Are there any benefits to bathing in your own piss? If not, why did your white cracker cavedwelling ancestors do it while we...
I haven’t heard of bathing in piss (outside of municipal swimming pools).
Drinking piss is definitely a Hindu thing, although for best results they suggest trying cow urine, which can apparently cure cancer.
Minor anecdote about running water I find desperately sad: the decline of Rome may not have had much immediate impact on the people living nearby, and the gravity-fed aqueducts kept flowing long after no one was maintaining them, but eventually they became blocked and useless and the people went back to carrying their water in buckets from the stream, marvels of engineering lying silent as society lacked the institutions needed to fix them.
For a more impressive example of hydro-engineering that has lasted till the present day, check out the Dujiangyan irrigation system! Designing a tricky system of levees and weirs to allow irrigation and protect against floods, and digging a channel through a mountain without gunpowder, just by heating and cooling the rock to make it crack, all back in 256 BC.
I’ve seen theories about water in the pyramids, some wilder than others. Egypt had papyrus boats that according to Heyerdahl were capable of reaching the Americas, read about the Ra Expeditions if you haven’t, it’s a fun story that seems to get less attention than Kon-Tiki.
Romans sometimes bathed in piss, I’m pretty sure I read that somewhere. They thought it was medicinal. It’s not exactly a crazy thing to think. Piss has been used as a disinfectant by many societies. Some even used it to wash food. The Norse used it to clean animal pelts before fashioning them into clothing.
clean, fresh piss is a disinfectant iirc. i know there are vultures that piss down their legs to kill bacteria
anyone quotes Billy Madison and I will have this thread erased
“piss on your toes in the shower” is a common countermeasure to Athlete’s Foot