'The Greatest Ever Boon for Menkind?' - Page 2

**sweatyhat** · September 27th, 2011, 05:18 PM

Sheds, places where you can hide stuff (or yourself) from the missus. These are also more masculine versions of the summer house, especially on allotments where you can have a few beers and listen to cricket,rugby or football on the radio. The sort of place women daren't come to pester you.

**tygrkhat40** · September 27th, 2011, 06:03 PM

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Originally Posted by sweatyhat

Sheds, places where you can hide stuff (or yourself) from the missus. These are also more masculine versions of the summer house, especially on allotments where you can have a few beers and listen to cricket,rugby or football on the radio. The sort of place women daren't come to pester you.

The indoor version being popularized, the "man cave."

**deepsepia** · September 27th, 2011, 09:39 PM

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Originally Posted by Foxbark

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That or the privy and associated plumbing.

More humans have suffered disease and premature death from contaminated water than any other cause.

I heard a nice line: "civilization can be measured in how far you are from your feces"

**sweatyhat** · September 28th, 2011, 09:59 AM

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Originally Posted by deepsepia

That or the privy and associated plumbing.
More humans have suffered disease and premature death from contaminated water than any other cause.

Ta for reminding me of this book I read a while back, 'Seeps.

The author asserts, quite rightly I think, that good sanitation is as important as having clean drinking water. Once all the toilet humour is put aside, this still remains an important issue for much of humanity.

**deepsepia** · September 28th, 2011, 01:42 PM

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Originally Posted by sweatyhat

The author asserts, quite rightly I think, that good sanitation is as important as having clean water. Once all the toilet humour is put aside, this still remains an important issue for much of humanity.

Oh yeah . . . Good sanitation is good water. Once you have any population density, if your sanitation sucks, you'll have nonstop disease. There are occasionally a few things in the water which are dangerous which aren't from human sources, but the human-human loop is the devastating one (eg cholera, typhoid). Stuff that comes from animals can occasionally be nasty, but stuff that comes from us is perfectly adapted to live in us, much bigger problem.

The book you mention illustrates why the biggest gains in human life expectancy are so inexpensive. You set up proper sanitation, assure folks have clean water and life expectancy goes up by about 20 years (mostly due to a big drop in infant deaths -- diarrheal diseases kill infants in huge numbers ).

**Mal Hombre** · September 28th, 2011, 06:10 PM

"Indoor plumbing!...The lack of it killed My Mother" C Montgomery Burns

**tamsmith** · November 11th, 2011, 10:01 PM

No one seems to have mentioned that the greatest boon to mankind is "your right hand". Or your left if you are that way inclined.

MaxJoker · November 12th, 2011, 12:38 AM

The television series

**palo5** · November 12th, 2011, 02:15 AM

I agree with esteemed posters above that clean water and plumbing are a great boon to mankind. Where would we be without it? More than half of us would probably never have lived

Of course, Comrades Estreeter and Greenskull would live through everything and are indestructible

The greatest labor-saving device is probably the washing machine

The greatest discovery is electricity

**sweatyhat** · November 12th, 2011, 04:39 AM

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The greatest labor-saving device is probably the washing machine

Not only is this better than a tin bath, dolly and mangle, but have you noticed how the missus always checks if you've selected the correct programme? If she's going to go that far, she might as well have the machine all to herself.

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palo5 Former Staff Join Date: Sep 2009 Posts: 16,579 Thanks: 452,836 Thanked 222,658 Times in 16,567 Posts	I agree with esteemed posters above that clean water and plumbing are a great boon to mankind. Where would we be without it? More than half of us would probably never have lived Of course, Comrades Estreeter and Greenskull would live through everything and are indestructible The greatest labor-saving device is probably the washing machine The greatest discovery is electricity