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senseandsensibility

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13. Maybe he/she is talking about the homeless?

Reply to DemocratSinceBirth (Reply #9)

Fri Apr 15, 2022, 09:07 PM

Apr 2022

LA has plenty of those and so does the Bay Area, where I'm from. Although I'm proud to be an American, we don't have the answer to everything and our homeless are proof of that.

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One in four Russians don't have an indoor toilet. [View all] DemocratSinceBirth Apr 2022 OP

I saw a destroyed UKR outhouse on a YouTube vid Kaleva Apr 2022 #1

Can you imagine having to climb flights of stairs in the middle of the night to take a poop? Beakybird Apr 2022 #2

And then falling in the hole DemocratSinceBirth Apr 2022 #3

I am assuming they have chamber pots to be dumped in the morning Demovictory9 Apr 2022 #4

People here didn't believe it was true when I posted a video Crunchy Frog Apr 2022 #5

I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of them still don't have a refrigerator. PoindexterOglethorpe Apr 2022 #6

This is what authoritarianism leads to. MineralMan Apr 2022 #7

When I was a kid our family lived a year without a refrigerator. hunter Apr 2022 #10

Without a refrigerator, how do you store leftovers in the summer? PoindexterOglethorpe Apr 2022 #11

Your great grandmother and my great grandfather would have got along well. bluedigger Apr 2022 #14

Many Americans lack indoor plumbing too. Treefrog Apr 2022 #8

Where? DemocratSinceBirth Apr 2022 #9

Maybe he/she is talking about the homeless? senseandsensibility Apr 2022 #13

Google is your friend. Treefrog Apr 2022 #17

This message was self-deleted by its author DemocratSinceBirth Apr 2022 #18

The topic was about indoor plumbing and the fact 1 in 4 Russians don't have access to it. DemocratSinceBirth Apr 2022 #21

I'm going to guess that those "many Americans" are mostly living PoindexterOglethorpe Apr 2022 #12

If you grew up in the UK, only 1 in 2 houses had indoor plumbing HipChick Apr 2022 #15

That was fifty years ago. DemocratSinceBirth Apr 2022 #16

Sounds like India rockfordfile Apr 2022 #19

Hey! I grew up with an outhouse dwayneb Apr 2022 #20