Wendigo started this pointless and disgusting thread. What’s to be accomplished there?
A few people made jokes about it, so I’ll maybe exempt them from the pitting. But come on, such a disgusting OP doesn’t really deserve a serious response. A disturbing number of people did in fact answer it seriously.
It’s an odd thread, and I don’t really see the need to let everyone know how you wipe yourself. Or how others wipe themselves, which is how some posters responded. How they know that…?
But I’ve seen plenty of odd threads here, and this is just one more. I wouldn’t pit them for it.
Seriously? You’re a charter member, right? So you’ve been around through threads on pan fried semen, sebaceous cysts, zit popping and partisan politics…and THIS is what trips your grossmeter?
'tever…It was a pretty clearly titled thread. You could have just done like I did and not opened it. It would have been totally out of your mind until just now when someone decided he had to draw attention to it again by making a whole new thread devoted to the topic.
It isn’t so much an issue with poo as it is an issue with juvenile, intrusive, and completely pointless wastes of time and energy: Is anyone likely to change their toilet habits as a result of reading the subject thread? Did you, for instance, have an epiphany when you recognized a method that was obviously superior to the one you have (presumably) been using? Why anyone would ask a question about such an intensely personal matter is astonishing; it passes my comprehension why anyone would answer such a question. Actually, I don’t understand why anyone would even open the subject thread after seeing the title.
I actually took the thread to be instructive- I learned the technique I was using was not the best, and have used another posters method and find it to be more effective and less wasteful, so at least one person got some real value out of it.
It wasn’t that particular thread, but I have never even considered “going in from the front” when wiping until I read it on the SDMB, and now that’s my preferred method.
IMHO, this is the kind of stuff that should be here, because it’s less easy to bring this type of thing up IRL.
Stranger things have happened.
I thought it was kind of interesting that it appears that almost everybody wipes with their right hand.
I didn’t know that, so a bit of my ignorance is lifted.
Didn’t Denis Leary as “Edgar Friendly” say it nicely in “Demolition Man”?
Edgar Friendly: "You see, according to Cocteau’s plan I’m the enemy, 'cause I like to think; I like to read. I’m into freedom of speech and freedom of choice. I’m the kind of guy likes to sit in a greasy spoon and wonder - “Gee, should I have the T-bone steak or the jumbo rack of barbecued ribs with the side order of gravy fries?” I WANT high cholesterol. I wanna eat bacon and butter and BUCKETS of cheese, okay? I want to smoke Cuban cigar the size of Cincinnati in the non-smoking section. I want to run through the streets naked with green jello all over my body reading playboy magazine. Why? Because I suddenly might feel the need to, okay, pal? I’ve SEEN the future. Do you know what it is? It’s a 47-year-old virgin sitting around in his beige pajamas, drinking a banana-broccoli shake, singing “I’m an Oscar Meyer Wiener”. "
Wendigo has the freedom to post a thread about poo and wiping habits if he/she wants to. No one’s under any obligation to *read * it. Just like you have the freedom to post your own thread to bitch about how disgusting Wendigo’s thread was.
Either that or Wendigo is really obsessed with poo.