# Fecal spray after you flush

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fecal-spray-after-you-flush/623107>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [May 25, 2012, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fecal-spray-after-you-flush/623107 "2012-05-25T21:04:09Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![With\_Rye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/838e76/32.png) [@With\_Rye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/With_Rye)\
**Post date:** [May 25, 2012, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fecal-spray-after-you-flush/623107/1 "2012-05-25T21:04:09Z")

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Is that something to worry about? Should I put down the toilet cover when I flush so I don’t get crap on my toothbrush or towels?

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**Author:** ![MysteryFellow63427](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a88e4f/32.png) [@MysteryFellow63427](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MysteryFellow63427)\
**Post date:** [May 25, 2012, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fecal-spray-after-you-flush/623107/2 "2012-05-25T21:09:36Z")

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The Master answereth:

> **[Does flushing the toilet cause dirty water to be spewed around the bathroom?](https://www.straightdope.com/21342463/does-flushing-the-toilet-cause-dirty-water-to-be-spewed-around-the-bathroom)**

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**Author:** ![zombywoof](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/9e8a1a/32.png) [@zombywoof](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zombywoof)\
**Post date:** [May 25, 2012, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fecal-spray-after-you-flush/623107/3 "2012-05-25T22:21:49Z")

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[Recent NPR story](http://www.npr.org/2012/05/11/152508362/tracking-the-spread-of-a-nasty-virus)  
“A soccer team goes on the road to play a tournament. One member gets violently ill. She leaves the hotel, along with a chaperone she was staying with, before coming into any direct contact with the other players. Yet a few days later, seven other players get sick with the same virus. The mystery is: How did the virus spread without the sick girl?..Well, unfortunately the chaperone had stored a bag of food in the bathroom where the first girl became ill, and the girl was ill for about six hours with vomiting and diarrhea. And completely unknown to her teammates, one of the other teammates, after she had already left, walked into the room, grabbed the bag with the food in it, and took it into the team room, and it was shared with the team. And that’s how we believe they became ill.”

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**Author:** ![UltraVires](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/ecccb3/32.png) [@UltraVires](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UltraVires)\
**Post date:** [May 26, 2012, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fecal-spray-after-you-flush/623107/4 "2012-05-26T01:25:13Z")

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Christ, almighty. What kind of terrible diarrhea do you all have that you are spraying shit across the room?

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**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\
**Post date:** [May 26, 2012, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fecal-spray-after-you-flush/623107/5 "2012-05-26T01:39:00Z")

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> [@jtgain](#):
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> Christ, almighty. What kind of terrible diarrhea do you all have that you are spraying shit across the room?

You’ve never been to Thailand, I see. Worse is when you’re blowing out both ends at once.

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**Author:** ![SeaDragonTattoo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/df705f/32.png) [@SeaDragonTattoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SeaDragonTattoo)\
**Post date:** [May 26, 2012, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fecal-spray-after-you-flush/623107/6 "2012-05-26T02:24:33Z")

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What kind of weirdo stores food in the bathroom??