# Poopers please post
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poopers-please-post/71417
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion
**Created:** [July 6, 2001, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poopers-please-post/71417 "2001-07-06T00:23:04Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@kanicbird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kanicbird)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2001, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poopers-please-post/71417/1 "2001-07-06T00:23:04Z")
I could morph this to fit in almost any forumn but I thought this would be the best one for it (GB would be a real challenge). Since this is somewhat of a poling question I stuck it in here.
Well this is about pooping if you couldn’t guess. If you poop I would value your input (so to speak).
I first want to say that I poop about 2x/day usually after breakfast and either after lunch or dinner. I think most people poop 1xday. I was talking to a co-worker and she said who has the time to poop that often (referring to the 1xday). I never found out how often she poops but heard of some people who regularly poop about 1x/week. Now that brings up 3 issues:
1 Who has the time?!? - you find the time - you make the time - heck the world stops when you have to poop. you could be in a high pressure meeting and it will stop and wait for you if you have to poop. Actually I enjoy a good poop (as you poopers know not all poops are good). And maybe you can delay it be a few hrs at most but it wants to come out.
2 people who poop lets say 1x/5days or more - how? Did you teach yourself this? How big it the poop and how long do you stay in one sitting? Can you (do you?) schedule it on your calendar?
3 How often do you all poop?
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### Author:  [@Chum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chum)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2001, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poopers-please-post/71417/2 "2001-07-06T00:26:43Z")
Yuck…
I feel like this should probably be in the pit.
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### Author:  [@lno](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lno)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2001, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poopers-please-post/71417/3 "2001-07-06T00:39:54Z")
Meh. Who has the time, she asks? Is this an hour-long venture for her?
Once a day for me, and I’ve got bathroom reading a-plenty. Even so, it’s rarely more than ten minutes. If she can’t spare ten minutes to read in one of the most conducive places to reading there is, I pity her.
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### Author:  [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2001, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poopers-please-post/71417/4 "2001-07-06T00:49:05Z")
> [@](#):
>
> \*Originally posted by k2dave \*
> **(GB would be a real challenge)**
Yeah, especially since you’d have to create it first. 😉
You say you value my input. Don’t you mean my _output_?
[sub]Forgive me, it’s late here. Twice a day, BTW.[/sub]
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### Author:  [@kanicbird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kanicbird)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2001, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poopers-please-post/71417/5 "2001-07-06T00:49:49Z")
> [@](#):
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> Is this an hour-long venture for her?
She didn’t (wouldn’t) say but it got me curious.
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### Author:  [@Sultan\_Kinkari](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sultan_Kinkari)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2001, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poopers-please-post/71417/6 "2001-07-06T00:50:00Z")
I usually urinate 4-5 times(if I drink it’s a different story) and poop 2-3 times, and they are all small. I rarely have large stools, and when I do I stand over the toilet and stare at it in awe for several seconds. I think I have an extremely high metabolism.
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### Author:  [@Sultan\_Kinkari](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sultan_Kinkari)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2001, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poopers-please-post/71417/7 "2001-07-06T00:57:08Z")
That all applies to one day.
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### Author:  [@Sublight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sublight)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2001, 7:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poopers-please-post/71417/8 "2001-07-06T07:45:30Z")
About once a day, but it varies widely depending on coffee and fiber intake. Also, I can skip a day if I happen to be particularly busy.
And it rarely takes more than five minutes or so.
And I wipe standing up.
–sublight.
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### Author:  [@Badtz\_Maru](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Badtz_Maru)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2001, 7:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poopers-please-post/71417/9 "2001-07-06T07:50:21Z")
I heard that pooping habits are very different in countries with different eating habits - in East Asian countries people have 5 or 7 bowel movements a day.
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### Author:  [@Sublight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sublight)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2001, 8:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poopers-please-post/71417/10 "2001-07-06T08:03:52Z")
I dunno about that. I eat a fairly typical Japanese diet, and anything more than twice a day indicates some sort of illness.
–sublight.
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### Author:  [@ageless6](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ageless6)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2001, 8:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poopers-please-post/71417/11 "2001-07-06T08:19:51Z")
Taking my cue from Sueduhnym, if I had a cat, I would poop on it sneakily about five times a day. (They’re good to wipe with, too, but you have to be careful. It’s best to have a VERY compliant cat).
