Colibri insulting me then warning me for taking him to task.

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Yeah, sorry, CarnalK, you were (and still are) coming across as pretty jerkish on this.

You, in post 129 of that thread:

@CarnalK

Exactly how many traditional culture people’s bums have you inspected in order to speak with such authority? Are they the ones who taught you how to do a 69 with no ass to face proximity?

To which Colibri replied, in post 128, in what I thought was a very mature fashion, that he has spent extensive time in contact with traditional cultures, without saying, “so there!” (which you totally would have deserved):

@Colibri

I’ve worked among or spent time with traditional cultures in Central America (Embera, Guna, Ngabe-Bugle, Teribe), South America (Yaminawa, Machiguenga and others; one of my field assistants was an adult before his tribe was contacted by missionaries), Africa (pygmies, Maasai), New Guinea (Arfak mountains), and Melanesia (Fiji). What is your opinion based on?

I’ve spent months living with the Embera. They are very cleanly. In villages that lack latrines, they have a specific place where people go to defecate, and they bathe frequently. I’ve never noticed that any other person from a traditional culture had any odor of fecal matter about them. They might sometimes smell of sweat, but not of that.