What Did Ancient Romans Do Without Toilet Paper?

Re:What Did Ancient Romans Do Without Toilet Paper? by pzs on Thursday April 05, 2018 @02:47AM (#16762436)

May be a naïve question: have you tried googling the topic?

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Re:What Did Ancient Romans Do Without Toilet Paper? by darklajid on Thursday April 05, 2018 @04:25AM (#16762935)

I honestly did. But the descriptions (just like the StackExchange link's replies) are utterly alien to me (squat..? How?) and I haven't found it in me to go on a video hunt (the StackExchange one links to something which supposedly is safe and helpful).

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Re:What Did Ancient Romans Do Without Toilet Paper? by hsrada on Thursday April 05, 2018 @06:33AM (#16763516)

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dKkryfdtMNQ

Not sure how I feel about sharing this here but yeah, this should answer some of those questions.

The Youtuber is.. A 'comedian'..

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Re:What Did Ancient Romans Do Without Toilet Paper? by RichardCA on Thursday April 05, 2018 @02:16PM (#16767478)

Thanks, I was waiting for someone to post that one. :)

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Re:What Did Ancient Romans Do Without Toilet Paper? by Cthulhu_ on Thursday April 05, 2018 @04:52AM (#16763069)

> (squat..? How?)

This is a thing for westerners; the squat position (with feet flat on the floor) is really hard to do for a lot of them, iirc mostly having to do with ankle flexibility (for me personally anyway). In countries with squat toilets the people are a lot more used to the position / motion. I guess most people could get by with doing a toe squat, but that's harder to keep balance.

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Re:What Did Ancient Romans Do Without Toilet Paper? by moosekaka on Thursday April 05, 2018 @08:18AM (#16764082)

this always amazes me...it is like telling me some population of humans cant raise their hands over their shoulders..

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Re:What Did Ancient Romans Do Without Toilet Paper? by pbhjpbhj on Thursday April 05, 2018 @06:30AM (#16763499)

Yes, ankles, after 18 months learning Shotokan karate I can almost do a squat now, kids can do it with ease. I think with a toe squat you can't relax as much, which makes it difficult to open your sphincter.

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Re:What Did Ancient Romans Do Without Toilet Paper? by Doxin on Thursday April 05, 2018 @04:56AM (#16763084)

Just pretend you're taking a dump on the floor. You stand over the hole and squat down any which way seems comfortable and just let your droppings... drop.

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