# Pile o' Pubes on the Toilet Seat **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 24, 2012, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pile-o-pubes-on-the-toilet-seat/613865 "2012-02-24T19:16:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**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:** [February 24, 2012, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pile-o-pubes-on-the-toilet-seat/613865/1 "2012-02-24T19:16:02Z")
OK, not quite a _pile_. I took a little artistic license to attract views. Still, there were 12 of the little suckers and I can’t figure out why. This was at work by the way. I was doing the standard cursory inspection of the bowl when I saw them. On the porcelain, between the points of the horseshoe seat, right in the sweet spot. 12. Now, in my 42 years of toilet-using I have seen the occasion short and curly. It happens. But 12? What was going on there?? Does he have a medical condition? Was he \ plucking them while idly passing the time? ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2012, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pile-o-pubes-on-the-toilet-seat/613865/2 "2012-02-24T19:20:26Z")
If you look closely, you’ll notice that they’re not all from the same man. I take it you didn’t leave your contribution. Did you miss the memo? ---
**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:** [February 24, 2012, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pile-o-pubes-on-the-toilet-seat/613865/3 "2012-02-24T19:40:48Z")
I thought about accumulation, but our bathrooms are cleaned multiple times during the day. There just wasn’t time… ---
**Author:** ![awldune](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c77e96/32.png) [@awldune](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/awldune)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2012, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pile-o-pubes-on-the-toilet-seat/613865/4 "2012-02-24T20:27:48Z")
Chemo patient? ---
**Author:** ![tr0psn4j](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/958977/32.png) [@tr0psn4j](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tr0psn4j)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2012, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pile-o-pubes-on-the-toilet-seat/613865/5 "2012-02-24T20:29:48Z")
Uhh, can I have those back? ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2012, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pile-o-pubes-on-the-toilet-seat/613865/6 "2012-02-24T20:32:46Z")
A leaving for the pube fairy? ---
**Author:** ![Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapioca_Dextrin)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2012, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pile-o-pubes-on-the-toilet-seat/613865/7 "2012-02-24T20:46:27Z")
Along time ago, I was having a converastion with a (female) friend. She claimed that a (again female) housemate had prehensile pubes as they always ended up in the most unlikely places. ---
**Author:** ![GargoyleWB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gargoylewb/32/199_2.png) [@GargoyleWB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GargoyleWB)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2012, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pile-o-pubes-on-the-toilet-seat/613865/8 "2012-02-24T20:54:53Z")
It’s the combination of having an Art Garfunkel downstairs, while wearing tighty-whities. When exposed, they spring forth like a snake-in-a-peanut-can dislodging many from their roots. ---
**Author:** ![thewgill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/977dab/32.png) [@thewgill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thewgill)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2012, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pile-o-pubes-on-the-toilet-seat/613865/9 "2012-02-24T21:11:02Z")
According to the tea leaves, twelve pubes indicates an auspicious day, while thirteen portends disaster. Better get back in there and re-count. ---
**Author:** ![Cubsfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Cubsfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cubsfan)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2012, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pile-o-pubes-on-the-toilet-seat/613865/10 "2012-02-24T21:16:51Z")
Pube. Pube. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Woo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7c8e57/32.png) [@Dr.Woo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Woo)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2012, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pile-o-pubes-on-the-toilet-seat/613865/11 "2012-02-24T22:04:10Z")
Were there roots? If not, maybe he (she?) was shaving. Or trimming. Snerk. ---
**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:** [February 24, 2012, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pile-o-pubes-on-the-toilet-seat/613865/12 "2012-02-24T22:33:20Z")
> [@Dr.Woo](#): > > Were there roots? If not, maybe he (she?) was shaving. Or trimming. > > Snerk. I was thinking that, but didn’t want to look closely enough for the roots… ---
**Author:** ![Becky2844](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/91b2a8/32.png) [@Becky2844](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Becky2844)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2012, 7:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pile-o-pubes-on-the-toilet-seat/613865/13 "2012-02-25T07:32:21Z")
Kind of sounds like there was a quickie going on. Or maybe self-love. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2012, 7:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pile-o-pubes-on-the-toilet-seat/613865/14 "2012-02-25T07:45:05Z")
So you stopped and counted them? ---
**Author:** ![Ahoy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/50afbb/32.png) [@Ahoy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ahoy)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2012, 8:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pile-o-pubes-on-the-toilet-seat/613865/15 "2012-02-25T08:37:57Z")
> [@GargoyleWB](#): > > It’s the combination of having an Art Garfunkel downstairs, while wearing tighty-whities. When exposed, they spring forth like a snake-in-a-peanut-can dislodging many from their roots. This is what happened. This is what always happens. ---
**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:** [February 25, 2012, 12:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pile-o-pubes-on-the-toilet-seat/613865/16 "2012-02-25T12:26:38Z")
> [@TriPolar](#): > > So you stopped and counted them? Yes, yes I did. It caught my eye as an unusual sight and I investigated. ---
**Author:** ![FoieGrasIsEvil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foiegrasisevil/32/16638_2.png) [@FoieGrasIsEvil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FoieGrasIsEvil)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2012, 12:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pile-o-pubes-on-the-toilet-seat/613865/17 "2012-02-25T12:55:39Z")
You sure it was a toilet and not a coke can? Someone may have been sending you a message…a message of LOVE! ---
**Author:** ![Slithy\_Tove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slithy_tove/32/18248_2.png) [@Slithy\_Tove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slithy_Tove)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2012, 1:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pile-o-pubes-on-the-toilet-seat/613865/18 "2012-02-25T13:01:18Z")
That is the hallmark of a tru Doper: intellectual curiosity triumphs over visceral disgust. There were 12 pubes left on the pisspot at the Last Supper, too. Didn’t acquire the same cachet as the Holy Grail. ---
**Author:** ![Zsofia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7bcc69/32.png) [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2012, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pile-o-pubes-on-the-toilet-seat/613865/19 "2012-02-25T22:28:12Z")
> [@GargoyleWB](#): > > It’s the combination of having an Art Garfunkel downstairs, while wearing tighty-whities. When exposed, they spring forth like a snake-in-a-peanut-can dislodging many from their roots. Bwahaha! Actually, we quit giving out scissors at the desk because a male patron was caught trimming his pubes in the public restroom with them. ---
**Author:** ![Noel\_Prosequi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b19c9b/32.png) [@Noel\_Prosequi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Noel_Prosequi)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2012, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pile-o-pubes-on-the-toilet-seat/613865/20 "2012-02-26T01:12:36Z")
When pubes leave the safety and comfort of the home nest, they become _public_ hairs. Publes. Pronounced “poo-blays” only by fans of middle of the road crooner music. Let’s keep the terminology straight, people. Terminological exactitude matters. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pile-o-pubes-on-the-toilet-seat/613865.md?page=2)