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To think pooing in the shower is disgusting

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SLeanne · 27/09/2024 10:40

According to my DD who read an article somewhere, over 1 in 10 people poo in the shower! Can this actually be true? Aside from being disgusted by this, I am intrigued as to what happens to it afterwards. Surely it would take a lot of effect to get it down the plug hole? 🤣

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GoldenLegend · 27/09/2024 11:37

I absolutely believe that one in ten men do this.

Women, I doubt it, because we all know who cleans up the most shit in the world, don't we?

Rosscameasdoody · 27/09/2024 11:36

TallulahBetty · 27/09/2024 11:35

Ah, a waffle stomp.

🤮

IainTorontoNSW · 27/09/2024 11:36

If you ever watched the the Australian movie, "Kenny", a mockumentary about a bloke who supplies and cleans portable toilets for building sites, rock concerts and other events, POO is 95% water and 5% breakable solids.

I am not a shower-pooer, per se, but many years ago, during a health crisis, while in hospital, some unintentional/unintended excreta just escaped while I was showering at the private hospital in the ensuite of my private patient room.

NO BIG DEAL. It went down the shower drain diluted by the departing water.

I guess the OP's concern is about whether the turd is harder and drier rather than runny or diarrhoea-like.

It's not the end of the world if it happens. The city's waste water is processed as is the sewage.

Stop worrying!

Dollshousedolly · 27/09/2024 11:36

Probably misread and it was wee!

TallulahBetty · 27/09/2024 11:35

Ah, a waffle stomp.

PuppiesProzacProsecco · 27/09/2024 11:34

HoppingPavlova · 27/09/2024 10:57

Nope. Refuse to believe that. 10% of the population spends lots of time in the shower trying to get the shit down the drain trap. Unless it was absolute diarrhoea, I imagine it would take quite some effort to try and break it up and get it down. You would need to take some sort of implement in to try and break it up to get it down, and there would be bits sloshing all over your feet probably🤢. Refuse to believe this is a 10% common activity. Maybe limited to the odd person who is staggeringly drunk and has lost their marbles maybe, or a toddler who is showering with mum/dad.

Thanks for the mental imagery! You've convinced me that 11.33am is indeed far too early for lunch. My diet thanks you too 😂

Getitwright · 27/09/2024 11:32

Be a good parent and wean your DD off reading such drivel. And take a few breathes and tell yourself such stuff is beneath your own intelligence level🤷‍♀️

Dhdidndnddn · 27/09/2024 11:31

On The Receipts Podcast years ago they had a dilemma from a lass who used to stay at her boyfriend’s who lived with his mum, and she used to find shit streaks in the bath (with overhead shower). 😂

I remember finding it really unbelievable at the time but maybe it happens?

WingBingo · 27/09/2024 11:30

I’ve come across a bit of poo in my MIL shower plug hole more than once

TomatoSandwiches · 27/09/2024 11:26

LostMySocks · 27/09/2024 11:19

DS had terrible constipation once. In the end I had him crouching in the shower to help him go. But it was planned, I scooped it into the loo and then cleaned up. It was also our shower.

Poor boy, that's completely understandable and different I think.

GETTINGLIKEMYMOTHER · 27/09/2024 11:25

CherryVanillaPie · 27/09/2024 10:40

I don't believe that

I don’t believe it, either.
The odd wee in the shower, OTOH - I could easily believe that. But I won’t mention any other thing that men are said to do in the shower - some of them, anyway…

Tiddlywinkly · 27/09/2024 11:23

Wait, do people do this with no intention of picking up after themselves?! Not that it makes pooing in the shower any better if they did.

Tiddlywinkly · 27/09/2024 11:21

Pee I can believe. Poo - no. It's usually pretty solid I'm guessing and wouldn't go through the plug hole surely?

SodaFountainMountain · 27/09/2024 11:20

Friend who owns a campsite has had this. It’s completely unacceptable, of course, and most people wouldn’t. I wonder if it’s people with difficult to control bowel movements. So kids and people with medical issues mostly rather than just ‘can’t be arsed to get out and go to the toilet’ types.

LostMySocks · 27/09/2024 11:19

DS had terrible constipation once. In the end I had him crouching in the shower to help him go. But it was planned, I scooped it into the loo and then cleaned up. It was also our shower.

betterangels · 27/09/2024 11:18

I'm just going to pretend I never read that. I have to retain some faith in humanity.

nOasistickets · 27/09/2024 11:15

FFS i learn something new off mumsnet daily 😂

GreenGrass28 · 27/09/2024 11:14

I have seen online videos of people from gyms complaining of this, so it does happen. Just honestly would not even enter my head to do this. It's beyond gross!

TomatoSandwiches · 27/09/2024 11:13

This can not be true, I REFUSE to believe it.

JHound · 27/09/2024 11:12

I have heard this and think it is gross.

I also think peeing in the shower is gross too.

GladAllOver · 27/09/2024 11:12

Don't see any problem with peeing in the shower - I've done it. But not the other thing, that's just disgusting.

Couldyounot · 27/09/2024 11:12

I'll take "complete bollocks made up for clicks" for 15 points

MrMucker · 27/09/2024 11:11

Boak.

VWT5 · 27/09/2024 11:09

I’m sad to report I was at an off-season trip to Butlins in Bognor Regis -and yes, there were human faeces openly on the shower floor in the swimming pool area, more than one, a number of them.

TheMaddHugger · 27/09/2024 11:09

Why did i open this thread ?👀💨💀