# Am I getting old?(bm thread) **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [January 22, 2003, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-getting-old-bm-thread/150283 "2003-01-22T20:32:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![merge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9f8e36/32.png) [@merge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/merge)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2003, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-getting-old-bm-thread/150283/1 "2003-01-22T20:32:20Z")
So I am 24… approaching 25 very soon… I know that isn’t old but I have a question… why is it that everyday… like clockwork I have to take a crap right between 11:00 and 12:00??? I remember back in high school only haveing to go maybe twice in 4 years… In college who knows… because I was always on a different schedule… but why is it that in high school… not only did I not have to “crunch” between 11 and 12… but I am pretty sure I used to go days without it… now… by 4:00 I am usually brewing the second batch for the day… ---
**Author:** ![Lizard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/dfb087/32.png) [@Lizard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lizard)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2003, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-getting-old-bm-thread/150283/2 "2003-01-22T20:34:38Z")
Well, if you eat at about the same time every night before you go to bed, you’ll have to . . . well, you know, at about the same time later the next day as well. ---
**Author:** ![roadrunner70](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e19b73/32.png) [@roadrunner70](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/roadrunner70)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2003, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-getting-old-bm-thread/150283/3 "2003-01-22T20:36:39Z")
I’m soon to be 40. Everyday, at 6 AM, I take a piss. Then, at 7 AM, I take a nice, healthy crap. Problem is, I don’t get up until 8. [sub]awww, c’mon…someone was gonna do it.[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![merge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9f8e36/32.png) [@merge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/merge)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2003, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-getting-old-bm-thread/150283/4 "2003-01-22T20:36:51Z")
Lizard… But that hasn’t changed since high school… 3 meals a day… 7, 12, 7(ish) ---
**Author:** ![lno](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/a8b319/32.png) [@lno](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lno)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2003, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-getting-old-bm-thread/150283/5 "2003-01-22T20:37:09Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by merge \* > I remember back in high school only haveing to go maybe twice in 4 years… :eek: I believe the phrase “monster elephant crap” was invented with you in mind. Twice in four years? That’s something I’d pay to see … ---
**Author:** ![merge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9f8e36/32.png) [@merge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/merge)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2003, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-getting-old-bm-thread/150283/6 "2003-01-22T20:38:42Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by superbee \* > \*\*I’m soon to be 40. > > Everyday, at 6 AM, I take a piss. Then, at 7 AM, I take a nice, healthy crap. > > Problem is, I don’t get up until 8. > > [sub]awww, c’mon…someone was gonna do it.[/sub] \*\* LOL… ---
**Author:** ![SandyHook](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dec6dc/32.png) [@SandyHook](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SandyHook)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2003, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-getting-old-bm-thread/150283/7 "2003-01-22T20:42:02Z")
Hijack! Hijack! I’ve been looking for some way to work this into a thread. It’s almost in keeping with the OP, so here tis: Here I sit, my ‘roids a screamin’ thinking of days and a dreamin’ of sitting on the porcelain throne with a smile and not a groan. “Oh, wretched rectum thoust do burn, around thee my world doest turn.” Where are those hollowed days of glory when all I thought of were girls quite whory? Today my thoughts, when they wander below the belt only grow fonder on blessed days when brown & round brings a smile and not a frown. “Plenty of water,” the doctor proclaims smiling as one who’s butt never flames. “Fruits and veggies, that’s the fashion, fighting fire with all natural rations.” “Oh, unblessed buttocks, source of woe, I curse thee as fires’s ring does grow.” Once we were friend’s in life’s troubles now, cursed traitor, with you I struggle. Brown and puckered, it’s a mindless beast controlling my destiny, my every feast. In my youth the world before me lay now it’s my ass that has the last say. ---
