I never poop in public. I can’t even poop if there is someone else in the same bathroom as me. Unless the stalls are somehow soundproofed, I’ll drop my poops at home, thanks.
Yes, I can poop in hotels and in other peoples’ houses. As long as it’s a private single bathroom I’m okay. Won’t poop in a stall.
I spent a number of years locked up with some really agro dudes. Not a problem for me. I can shit in front of anyone. I have a 2 stall outhouse without a divide at my cabin but none will ever shit with me. I keep trying though.
On another poop related note. My current conditions in Akutan . We have electric incinerator toilets. They are private outhouse type stalls. Private kinda. Your burning ship smell wafts about camp. Not as bad as i expected
This is me except in the direst of emergencies. I have massive anxiety about it.
The toilet stalls in my HS lockerroom didn’t have doors either. They were right next to the storage closet where all the balls were kept [insert joke about all the balls being in the boys’ lockeroom here]. I never used those toilets; almost nobody did (well other than as urinals when the urinals were all in use). Those few guys that did would wait until everyone else had gone into the gym.
The girls’ PE teacher would often go into the boys’ lockerroom for various reasons. Usually she’d wait until all the boys had come out into the gym and the boys’ teacher gave her the all clear. You see where I’m going with this don’t you? Yep, she caught one of my friends in the middle of a bowel movement onetime when she went to get basket balls out of the storage closet. Another time she caught 3 football players coming out of the shower buck naked after taking a (rare) after class shower. One of whom was bragging about how much head he was getting from his girlfriend since he’d shaved all of his pubic hair off. There were also a bunch of random times when she’d be meeting with one of the boys’ PE teachers in their glass walled office while were changing.
Back to the OP; I’ve never had a bowel movement in view of another person since I was potty trained. I’ve also never been in a situtation where I’ve had no other choice. Yes, I’ve seen plenty of men’s restrooms with no doors on the stalls, but I’ve always been able to wait. I’ve never been arrested (BTW is it true that in most European countries unenclosed toilets are considered a human rights violation?) either. The bedpan issue only camp up once, in hospital after I had my kneecap rebuilt. The nurse told me I should use a bedpan because she didn’t want to risk getting me to the toilet. I managed to get her and an aide to escort me to the toilet and wait outside the bathroom door by threatening to try and do it on my own.
Naturally, I was so constitpated from all the painkillers it took another 4 days for me to have a movement and that was at home. :smack: I have no problem being naked or urinating in front of strangers of either sex.
Can, have, and am baffled by people who can’t.
Voted “male: No, I couldn’t” but only because there wasn’t a
Oh [COLOR=“Red”]HELL[/COLOR] naw
option. Not that I like pooping in public bathrooms in the first place. For a long time I couldn’t do it at all. Now I’ll do it if I have to, but i don’t like it. No stall, forget it. Hell, no door on the stall (as was the case at highschool) forget it.
First day in the Army, reception station–not even in basic training yet, and I find there are no stalls, just a row of toilets.
Great.
What the hell, ya gotta do what ya gotta do.
But, I still don’t like group poops.
If it’s good enough for George Washington, it’s good enough for me.
So out of about 120 or so poll respondents, 84 of you could not poop in public, even if you were in a forced concentration camp-type situation with only holes in the ground?
Would you stop eating and starve to death, or would you explode to death?
Maybe I am taking this too literally. Seems the poll question is COULD you, or would you prefer to. Those of you who could not aren’t going to last long in an apocalypse. (More chocolate for me!)
Acckkk…you been checking out my nightmares?
I have dreams about needing to go, and I can’t find a functional toilet. Out of order, somebody using it, or filthy, filthy, filthy. I dream about strange public restrooms with open stalls, half-walls, and people standing around WAITING to watch me sit down and do business.
I learned a long time ago when I have the “bathroom dream,” I need to pee. I make myself wake up so I can head to the normal, private, clean home bathroom and do what I gotta do.
~VOW
I think I could… but I hope I don’t ever have to find out!
Heck, a row of toilets would be privacy compared to the luxury Saigon Vietnam hotel rooms I have occupied (ca. 1968), where there were no toilets, just a hole in the floor and two foot pads. I kid you not – makes you long for a decent shithouse with a half-moon door.
Maybe Ho Chi Minh has upgraded since.
I’m imagining one of these people that have explosive diarrhea that manage to hit the toilets, the walls and floor. Now I’m imagining the same person next to other people with no partition. Eww.
Look, you could construct a hypothetical scenario where one “could” shoot a child in the head and make it where that’s the only reasonable thing to do. But as a general query, “could you shoot a child in the head?” I think it’s not unreasonable to allow most people to answer “no.”
As for being in the army or summer camp or whatever – OK, if you had the prospect of joining the army or going to summer camp, would the communal pooping be a deal breaker for you (that is, you’ll decide against it on those grounds)? Except for jail or explosive diarrhea, I don’t think anyone is forced to not hold it for a few minutes and find a more congenial place to poop, are they?
Been there, done that.
Just another reason the reintroduction of conscription would be beneficial to the society in general.
While it was no fun, one of the rituals in training was sitting with some 10 or 15 other guys taking a dump and polishing boots.
That said, when in the field I tried to volunteer to make the midnight run into division headquarters just for the opportunity to have a cup of brewed coffee and use an honest to God sit-down porcelains stool with my own exclusive roll of toilet paper. Rank has its privileges.
How is the ability to defecate in public beneficial to society? :dubious:
If the question was “Would you be able to poop in a communal situation, or would you stop eating and starve to death/explode to death?” then everyone would answer yes, I would be able to poop in a communal situation. Not much use for a poll with an obvious answer.
I can go a couple days holding in my poo, so I say no.
I misread the question and thought “restroom” said “restaurant.” :eek: I most certainly would have trouble if it was right in the middle of the restaurant with everybody watching.
I had to quote your response here just so I could see how you managed to put letters and underlining in two different colors.
As for Asian squat pooping, communal or no: I’m convinced that something about Western upbringing makes us unable to do that same back and knees upright, flat-footed squat that’s necessary in those situations. I sure can’t do it. Heck, maybe it’s because we use seat-style toilets when we’re growing up.