So I was taking a dump the other day and it got me wondering.
How come it stinks so much when I shit even if very shortly after it leaves my asshole, the poop falls into waterv and sinks to the bottom (none of it is exposed to open air).*
How can the poop still diffuse all that stink from underwater? Would it be much worse if there was no water to fall into? Or is the stink mostly from all the farting that usually comes with the shitting?
*What determines if a piece of poop will float or not? Do vegeterian people’s poo float more or less? Has any serious study been done on that subject?
For most stinky objects, the stink is volatiles (gases) coming off a solid. There’s nothing to stop stinky gases from diffusing up through the water to vent into your bathroom air. Enjoy.
IIRC, the fat content is what makes turds float. I seem to remember that someone also wrote an article “Fat vs. flatuence” in floating turds, but it was an april fool’s joke.
I feel so at home . . . I read this and thought that I had written it myself . . .
When I was in high school I took a shit on the floor in the bathroom (don’t ask why . . . I was in high school) and it stunk up the bathroom far worse than any shit left in a toilet full of water. This was no empirical test, mind you . . .
Yeah, why does some shit float while some sinks? That is so baffling. Every now and again I will squeeze out a terd that’s so long that one end is down the hole while the other is somewhat out of the water, kind of like a beached whale. For those terds, you never know if they would have floated or sank. They’re just too damn long!
When I get home tonight I’m going to measure the specific gravity of my own shit.
To the OP: I highly recommend a thread I started entitled, “Stand up or Sit Down wipers . . . what are you?”
If your turds float, then there is too much fat in your diet. At least, that 's what I remember being taught in college. As for stench…that is a product of outgassing, as has been previously mentioned. It boils up from the water, not to mention out of your butt.
Actually, it would not bubble. It does it stealthly . . . consider it a “stink ninja” if you will.
That’s why I drop a few Alka-Seltzer TM in the bowl before I poo, so that I can peer down at a frothy concoction and get the full natural aroma before I flush.
There are small pockets of gas that are trapped in your intestines next to the feces. When you defecate, the gas gets released into the air while the feces hit the water.
Ummm, have you ever really got down on hands and knees to investigate? It’s not gonna bubble like fries in the deep fryer (you’d have some terrible problems if it did :eek: ), but a few little bubbles creeping up, yeah. Go on, look… I dare ya - and film it for us too :D.
This is a most fascinating thread, I always thought the stink atoms just got stuck in your nose hairs, and that’s why you can still smell it long after you leave the area surrounding the turd, unfortunately the smell nerve endings become accostumed to the smell and you loose the ability to “sense” the aroma after a short period of time.
Rhinostylee, you need to become creative in the privacy of your own restroom, when you get one of those long ones, just rotate your hips clockwise and with practice you can make the most beautiful ice cream cone looking turds, or shape it like a flower even, the opportunities are endless. Unfortunately some are still so darn long that art and all they will still stick out of the water :-/
I don’t know if it’s true, but I bet some float cause they have too many bacteria that move their little flagella feet furiously and make it float, kinda like an airboat.
Since we’re in the subject, I always wonder how come your own poop don’t stink, it just smells marvelous, the stinkier the better, but when you smell someone else’s poop, GOD does it STINK. Is it because we are just too proud of our own creation?
Flusyndrome, I have never heard of this swivel-hipped art of defecation that you describe . . . I have no problem trying something new, but I would not want my poo to lose any of its majesty in the process. I like it to be a firm and sturdy log, triumphant and true.
That is odd, how glorious the smell of your own doodie is (farts, too) and how atrocious anyone else’s smells. How can that be? Why don’t we all celebrate the reek of each other’s dumps? Maybe it’s a cultural thing. I just am not well-read enough on the subject to make an educated guess.
But to prove my willingness to try new things in the bathroom . . .
In grade school everyone was talking about how great it was to poo while standing on the toilet seat, stradling the bowl. It seemed I was the only one who had never tried. So I went home and stood on the toilet seat, one foot on each side of the bowl, and dropped a few bombs from approximately 3-4 feet in the air (distance to the water, not the toilet seat). It made for an incredible splash, and left quite the skid mark down the bottom of the bowl. Poo takes on a much more exciting quality when traveling at 32 feet/second squared.
Naturally I did not pee from that distance, just did my duty. I peed first, then held it for the duration of the experiment. I’m glad I did it. I learned alot. But I haven’t done it since.
