Look, I understand that Western Culture is rapidly devolving into a sort of adult-baby infancy, so I shouldn’t even be that upset, but I like the word “poop” - Shit, Feces. I like using it as an expletive, and frankly, to be funny.
What I hate is “poo.”
Right around the time that “South Park,” the second horseman of the unfunny apocalpyse, became popularized, I noticed people beginning to adopt its use of “poo” - a slightly more infantile version of “poop.” I guess it sounds “funnier” when said in one of those cookie-cutter sneering baby voices that made “South Park” appeal to the least comedically discriminating among us, but it fucking sucks. It makes you sound like an IDIOT, and lacks the panache of “poop.”
But “poo” is so much more fun to say. Pooooooooooooooooo . . . you can keep going and going. Plus I don’t think that both “poop” and “poo” are pretty juvenile anyway so you may as well spare yourself that extra “p.”
“You know, if there’s one thing I’ve learned from being in the army, it’s never ignore a pooh-pooh. I knew a major: got pooh-poohed; made the mistake of ignoring the pooh-pooh – he pooh-poohed it. Fatal error, because it turned out all along that the soldier who pooh-poohed him had been pooh-poohing a lot of other officers, who pooh-poohed their pooh-poohs. In the end, we had to disband the regiment – morale totally destroyed … by pooh-pooh!”
Bah. “Poo” is by far the best euphemism for “shit”, and has a long and glorious history, going back long before South Park. I remember it being used quite commonly back in the glory days of alt.tasteless. What was that one poem that one time?
Poo has its place, as do poop and shit, caca and feces, doodoo and crap, and all the other words for excretory functions. Embrace the fullness of the English language!
Geez folks, lighten up. How would you like to have “poo” as part of your name. Yes, I am talking about Winnie. No one ever sees it but Tigger insists on calling him Winnie the Crap or Winnie the Shit. And the time Winnie used Rabbit to wipe his behind, come on. Rabbit is the one that started it with the joke about nothing sticking to his fur. Plus the time Eeyore at the magic mushrooms and kept calling Winnie “Winnie the Cowpiedogturddoodoohead” was really uncalled for. I demand that this thread be locked immediately.
These words are so fucking juvenile and to me, almost offensive. Blecch.
Of course, I can’t just call it “shit” when I have kids according to my wife-can you imagine having a preschooler tell his teacher he has to take a shit? Makes me laugh when I consider the phone call it would prompt…
Makes me laugh when I consider the phone call it would prompt…