Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for June 02, 2023

Well depression is a viscous cycle.

You eat fries to feel better, but you feel bloated and then regret that you ate them, so you get depressed, and then you look for something to make you feel better, like fries.

One time there were nine toilets. One time there were 100,001 people. And if you go for a long hike in the woods, you squat when you gotta do a number two.

May the Lord be with you as He is with me.

Well, which causes which? Does eating french fries and other fried foods cause you to be depressed or does being depressed cause you to eat french fries and other fried foods?

The body craves comfort food as a cure for depression.

Where I live, unincorporated and not many houses. County hires a service to put those Port-O-Potties every few miles. I wish they’d spend the money to fix the potholes

“Ladies and gentlemen, allow me to introduce the Pied Piper of New York City.”

I find the public toilet ratio astonishing. Maybe because I currently live within 100 feet of a national park, and a half mile of a state park. There are modern public toilets all over. And even more rustic latrines.

Unless the Rat Czar brings in Cossacks,look for a boom in both the number of rats and bureaucrats in NYC.

When you think about it, killing oneself slowly with french fries IS depressing, so why WOULDN’T they feel more depressed? And it’s not as though having a french fry bod is typically viewed as attractive.

They forgot to count the Starbucks, McDonalds and all the other places with public restrooms. Take those into account and the numbers change to 2 restrooms per person.

Research funding provided by cake companies, no doubt.

May the horde be with you, as it is with Mickey D’s. And gesundheit.

I dunno, after I have some good, southern fried chicken or a country fried steak I feel pretty perky.

And 200,000 private toilets.

Eight for 100,000 people sounds bad, but first, that’s public toilets. Most people have a personal toilet. How many personal/private toilets are there per 100,000 people. I suspect fewer than 1/4th the 100,00 lack access to a (more likely their own) private toilet. Second comes the critical statistic, What percentage of 100,000 people simultaneously need to “potty”?

Gas the rats!!!

In the movie Super Size Me, that guy became very unhealthy after eating McDonalds every day

The US still has it good. Try Germany, even going to a restaurant or shop won’t guarantee success.

The US might likely have more private toilets per 100,000 people. Where is that comparison?

Howard Johnson’s all you can eat Fish Fry.

Those were the good old days

In NYC, the rat czar is commonly called the mayor.

eating fried food leads to heart disease and cancer. when people realize what they are doing to themselves they get depressed.

I wonder how many of those public toilets are closed because they are out of order or locked because of lack of personnel to keep them clean and the drug users out?

Not only do we not have enough public toilets, they don’t hire enough employees to clean them.

must the the potatoes’ starch that makes the fries so depressing

Why is it that whenever they appoint someone to a post, they call them a czar? A Russian ruler?

I remember when I used to eat two McDonald’s supersized fries back in the ‘70s when they were king. I would eat one of them while driving the way back to barracks along with BK whopper when they were good. I tell you, I was very depressed. I don’t know how I made it out of my twenties! ;-p

My take on today’s offerings: The Rat Zar is a male calico cat, somewhat rare! About 1 in 3000 due to the rare genetic, sex related chromosome mix that must occur.

Questionable as to how they arrived at the number of Public Toilets available; and the solution is stay at home and don’t go out in public that much. Didn’t the Government teach us the value of this during the “Pandemic”?

And I’m sorry, don’t believe fried foods cause depression; lots of other things do. Fried foods taste good almost universally to all, and good tasting food produce endorphins and that is the opposite of depression!

I thank you, all for your rapt attention! God Bless!