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According to the only book I currently have on my desk, everyone poops and that’s okay. What’s less okay though is when there’s nowhere for that poop to go- something people in Victorian era London found out first hand when all of the sewage they’d pumped into the Thames dried up and caused a stench that spurred London’s City Press to note- “Gentility of speech is at an end-it stinks, and whoso once inhales the stink can never forget it and can count himself lucky if he lives to remember it.”
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21 апр 2017