# Do you find poop shocking or offensive? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [September 12, 2008, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-find-poop-shocking-or-offensive/463298 "2008-09-12T16:24:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![SiXSwordS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/49beb7/32.png) [@SiXSwordS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SiXSwordS)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2008, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-find-poop-shocking-or-offensive/463298/41 "2008-09-12T19:09:14Z")
Poop —\> Not shocking or offensive. Marathon Guy Picture —\> Really gross. No question in my mind that that was the intent of the poster; he meant to be offensive and shocking. Searching for the picture was most entertaining. [This](http://www.poopthought.com/current.html) helped me understand where babies come from. (Safe for work and home!) ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2008, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-find-poop-shocking-or-offensive/463298/42 "2008-09-12T19:13:25Z")
If I walked into my office and found poop on my desk, I would find it shocking and offensive. If I ordered a bucket of KFC Original Recipe and there was poop in it, I would find it shocking and offensive. In other words, whether or not poop is shocking or offensive _per se_, there are some places you just don’t want to see it. Location, location, location. ---
**Author:** ![unspun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/b9bd4f/32.png) [@unspun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/unspun)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2008, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-find-poop-shocking-or-offensive/463298/43 "2008-09-12T19:14:01Z")
I just want to know what that dude’s position in the race was. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2008, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-find-poop-shocking-or-offensive/463298/44 "2008-09-12T19:16:55Z")
> [@unspun](#): > > I just want to know what that dude’s position in the race was. He was in the running for number two. ---
**Author:** ![Licentious\_Ectomorph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/5e9695/32.png) [@Licentious\_Ectomorph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Licentious_Ectomorph)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2008, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-find-poop-shocking-or-offensive/463298/45 "2008-09-12T19:17:42Z")
This is “not uncommon” for runners? Egad! I just recently decided to take up running (though marathons are not in my foreseeable future) - this might be my excuse to quit! ---
**Author:** ![Southern\_Yankee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/southern_yankee/32/2800_2.png) [@Southern\_Yankee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Southern_Yankee)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2008, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-find-poop-shocking-or-offensive/463298/46 "2008-09-12T19:20:33Z")
> [@Marley23](#): > > He was in the running for number two. I think his finish time was a new American standard. ---
**Author:** ![Cisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2008, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-find-poop-shocking-or-offensive/463298/47 "2008-09-12T19:25:49Z")
> [@Licentious\_Ectomorph](#): > > This is “not uncommon” for runners? [Nope:](http://running.about.com/od/nutritionandhydration/f/runnerstrots.htm) > [@](#): > > It’s not unusual for runners to experience gastrointestinal disorders or diarrhea, also known as “runner’s trots”, during long runs. The cause may be dietary in nature or due to lack of blood flow during digestion (since the blood is being pulled to your muscles). [Another link:](http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m3225/is_n4_v48/ai_14237499) > [@](#): > > Recent studies[3,4] have found that diarrhea occurs in 19 to 26 percent of marathon runners, with up to 54 percent of these athletes reporting some problem with fecal urgency. Symptoms ranging from loose stools to frank diarrhea are usually associated with increases in training mileage or with particularly strenuous workouts.[5] The symptoms may occur during or immediately after a strenuous workout. Often, the athlete is forced to interrupt the workout to seek relief.[3] I know a lot of runners and ex-military and most of them have either shit themselves running or know someone who has. My stomach has gotten pretty angry but so far I’ve been lucky. If you’re into marathon or triathlon, or any endurance sports in general, you’ve probably seen it. ---
**Author:** ![Autolycus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/22d042/32.png) [@Autolycus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Autolycus)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2008, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-find-poop-shocking-or-offensive/463298/48 "2008-09-12T19:31:25Z")
That was a real shitty thing to do **Cisco**. ---
**Author:** ![Antinor01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecae2f/32.png) [@Antinor01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antinor01)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2008, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-find-poop-shocking-or-offensive/463298/49 "2008-09-12T19:34:00Z")
Poop might be. But try saying ‘Duty’ without giggling. (Of course you have to say it like doody to be truly funny.) My research shows that males find this funnier than females as a general rule. ---
**Author:** ![atomicbadgerrace](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8e7dd6/32.png) [@atomicbadgerrace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/atomicbadgerrace)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2008, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-find-poop-shocking-or-offensive/463298/50 "2008-09-12T19:34:20Z")
FWIW, I don’t find the photograph to be obscene in the slightest. Unfortunately, I know many people don’t share my sometimes libertine views, so I probably would’ve just broken the link, knowing that -someone- was going to take offense. In general, though, I prefer to clearly label all links… just out of habit. ---
**Author:** ![Scylla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a5b964/32.png) [@Scylla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scylla)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2008, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-find-poop-shocking-or-offensive/463298/51 "2008-09-12T19:36:52Z")
I think it’s pretty damn uncommon. I’ve run 15 or 16 marathons. Never happened to me. Never happened to anybody I knew. Never saw or heard about it happening to anybody. Never saw any poop on a course. Most course have port a johns every couple of miles, so I can’t see why it should happen. On the other side of the coin I’ve known several kids back when I was in school who’d had Hershey squirts. I suppose if you have poor bowel control and you run a marathon you might be at risk. I suppose if you are about to set a record and have to poop, and have to choose between the two, you have a dilemma. Further, I would guess that in the very rare instances when it does happen, the victim is going to be on display or running by a lot of people with cameras so it’s likely to end up on the net. Shit happens. ---
