Do people CHOOSE when they poo?

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TMI!!

Just read a thread about going at someone else’s house and how you should wait until your own place, that kind of thing.

Is it weird that I only go if I really need to go, like I’m kind of desperate? There’s no way I could wait and go at a particular place of time like wait until the event’s over. I either need to go or I don’t.

Well it depends if you actually need to go or just feel like you could go and would go at home but could wait without discomfort if inconvenient. If you are not in discomfort or know from previous experience not to wait then it's fine.

While it seems to be an acceptable alternative spelling, the primary definition I'm finding is an exclamation of disdain or contempt. So I disagree that yours is the proper spelling and poo is not.

Maybe it's an age thing? I'm 71 and the brown toilet stuff was always 'pooh'. That came first. This namby-pamby genteel babyish 'poo' seems quite modern to me, and it seems, to the OED.

I usually poo once a day and in the morning but if I don’t I can hold it for about an hour

I have parcopresis. I can safely say it ruins my life. I can't go in someone else's house... and definitely not in front of a partner. It's one of the million reasons I'm single.

Remember that woman who got stuck in double glazing due to non-flushed poo? 😂

Don't have nightmares

Link would help:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-bristol-41167296

That poor woman! My worst nightmare.

Nope when I have to go I have to go.

I have a dodgy digestive system which doesn't help the matter

Even better is that the situation ended up on BBC pidgin. https://www.bbc.com/pidgin/tori-41171196.amp

Imagine being so embarrassed by a poo that you try to throw it out of the window but it ends up in news all over the world.

😂

Seems appropriate that the double-glazing poo nightmare happened in Bristol. Wonder where the trapped turd sat on the scale.

I can pretty much choose when I I poo. If I feel the urge when out and about I’ll poo anywhere thought, as PP said - that’s what toilets are for!

However, if it isn’t convenient to poo I can usually put it off as long as I need. I have a hobby that involves spending 12 or more hours off grid in the countryside and in many many years I’ve only needed to dig a hole twice 😂

We all do it. I refuse to be embarrassed by a basic human function.

DH otoh, can only poo at home - starts getting the urge about 10 miles away and by the time he gets home it’s pretty urgent!

I can choose when to go and if I'm not at home I don't go unless really ill. I find it a bit strange that people would just poo in other people's homes when visiting them or at work. Can't imagine anything worse.

You find it odd that people poo in an available toilet when they need to go? Really?

I can’t usually wait as I have IBS. But earlier I went for a walk and a mile in i got the urge. Told DH and he said we should turn round. I said no it’s ok so we carried on for another 2 miles.

if i was at home id have had to go. But once i got in i went to the bathroom.

i think psychology my body would not have allowed me to shit on a mountain side 😂

All my life I have gone within half an hour of waking up unless I've got up very early such as four in the morning.

When I go on holiday even if there is a time difference my body adjusts and I need to go shortly after I've woken up.

Once a day all my life and that's certainly made things easier for work, travelling etc.

I prefer to go in my own toilet at home, but it’s not always possible to wait that long.

@BorisJohnsonsMissingComb, I really sympathise - I had stress-induced IBS years ago. My morning commute was an hour and a half (built around allowing time to stop to 'go', if you'll pardon the bad pun). I knew where the toilet was in every petrol station along the drive - and used all of them most mornings. I used to be amazed that I was never challenged because I only ever used the loo.

For the other, unless my medication has decided to back me up, you could set you clock by me. 3:30am every day.

Do you have to get up in the night to go, then, or do you work nightshift?

The visiting bit!s understandable, but holding off presumably all day at work is what stood out for me, and the apparent inhibitions some pp have about using toilets for their purpose is worrying. When I think of how many girls and women are still subject to the urinary leash, or justifiably apprehensive about using women’s toilets because they’ve been opened to men, it’s disturbing to see women reluctant to use a toilet when those aren’t the issue.

Also, it's more satisfying to use work's time and bog roll to poo than your own at home.

So true - even though it’s likely to be John Wayne paper! 😆

I must have a really controllable spinchter! Only if I really really need to go will I go in public. The thought of someone walking around next to the toilet or in the toilet next to me would just stop it dead.