Facebook is not what it used to be. There are almost no people we really know, but a lot of weird history. I did not want it, but I am able to appreciate, when there is one text I can really enjoy.
So:
Dr Irfan Hyder
They used to use urine to tan animal skins, so families used to all pee in a pot & then once a day it was taken & sold to the tannery. If you had to do this to survive you were “piss poor.”
But worse than that were the really poor folk who couldn’t even afford to buy a pot; they “didn’t have a pot to piss in” & were the lowest of the low.
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