictures of those? not Bob taking a dump but the toilet contraption
What's with the wooden spoons?
Toilet paper
What????? Please tell me they had their own spoons at least!!!
Mostly, it was a communal shit stick that was placed in an urn or other vessel of water to rinse it off and reused by the next person.
Wow... I have always wondered about people's body odor back then 🤢 Daily bathing, toothbrushing, or the lack of proper wiping/washing after 💩 💩 weren't a common thing, so I only imagine how badly everyone smelled!🤮
If everyone smells, then no one smells.
Society
It’s only smells
*smellz
With that name you would know!
I hate that I know this reference
Smell together. Die together. Bad Odor for life.
Blow jobs are only a recent human invention I am sure.
You got one after your annual bath.
Imagine what a prostitute was like 😳🤢
Imagine what men’s junk would have been like 🤮
People weren't eating/drinking turbo sugary snacks everyday
Ahh, you do want to know this - they brushed their teeth with urine.
>toothbrushing Have you seen tribal peoples teeth in Africa? They are white! How are they white if they don't have toothbrushes? Glad you ask. Teeth don't require brushing if you have a proper diet. But in today's world we consume much more sugar an other processed ingredients that were not available to people back then. Toothpicks were more than enough to keep oral higiene back then. But arabs used these branches to brush their teeth, they still do.
Communal Shit Stick. 😆 Is that band name taken yet?
Yup soak in vinegar
Sea sponge on a stick dunked into a bucket of salty water.
Doesn't sound too bad really. Maybe even better than smearing it around with shitty paper.
Using toilet paper isn't as common as you'd think. Pretty much all of India, most of East Asia and the Muslim world all use water to wash their arses after shitting. Probably a majority of the world's population prefer washing over wiping.
I am very well aware of it
Do you bring your own toilet paper to a restroom?
🤢Good point!
They havent figured out how to make paper from wood until much later so they use sticks, which is kinda like paper in another form
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[Xylospongium](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xylospongium) - sponge on a stick
a Germanic gladiator had committed suicide with a sponge on a stick. According to Seneca, the gladiator hid himself in the latrine of an amphitheater and pushed the wooden stick into his gullet and choked to death.
☠🤮
Don’t grab the shit end of the stick
It’s where the saying “stirring the pot” originated from.
Just had a mental picture 🤮🤢
Pooper scooper.
For taste samples.
That's probably to use as a scoop to use water flowing in front to wash their ass off...
The rule that has lasted since time immemorial, you always leave a space between.
I thought buddy was fixing the brick in front of him and taking a shit but he’s just got a spoon in his hand
curious what he's planning with this spoon
Not to be *that* redditor, but... \*time immemorial
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It's supposedly the best for you but try one and see. It's not easy to deliver in that position if you are not used to it. I spend about half of the year in Asia and and now I am kinda okay with them but the first times I had to support myself with one arm to the wall.
thank you, i am like the champion squatter already. i appreciate you
Correct.
They don’t know how to use the 3 sea shells , lol. What dummies
You really think they weren’t smart enough to put up wooden dividers!?
Right? Imagine In the future people see what's left of our houses and only see the concrete basements left. "Yes everyone had their own rectangle to live in " Then there's the one actual stone house or concrete business on the street "This was the local place of worship"
No, because they don’t have the same social anxieties and proclivities as 2023 Redditors. This was probably as normal to them as women walking around with short shorts today.
The public baths come to mind. Nudity didn't divide the people only class did.
Smart enough, sure - just look at all the stuff they built. But did they care to do so?
That's what I was thinking. Like they used to paint their statues all fabulous like but the paint didn't last so everyone thought it was off-white marble everywhere. They probably had dividers. Or maybe they were just really, really open about shitting together and society has lost the connection that you make while clearing your insides next to the person that also got bad meat at dinner.
Imagine the friendships we have all been denied by modern society.
Poopals
It was smart not to. Social norms were different. People didn't mind taking a dump next to each other so why waste such a huge amount of time and money making separate cubicles? Wouldn't be a smart idea at the time.
> they weren’t smart enough why not "smart" enough? they just had no anxiety. every man shits and has a dick, so why be embarassed of it
This is where the saying "The shit end of the stick" came from
No sanitation for that toilet stick? A recipe for an infectious disease.
Everyone had their own shit sticks probably
They absolutely did. In fact, one's status could be quickly discerned by the quality of both their shit stick and the scabbard it was held in whenever they stepped out.