**Author:** ![ivan\_astikov](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/58f4c7/32.png) [@ivan\_astikov](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivan_astikov)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2008, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-find-poop-shocking-or-offensive/463298/52 "2008-09-12T19:42:22Z")
> [@Fish](#): > > Posting pictures of retch-inducing auto accidents where people are torn in half is not “obscene”, either, by the limited definition of the depiction of prurient sexuality. Neither is posting pictures of Holocaust victims, or the walking burn victims of the _Hindenberg_, or Japanese women stepping on puppies, or non-erotic furry art, or one of Botticelli’s nudes. It isn’t technically “obscene” to post pictures of someone’s messy gallbladder surgery, or a website that plays a stunningly loud noise, or someone with a gross physical deformity. It isn’t “obscene” to post pictures of huge spiders, depictions of the health benefits of drinking urine, or the horrific results of someone’s failed breast implants. > > In my humble non-moderator opinion, you should know better than those things. It is still not a good idea and it certainly isn’t _polite_ to post those things without a warning that the link is of a potentially squicky picture that will make people freak the fuck out, “obscenity” or not. I couldn’t agree more. I’ve seen it on plenty of occasions on other sites; instances where people just throw out pics of graphic violence, just to say "Isn’t this shocking?. The least a person can do is give a warning when presenting such imagery. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2008, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-find-poop-shocking-or-offensive/463298/53 "2008-09-12T20:03:27Z")
> [@Fish](#): > > Posting pictures of retch-inducing auto accidents where people are torn in half is not “obscene”, either, by the limited definition of the depiction of prurient sexuality. Neither is posting pictures of Holocaust victims, or the walking burn victims of the _Hindenberg_, or Japanese women stepping on puppies, or non-erotic furry art, or one of Botticelli’s nudes. It isn’t technically “obscene” to post pictures of someone’s messy gallbladder surgery, or a website that plays a stunningly loud noise, or someone with a gross physical deformity. It isn’t “obscene” to post pictures of huge spiders, depictions of the health benefits of drinking urine, or the horrific results of someone’s failed breast implants. > > In my humble non-moderator opinion, you should know better than those things. It is still not a good idea and it certainly isn’t _polite_ to post those things without a warning that the link is of a potentially squicky picture that will make people freak the fuck out, “obscenity” or not. Is there anyone else who read this post with stirring, patriotic music playing in the background in their head, or is it just me? ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2008, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-find-poop-shocking-or-offensive/463298/54 "2008-09-12T20:05:51Z")
> [@featherlou](#): > > Is there anyone else who read this post with stirring, patriotic music playing in the background in their head, or is it just me? Nice. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2008, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-find-poop-shocking-or-offensive/463298/55 "2008-09-12T20:36:00Z")
\*\*Cisco \*\*has posted this link many times, he thinks it is a clever way to insult people in the Pit. Think of it as a rickroll, with poop. ---
**Author:** ![Fish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/bc8723/32.png) [@Fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fish)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2008, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-find-poop-shocking-or-offensive/463298/56 "2008-09-12T21:03:04Z")
> [@featherlou](#): > > Is there anyone else who read this post with stirring, patriotic music playing in the background in their head, or is it just me? [I imagine a crowd humming “The Star Spangled Banner.”](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4MFGeEil090)😃 ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2008, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-find-poop-shocking-or-offensive/463298/57 "2008-09-12T22:15:38Z")
> [@Fish](#): > > [I imagine a crowd humming “The Star Spangled Banner.”](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4MFGeEil090)😃 Yes, that certainly works. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Santo\_Rugger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e95f7d/32.png) [@Santo\_Rugger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Santo_Rugger)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2008, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-find-poop-shocking-or-offensive/463298/58 "2008-09-13T00:39:43Z")
I guess not as many people as I thought know what a _mouse over_ is. Regardless, I think we should all gang up on **Cisco** so that they feel the need to start a 4th thread to bitch about people’s actions in his original one. ---
**Author:** ![Duckster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duckster/32/1244_2.png) [@Duckster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duckster)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2008, 4:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-find-poop-shocking-or-offensive/463298/59 "2008-09-13T04:13:56Z")
> [@Autolycus](#): > > That was a real shitty thing to do **Cisco**. Or perhaps **Cisco** should change his name to **NoShitSherlock**. ---
**Author:** ![torie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/77aa72/32.png) [@torie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/torie)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2008, 5:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-find-poop-shocking-or-offensive/463298/60 "2008-09-13T05:34:31Z")
I would say that the poster in question should have shown more restraint or perhaps at least notified people of what they were clicking on. However, no, I don’t consider poop obscene nor do i understand why it would be a bannable offense. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-find-poop-shocking-or-offensive/463298.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-find-poop-shocking-or-offensive/463298.md?page=4)