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The British, French and Russian armies soon followed suit. It is a truth that in war, an invention by you will be quickly copied by the enemy.
It's also true, as the example shows, that truly inventive technological changes are always generated quickly in wartime, never in peace time.
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The drive to thrive simply isn't as compelling (or uncomfortable) as the drive to survive.-1- wrote:It's also true, as the example shows, that truly inventive technological changes are always generated quickly in wartime, never in peace time.
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The drive to survive...Greta wrote:The drive to thrive simply isn't as compelling (or uncomfortable) as the drive to survive.-1- wrote:It's also true, as the example shows, that truly inventive technological changes are always generated quickly in wartime, never in peace time.
They were experimenting for a while to induce survival panic in athletes who run, swim, etc, because they figured they could half their best times. The experiments did not work out.
Drive to reproduce...
Many, many, many completely undocumented cases exist where the coach promises to the fastest runner that if he gets an unreasonably good time, he can have the coach's wife for a night.
Once in a while the athlete gets the job done, and the coach becomes reluctant to allow him access to his wife.
I don't know what normally happens after that.
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Outhouse love. It's a beautiful thing.
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I believe that is covered in one of the other threads, though it depends if the male outhouse feels that they are trapped in the foundation of a female outhouse...-1- wrote:What happens when two separate, sexually active outhouses of different sexes physically unite?
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If I was the coach's wife, once I found out about the offer then he and I would soon have separate toilets in separate houses and I would seek counselling to find out how I could have misread his character so badly :)-1- wrote:The drive to survive...Greta wrote: (Nested quote removed.)
The drive to thrive simply isn't as compelling (or uncomfortable) as the drive to survive.
They were experimenting for a while to induce survival panic in athletes who run, swim, etc, because they figured they could half their best times. The experiments did not work out.
Drive to reproduce...
Many, many, many completely undocumented cases exist where the coach promises to the fastest runner that if he gets an unreasonably good time, he can have the coach's wife for a night.
Once in a while the athlete gets the job done, and the coach becomes reluctant to allow him access to his wife.
I don't know what normally happens after that.
For the record, I think most people today figure that segregated toilets are simply safer and more hygienic for women, with any differing history relatively unimportant to them.
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The main reason we have male and female restrooms is modesty. And, women need more privacy, especially when they are menstruating and must remove more to go to the bathroom. However, unisex bathrooms are very common in some countries, e.g., China.
I have never seen separate outhouses for the men and women. And, it is pure nonsense that the sun symbol was for women and moon for men. Are you kidding?
I am flabbergasted that anyone would think that this has something to do with religious reasons. And, morality has nothing to do with bathrooms, unisex or not.
My grandfather had a 3 seater (3 holes in piece of wood) outhouse on his farm in 1967. His outhouse had no symbols on the door. He only had cold running water in his house and no toilets. He had a wash basin. You heated water on the stove and used the wash basin for your bathing in the kitchen. The kitchen was off limits to the men when the women were bathing. And, toilet paper was a luxury; you used old newspapers to wipe with if you ran out of toilet paper.
For the record, an outhouse is a toilet.
He kept a pot to urinate in in the house for the women and kids at night.
The men never used the outhouse just to urinate except during a bowel movement. Men urinated outside discretely, i.e., out of site, e.g., behind a tree or the barn.
And, the idea that separate toilets are safer is pure childish nonsense.
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George1949 wrote:Very strange topic for a philosophical site.
The main reason we have male and female restrooms is modesty. And, women need more privacy, especially when they are menstruating and must remove more to go to the bathroom. However, unisex bathrooms are very common in some countries, e.g., China.
I have never seen separate outhouses for the men and women. And, it is pure nonsense that the sun symbol was for women and moon for men. Are you kidding?
I am flabbergasted that anyone would think that this has something to do with religious reasons. And, morality has nothing to do with bathrooms, unisex or not.
My grandfather had a 3 seater (3 holes in piece of wood) outhouse on his farm in 1967. His outhouse had no symbols on the door. He only had cold running water in his house and no toilets. He had a wash basin. You heated water on the stove and used the wash basin for your bathing in the kitchen. The kitchen was off limits to the men when the women were bathing. And, toilet paper was a luxury; you used old newspapers to wipe with if you ran out of toilet paper.
For the record, an outhouse is a toilet.
He kept a pot to urinate in in the house for the women and kids at night.
The men never used the outhouse just to urinate except during a bowel movement. Men urinated outside discretely, i.e., out of site, e.g., behind a tree or the barn.
And, the idea that separate toilets are safer is pure childish nonsense.
The mere mention of an outhouse can be enough to turn a stomach. Cottagers who have or continue to use them know it’s hard to shake that unforgettable stench. But while most cottagers shudder at the thought of them, others find them fascinating—so much so that outhouses are studied, restored, raced, and even stolen.
John Loose has learned a lot about outdoor toilets since launching the Outhouse Tour of America in 1997, an online collection of hundreds of random facts, photos, and stories about outhouses from around the world. He’s been interviewed for a Wall Street Journal cover feature, and even invited to England by descendants of British toilet entrepreneur Thomas Crapper.
Never heard of the Outhouse Tour of America? Here are 10 more things you didn’t think you’d ever know about outhouses.
1. There’s meaning behind the moons and stars: Moon and star cut-outs are commonly found on outhouse doors, allegedly dating back to colonial times when literacy levels were low. “They serve two purposes,” explains Loose. “Basically, they’re for lighting but the other purpose was to tell the difference between the male and the female outhouses.” A crescent moon symbolized a female and a star a male. However, he says that if families had a single outhouse, it most likely had a moon on it.
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