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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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Rosscameasdoody · 27/09/2024 22:11

TomatoSandwiches · 27/09/2024 22:00

I'd rather run 100 meters on a Lego track than " waffle stomp " my own shit.

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Definitely !!

Maviz · 27/09/2024 22:17

Itsfridaytralala · 27/09/2024 17:39

Jesus Christ why did I click on this?
My neighbour told me her partner did it and used his toes to poke it down. Complete boke. One of those situations you find yourself chatting over a lager and then someone gets drunk and rather honest. Too honest. Every time you see them your brain thinks and that person pokes shit down the shower drain.
This isn't shower related but it reminds me of when in France on holiday someone shat in the pool and the staff went absolutely mental, there may as well have been air raid sirens. It's good they were on it but they looked manic. We were screamed at to leave the pool and they had a special net on a long pole. Bleach sprays at the ready and hoses. Quite magnificent how they handled the situation.
In the UK how long would it take for staff to realise 🤔? In Greece there was a massive log on the beach which I stepped over in time. It was very long. I hate poo.

Haha this is very funny. I agree, poo really is awful stuff. I'm genuinely shocked that anybody shits in the shower but clearly lots do?!

TerracottaAmy · 27/09/2024 22:18

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?

Sad to say you are wrong. We have a woman at our gym who is doing it regularly. Trouble is staff are having trouble working out who it is.

MillyMollyMandHey · 27/09/2024 22:27

The showers on the office floor had to be closed down as someone/people kept shitting on the floors. It's absolutely disgusting. It was deemed too sensitive to approach the people doing it for HR reasons, so they were just closed. Vile.

TomatoSandwiches · 27/09/2024 22:41

TerracottaAmy · 27/09/2024 22:18

Sad to say you are wrong. We have a woman at our gym who is doing it regularly. Trouble is staff are having trouble working out who it is.

It could be a woman or it could be a man sneaking in and getting off on knowing he's subjected women to his literal shit and having to clean it up.

FictionalCharacter · 27/09/2024 22:47

RichardMarxisinnocent · 27/09/2024 18:38

Couldn't they get the person thrown off their course? Or at least evicted from the accommodation?

I wasn’t involved in the student side of things, only the campus services side (who managed the cleaners) so I don’t know what was done about the students. It would have been reported to the Hall management. I doubt whether they were evicted from the halls, it’s not easy for to evict students, and it’s even less likely they were thrown off the course- course staff are not very interested in students’ bad behaviour outside the teaching day.
It was more than one student too. I wouldn’t say it was common but it’s something that happens, this wasn’t a one-off.

Mog65 · 27/09/2024 22:47

Copied straight of Google yuk! - Yes, you read that right – there are people who poo in the shower, one in 10 in fact. WaterfilterGuru surveyed over 1,000 people to shed light on personal hygiene habits. It turns out that nearly a quarter of people wash their genitals in the sink and 3 in 10 people pee in the shower.13 Apr 2023

FictionalCharacter · 27/09/2024 22:48

MillyMollyMandHey · 27/09/2024 22:27

The showers on the office floor had to be closed down as someone/people kept shitting on the floors. It's absolutely disgusting. It was deemed too sensitive to approach the people doing it for HR reasons, so they were just closed. Vile.

Shame on HR for being so pathetic.

Calliopespa · 27/09/2024 23:18

Moral of the story is never lick a man’s feet.

( I don’t believe the op statistic fwiw …)

BabyR · 27/09/2024 23:22

I never knew it was a thing until a gym posted that people were doing it in their showers. Then so many others said it has been a problem at their too.

Calliopespa · 27/09/2024 23:29

Mog65 · 27/09/2024 22:47

Copied straight of Google yuk! - Yes, you read that right – there are people who poo in the shower, one in 10 in fact. WaterfilterGuru surveyed over 1,000 people to shed light on personal hygiene habits. It turns out that nearly a quarter of people wash their genitals in the sink and 3 in 10 people pee in the shower.13 Apr 2023

Well that must be fifty percent of men then because how would women actually get their genitalia into the sink. Plenty of ( short or under-endowed) men would struggle too.

Tailfeather · 27/09/2024 23:31

Noooooo!!!

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MissPeaches · 27/09/2024 23:36

“An article somewhere”. Yeah that’s definitely worth discussing. 🙄

Calliopespa · 27/09/2024 23:36

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Yes, would it kind of thump from that height?

rainbowsparkle28 · 27/09/2024 23:38

People poo in the shower?! Disgusting human beings 🤢

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rustyspoon45 · 27/09/2024 23:44

It would surely take more effort to get rid of it than it would to pop in and out of the shower to the toilet. Not to mention the stench and the sloshing over your feet! It just makes no sense in your own home.

I can believe people do it in public showers for the same reason people smear shit all over the walls - because they are disgusting and they know someone else has to clean it up.

WandaFishy99 · 27/09/2024 23:51

A relative of mine had a bidet fitted when she caught her DP cleaning his post-poo botty in the bathroom sink with her flannel. He couldn't understand what the problem was.

Rosesandstars · 28/09/2024 00:31

A proportion of the population (maybe 10%?!) pee in the shower. Pooing in the shower is grim and I'm sure it's very unusual too.

Lucy25 · 28/09/2024 01:07

MaggieBsBoat · 27/09/2024 10:41

What. On. Earth.

who the heck are these people??

😂 My thoughts exactly.

littletesco · 28/09/2024 01:34

WingBingo · 27/09/2024 11:30

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

Did it really turn you on that much?!

Elsvieta · 28/09/2024 14:21

Stems from a typo for pee, surely?

NPET · 28/09/2024 23:01

Don't believe that.
Peeing in the shower yes. At school we did it l (I know - sounds horrible now!) because it was a way of peeing standing up without worrying about our legs getting wet.
But no woman would do more.

EmbarrassingMother · 28/09/2024 23:05

MaggieBsBoat · 27/09/2024 10:48

There’s a scene in the comedy show Superstore where one of the team mentions about them pooing in the shower like they considered it normal and everyone is disgusted, thus implying that normal people don’t do that kind of shit. 1 in ten seems crazy high.

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my first thought was of Marcus in Superstore 🤣🤣🤣…

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