On Dec 30, 2011, at 7:16 PM, Chuck Grimes wrote:
It's an interesting take. In brief, during Hegel's time the european
world
was composed of three ideological traditions, the French, German, and
English. These corresponded to three distinct styles of toilets. The
french
style shit drops in a hole in back and disappears in a radical
plunge. The
german style the hole is in front and shit drops on a little
platform where
one can inspect it, shiff to determine one's state of health and
then give
the flush. In the english version shit falls into water, where it
can float
around before it disappears, a sort of liberal interpretation with
economic
overtones. These correspond to conservative german tradition, the
radical
french, and the pragmatic-liberal english.
In the rest of the world, the tradition was that you *stand* with legs
spread and the shit just drops--gravity assisted--where you want it
to. How characteristic of constipated Europeans (starting with the
Romans) to shit in the least effective, most effortful way possible.
And it was them what invented the concept of gravity!
Shane Mage
"L'après-vie, c'est une auberge espagnole. L'on n'y trouve que ce
qu'on a apporté."
Bardo Thodol
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