Where do Eskimos go to the toilet? Igloos look too small to include a bathroom, but if they went outdoors at night they might be eaten by a polar bear which would be attracted by the smell.
interesting question. i would assume they would cut or chop a hole in the ice. but seeing as it is really cold the stuff might freeze in a short while so they might just go outside and relieve themselves anywhere.
But they used to. They probably had a corner that they did it in and then covered the mess with snow, the smell would have been subdued by the cold.
The perfect segue into Frank Zappa lyrics: (well, right about that time people A fur-trapper (who was strictly from commercial) Had the unmitigated audacity to jump up from behind my igloo (peekaboo) ) And he started into whippin on my favorite baby seal With a lead-filled snowshoe) I said, with a Lead- Filled With a lead filled snowshoe He said, peekaboo I said, with a Lead- Filled With a lead filled snowshoe He said, peekaboo He went right upside the head of my favorite baby seal He went whap with a lead-filled snowshoe, and He hit him on the nose and hit him on the fin, and he That got me just about as evil as an eskimo boy can be. so I bent down And I reached down, and I scooped down and I gathered up a generous Mitten-ful of the deadly yellow snow The deadly yellow snow, from right there where the huskies go! Whereupon I proceeded to take that mittenful of the deadly yellow snow Crystals and rub it all into his beady little eyes with a vigorous Circular motion hitherto unknown to the people of this area, but destined To take the place of the mudshark in your mythology Here it goes,the circular motion, now rub it! (here fido) And then In a fit of anger I pounced And I pounced again Great googly moogly! I jumped up and down on the chest of the him I injured The fur trapper Well he was very upset, as you can understand And rightly so, because the Deadly yellow snow crystals had Deprived him of his Sight And he stood up, and he looked around, and he said I cant see I cant see Oh, woe is me I cant see Well.....you know I cant see Nothin He took a dog-doo snow cone and stuffed it in my right eye He took a dog-doo snow cone and stuffed it in my other eye And the husky wee-wee I mean the doggie wee-wee Has blinded me And I cant see Temporarily Well, the fur-trapper stood there, with his arms outstretched across the Frozen white wasteland, trying to figure out what he was going to do about His deflicted eyes. and it was at that precise moment that he remembered And ancient eskimo legend, wherein it is written (on whatever it is that They write it on up there) that if anything bad ever happens to your eyes As the result of some sort of conflict with anyone named Nanook, The only way you can get it fixed up is to go Trudging across the tundra Mile after mile Trudging across the tundra Right down to the parish of st. alphonzo
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actually polar bears use the poop to warm themselves up...so the bears dont eat up Eskimos because the bears will know there is warm poop to come to warm them up. And no I didn't make this up, its thermal conservation.
Well, I had to know, so I did a google search and found... Close but no cigar. Then... The work after an iglu is built When the other inside work is completed, a gothic shape opening of approximately 70 cm high is made in front, and always lower than the iglerk (bed platform). The reminder of the iglu interior surface becomes the floor. Next, the man builds a smaller iglu leaning on to the big one. The same building method is used. This iglu will be the porch, shed, refrigerator, deep-freeze, etc. It’s floor will be approximately 10 cm lower than the floor of the main iglu and it will be less insulated. Then the wind-break is built. This wind-break, two or three blocks in length and height, has a form of an extended semi-circle. While the man, and possibly a helper, are building from the inside, his wife and daughters work outside shoveling snow onto the walls. Soft, or pulverized snow (shaaksak) is used for this. A layer of 30 to 40 cm of this snow is shoveled onto the base of the iglu wall. This layer will gradually become thinner until nothing is shoveled onto the roof. This snow layer insulates the iglu. The frame of the snow-shovel (puagri) was made from the caribou antler. Pieces of seal skin were attached to this frame to make the blade of the shovel. The base of the frame was sharpened and the shovel had two handles. One handle was on the top and the other was in the middle. Both hands were used for shoveling. More recent home-made snow shovels are made with thin, light wood. Sometimes another small shelter is constructed where the porch leans to the main iglu. Its form will be an open half circle on approximately 1 meter in diameter. It serves as a bathroom. http://www.arcticomi.ca/iglu.html So, it seems the small igloo we are used to seeing is probably for hunting and not as permanent. They actually built groups of igloos that were connected inside, with rooms that served different purposes.
Eskimos never actually lived in igloos, they used animal hide tents. The igloos were for use in emergency/hunting but were actually rarely used. (According to Stephen fry, from QI)
