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?
Your teacher was either an idiot or fucking with you lol
Your elementary school teacher should have been fired.
Common misconception. They only poop when Trump tells them to. If they don’t wait til instructed ICE comes and shoots them.
Land of the free, ladies and gents.
The climate is colder in North America
Colder than where?
On the off chance that this is a real question:
I am an American, and I poop regularly, every day.
I will admit that I do not adhere to the standard American diet, but I know that I am not alone in my poop habits.
I genuinely don’t understand the logic of “America is a colder climate”, because that is ostensibly incorrect.
Lol, your teacher sounds amazing.
Oh, she was xD
this is misinformation, americans dont poop
Uhm… what??? Maybe it’s because we moved to EU now but even when we lived in USA that wasn’t a normal thing no.
That’s silly. North America is huge. In the US South, it’s very common for people to poop every day. In fact, you usually wouldn’t even talk to a doctor about it. But as you get to the northern states and into Canada, it’s so cold that people don’t poop at all!
So the 1 day thing is probably just someone averaging out the numbers.
Pooping Georg, who lives in a cave and poops 10,000 times a day, is an outlier adn should not be counted
Georg washes out the canyons and floods the plains with nutrients. He single handedly sustains a nation. How dare you.
They say when Pooping Georg eats borscht, the rivers run red. Some have taken this to mean that Pooping Georg is dying (and thus our fertile soil) however, it’s just beets.
Thoughts and prayers for Georg
He’s fine, it’s a lifestyle thing for Georg
And the president who shits every time he draws breath.
Indeed, I have never pooped in my life because i’m above the 45th parrallel
That has to be the stupidest thing I’ve ever heard. I’m veggie, if I don’t poop every day there’s a fucking problem.
I just accepted it as a simple fact didnt think about it anymore lol
I wonder why she told us that.
One of the delights of being a schoolteacher I guess. Just make stuff up and watch em go.
That’s a horrible abuse of power…
Once during a high school history lesson on a quite debate-inducing topic my teacher just shut me down with “I’m a PhD in history”.
For ~15 years I thought my history teacher was PhD until quite recently discovering it was a lie. 🗿
Maybe she was saying we’re near-constantly full of shit. And that’s a big collective touché, honestly
I eat enough fiber if I don’t go multiple times a day I could literally explode
Your teacher is a fuckin moron.
Chill lol
Its not that serious. She was a great teacher. Although a little weird.
I am chill.
Agreed. This one incident is not that serious but I do wonder what other stupid things she believes as fact and then passes along to her students.
She was a good person.
Maybe she just got this from somewhere and believed it. You cant call people morons for being ignorant. She wasnt a moron.
A teacher should verify such facts before passing them to students.
You’re defending her because you also believed it. It’s okay to be a moron
Im defending her because she was a person i knew for many years and i loved her. Maybe youre not the type of person who has feelings like that towards other people. If im right, seek a therapist.
I love plenty of morons. I don’t have a choice, since I’m American. You can love someone and also recognize that they’re a moron, and shouldn’t be telling students absurd unverified facts. You can do both
Moron means a stupid person. But she was not overall stupid. People are ignorant on some matters and smart on others. So calling her a moron is not right. She was very fluent in english. She was very good at it.
This is sorta funny cuz her favorite word to call her students was also morons.
Bowel movements vary by person. From 3 times a day down to once every 3 days. Less than once every 3 days is considered concerning medically, but not necessarily a problem.
Your teacher was the one full of shit.
Thank you. I feel like addressing the pure science of this is important. Not only do Americans poop, every cultures on the planet poops the same way (more or less). We are the same! Break down borders! Anarchy! Shit everywhere! No. Literally, visit an American truck stop. SHIT EVERYWHERE!
Thought this was c/shittyasklemmy. It’s not, so here’s an earnest response. I’m from the US, but have spent a bunch of time living outside of the country. Every guy I know usually poops daily, but a lot of women only poop every couple of days. It doesn’t have anything to do with the cold.
Fun somewhat related story time. I once had a colleague travel to the US from South East Asia. He went to our boss a few days into the trip and said he needed to go to the hospital. My boss eventually convinced him to explain the problem. His poop was a solid mass instead of liquid. Dude had never had solid shit before. It’s possible an anecdote like this is what gave your teacher that idea.
It’s possible an anecdote like this is what gave your teacher that idea.
Maybe.
But I also remember that she was a little xenophobic. Maybe she just made that up on the spot lol
Every guy I know usually poops daily, but a lot of women only poop every couple of days.
How did you acquire this data?
Simple. He asks women if they’ve pooped today and they reply “Of course not!”
It’s foolproof.
Poppycock! My wife lays out a massive deuce every morning like clockwork.
c/shittyasklemmy
Thanks
wait, women poop? I HAVE BEEN LIED TO!
Apparently not very much lmao
the SAD is very lacking in fiber, not at all surprised
Americans are trained from childhood to shit only once a week so it takes away less of their work time.
This starts in school where you need a signed permit to go shit, and continues in the work place where shitting during work hours can get you in trouble.
Shitting frequency is monitored through comically wide gaps in the bathroom stalls.
Once you see the pattern, it becomes obvious, doesn’t it?
I can’t say I agree with you, but I can absolutely see how the data can be interpreted that way, and I’m not sure you’re wrong, either.
Only families that can’t afford a poop knife.
Tf is that
Old reddit reference.