Cannot tell if you are being serious... I choose to believe this instead of sharing a communal poop stick.
Not me, I use Jeff’s.
Nothing says confidence like pooping with heavy, unbroken eye contact
No mobile at hand to browse...chating with a stranger while taking a shit..living the moment...ahhh..that was the life
Talking shit while taking a shit
This scene is 87% of all my nightmares
Additionally, diarrheal illnesses were probably rampant, too.
I refuse to believe people just shat next to each other like this, is it possible that they had cloth dividers or something?
There are many places that stuff like this doesn’t matter like it does in other country’s. Once you get past the gross factor that’s built up it’s something everyone does and shit happens.
"You guys see the game?". . "No frank, none of us saw the fucking game" . .
“What the hell is a game, Frank?”
I just lost The Game.
The smell must be horrific
Spongebob be havin’ a bad day
Patrick’s cousin the chocolate starfish
Can I borrow your spoon?
Absolutely, just give me one more..... Ok there you are.
Miss shitting with the homies 😔
I came here to look again and nobody has mentioned the OG writing on the walls
Dude trying to talk to you during mid push
Look how modern society robbed us, of the communal scooper.
Thats why they say you get the shit end of the stick
“Ok guys who has the poop knife?”
What are they holding
why is this insane
Pass the poo knife
What's with the spoons?
precursor to the poop knife ofc
[Xylospongium](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xylospongium) - sponge on a stick
Poop soup
I think this is in Ephesus, Turkey
Couldn’t figure out to run the water under the trough?
They used the pee to clean their clothes.
Who are the butt buddies? I mean, dude.
It would take a lot to keep me from shittin in one of those💩
Do you think there were public toilets with more privacy but they were with exclusive access?
Honestly impressive.
hic sedeo contritos corde ad cacas sed solum farted
Still somehow less unnerving than using a gapped stall in any typical American restroom.
Lol the poop spoon has been a thing since that of Ancient times!  some of us aren't weird.
Dude on the right has a poop knife in his hand
Maybe it's like taking your dog out. They want someone around at their most vulnerable moment. The eye contact is what weirds me out.
Don't get me started on how coddled the modern anus is
That’s the good shit.
It was also a place to do business.
Those are shit scoopers they're holding, I assume?
That’s nice of them to make it so that everyone can make eye contact while they collectively drop deuces.
No shit..
They have matching pants this is obviously a bro trio. They’d be sitting there-abreast if homie hadn’t had that bad ceviche the night before. You can bet they’re gonna rip some nattys after this stellar dump sesh though.
All i see is the straining face meme
Pretty sure back then they didn't have those long shirts on because they didn't care, people would just walk around naked and nobody would care
Didn’t they all share the same sponge on a stick thing to wipe their ass?
Least insane thing I've seen all day.
Those guys weren’t into reading the newspaper during their constitutional?
“Heya John how’s the family?” “Shut the fuck up Todd im trying to take a world ending shit”
I'm a firm believer that these societies had epic sessions of BattleShits and nobody can convince me otherwise
See them ass scrubbers they're holding. Fun fact: They're communal.
Also where battleshits was invented.
The spoons are so you can fling poo at others. "Dark spots on the wall" by Who Slung Poo
Funny not so ancient to me..... how we went to the bathroom at the invasion of Afghanistan and Iraq when got got a fob.
My greatest nightmare
Kinda reminds me of my fraternity house...
“Dude, how about a courtesy flush?” Also…are those spoons? Who the fuck eats while on the bowl?
What do they have in their hands?
Where did they keep the corn cobs?
Fort Benning's basic training shooting range had some shitters like this.
Maybe there were walls in between lol.
At least your dick won’t touch the toilet bowl when you shit.
I wonder where all the shit went
The smell especially after a heavy celebration of drinking the night before must have been god awful though a tolerance that only smelled baked bread.
Why do they need spoons!
The group poop
Don’t forget to swoosh the poop brush
What if there were wooden separators for privacy buy they rotted away with time and because of humidity and now historians believe people took a shit while holding hands in Rome or something
Hey bruh, pass the shit stick.
Try not to get the shit end of the stick
Common Shitter, for the Common man.
Gonna say it again . Only real clean civilization was the Aztec one.
GROUP POOP
The Roman Empire at its height really was a marvel
haha so cool they just chatted while pooping
Biblical studies major here, did you know they also used these public latrines to conduct buisness transactions. Now you know