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Artemis II astronauts have a toilet problem
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Americans have NOT forgotten how to build and maintain toilets.
Americans have forgotten how to shit.
Quite frankly it blows my mind how often I see fairly young American men talk on the internet about shitting themselves regularly or semi-regularly. Not always with alcohol involved.
I don't think its always been like this and I'm afraid that perhaps there's a bystander effect thing going on where nobody has told the Americans that they are normalizing something that is probably a symptom of a larger issue.
Not to get all Freud about this but.. ^arrested^ ^development^ ^perhaps?^
even with alcohol, that shit isn't normal
i have gotten drunk to the point of completely blacking out multiple times in my life and have never once regained consciousness having shit myself
Me neither and I nearly asphyxiated on my vomit in my sleep once so it should have been on the cards at least for a while in my life.
I shit myself overnight once when i had food poisoning*
*doctors had no idea why i was diarrheaing so much i had to have an IV due to dehydration so they kinda just went "eh." And sent me home and told me to get electrolyte solution
I also have frequent bowel issues in general so yeah