# A few things I don't really understand **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 5, 2000, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-few-things-i-dont-really-understand/32041 "2000-09-05T03:39:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Una\_Persson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/una_persson/32/346_2.png) [@Una\_Persson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Una_Persson)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2000, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-few-things-i-dont-really-understand/32041/21 "2000-09-06T17:13:11Z")
Tim, I’m sorry but I can no longer open any more of your threads. This is truly sick, and I cannot risk clicking on another vague-sounding title to find this waiting underneath. For what it’s worth, I think you’re a great guy. But I can’t read your threads anymore. ---
**Author:** ![struuter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b9e5f3/32.png) [@struuter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/struuter)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2000, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-few-things-i-dont-really-understand/32041/22 "2000-09-06T17:31:58Z")
It’s a responsibility thing, don’t you agree? I mean, as we age our life seems to attract more and more responsibility in so many areas. Most of these we take on, if not willingly, at least with an understanding of the need for them. Earning money, living independently, caring for ourselves and our dependents. And making sure we leave nothing unsightly for others. It’s a clear failure of our society to teach, to ingrain in those impressionable little minds the importance–no, the manditory responsibility of completely dispatching our waste to its end. Floating there in the bowl, proud symbol of some uncaring creton’s shirking of responsibility–is this now my responsibility? And what of my fecal by-products? Are they no longer my responsibility? I hardly think that can be true. But our figurative hands are tied. We can no more go about inquiring as to ownership than we can ignore them. Flush. Flush. Flush. And pray. ---
**Author:** ![Aglarond](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c77e96/32.png) [@Aglarond](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aglarond)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2000, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-few-things-i-dont-really-understand/32041/23 "2000-09-06T17:43:00Z")
That was deep, struuter, and therefore completely innapropriate for this thread. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![struuter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b9e5f3/32.png) [@struuter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/struuter)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2000, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-few-things-i-dont-really-understand/32041/24 "2000-09-06T17:52:18Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Aglarond \* > \*\*That was deep, struuter, and therefore completely innapropriate for this thread. 🙂 \*\* Usually, when someone tells me I’m deep they mean knee-deep. So in that context I guess it would be perfect for the subject of this thread. 😉 And that’s why my eyes are brown…yeah, I’ve heard that too…everybody’s a comedian. ---
**Author:** ![Nukeman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ce7236/32.png) [@Nukeman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nukeman)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2000, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-few-things-i-dont-really-understand/32041/25 "2000-09-06T19:59:00Z")
I saw the funniest thing in the science museum in London. It was this toilet that had been cut in half, and was fully working, and you could see what was going on inside. When you flushed it, a hard plastic model turd went through the pipe and down into a sort of holding ‘cup’. A few seconds later, this cup lifts up on a motorised arm and drops the turd back into the toilet bowl. ---
**Author:** ![Wonko\_The\_Sane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/258eb7/32.png) [@Wonko\_The\_Sane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wonko_The_Sane)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2000, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-few-things-i-dont-really-understand/32041/26 "2000-09-07T19:55:37Z")
corn. ---
**Author:** ![Silo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ac91a4/32.png) [@Silo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silo)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2000, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-few-things-i-dont-really-understand/32041/27 "2000-09-07T20:14:21Z")
Well I was eating until I opened this thread. ---
**Author:** ![KimKatt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ac91a4/32.png) [@KimKatt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KimKatt)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2000, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-few-things-i-dont-really-understand/32041/28 "2000-09-07T20:18:06Z")
Cnote, Ecks… while you are definitely amusing the masses of teeming millions, you may be wasting those amazing literary talents. Perhaps, at least, cnosider a more worthy subject matter? It’s funny, though. ---
**Author:** ![KimKatt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ac91a4/32.png) [@KimKatt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KimKatt)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2000, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-few-things-i-dont-really-understand/32041/29 "2000-09-07T20:21:23Z")
Tsk, tsk, Silo. Have you not yet learned not to eat or drink while reading MPSIMS? It’s hazardous to both your health and the health of your keyboard. ---
**Author:** ![Homer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/df788c/32.png) [@Homer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Homer)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2000, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-few-things-i-dont-really-understand/32041/30 "2000-09-07T23:28:59Z")
This was in my downstairs bathroom at home, to allay any fears about public restroom phobias. Sadly, this brings even more questions to mind. Why? Dear God, why? –Tim ---
