“No, its against the wall”

The video got me to thinking. Yes it is funny, and then it also isn’t as peeing in public places has always pissed me off! So I did a little research on what makes people laugh.

In Tanzania, in the early 60’s, a strange epidemic of giggling among girls in a boarding school was observed. “It started with three and soon the uncontrollable cackles spread to their classmates. The laughing attacks lasted from a few minutes up to a few hours; one poor girl reportedly experienced symptoms for 16 straight days. Victims couldn’t focus on their schoolwork, and would lash out if others tried to restrain them.”

Because the affliction was so disruptive, the school finally closed down, but the students took the spells of laughter to their villages. This became known as omuneepo, a Swahili term for laughing disease. There was nothing funny at all but “It’s a form of complaint.”deemed a local psychiatrist of the mysterious laughter. “They had no alternative form of expression.” Apparently “the religious boarding school where the laughter began was marked by strict rules, windowless dorms, and devilishly uncomfortably chairs designed to promote correct posture. Investigators found similar conditions at other locations where the omuneepo later erupted: Serious overcrowding, poor food quality.”

“Laughter, is more than just a response to humor. It’s a primal human tool, one of the building blocks of society. It taps into the core of what we are as social creatures, expressing from one person to another what often cannot be said in any other way: either that everything is in good fun—or, as in the case of omuneepo, that something is very, very wrong.”

https://www.slate.com/articles/arts/culturebox/features/2014/the_humor_code/why_do_humans_laugh_the_evolutionary_biology_of_laughter.html

In the video situation as it is in ‘Pins, there are not enough public toilets where people can relieve themselves. The pissing tank is a creative solution which also found its funny for the lot of us. Wish there were more public toilets or we may resort to hosing pissers as well!!!

Sorry MM, my rant for the day! Happy New Year!!