# Do you take your trousers off to take a shit? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [June 13, 2006, 1:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-take-your-trousers-off-to-take-a-shit/360563 "2006-06-13T13:21:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 19\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Kalhoun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3bc359/32.png) [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2006, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-take-your-trousers-off-to-take-a-shit/360563/21 "2006-06-13T19:21:23Z")
> [@FlyingRamenMonster](#): > > Really? I just drop my pants to my knees because I can’t be arsed pulling them all the way down and back up again. I worry about them getting yucky. But you’re right…it’s more work to let them pool at your ankles. ---
**Author:** ![Taber](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ac91a4/32.png) [@Taber](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Taber)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2006, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-take-your-trousers-off-to-take-a-shit/360563/22 "2006-06-13T19:26:47Z")
> [@Winston Smith](#): > > Settle down, mate. Who pissed in _your_ Corn Flakes this morning? 😉 and did they take off their pants to do so? ---
**Author:** ![Winston\_Smith](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e95f7d/32.png) [@Winston\_Smith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Winston_Smith)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2006, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-take-your-trousers-off-to-take-a-shit/360563/23 "2006-06-13T19:29:04Z")
> [@Taber](#): > > and did they take off their pants to do so? _Exactly._ ---
**Author:** ![Queen\_Tonya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/4491bb/32.png) [@Queen\_Tonya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Queen_Tonya)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2006, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-take-your-trousers-off-to-take-a-shit/360563/24 "2006-06-13T19:33:15Z")
My son grew out of the nude pooping stage finally, but at thirteen he’s still apt to remove his pants when seated. No, I don’t watch, I know from him whining “Alright I’m hurrying already, geez Mom, just lemme get my pants back on!” _jingle, jingle of buckle and change_ He’s a home pooper, so at least I don’t have to worry about him getting his pants stolen at school. ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2006, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-take-your-trousers-off-to-take-a-shit/360563/25 "2006-06-13T20:08:41Z")
> [@kurahee](#): > > He’s standing there butt-ass naked taking a leak right next to me. There’s a really big dude in my office who does this. Walks up to the urinal, drops his trousers and underpants all the way to the floor, hikes up his shirt and grips it in his teeth, and leans with one hand against the wall above the plumbing. The other hand he uses to hoist his massively pendulous gut so he can aim his pecker more or less in the direction of the bowl. That was a severe shock, I’ll tell you, the first time I went into the bathroom and saw this four-hundred-pound guy naked from the middle of his back to the bottom of his calves. Long story short, I failed my save and took eight hit points of damage. ---
**Author:** ![CynicalGabe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3e96dc/32.png) [@CynicalGabe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CynicalGabe)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2006, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-take-your-trousers-off-to-take-a-shit/360563/26 "2006-06-13T21:02:56Z")
> [@Cervaise](#): > > Long story short, I failed my save and took eight hit points of damage. Must… contain… laugh… at work… ---
**Author:** ![Frosted\_Glass](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/frosted_glass/32/3926_2.png) [@Frosted\_Glass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frosted_Glass)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2006, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-take-your-trousers-off-to-take-a-shit/360563/27 "2006-06-13T21:13:39Z")
At home, I prefer to sit on the toilet naked. It is very relaxing but has nothing to do with a fear messing up my clothes. It is more of a comfort thing. In public, I adopt the methodology of the Costanza school (shirtless shitting). ---
**Author:** ![Lightray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lightray/32/391_2.png) [@Lightray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lightray)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2006, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-take-your-trousers-off-to-take-a-shit/360563/28 "2006-06-13T21:21:13Z")
> [@2MuchTrivia](#): > > You people are weird… > And I get joked about for standing to wipe? > And having cheap washclothes next to the toilet? > And turning on the hot water when I enter a bathroom? > And grabbing some toilet paper before using a urinal? Okay, now I’m curious: why turn on the hot water? And me, since I want to use toilet paper, I don’t use the urinal at all; I just use the stall to begin with. ---
**Author:** ![vetbridge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b5e925/32.png) [@vetbridge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vetbridge)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2006, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-take-your-trousers-off-to-take-a-shit/360563/29 "2006-06-13T21:24:39Z")
> [@Winston Smith](#): > > Settle down, mate. Who pissed in _your_ Corn Flakes this morning? 😉 From the sound of it, _he_ did. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2006, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-take-your-trousers-off-to-take-a-shit/360563/30 "2006-06-13T21:39:13Z")