**Author:** ![Stylus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4bbf92/32.png) [@Stylus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stylus)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2000, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-few-things-i-dont-really-understand/32041/31 "2000-09-07T23:41:44Z")
Lately I’ve been really proud of my turds. They’re HUGE!! I’m talking 13+ inches. When I’m done it’s so long it curls, with half of it exposed in the bowl and the other half down the abyssal hole. And it doesn’t hurt that much either. I’ve been tempted to just leave it there so someone can see what I’ve made. But then I get scared that my annonymity would be lost if someone saw me coming out of the stall. So I flush. But now that I’ve read this post, I think next time I may just bite the bullet and leave it. ---
**Author:** ![Homer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/df788c/32.png) [@Homer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Homer)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2000, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-few-things-i-dont-really-understand/32041/32 "2000-09-08T00:55:54Z")
Don’t you know? It’s all in the diameter, my boy! –Tim ---
**Author:** ![Whammo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8dc957/32.png) [@Whammo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whammo)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2000, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-few-things-i-dont-really-understand/32041/33 "2000-09-08T01:03:27Z")
GHOAST POO! ---
**Author:** ![Aglarond](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c77e96/32.png) [@Aglarond](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aglarond)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2000, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-few-things-i-dont-really-understand/32041/34 "2000-09-08T13:37:02Z")
I remember my Dad calling the whole family into the bathroom one night to look at something. He had a long thinish turd in the shape of an ‘S’ floating in the toilet. ‘S’ is the first letter of my last name and he had dreams of spelling out the rest. It never happened, but it’s good to have goals. ---
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2000, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-few-things-i-dont-really-understand/32041/35 "2000-09-09T03:41:26Z")
Aglarond, just a hint: If you get a date from this singles service, don’t tell that anecdote. ---
**Author:** ![MysterEcks](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f475e1/32.png) [@MysterEcks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MysterEcks)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2000, 7:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-few-things-i-dont-really-understand/32041/36 "2000-09-09T07:27:07Z")
**dragonlady** said: > [@](#): > > Ecks, > You are one funny human, but you have too much time on your hands. No doubt…but not nearly as much as **Homer**. **magdalene** said: > [@](#): > > not tail, tale. Thank you–I ain’t gonna sing about his tail. **KimKatt** said: > [@](#): > > Cnote, Ecks… while you are definitely amusing the masses of teeming millions, you may be wasting those amazing literary talents. Perhaps, at least, cnosider a more worthy subject matter? I have done so, but you gotta take your inspiration where you find it–the little ditty popped into my mind almost fully-formed while I was reading the OP. (We won’t discuss what this implies about my mind.) Boy…is this a crappy thread, or what? ---
**Author:** ![jaram](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/43a26b/32.png) [@jaram](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jaram)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2000, 12:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-few-things-i-dont-really-understand/32041/37 "2000-09-09T12:23:04Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Homer \* > \*\*1) Why someone would make a poo, and leave it to float around in the terlet. > > 1. How in the world they made this poo and left it there for me to look at, but managed to not use any terlet paper. > > 2. Why I felt compelled to pee it to bits when I peed. > > These things, these are things I do not understand. > > Thank you. > > –Tim \*\* It’s only a turd! You do one or two of them each day don’t you? ---
**Author:** ![Homer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/df788c/32.png) [@Homer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Homer)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2000, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-few-things-i-dont-really-understand/32041/38 "2000-09-09T19:50:08Z")
Yeah but it was weird because I think it winked at me. –Tim ---
**Author:** ![dougie\_monty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@dougie\_monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougie_monty)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2000, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-few-things-i-dont-really-understand/32041/39 "2000-09-09T20:35:31Z")
In California long dry spells are common because–well, we just don’t get that much rain! And on occasion the supply of water has been threatened is such a heavily populated, industrialized state. I once saw bumper stickers reading: In this land of drought and sun/We always flush for Number One. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Aglarond](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c77e96/32.png) [@Aglarond](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aglarond)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2000, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-few-things-i-dont-really-understand/32041/40 "2000-09-11T14:06:49Z")
Rilch, you don’t think that’s a good anecdote for breaking the ice? Maybe that’s why I haven’t had a date in a while. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-few-things-i-dont-really-understand/32041.md?page=1)