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I remember I got into an argument on reddit awhile ago with a person over Italian food. It got to the point they were following me into other subs to harass me. I clicked on their profile to block them and their most recent post was them drinking their own piss on r/piss. At that moment I realized I had spent so much pointless time arguing about the taste of food with someone who drinks their own piss as a hobby. This site is a shit hole.

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[–] 18 points 3 years ago (6 children)

Like Patches O Houlahan from Dodgeball once said:

"I drink my own piss because its sterile and I like the taste!"

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  • [–] 15 points 3 years ago (4 children)

    Not sure where that thing about urine being sterile came from, but no, it most certainly isn't!

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    I assume the thinking is because it's toxic, nothing lives in it. It's an incorrect assumption, there are bacteria in it, but that's probably where the misconception comes from.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 years ago

    I looked it up and found this:

    For years, even doctors believed urine was sterile. The myth goes back 50 years, Hilt said, when a screening method for kidney infections was developed. It was a simple and easy test that was soon applied to bladder infections, too.

    But the test involved culturing only a small amount of urine in open air, at a temperature of 95 degrees Fahrenheit (35 degrees Celsius) for 24 hours. Not all bacteria grow in those conditions.

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