Let's talk crap
From: http://www.salon.com/books/int/2008/10/16/big_necessity/index.html
By some accounts, the toilet has added 20 years to the modern lifespan, so this thing that we won't even discuss is actually responsible for perhaps decades of all of our lives.
Yes, exactly. Last year, the readers of the British Medical Journal voted sanitation the biggest medical advance in the past 200 years. It is an amazing thing -- the toilet. We do live longer because of the toilet. Before sewers and toilets became popular in the 19th century, one in two children in London died before their 5th birthday. There was an enormous mortality rate, and that dropped dramatically, especially when soap and hand washing also became popular. We should be on our knees before the toilet.
We should worship at it.
We should worship the toilet. It's been an enormous medical advance. It's been fantastic, so I think that we should give it its due.
Oct 18th