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To think it's weird that she used the family bathroom?

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FairfaxAikman · 28/12/2019 12:59

Friend of mine visited the house yesterday.

She's been here before and knows we have a downstairs guest loo but yesterday when she asked to use the loo she went upstairs to the main bathroom (which was in a bit of a mess as wasn't expecting anyone to see it)
To do so she had to navigate two baby gates, so it's not like it's the easier option.

AIBU to think it's weird?

OP posts:
HarrietThePi · 29/12/2019 20:45

If you need to poo go home. All these posters happy to shit at someone else's house but need more privacy/don't want to be heard. Bugger off home. And stop shitting in work you stinking animals, no one wants to go for a wee and have to inhale your shit particles. Animals

Wow.. that's quite an extreme reaction to a normal bodily function. My last job was a two hour commute. I can't imagine my boss would have been impressed if I'd taken 4 hours out of my work day to go home and use the toilet.

Cohle · 29/12/2019 20:47

Some people are totally mental about something as normal as having a shit.

FlamingoAndJohn · 29/12/2019 20:54

Or, used a toilet for its intended purpose.

saraclara · 29/12/2019 20:54

I understand that some people have hang ups. It's weird, but clearly they were messed up by someone and it's hard to get past it. But mostly they know it's their own issue and just get on with it.

But it's absolutely nuts to dictate what OTHER PEOPLE should do. If you're prepared to spend the working day in great discomfort, that's your choice. But to demand that your colleagues don't poo at work is just insane!

anon2000000000 · 29/12/2019 20:59

A lot of you wouldn't want me at yours. I would poo in all your toilets with no shame whatsoever.

It's a natural bodily function. Why is it embarrassing?

Davincitoad · 29/12/2019 21:00

Summary of this thread: Person uses toilet for intended purpose

People: How can someone poo in a toilet. The disgust?

How can anyone think pooing anywhere outside of home Is wrong? How do you function???? Clearly never had any sort of bowel issue.

Elbeagle · 29/12/2019 21:00

Also, why is pooing different to weeing? They’re both the act of expelling waste products.

PopcornAndWine · 29/12/2019 21:04

I'm intrigued by the rules here - so pooing at a friend's house is clearly unacceptable. What about relatives? I'm staying with my parents at the moment for a few days, so should I go and take a shit behind a bush in the garden? Or are parents ok but where to draw the line? Siblings? Cousins? 'It's a minefield....

Loveislandaddict · 29/12/2019 21:07

Seriously,I couldn’t wait all day, and I don’t have any medical conditions.

FlamingoAndJohn · 29/12/2019 21:09

No @PopcornAndWine, you should wait until they have all gone out or gone to bed.
The problem with that at my parents house is that the bathroom is right next to their bedroom such there is a much greater chance that they would hear a poo.

Drabarni · 29/12/2019 21:09

I'm happy to poo or wee in any toilet.
As a Romany Gypsy I might announce where I'm going, down to saying toilet.

Just in case anyone actually believes we piss in the sink.

livefornaps · 29/12/2019 21:09

Back on the shitter, regular as clockwork, and letting it rip as i catch up with y'all again.

If I work with you: sorry

IdblowJonSnow · 29/12/2019 21:10

Surely if you need a pooh you just have to go? I cant usually hold it even if I need to?! Xmas Confused

Davincitoad · 29/12/2019 21:11

@PopcornAndWine indeed... where can we find the rules?!

FlamingoAndJohn · 29/12/2019 21:15

I believe that the rules are as follows:

Only poo in your own house.
Ever.
No excuses.

Singlenotsingle · 29/12/2019 21:15

Everyone uses our enormous downstairs bathroom, although they'd be quite welcome to use the ensuite upstairs if they wanted to.
And well said Bluntness. Nothing odd about it at all.

gamerchick · 29/12/2019 21:19

No flamingo your hangups aren't applied to the rest of the population. Your way is weird.

gamerchick · 29/12/2019 21:20

Sorry whoever it is who has these hangups that's pointed at Grin

PapayaCoconut · 29/12/2019 21:21

Yeah some people are really weird about taking a shit

Probably the same people who go directly to their wheelie bin every time they have to dispose of a tampon.

I'm guessing it's because they've been taught that ladies shouldn't even have bodily functions, but if they insist on having them, they must be very, very disgusted with themselves.

FlamingoAndJohn · 29/12/2019 21:23

No flamingo your hangups aren't applied to the rest of the population. Your way is weird.

I don’t have hang ups. I’m happy to go anywhere and for anyone to poo in my loo.

The rules I posted are for the anally retentive on this thread.

HarrietThePi · 29/12/2019 21:26

Probably the same people who go directly to their wheelie bin every time they have to dispose of a tampon.

Is this really a thing? Actually dp's parents don't have a bin in their bathroom and I never know what to do when I have my period there. I am now wondering if I'm supposed to have been putting my used sanitary items in their outside bin.

pinkcardi · 29/12/2019 21:29

'I'm amazed that so many people poo in other people's toilets [shocked] unless there is a pressing medical need of course.'

Surely a poo is a pressing medical need....it's a poo, and it's pressing to get out! No one likes a skid mark, or even worse, a shart!

Just poo people, just poo when you need to poo. Lordy some people must be terribly clenched

DontMakeMeShushYou · 29/12/2019 21:35

AIBU to think it's weird?

The only weird thing in this situation is that you thought about it hard enough to actually start a MN thread about it. Do you often sit and ponder your guests' toilet habits?

newbingepisodes · 29/12/2019 21:39

Probably needed a poo!

gamerchick · 29/12/2019 21:41

The rules I posted are for the anally retentive on this thread

I caught that, I wasn't sure if you were taking the piss or not. You're very good Grin

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