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Re:What comes up when you flush by surement on Thursday December 08, 2022 @09:55AM (#33908462)
it's not likely to be harmful but that it is sterile is a falsehood probably popularized by Fight Club
Re:What comes up when you flush by pengaru on Thursday December 08, 2022 @12:01PM (#33910216)
No, this belief goes way back, like pre-WW2.

My father would tell a story explaining why one foot was scarred and ticklish that involved the neighborhood kids pissing on his bleeding foot after stepping on a broken bottle while playing soccer barefoot in the plaza back home in Italy. All the kids knew to piss on the wound to sterilize it. He was born in '42.

Re:What comes up when you flush by kwhitefoot on Thursday December 08, 2022 @11:21AM (#33909651)
> popularized by Fight Club

And Lawrence of Arabia in the Seven Pillars of Wisdom. In which the young men piss on wounds.

"The other wounded men were seen to at the same time. Mifleh brought up the youngest lads of the party, and had them spray the wounds with their piss, as a rude antiseptic."

Last paragraph of chapter 78: https://www.globalgreyebooks.com/seven-pillars-of-wisdom-ebo...