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### Author:  [@White\_Lightning](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/White_Lightning)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2001, 10:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poopers-please-post/71417/12 "2001-07-06T10:36:24Z")
I’ve heard that females “poop” less frequently than males. That they’re built differently, or something. Although, my boss told me that and he’s a bit of a chauvinist, so who can say.
But it’s _definitely_ true that we men enjoy it more.
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### Author:  [@BooBoo316](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BooBoo316)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2001, 11:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poopers-please-post/71417/13 "2001-07-06T11:06:59Z")
Sorry, I only allow myself to answer one [poop thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=76191) every 6 months. I like to pace myself. 🙂
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### Author:  [@Gartog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gartog)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2001, 11:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poopers-please-post/71417/14 "2001-07-06T11:28:20Z")
Some Thread :eek:
Every 1 day or 2 days or 3 days, no more unless somthings wrong
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### Author:  [@Tansu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tansu)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2001, 1:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poopers-please-post/71417/15 "2001-07-06T13:13:38Z")
This is my shit timetable at the moment:
I usually have a small midmorning shit. I always have an early evening shit - as soon as I get through the door of my house, I go straight upstairs to the bathroom and have a nice big crap.
My early evening shits relax me a lot - I get that blissed out lower bowel feeling.
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### Author:  [@ShelliBean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShelliBean)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2001, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poopers-please-post/71417/16 "2001-07-06T13:52:42Z")
I absolutely cannot believe that I am posting to this thread.
OK, now that that is out of the way:
I am one of those “seldom poopers”
When I went to Europe I was embarrassed about sharing a bathroom with four other girls and I can say that I didn’t leave any of myself in Europe. I was there for seven days. I think alot of it had to do with the fact that I was eating less and exercising alot more (ungodly amounts of walking) so maybe my body used up more of the food. I don’t even know if that makes sense but it’s what I told myself at the time. I don’t hold it or anything, I just don’t feel like going except every couple of days. I only eat once a day so that probably helps.
As if this wasn’t enough TMI, it’s about to get worse. Here goes: I got the dreaded H-word during pregnancy so I try to avoid foods that will make me poo alot because it feels like giant acid-dipped rusty razors coming out of my wazoo. This also contributes to my once-every-few-days habits.
OK. I am embarrassed enough now.
Rez
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### Author:  [@missdavis102](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/missdavis102)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2001, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poopers-please-post/71417/17 "2001-07-06T15:28:01Z")
A couple of years ago, I got a booklet (unsolicited) in the mail advertising a book or some pills or something I could buy to improve my colonic health. It recommended, among other things, making one poo per meal. So if you eat three times a day, your bowels should move three times a day. Until I read that I had been a once every day or two pooer, but after that I guess I concentrated more, and now I poo and eat at a 1:1 ratio.
In case you’re wondering, some of the other things it mentioned were getting de-wormed (always a good idea anyway), eating a balanced diet (duh), and using their special colonic irrigator with a mix of warm water and something, maybe baking soda and vinegar, but I don’t quite remember (wheee!). I didn’t try it.
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### Author:  [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2001, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poopers-please-post/71417/18 "2001-07-06T15:48:00Z")
Once every day or two. I can not go for 5 or 6 days sometimes, but I’m constipated. When it finally breaks loose, I’ll go 6 or 7 times in one day. They call it irritable bowel syndrome, and it really sucks. Drinking lots of water seems to help.
TMI, huh?
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### Author:  [@scout1222](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scout1222)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2001, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poopers-please-post/71417/19 "2001-07-06T15:49:15Z")
**missdavis102** - how did you increase your poopage? I mean, especially if you didn’t use their “irrigator” (yuk)? I’d love to have that sheer mind power…
Do tell…
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### Author:  [@xizor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xizor)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2001, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poopers-please-post/71417/20 "2001-07-06T15:56:24Z")
Every morning I do the 3 S thing (Sh\*t shower and shave), so 1/day. But for some reason I always have an extra one ready on Monday evening, maybe from eating more on the weekend?
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