I'm quite sure I've just done something mad...

[lostinwails]

TMI alert! Have had a very bad tummy bug and am left in a position where venturing more that 30 seconds from the loo would be a foolish risk. I've decided that the water I'm drinking is passing through my body at great speed so in a rash moment I've swallowed a round piece of floaty plastic to time how long it takes to come out. I'm mad aren't I, too long on the sofa with only flat lemonade and salty crisps for company I think.

am imagining a Toy story soldier emerging from your bum.!!

If it gets stuck, op can safely venture further away for a bit, and do a mega bucket of water when the pressure makes the plastic thingy move.....

piratecat!

Round red bit of lego (I feel REALLY stupid now I've posted that, it was the first floaty thing that came to hand!) smaller than a five pence piece. 'evacuating' about half hourly (hence all the water I'm drinking). Sitting here in disbelief that I'm so bored I'm letting the internet in on my bathroom habits!

Really tempted to go and find some beetroot juice just to complete the experiment now!

The problem is that the plastic ball will take longer to pass through your bowel than water would, as it would have more resistance, iyswim.

Actually, I don't know that for sure, and am really just marking my place, awaiting news of its reappearance.

No, no, don't have the beetroot now, you might miss the red lego bit in the colouring...

I think it will turn up weeks drom now, if at all. You'll always wonder. And every so often a "Whatever happened to the poster who swallowed the red plastic?" thread will turn up.

I am still staring in disbelief. I read the OP as a round piece of plastic that floats. In Kreecherworld this would be like the disc on top of milk bottles, very thin not a piece of farking lego. Hats off to you OP, I don't think I could manage that.
Maybe it could be used as training to be a drug mule?

Oh dear god I have heard everything now . I am off to work in a moment and hope when I return in one hour, evacuation has taken place.

Make sure you boil that piece before putting back in the box
I reckon an hour should do it

A piece of lego??!!

I was thinking a tiny dot like a punched out disc from some packaging.

Lostinwails JR to his friend:

"Oh look, this is the piece of lego that mummy shat!"

I am sure he will bring it to show and tell.

Quint - imagine if the teacher is a MNer? She'll be giving the OP knowing looks in the playground...

I keep typing things to add to the thread but really i just want to know how long it takes.

Lego? Really lego?

Bathroom habits! Eating lego is not a habit of yours is it?
3 hours. (14.20)

Marking my place

Do you mean one of those lego sirens?

My ds tried this trick with Hama beads, I found them in his nappy the next day.

I can imagine you looking at it. Yep, that'll come out of my bum.

who'll give me 10-1 on four hours thirty seven minutes?

If everything is passing through that end so quickly I would bet that there's no time for the beetroot to be absorbed and get into your blood/wee, it'll all come out the back end.

Yes I worried about that tiger feet, I know when we've done bowel transit times at work the markers move around with the pooh but I wonder if that is different if there are very little 'solids' IYSWIM. (In a children's hospital I worked in we would give small constipated children a different set of lead markers to swallow every morning for five days and x-ray the progress, so you would be watching a series of balls followed by ducks followed by squares etc slowly progressing around the bowel! You can see where I got my idea from)

You loon!

Still reckon sweetcorn would of been the 'sensible' option

After coating last year's Christmas cake in edible glitter I shat sparkly shit for days