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Re:School or Prison by thatwasunusual on Friday January 01, 2021 @05:21PM (#25607829)
> In prison you can pretty much poop or get a drink of water whenever you want. In school you need special permission [...]

Uhm. Where in the world do you live?! :O

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Re:School or Prison by ineedasername on Friday January 01, 2021 @05:38PM (#25607988)
The US. It's not a very dignified setup in prison with 4 people in a cell, but most prisons have a toilet and a sink in each cell.
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Re:School or Prison by tomjakubowski on Friday January 01, 2021 @08:54PM (#25609459)
How can you possibly square "four people living in a cell with an open toilet" with "you can poop whenever you want"?
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Re:School or Prison by Noumenon72 on Friday January 01, 2021 @10:20PM (#25610062)
Is this something that is merely against prison taboos, or would agreeable people in this situation also decide, "It's better for us all to have to hold our poop 23 hours a day than to just bow to the indignity and go when we need to go?" I'm anosmic so for me it would be a no brainer that you go when you need to. The toilet's right there.

Prison food probably means you have to break the taboo some days no matter what.

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Re:School or Prison by fuzxi on Friday January 01, 2021 @05:34PM (#25607946)
The US, I'd expect. It's very common here, you can generally expect kids to get a lecture, at minimum, if they leave the classroom for any reason without permission.
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Re:School or Prison by shakna on Friday January 01, 2021 @07:08PM (#25608741)
FWIW This was also my experience in Australia.
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