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Where did "P!ss poor" come from?>>>

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Jemisa | 23:42 Sat 13th Oct 2012 | Phrases & Sayings
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Where did "P!ss Poor" come from? Interesting history.

They used to use urine to tan animal skins, so families used to all pee in a pot.
A nd then once it was full it was taken and 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" and were the lowest of the low.

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Thanks for that Jem, you have just educated me.
So the ones selling the urine were taking the pi...
no. The ones buying it were taking the p1ss
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Sorry Jemisa but this is an urban myth and is totally untrue.
Urine for a laugh....
Really needed to know that jem ,just having my lucozade
What tonyav said
That reminds of the 6 P's of some companies policies:

Perfect planning prevents p*ss poor performance!

Has anyone else heard this one before?

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