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They used to need to check for parasites, in the shattered state of misery that existed after the war.(Edit! This is wrong. TIL.) It's disgusting, but so is having parasites and not knowing it.Pro tip for US people: Get ready! The world is not inherently a safe and stable place, and if you knock out the supports that are keeping it safe and stable for you, all kinds of really bad shit can happen.
I mean you're talking to US people who are on Lemmy. We know we're fucked
Yeah, I'd wager 90% or more of us here that live in the US voted for Kamala, fully knowing the consequences of Trump.
Omg tho did Zuck himself not ban Trump from Meta properties before Biden even became president??! Isn’t Zuck
fully knowing the consequences of Trump
in a way that even stay-home-on-Election-Day Swing Staters don’t?!
Remember the whole "Ivermectin, the dewormer, helps against Covid" thing in the US? Researchers did look at those claims and came to the completely unsurprising conclusion that, unless you have gut parasites, Ivermectin does not help with anything, including Covid. However, if you do have parasites, the Ivermectin can remove a comorbidity, which is obviously going to help with just about anything, including Covid. (Unless you have the wrong kind of parasite, and the sudden presence of rotting worm corpses throughout your body leads to septic shock…)
My takeaway from that is, modern day Americans probably have a lot more gut parasites than we used to think before Covid.
We Americans don’t actually have an obesity epidemic, we’re just completely full of parasites
It's my impression that the epidemic of parasites in American is mainly of the full sized human kind.
Yeah that’s why we’re completely full, I have a landlord in my belly
You should charge him rent.
He’s actually charging me rent
IIRC, this design predates 1945, and is not specifically about parasites but digestive health in general. (There were a lot of health fads in late 19th/early 20th-century Germany, some more quackish than others.)
In a way, this is a tribute to longevity of bathroom porcelain. Even in Germany, this is far from modern. If you look e.g. into the bathroom department of German DIY stores, you won't find this design anymore.
This may be an obscure fact, but World War 2 was not the first time that Germany was ravaged by war.
TIL. That's wild. I always had just been aware of the rumor that it was from after the war, but yes, it looks like you're right.
war
I had worms once and I found out only because of this type of toilet. I must have gotten them from a park where I was sitting down on the grass, without a blanket.
Unless there were earthworms in your ass, that's not how parasitic worms work
Hookworms can be acquired by bare skin against contaminated soil, so it's theoretically possible, especially if TheBrideWoreCrimson wore their birthday suit
Sir, this is a toilet discussion 😂
So you're saying that Americans may need to develop or start using German toilets in 20-30-40 years time?