This is Speshul...
16 years ago
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Brazilians... GOING GREENER.
An article about how you can save up to 5,000 liters of water a year by... peeing in the shower, is charmingly characterized in this advert:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1BNhCJU0ow&feature=player_embedded#t=45
That’s a shit ton of yellow for being so green. :|
This is... beyond uncivilized... it is... barbaric. :C I know sometimes, when you gotta go you just gotta go, but peeing in the shower isn't something I would consider an act of propriety, in fact, last I remember, I'm pretty sure the exact opposite is true.
An article about how you can save up to 5,000 liters of water a year by... peeing in the shower, is charmingly characterized in this advert:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1BNhCJU0ow&feature=player_embedded#t=45
That’s a shit ton of yellow for being so green. :|
This is... beyond uncivilized... it is... barbaric. :C I know sometimes, when you gotta go you just gotta go, but peeing in the shower isn't something I would consider an act of propriety, in fact, last I remember, I'm pretty sure the exact opposite is true.
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What?
Well, it's not really that gross or anything. It's just that...it was a video of people pissing in their shower and being ridiculously happy about it.
I can't explain it.
Exactly. It was supposed to be a hillarious post, "WHYYY?? THE UNCOUTHNESS!!" and people got all super srs on me! :O
And I pee like a mofo because I've always got a water bottle beside me. Sorry earth!
remember kids, never shit where you sleep! there is a reason why wild animals don't do it!
In any case an outhouse or saves ALL of that otherwise wasted water :D
Urine is actually completely steral too when it comes out--it just smells. But, it all gets washed down, so. I guess, I could just kinda easily see it getting pretty bad and stinky after awhile if you didn't clean your shower a lot and had a whole family peeing all over the shower place.
Hahaha... an outhouse is certainly an option I approve.
Personally, I just don't flush the toilet every time I pee and use minimal toilet paper. Sure, the toilet looks pretty yellow after a few times but... I pee a lot since I drink all this water! It'd be a huge waste if I flushed the toilet every thirty freakin' minutes. Daum.
Meanwhile, I'll enjoy the nightmares that commercial is going to give me tonight. LITTLE CHILDREN VOICES. SPEAKING IN A DIFFERENT LANGUAGE. ALL AT ONCE. OOOHHH THE HORROR.
Well, I don't pee thirty times a day, but I've smelled some of these "water free" conservation savoy bathrooms before, and it is fuckin foul and gross and shit. Ironically, this was just after a week of use. The goddam bathroom was brand new, I might have been one of the first people to pee in this thing.
lol... yes, children and other languages are scary. :)
I see their point. but it's not if there weren't other means to save on water, like using a dishwashing machine (filled, of course, not with only one fork and a dish in it), don't let the water run from the tap while creaming your hands with soap, or shaving, or doing other things... I know a lady who always flushes her dishes after cleansing, beign afraid of the soap... if that was a problem she'd be long since dead now. but that is also a waste of water.
also, flush your toilet responsibly.
but you can't bother people with acting responsible, right?
If you ask me though, water is pretty much the last resource we have to worry about running out of... only in certain areas can I see extreme water conservation being needed and welcomed. To me, this just seems like another "going green" propoganda media... thing... getting beaten into us. And, like... most water is recycled anyways.
But yeah, responcibility. It's pretty easy when you actually pay attention to what you do. I guess I view myself as reasonably good at conservation, and I think there can be some leeway when I want to pee in a toilet.
I agree, many people just don't think twice at what they do. I meet up with a RPG gang each thursday, and one of them has the habit to leave the light on in his room and the hallway all evening. not the enrgy-saving variety, those little hot spots with halogene bulbs, which are compact, but don't really save much energy...
personally, I see wasting ressources as something one shouldn't do. not because there is enough water around (certainly enough to flush the toilet properly, ewww), so that it doesn't matter... because there is a price behind wasting that one day we will pay all one by one.
when the eyes are bigger than the stomach? order smaller portions next time. I have seen people who would pick up food that came for free, take a bite, and throw away the rest. it's extremely rude and insulting to the giver, and an unnecessary waste when there are people which are not even living in a third-world country, which are starving at this very moment. I want to strangle those people with a mildewed bread loaf. and polluted water.
of course, one shouldn't drag this too far. there are enough other pressing problems, Brasil or elsewhere.
Hahaha... yeah, you are incredibly right. We shouldn't waste! Its such a new concept aparently! ffffff But, seriously, I've always been told to clean my plate, and turn off the lights when I leave the room. And, I think that's just... right and ethical. I know this comercial isn't bad (its pretty humorous) but I've really felt that the "going green" movement has gotten more and more tyranical and vexing. And, I think it's very heavily propogated because there is a lot of money and business in it, not so much the an act of altruism like I'd love it to be. I dunno... I guess a lot of fanatism always rubs me the wrong way, it seems like people are just following a trent to hell or high water, without much thoughts... Uhg, I need to come back to this I'm distracted hahah..
many of these things are more like a dogma, a doctrine to be followed come hell or high water, as you put it so fitting. I despise fanatism myself, because fanatics tend to refuse to look left and right. and while they stomp right through what they deem being a problem, they make things far, far worse..
I have read some sci-fi novel where all that "save the earth" stuff has long since become an industry, with the Disney corporation as a spearhead.