**Author:** ![merge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9f8e36/32.png) [@merge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/merge)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2003, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-getting-old-bm-thread/150283/8 "2003-01-22T20:42:14Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by lno \* > \*\*:eek: I believe the phrase “monster elephant crap” was invented with you in mind. > > Twice in four years? > > That’s something I’d pay to see … \*\* I meant while I was in school… I would crap at home obviously… although I wouldn’t mind only having to go twice in 4 years… I hate it… I remember when I was about 10… I re-wrote the lyrics to that tears for fears song… shout… my parents heard me singing it in the bathroom while the song was on the radio… shit…shit… let it all out… this is the thing I could do without…yadda yadda yadda… I was a very odd child ---
**Author:** ![Broodha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7c8e57/32.png) [@Broodha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Broodha)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2003, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-getting-old-bm-thread/150283/9 "2003-01-22T23:48:45Z")
As a likeminded 26 year old, I have noticed my bm frequency stabilizing with age as well. A couple of points: 1. The regularity seems to come with a regular routine. Not just meals, but also waking up, having a coffee, sitting at a desk, whatever. 2. What’s that you say? When you went to high school you had a regular routine? But honestly, what self respecting high schooler is going to make a grumpy at school? I think I certainly was more, uh, anal-retentive in high school. What if someone heard or saw or smelled it? Besides, there’s no time. ---
**Author:** ![mmjewett](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba8739/32.png) [@mmjewett](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mmjewett)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2003, 5:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-getting-old-bm-thread/150283/10 "2003-01-23T05:17:49Z")
Well, it has a lot to do with your metabolism. If you are a lot like most other mid-twenty year olds – you get way less exercise than when you were in H.S. PLUS you are more a slave to routine (with daily work, presumably 9 to 5). Your body (and metabolism) is naturally slowing down with age – hence burning a lot less calories than what it used to. Are you eating significantly less than when you were in H.S? One way to find more “equalization” with bowel movements is to increase your exercise (and hence metabolism). By doing this – you’ll have a lot less BM’s because your body is burning a lot more intake and leaving less for waste. Most of my thoughts on this hinge on the past 15 years of my life (I’m currently 33 yrs. old). In majority of my life in this timespan I have spent time training and competing as an “Elite” distance runner (equivalent to professional in other sports). For the majority of this time, I had an outrageous exercise routine, plus ate healthy and lean – and hence sometimes had BM’s only once or twice a week (or rarer) well into my late twenties! Several years ago – I decided to take some time off – and boy did things change! Not only did I gain some weight and my metabolism slow down – but, like you said BM’s at least once a day like clock-work, ususally around the same time-schedule. Now that i’m training a little bit more serious again – my body is starting to behave like it had before when I was training. So – what it is your metabolism. To “cheat” against this natural occurance – up your exercise, eat more sensibly (healthy), and eat less. I’m sure there may be other factors, but this is what I think is the main one. ---
**Author:** ![Ruby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/13edae/32.png) [@Ruby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ruby)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2003, 5:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-getting-old-bm-thread/150283/11 "2003-01-23T05:36:10Z")
It’s a habit. A routine, ---
**Author:** ![ghandi5569](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/d26b3c/32.png) [@ghandi5569](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ghandi5569)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2003, 5:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-getting-old-bm-thread/150283/12 "2003-01-23T05:53:05Z")
I’ve got to take a healthy every day. My neighbor and I talk about who takes the healthier healthy. Most days, its just a very quick “iceburg” (above the waterline poo). On a bad day, its just rabbit turds or even nothing. A supergood day is clogging the toilet. We both have industrial strength toilets. Like the ones that when you flush, you lose an arm if you’re too close. I don’t eat mroe than normal or weigh more than normal. I think maybe my ass is processing of materials picked up from aliens or something. ---
**Author:** ![mmjewett](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba8739/32.png) [@mmjewett](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mmjewett)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2003, 6:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-getting-old-bm-thread/150283/13 "2003-01-23T06:07:30Z")
I don’t know about you, but I almost laughed my ass off at ghandi’s posting! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spectre_of_pithecanthropus/32/12343_2.png) [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2003, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-getting-old-bm-thread/150283/14 "2003-01-23T15:31:26Z")
You probably subsconciously avoided taking a dump during the day while you were in high school, like every one else. Who wanted to do that in those doorless stalls? I’m so old I remember when text was underlined just for emphasis, not as a url or hyperlink.