Urine?

**knight_errant** · Posted On: 9/14/2004 10:41am

Unless you've been drinking a lot of water it'll actually dehydrate you- that's why it says in the survival manual 'never drink urine or sea water. Both will make you more thirsty'.

Do all buddhists drink urine

*resists obvious joke along the lines of 'piss drinking pacifists'*

**Winter** · Posted On: 9/14/2004 12:48pm

Oh great topic...

So what exactly are you trying to gain from drinking piss? Failed kidneys?

**knight_errant** · Posted On: 9/14/2004 1:04pm

It's part of the budhist monk's 'death breath' program where you incapacitate your opponent in a second with the power of your stink.

**Lights Out** · Posted On: 9/14/2004 1:25pm

Or it could be done to fake toughness, "look! he drinks his own urine! he´s a badass, better not mess with him!"

**Emevas** · Posted On: 9/14/2004 1:30pm

It could have something to do with humility. It's really hard to have a badass ego in training when you just downed a glass of piss.

**Xango** · Posted On: 9/14/2004 1:54pm

Speaking as a (confirmed non-piss-drinking) chemist (well, student):

Urine has urea and other nitrogen-containing wastes, which are not especially great for you and will have to be eliminated again.

It also contains salts, and excess ascorbic acid, which if you sweat a lot in a tropical country might come in handy.

In other words, you're better off with a bag of potato chips, but this is probably why, in the tropical countries of India and Thailand, many people drink piss for health. Hell, in India people wash wounds and boils with cow's piss. Fun facts about foreign places!

**johnbo** · Posted On: 9/14/2004 1:59pm

Hmmmmm.... potato chips or urine?
Tough choice.

**knight_errant** · Posted On: 9/14/2004 2:00pm

That's cause it's an antiseptic isn't it? I once read an article in a paper on how to treat gunshot wounds without antiseptic and it recommended pissing on the guy
insult to injury :D

**Lights Out** · Posted On: 9/14/2004 2:15pm

Originally posted by knight_errant
That's cause it's an antiseptic isn't it? I once read an article in a paper on how to treat gunshot wounds without antiseptic and it recommended pissing on the guy
insult to injury :D

"He got pissed on after he got shot"
"Uou mean pissed off, easy to understand, because if I got shot, I would really fell..."
"No, I mean -really- pissed ON"

I know it´s bad, but I like it.

**LLL** · Posted On: 9/14/2004 2:16pm

If you've seen John Woo's "Bullet in the Head", there's a scene which is censored in all International versions, where the main chars have to prove to a mob boss that they are loyal/badass... In the normal version you think it's whiskey or something.

In the original cut it showed the guy's bodyguards taking an empty bottle with them to the toilet & returning it with the stuff they had to drink ;)...