"No toilet, no bride"

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Post by crocus » Fri, Mar 27, 2009, 3:07 PM UTC

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Post by stcredzero » Fri, Mar 27, 2009, 3:15 PM UTC

This happened when I was in college when our local "hippie-goddess" chick met this guy from the Pacific island of Yap. They were in love and he wanted to marry her, but she insisted on having "American style" plumbing before she'd say yes and go and live with him on Yap. The guy got his hands on a backhoe and put in a septic system himself. Guess it really was love.

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Post by wheels » Fri, Mar 27, 2009, 4:00 PM UTC

DNS seems to be acting up at the moment. For some reason news.ycombinator.com is resolving to Reddit.

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Post by glymor » Fri, Mar 27, 2009, 4:22 PM UTC

In a country where more households have TV sets than lavatories

This seems insane.

Indoor plumming is perhaps somewhat involved but what about outdoor lavatories?

Maybe my image of rural Britain having outhouses everywhere is mistaken or occurred at a latter stage of development...

Re: "No toilet, no bride"

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Post by glymor » Fri, Mar 27, 2009, 4:26 PM UTC

Listing of the worst places in the world for sanitation:

http://www.wateraid.org/documents/stateofworldtoilets.pdf

Interestingly the total number of households without is about the same for India and China ~700m

Re: "No toilet, no bride"

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Post by ekpyrotic » Fri, Mar 27, 2009, 4:36 PM UTC

Allowing articles which are not within the immediate sphere of a hacker's interest is a slippery slope.

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Post by sutro » Fri, Mar 27, 2009, 4:58 PM UTC

This headline is best enjoyed when sung to the tune of Bob Marley's "No woman, no cry."

Re: "No toilet, no bride"

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Post by wheels » Fri, Mar 27, 2009, 5:02 PM UTC

ekpyrotic wrote: post #6

Allowing articles which are not within the immediate sphere of a hacker's interest is a slippery slope.

Note that once an article is flagged enough times it is [dead]-ed. I'd encourage others to use that feature for wildly off-topic posts such as this one, and to spend a little time digging through the "new" section for stuff that is relevant to the site.

Re: "No toilet, no bride"

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Post by ekpyrotic » Fri, Mar 27, 2009, 5:18 PM UTC

wheels wrote: post #8

ekpyrotic wrote: post #6

Allowing articles which are not within the immediate sphere of a hacker's interest is a slippery slope.

Note that once an article is flagged enough times it is [dead]-ed. I'd encourage others to use that feature for wildly off-topic posts such as this one, and to spend a little time digging through the "new" section for stuff that is relevant to the site.

Thanks for the information wheels.

Re: "No toilet, no bride"

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Post by time_management » Fri, Mar 27, 2009, 6:15 PM UTC

Everything's gonna be alright?