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?

  • notsosure@sh.itjust.works
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    7 days ago

    I’m guessing this notion came about from the Baptist and evangelical folks, who indeed try to reduce the frequency of bodily functions, as they see those as sin. As a result, Lutherans and the like indeed only do number twos every couple of weeks. But the rest of Americans (the silent minority), who live on a diet of fiber free fast food, sodas and watery beer, open the diarrhea valve at least twice a day. Only in America!

    • FosterMolasses@leminal.spaceEnglish
      1·
      6 days ago

      I’m guessing this notion came about from the Baptist and evangelical folks, who indeed try to reduce the frequency of bodily functions, as they see those as sin.

      Ah yes, the lesser known Everybody Poops edition

    • Krusty@quokk.auEnglish
      5·
      7 days ago

      That’s not true about mainstream Lutherans…

      They’re really nothing like Baptists or evangelicals (which have plenty of overlap being Pentecostal.)

      Lutherans still typically serve wine for communion. It’s basically Catholicism lite… Methodists are also mainstream protestants. None of these are Evangelical or Pentecostal or charismatic (no faith healings, no speaking in tongues, no magic underwear, and they do more than missionary work in places that don’t want their missionaries…)

      Like my brother’s church, Assembly of God. They’re Evangelical, pentecostal, and charismatic. Most of their offerings go to missions. And they have bios and a world map with colored pins associated with the missionary bios. So many of them are in places that don’t want Christian missionaries… So what do they do? Build a fucking church in a Muslim country where Christianity is banned. So the church got burned down and missionaries were taken hostage… What do they want to do? Pay the ransom and rebuild the church… And brag about sending millions of dollars overseas for this dumb shit. Like… How about invest in the local community?! These places of worship are pathetically parasitic. Now remember, it’s dumb fucks like these (Evangelical Pentecostals, who mainly focus on global mission work) that are the largest majority of Trump’s base. This tracks, sadly. Mission work is an excellent way to traffick people and move/launder dark money, unregulated and tax free!