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International News Title: 5 million Ghanaians defecate openly daily, 1.1bn globally Accra, the capital of the Republic of Ghana, in the West Africa sub-region, is a city widely known for its very modern infrastructure, which includes beautiful architecture and a very good road network and flyovers, including the recent but famed George Walker Bush Motorway, which stretches from the Tetteh Quarshie Roundabout to Mallam junction. Also referred to as the worlds headquarters for open defecation, 626 million of the Asian populous state has more than twice the number of the next 18 countries combined; accounts for 90 per cent of the 692 million people in South Asia who practice open defecation and accounts for 59 per cent of the 1.1 billion people in the world who practice open defecation. Sanitation is a human right For its part, the United Nations maintains the majority of the worlds 1.1 billion people who practice open defecation are living in rural areas, and because they have no private place to defecate and urinate; they use fields and bushes, ditches or railway tracks, or simply a plastic bag. For them, sanitation is about dignity and ultimately human rights, the UN body states. Poster Comment: I just hope no one calls these countries shitholes because it might hurt the feelings of the people who live there and openly defecate in their streets and everywhere else. We need to be sensitive to their feelings about open defecation. Post Comment Private Reply Ignore Thread Top Page Up Full Thread Page Down Bottom/Latest Comments (1-8) not displayed.
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They will, so far as you do not try to "help" them like in Libya.
More than 80 years ago, Polish minister of Internal Affairs (Slawoj Skladkowski) issued an order to the semi-literate villagers (80% of population) to build outhouses. There were riots and police had to be sent. Now their standards not worse than Americans, and much better than Americans had in 1940s. Outhouses are rare and still they are called slawojka :)
I did hear one fellow expat claiming he saw one case of it in Bolivia. Bolivia is SA's 1st or 2nd poorest country, competing with French Guiana, I think. Well, since we're on the topic, 2 environmental factors could contribute to this. One is water availability. Water toilets require plumbing, and in desert climates where water is very scare, plumbing would be senseless to install in the first place, making water toilets to some degree a luxury item. The second issue may be diet. I think African diets are much higher in beans and grains and much lower on meat compared to European and American diets. This may make the resulting material somewhat less disgusting than it is for those of higher meat protein intake.
More than 80 years ago, Polish minister of Internal Affairs (Slawoj Skladkowski) issued an order to the semi-literate villagers (80% of population) to build outhouses. There were riots and police had to be sent. Hmmm.... That certainly gives pause to one who opposes central authority over the masses, doesn't it?
You mistake me for a Japanese. I'm not. You're wrong. People with indoor plumbing are better human beings than the open-defecators who spread diseases among themselves and everyone who comes into contact with them. There really isn't anything so virtuous about spreading cholera. But it is virtuous to wipe out cholera.
That is why in less developed societies benevolent dictatorships might be much better than democracy brought there from good ole USA like in Libya.
You mistake me for a Japanese. I'm not. You seem to be worse. You tempt the Just Lord. You might end up without indoor plumbing.
Again, if South America can get it done in a reasonable number of decades, why not Africa? There's no good excuse really. Well, since we're on the topic, 2 environmental factors could contribute to this. One is water availability. Water toilets require plumbing, and in desert climates where water is very scare, plumbing would be senseless to install in the first place, making water toilets to some degree a luxury item. The second issue may be diet. I think African diets are much higher in beans and grains and much lower on meat compared to European and American diets. This may make the resulting material somewhat less disgusting than it is for those of higher meat protein intake. You can always build outhouses. If necessary, you empty them into wagons drawn by horses, camels or cattle. Latrines are not rocket science. There is a sort of implicit racism in this idea that rural people in Africa or in India just can't be expected to do better. Of course they can. Unless you really do think they are an utterly inferior race incapable of any improvement. Yet we know this is not the case.
For the sin of not making excuses for open-defecators ruining their own countries by turning them into shitholes, rife with disease? Perhaps you are worshiping cholera more than God.
Now the "International Community" is waging war against Yemen. As a result infrastructure collapsed and cholera is spreading on mass scale.Thanks to guys like you.
Sure, I'm the warlord of Yemen. You're delusional. I assume you're making such stupid remarks because you have nothing constructive or persuasive to offer.
