# The Great American Potty Poll **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [November 11, 2003, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-american-potty-poll/212660 "2003-11-11T19:40:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![troub](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troub/32/14802_2.png) [@troub](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/troub)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2003, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-american-potty-poll/212660/21 "2003-11-12T15:09:35Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by spingears \* > \*\*NOTE: Take your dog to the vet. It has congested glands on each side of the anus! \*\* I agree with **Ruby** about the dog. As long as the dog doesn’t do it very often, he’s most likely fine. My pup does the scoot from time to time when he has a particularly persistent cling-on caused by passing long strands of my girlfriend’s hair that he picks up off the carpet/furniture/etc. He gets kind of a dangling dingleberry, so to speak. It’s funny because whenever he sees me looking at him, he looks _so embarrased_ and immediately plops into a rigid sitting position, like “nothing to see here, I’m just sitting, don’t bother me, go away now. . .” Then I have to come outside with a paper towel, and I have to _pry_ him up out of the sit position as he looks at me like he’s going to die. He’s a funny pupster. Back on topic. . .sitting, for goodness’ sake, sitting! And, at least for guys (or maybe it’s just me, heh heh), I would think the reach-around is the only possible way. . .there’s barely enough room up front as it is, let alone if I tried to put my arm there. A little bit of a lean forward, reach back, and that’s all there is to that. ---
**Author:** ![N.Sane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f19dbf/32.png) [@N.Sane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/N.Sane)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2003, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-american-potty-poll/212660/22 "2003-11-12T15:20:48Z")
Standing. Definitely. (more the half crouch, actually) ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2003, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-american-potty-poll/212660/23 "2003-11-12T17:28:37Z")
Sitting down. ---
**Author:** ![Omnipresent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8c91f0/32.png) [@Omnipresent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omnipresent)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2003, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-american-potty-poll/212660/24 "2003-11-12T17:33:36Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Anal Scurvy \* > \*\*Now what’s really weird is my girlfriend goes in between her legs to wipe (sitting – she thinks standing is weird). \*\* RED FLAG - RED FLAG Dude, please don’t tell me that she does the “pull-through”. Above all else, THAT has to have the most consequences. That’s bad, REAL bad. ---
**Author:** ![bayonet1976](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/77aa72/32.png) [@bayonet1976](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bayonet1976)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2003, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-american-potty-poll/212660/25 "2003-11-12T18:02:29Z")
I was going to post here that I prefer the stand up method, but then I realized that I’d already started a bathroom themed thread [here](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=222524) and I don’t want to develop a reputation as a one trick poster. On the other hand, who cares! ---
**Author:** ![Anal\_Scurvy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c57346/32.png) [@Anal\_Scurvy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anal_Scurvy)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2003, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-american-potty-poll/212660/26 "2003-11-12T18:15:36Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Omnipresent \* > \*\*RED FLAG - RED FLAG > Dude, please don’t tell me that she does the “pull-through”. Above all else, THAT has to have the most consequences. > > That’s bad, REAL bad. \*\* She just got upset, saying, “It’s not a pull through, it’s a push back. You always wipe back. That’s how they teach you.” I tried to ask who taught her this, but she kept on going: “No, you always wipe backwards. And you never wear panties at night so your tunty can breathe.” Don’t ask for the etymology of “tunty” (toon-tee) by the way. As I’m writing this, she’s leaning over chair, repeating, “You always wipe from front to back. From front to back. From front to back. You always wipe from front to back.” ---
**Author:** ![Omnipresent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8c91f0/32.png) [@Omnipresent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omnipresent)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2003, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-american-potty-poll/212660/27 "2003-11-12T21:42:50Z")
Let me get this straight, she claims to go between her legs and swipes backward? Is it me? At the risk of another lock-out for giving TMI, I wonder, can anyone get clean that way? I’m not questioning anyone’s oral hygiene but, I think that when one is cleansing one’s “Tunty”, the hand with the paper in it should come no where near one’s “Yummy” lest one’s other oral activities be compromised. No offense intended. Just MHO… ---
**Author:** ![Anal\_Scurvy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c57346/32.png) [@Anal\_Scurvy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anal_Scurvy)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2003, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-american-potty-poll/212660/28 "2003-11-13T00:28:33Z")
No, tunty is the yummy. She doesn’t have a cutesy name for her anus. ---
