Your Favorite Poo: Polling the Bristol Stool Chart

This isn't named after Bristol Palin, right?

for reference, some previous discussion:

ASK CUTTY AND DERELICT THE NUTRITION NAZIS

Type 4: Like a sausage or snake, smooth and soft

― dyao, Friday, October 16, 2009 8:26 AM (4 months ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

^^^has old school rap cadence imo

― a perfect urkel (gbx), Friday, October 16, 2009 8:27 AM (4 months ago) Bookmark

POO: Pick Only One

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How astonishing. No one wanted to discuss their choice.

I voted 3, btw. Seems the most common, so when I get a good 3, I feel like everything's alright in there.

i've never accomplished a type 1, how can i achieve this experience?

Yeah how did that make #1?

I mean, it sounds vaguely familiar, but my doodie journal is way out of date.

#1 is indicative of constipation I believe? I think 3 and 4 are the clear winners here in terms of comfort and passability, but 4 can be messy.

I've been constipated before and still got a 2 or 3 out of it. It just wasn't any fun.

My friend made a freestyle rap at me once wherein he said his diet produced #4s by the score – I guess there is something about the #4 stool that lends itself to the scansion of rap.

Stevie D thank you for preserving the disarming bolding of type 7.

Fluffy pieces with ragged edges = he poos clouds??

How did I not happen upon this user bonanza before today?

no floaters/sinkers subcategory?

Apparently this is irrelevant. We have all been misinformed.

This poll is too high level to work. I can't just make a blanket decision because it depends on the environment.

At home, definitely a 4. I'm too busy of a man to have a number 1 or a number 7 cancel my plans for the afternoon. Short, clean, and to the point, please.

But at work? It may be the art of defecation, but it's time away from work. Maybe type 2 to prolong the activity a little bit, but not to the point where I have time to read lyric booklets while I wait.

This poll is too high level to work.

I think this poll works strictly at a very low level.

haha. I really have to wonder what inspired this poll. Actually...no, no I don't.

I love how "Fluffy pieces with ragged edges, a mushy stool" is worded and structured; it's almost poetic. And the boldfacing of Entirely liquid like it's a very serious warning.

#4 requires the most wiping, yes?

as opposed to #5-7??

I find #5-7 is easiest actually, as they tend to be very liquidy, like you're a self-secreting bidet.

#5 and #6 usually accompany explosive flatulence, which at least helps get things over with more quickly. And yes, it leaves little behind to wipe.

#7 is through the looking glass. You just have scary amounts of water falling out of your butt. Wiping is often the last thing on your mind when this happens. Your thoughts turn to survival, and how you're never getting takeout from that place again.

http://37signals.com/svn/images/cid_1126975139_fallingwater9.jpg

I hope I will never do a #7 onto a looking glass

On the carpet would be far worse.

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I find #5-7 is easiest actually, as they tend to be very liquidy, like you're a self-secreting bidet.

― but actually it is impossible to have a penis on the body of a mermaid (dyao), Tuesday, March 16, 2010 3:34 AM (16 hours ago)

this is totally wrong! 7 is terrible and not easy at all, very uncomfortable and worrying. a couple months ago i got sick from something, maybe a virus, and was basically pooping water every hour. i would trade 1 for 7 any day.

easiest for wiping, I mean!

i would trade 1 for 7 any day

Currently dealing with 1 the past few days, would trade for 7 just for a change of pace.

(USPS is gonna be PISSED)

The brilliance of the bold-face in #7 can't be overstated.

I have had NOTHING but #4 for like the past week; what does this mean??

oh... you should probably drop me an email so we can go through this offthread

I suspect it's all the hummus I've been making and consuming.

Had 7 while vomiting once after three nights of Guinness (one of them I was taking eccies). It changed me .

I had 7 a few weeks ago when I started taking an antibiotic for my sinusitis/pneumonia and they were like "Oh just to let you know, diarrhea is one of the side effects" and I was like oh no biggie

And then 7's kept happening and I was like uhhhhhhh

4 needs the most wipes iirc

yes, this has been EXACTLY my problem. I miss #3 :(

Come back to the bowels of mine, number three, number three!

http://www.childhoodconstipation.com/gfx/bristol_stool.jpg

http://24.media.tumblr.com/fa2aad01925955ea836e6d683195fe6e/tumblr_mkmw1kHaz11qjvaklo2_500.gif

gravy

http://static1.1.sqspcdn.com/static/f/920827/26215417/1431313338667/lisasch.lw.bristolstoolchart.jpg

god, why?

http://i.imgur.com/MsJYjLB.jpg