I’ll take off my pants at home, but that’s mainly to keep one of the cats from crawling into them and going to sleep. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![ouryL](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ouryl/32/6067_2.png) [@ouryL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ouryL)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2006, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-take-your-trousers-off-to-take-a-shit/360563/31 "2006-06-13T21:49:13Z")
> [@kurahee](#): > > I was standing at the urinal (men’s room, of course) when a co-worker came in, stood beside me, and dropped his pants all the way to the floor. Then, he dropped his boxers to the floor. > > Honest to god, what’s wrong with people? He’s standing there butt-ass naked taking a leak right next to me. If you want to do that, go to a stall! And, since the floors under urinals are not the cleanest places in the world, his pants had to be filthy. > > [bugs bunny]What a nin-cow-poop. [/bugs bunny] I seen a m_u_rine to this too as not to dirty his uniform. ---
**Author:** ![lizardling](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f4b2a3/32.png) [@lizardling](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lizardling)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2006, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-take-your-trousers-off-to-take-a-shit/360563/32 "2006-06-13T23:48:27Z")
> [@CynicalGabe](#): > > Must… contain… laugh… at work… And _I_ got my save on _not_ drinking while reading this thread. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2006, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-take-your-trousers-off-to-take-a-shit/360563/33 "2006-06-13T23:52:17Z")
> [@Queen Tonya](#): > > He’s a home pooper, so at least I don’t have to worry about him getting his pants stolen at school. Oh my god, there’s something that’ll get a kid ragged-on even more than being home-schooled should it ever become public knowledge. ---
**Author:** ![Lakai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/9de0a6/32.png) [@Lakai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lakai)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2006, 7:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-take-your-trousers-off-to-take-a-shit/360563/34 "2006-06-14T07:07:06Z")
[QUOTE=Winston Smith] I was just in the loo and some clown has got his trousers hung over the door to the stall. :dubious: [/QUOTE] This statement just caused me to laugh uncontrollably for about ten minutes straight at three in the morning. My dad woke up and had to check up on me because he thought I was high. Well done. ;j ---
**Author:** ![Walloon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/fbc32d/32.png) [@Walloon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walloon)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2006, 7:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-take-your-trousers-off-to-take-a-shit/360563/35 "2006-06-14T07:14:45Z")
[QUOTE=Uncommon Sense] I also saw a guy sitting on the crapper with his feet pointed the WRONG way. He was facing the **wall**. [/QUOTE] You don’t specify which wall — the back wall (in which case it sounds like he was standing to urinate), or one of the side walls of the stall. ---
**Author:** ![Uncommon\_Sense](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Uncommon\_Sense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uncommon_Sense)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2006, 1:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-take-your-trousers-off-to-take-a-shit/360563/36 "2006-06-14T13:17:25Z")
[QUOTE=Walloon] You don’t specify which wall — the back wall (in which case it sounds like he was standing to urinate), or one of the side walls of the stall. [/QUOTE] Oh man, the back wall. He was not pissing, I would have heard the tinkle, and his feet, were, you know, too far underneath the toilet to be standing in front of it. I’ll never know what he was doing, it’s times like that that you want to wait for the guy to get done and firmly ask him, “What the hell were you _doing_ in there?” ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2006, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-take-your-trousers-off-to-take-a-shit/360563/37 "2006-06-14T13:24:55Z")
He’s probably an Alpha Centaurian. When they try to pass as human the simulation is almost perfect, but the only way they can use our toilets is to sit the wrong way around. They usually wait for privacy, but he was probably busting at the seams. Literally. ---
**Author:** ![Madd\_Maxx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Madd\_Maxx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Madd_Maxx)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2006, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-take-your-trousers-off-to-take-a-shit/360563/38 "2006-06-14T14:15:02Z")
[QUOTE=Winston Smith] Do you take your trousers off to take a shit? [/QUOTE] Depends. 😃 :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2006, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-take-your-trousers-off-to-take-a-shit/360563/39 "2006-06-14T15:59:45Z")
[QUOTE=Lakai] > [@Winston Smith](#): > > I was just in the loo and some clown has got his trousers hung over the door to the stall. This statement just caused me to laugh uncontrollably for about ten minutes straight at three in the morning. [/QUOTE] Was it because you pictured baggy silk trousers with huge, brightly-coloured polka-dots on them? That’s what did it for me. (But then, I _was_ high.) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-take-your-trousers-off-to-take-a-shit/360563.md?page=1)