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> > Most people use outhouses, because indoor plumbing tends to freeze. > This is due to their poverty, not the cold. I'm more worried about the physiologic c
by Florin_Andrei 12y ago
> > Most people use outhouses, because indoor plumbing tends to freeze.
> This is due to their poverty, not the cold.
I'm more worried about the physiologic consequences of exposing, um, private parts to minus a bajillion degrees. I'm pretty sure you have to finish in a couple minutes, max, or else all sorts of really bad things will happen.
- mb_72 12y agoI can't recall the expedition or details, but on one artic adventure documentary I watched a while back one of the participants took 'too long' for a number 2 (> 30s), and his 'free hand' (sans gloves) become frostbitten so badly that he had to quit. He was kicking himself over a 'noob' mistake.