And for others that had any questions about their turds.
One And Only Wanderers had it right. Your large intestine is full of bacteria that quite happily live off of the food that makes it to that point undigested (fibre, etc.) and a lot of them produce methane as a byproduct of metabolism. Greatly simplified, human metabolism takes oxygen and glucose to produce carbon dioxide and energy. The CO2 goes through your bloodstream to the lungs, where it’s exhaled. No other gasses are produced, and if you’ve got bacteria anywhere outside your intestines you’ve got much bigger problems than the gas they produce.
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Similar to the poop question, I have occasionally experienced green-tinted poop. I know of other people who have, as well, so I always figured it was no big deal and was somewhat normal.
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Ah, your real name is Popeye?
I can’t belive I’m about to share this.
I get the green poos sometimes. It seems to correspond to blue dyed in food.
For my 17th Bday, my mom made me Blue Velvet Cake (red velvet cake with blue dye instead of red). Festive poo resulted.
Also, when I worked at B&N, I used the kid’s Blue Cotton Candy in a lot of experiments. Made some Bleu Gelatto (ever had anything that tasted blue? That did, by god, and it was goood), and I had a lot of blue Italian Sodas for a while. Again, festive.
Thought you might like to know. I’m not sure why, tho.
Things to see your doc about:
Black tarry stools
Bloody stools, or blood in the bowl
Pale, foul smelling stools that don’t flush, especially if accompanied by dark urine
Any change in bowel habit that persists for more than 7 days
Severe diarrhoea (more than 3 or 4 times a day, and liquid)
Also, vomit that looks like coffee grounds indicates blood, so should be treated urgently.
Interesting. A friend of mine read that digestion takes twenty-four hours, so one morning he started dyeing everything he ate blue. Blue pancakes (blue food coloring in the mix, blue baked potatoes, blue everything. It definitely came out blue, not green.
There is one very interesting exception to this.
If undigested lactose reaches the colon - usually, though not inevitably, as a result of lactose intolerance - then the bacteria that ferment it also produce hydrogen gas. This is the only reaction that does produce hydrogen gas so it makes for a nifty and higher acurate way to test for lactose intolerance.
I only have “moons” on my thumbs!
What’s wrong with me!?
Eeyaaaaahhhh!
I’ll take green poop, but how about “hairy poop”? Not worms, though. Ever seen poop that looks like there’s something growing in it? Sort of fleshy-like?
Me too! Aaaaaaah! (Well, thumbs and big toes)
We should form a support group.
Me: Hello, my name is Mr Pud, and I only have moons on my thumbnails.
Group: Hi Mr Pud!
So can anybody answer my question about spasmodic single-muscle twitches?
In novels it’s usually an eyelid that twitches like this to reveal that a character is on the verge of a mental breakdown or something. But in my case it’s a finger, usually the thumb. What’s up with that?
Here you go, Jomo Mojo, complete with link:
http://www.umm.edu/ency/article/003296.htm
They are called fasciculations. I get them, too–most commonly in my eyelid, but like you, I get them in my hands, too. Note that the article says most are benign.
You can pun… but you can’t hide… 
As opposed to stools that are wonderfully fragrant “…and have no more odor than a freshly baked biscuit.”
I don’t think I’ve ever had a poop that made me want to bust out the butter and honey… 
…or tequila…
If you drink a lot of beet juice all at once, all I can say is, don’t run screaming out of the bathroom the next day when you see the results. It was just the beet juice, and it’s harmless.
This is so strange, I was coming into GQ to ask a question about these “moons” and why they’re so prominent on thumbs and hidden by cuticles on the other nails. What are they? Why are they white?
I studied physiology, but they never taught us the important stuff like the origin and function of figernail moons!