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Your teacher was either an idiot or fucking with you lol

What the fuck am I reading

Your elementary school teacher should have been fired.

The climate is colder in North America

Colder than where?

Common misconception. They only poop when Trump tells them to. If they don't wait til instructed ICE comes and shoots them.

Land of the free, ladies and gents.

Is this why so many Europeans treat us like some different species

That’s silly. North America is huge. In the US South, it’s very common for people to poop every day. In fact, you usually wouldn’t even talk to a doctor about it. But as you get to the northern states and into Canada, it’s so cold that people don’t poop at all!

So the 1 day thing is probably just someone averaging out the numbers.

That has to be the stupidest thing I've ever heard. I'm veggie, if I don't poop every day there's a fucking problem.

Your teacher is a fuckin moron.

On the off chance that this is a real question:

I am an American, and I poop regularly, every day.

I will admit that I do not adhere to the standard American diet, but I know that I am not alone in my poop habits.

I genuinely don't understand the logic of "America is a colder climate", because that is ostensibly incorrect.

Bowel movements vary by person. From 3 times a day down to once every 3 days. Less than once every 3 days is considered concerning medically, but not necessarily a problem.

Your teacher was the one full of shit.

Your teacher is either fucking with you or shouldn't be allowed to teach.

Are you still in elementary school? If not, you can't possibly still believe this

You're mixing up Americans with sloths, but I guess we’re not that different

Nope. I shit every day, in the morning, on a schedule.

Your teacher was full of shit. Sure the Standard American Diet (SAD) is terrible and leaves fiber much to be desired, but not every American sticks to the SAD. I'm sure other countries have people that have shit diets and get constipated too, not just the US.

Generalizations don't help anyone.

you seem lost.

this is clearly a !shittyasklemmy@lemmy.uhhoh.com post

Lol, your teacher sounds amazing.

Thought this was c/shittyasklemmy. It's not, so here's an earnest response. I'm from the US, but have spent a bunch of time living outside of the country. Every guy I know usually poops daily, but a lot of women only poop every couple of days. It doesn't have anything to do with the cold.

Fun somewhat related story time. I once had a colleague travel to the US from South East Asia. He went to our boss a few days into the trip and said he needed to go to the hospital. My boss eventually convinced him to explain the problem. His poop was a solid mass instead of liquid. Dude had never had solid shit before. It's possible an anecdote like this is what gave your teacher that idea.

No.

Americans are trained from childhood to shit only once a week so it takes away less of their work time.
This starts in school where you need a signed permit to go shit, and continues in the work place where shitting during work hours can get you in trouble.
Shitting frequency is monitored through comically wide gaps in the bathroom stalls.

All this (wonderful) shit-talking and no-one has mentioned painkillers. Earlier this year I spent a couple of weeks in hospital along with a lot of other oldies with fall injuries. We were all taking oxycodone and paracetamol for the pain, and the nurses were obsessed with our bowel movements. We were given laxatives twice a day to hurry things along, and threatened with an enema if we went too long without pooing. After the laxatives worked their magic on me I started refusing to take them, because it took me so long to get across the ward to the toilet I was scared I'd shit myself halfway.

So yes, painkillers are costive.

Only families that can't afford a poop knife.

The climate is colder in North America

Compared to where, exactly? Mogadishu? Hammerfest? Because North America can be hotter and colder than both of those. Also not sure how it affects pooping.

Was this on April 1?

American here, I've shit three times today alone

I suppose your teacher read a statistic that Americans are more likely to be constipated due to more cheese and less veggies and fruits in their diets, and constipated people on average poop less, and just simplified this trivia in their long-term memory and lost the details.

I used to shit more like twice a day during grad school (probably because of all the junkfood like living off microwave burritos lol) but then I shifted to about once a day and was mildly concerned about it.

When I looked it up to see if it were symptomatic of low fiber or something else... color me surprised to find dozens of reddit posts talking about how people only shit once every 3-4 days. I was stunned.

Then I realized a lot of those posts were made by Americans, and it reminded me of someone in college who once reasoned that him living off McDonald's for three meals a day was "sustainable" because he counted calories religiously... not taking into account that he was essentially living off fiberless food whatsoever lmao

So basically...

Yes, especially among those active on the fediverse. That’s why we celebrate no shit november