You're delusional. I assume you're making such stupid remarks because you have nothing constructive or persuasive to offer. Yeah,he's delusional as well as defensive. He is one of the few remaining "true believer" communists in the world,and he exists solely to try to drag down the western world to the point where it seems to be as bad as communism. In the entire history of the world,the only nations that had to build walls to keep their own citizens from leaving were those with leftist governments.
IDK what you all are complaining about. At least these folks are extruding Lincoln logs in the free and open air. The real shithole in the United States Capitol where the inhabitants relieve themselves on the Constitution each and every day.
Those things aren't Lincoln logs. Please stop making your "special donations" to the charity toy drive box at X-mas. Thank you.
Now that we know what areas that you like to sniff around, we will avoid those locations. I generally drop my old duds off at front door of the Goodwill.
"Defensive"? What do you mean?
"No good Excuse" .... "can't be expected"... Every culture will progress at it's own pace. It's not as though they have to answer to any other culture.
Fine. As long as they don't pretend to be anything other than shitholes. I am mostly on an open-defecation tear because all these people in the media have good cause to know the conditions in the Third World. In Africa, you can call those countries the Turd World because that is a more accurate description.
I can remember being In New Orleans one time, and some guy (probably homeless) dropped his pants in the middle of the street and kneeled and took a big diarreah dump right there. He looked like an embarrassed dog looking around thinking, "hey, what am I supposed to do?"
The homeless are a problem everywhere. It's just a fact. I approve of cities that make an effort to provide indestructible public toilets. Even the homeless should be able to find a toilet when nature calls. It's a basic public health issue. You do it for the homeless but just as much for the health of the public.
Ah.... so that's the reasons for these postings. Okay.
30 posts... that's a lot of shit talk. lol I'm the infidel... Allah warned you about. كافر المسلح
I just wanted to establish that shithole countries are those that aren't smart enough to dig a hole to dump their shit in. I'm just not all that sympathetic to the open-defecators.
"shit" is the word you use most often. I wonder why is that? Problems with constipation?
"Defensive"? What do you mean? Your kneejerk reaction is to always attack capitalism and defend communism. Your ideology failed because it's contrary to human nature,but you will always defend it because deep down in your heart you know you can't survive if left on your own. In the entire history of the world,the only nations that had to build walls to keep their own citizens from leaving were those with leftist governments.
Nice theory,but it won't work because the "law of the jungle" is the prevailing law amongst the homeless. In bad weather the strongest and most violent will set up housekeeping in them,and either keep others from using them,or charge others to use them. In the entire history of the world,the only nations that had to build walls to keep their own citizens from leaving were those with leftist governments.
So where did the Israelites crap when Moses was leading them around the desert for 40 years?
It sounds like you got out of bed on the stupid side this morning.
As for some early Old Testament toilet guidance, Deuteronomy 23 instructs the Jewish people to "have a place outside the camp and go out there, and you shall have a spade among your tools, and it shall be when you sit down outside, you shall dig with it and shall turn to cover up your excrement." https://toilet-guru.com/biblical_old.php
Well sweet, sweet Jezuss... Why izzit I can't remember Pat Robertson ever telling me about that one???
You are a bad boy.
Nice reminder.
Yeah... maybe... But I bet Deuteronomy doesn't say anything about wiping their behinds with toilet papyrus before burying it with the spade
Wasn't there a song about this, something about how "In the days of old, when knights were bold, and toilets weren't invented, you'd lay your load upon the road and walk away contented"?
I don't recall it but that seems pretty specific. Sounds kind of limerick-ish. Maybe some old saucy Broadway tune or vaudeville ditty?
More research indicates that this "In the days of old when knights were bold" is a generic meme that people use as a base to write their own jokes. Kind of like all the different "Roses are red..." limericks. Apparently, this comes from Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. Reddit: Let's hear your best "In days of old when knights were bold..." gag! It seems that it is based on a poem several centuries old. Here's another from NYC in the Fifties:
In the days of old When nights were bold And bras were not invented, You tie some ropes around your slopes That's how they were invented!
No no, it's "and babies were prevented". The lyric must fit the meter, apres tout!
I'm still not sure if Chaucer was the source or some obscure English poet.
Obviously Shakespeare.
Okay. I'm glad it's obvious to you. : )
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