My elementary school teacher told us once that Americans only poop once a week. The climate is colder in North America, so their intestines pack the poop together very densely such that they only need to poop once a week. She said you’d be sent to the doctor if you poop daily in America.

Is this true?

  • Watermark710@piefed.social
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    7 days ago

    The climate is colder in North America

    It’s gonna be 81f (27c) where I live today, and it’s not even summer yet. At the peak of summer, we regularly get temperatures over 100f (~38c). We’ve even seen 111f (43.8c) in my state, and I don’t live in the hottest state, not by a long shot. Your teacher was incredibly ignorant.

    It does get really cold here in the winter, but thankfully humans have developed these things called heaters, so it’s not cold indoors. I go from my heated house, to my heated garage, get into my car (which also has heat), and drive to my heated workplace, or the heated supermarket. Then I do the same trip in reverse. I’m only exposed to the extreme cold for 2-3 minutes the whole trip.

    As far as shitting, I have IBS-D. I’d be so fucking happy if I could manage to only shit once a day. On bad days, I’m on the toilet 10-12 times.

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        6 days ago

        Paragraph 1) It gets very hot here.

        Paragraph 2) Even in the winter, we just turn the heat on.

        Paragraph 3) I shit a lot.

        In short, your teacher was an idiot.

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          6 days ago

          Alr, thanks for that.

          No, she wasn’t an idiot overall. She might be ignorant in this subject, but she was sooooo good at english.