**Author:** ![Anal\_Scurvy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c57346/32.png) [@Anal\_Scurvy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anal_Scurvy)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2003, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-american-potty-poll/212660/29 "2003-11-13T00:34:00Z")
I don’t question the sanitation, she starts near the tunty, pushes back past the anus, drops, and gets another sheet. What I question is going in through the legs. That just seems like madness to me. ---
**Author:** ![NajaNivea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/22d042/32.png) [@NajaNivea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NajaNivea)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2003, 4:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-american-potty-poll/212660/30 "2003-11-13T04:54:32Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Anal Scurvy \* > \*\*What I question is going in through the legs. That just seems like madness to me. \*\* Eh? I can’t imagine how many extra joints I’d need in my arm in order to reach all the way back around my butt, and all the way forward to the front of my… uh, tunty in order to perform the correct front-to-back wipeage. Where’s the madness in performing a quick front to back tunty-swipe, then a couple short spot-wipes at the backdoor? I don’t even have to fully extend my arm. Maybe it’s madness for you folks with all the jumblies down below, but for us it’s a free path, baby. ---
**Author:** ![Omnipresent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8c91f0/32.png) [@Omnipresent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omnipresent)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2003, 11:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-american-potty-poll/212660/31 "2003-11-13T11:18:30Z")
See, I knew that this act was not as “cut-and-dried” as many of us would have thought. The confusion justifies the post. Now, just to add a little twist to the whole thing, what would REALLY be strange is to have to perform this act with the opposite hand then the one you’d normally use. You know, what if the hand that you normally use is in a cast or something. Doing it with the opposite hand would seem impossible to me. ---
**Author:** ![N.Sane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f19dbf/32.png) [@N.Sane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/N.Sane)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2003, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-american-potty-poll/212660/32 "2003-11-13T14:43:18Z")
Omni–It is impossible!!! My right arm is in a cast right now and I can’t decide which is harder: signing my name with my left hand or wiping my hienie with my left hand. ---
**Author:** ![Uvula\_Donor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/e19adc/32.png) [@Uvula\_Donor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uvula_Donor)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2003, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-american-potty-poll/212660/33 "2003-11-13T15:36:24Z")
I wipe sitting down. But I crap standing up. ---
**Author:** ![nobrainer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/a587f6/32.png) [@nobrainer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nobrainer)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2003, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-american-potty-poll/212660/34 "2003-11-13T17:07:09Z")
Five hole for me… sitting of course. ---
**Author:** ![Gorgon\_Heap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/f475e1/32.png) [@Gorgon\_Heap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gorgon_Heap)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2003, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-american-potty-poll/212660/35 "2003-11-13T17:13:46Z")
Toilet? ---
**Author:** ![roadrunner70](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e19b73/32.png) [@roadrunner70](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/roadrunner70)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2003, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-american-potty-poll/212660/36 "2003-11-13T17:23:13Z")
Wipe? ---
**Author:** ![Ms2001](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ms2001/32/18463_2.png) [@Ms2001](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ms2001)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2003, 6:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-american-potty-poll/212660/37 "2003-11-15T06:42:55Z")
Standing. I never imagined there was another way to do it. Maybe I’ll try it sometime. ---
**Author:** ![born\_too\_late](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ba9def/32.png) [@born\_too\_late](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/born_too_late)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2003, 8:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-american-potty-poll/212660/38 "2003-11-15T08:23:08Z")
Ok, few things here… 1)I can’t believe **lieu** hasn’t been here yet. 2)Fantastic thread 3)What the hell is a ‘five hole’? 4)_Tunty?__ **Yummy??!** _ 5)Whatever works - a)wipe (repeat as necessary, sitting, from the side; then standing), b) > [@](#): > > Take a shower …if necessary 6)…Anal Scurvy ---
**Author:** ![Omnipresent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8c91f0/32.png) [@Omnipresent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omnipresent)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2003, 11:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-american-potty-poll/212660/39 "2003-11-15T11:46:15Z")
Stander checking in again and, I have to say that I’ve experimented a little in the last couple of days and, I’m sorry, I just can’t do it sitting. It doesn’t feel right! Any sitters out there try standing in the last couple of days? ---
**Author:** ![Queen\_Tonya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/4491bb/32.png) [@Queen\_Tonya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Queen_Tonya)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2003, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-american-potty-poll/212660/40 "2003-11-15T15:12:26Z")
No, of course we didn’t try it standing, because it’s just plain wrong! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-american-potty-poll/212660.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-american-potty-poll/212660.md?page=3)