Tolerance of faecal odour.

[Kermit power]

Here's a few facts that I'm sure everyone will agree on.

1. Everyone defecates.

2. Everyone has entered a toilet only to be driven out again by the unbearable odour left by the previous occupant.

3. Everyone - if they're being honest - knows that from time to time, they will be responsible or someone else experiencing step 2.

4. And yet, when we have produced our own step 2 offering, we're not ourselves driven from the cubicle with anything like the level of disgust and immediate survival mechanism that we would if we walking into someone else's miasma.

So, what is the explanation for step 4? Why are we seemingly immune to the odour of our own droppings?

NB - I've done everything I possibly can to phrase this in a non-Lounge manner - despite the subject matter - as I'm actually interested in a serious answer! Hopefully it can be taken as such?

[bonsai]

Interesting question, I have wondered the same thing.

I expect it's psychological rather than physiological.

[5unny]

HAHA great question.

I too have thought about this several times (too much time on my hands I know).

No idea what the answer is but I'm sure there have been studies on this where you would be introduced to a variety of faecal matter, including your own, but without knowing which was yours. And then see what the results were.

Hmmmmm *runs off to google*

[Jem Thompson]

Kermit power said:

Here's a few facts that I'm sure everyone will agree on.


4. And yet, when we have produced our own step 2 offering, we're not ourselves driven from the cubicle with anything like the level of disgust and immediate survival mechanism that we would if we walking into someone else's miasma.

So, what is the explanation for step 4? Why are we seemingly immune to the odour of our own droppings?

The fact that you still need to wipe your ass?

[Kermit power]

Jem Thompson said:

Kermit power said:

Here's a few facts that I'm sure everyone will agree on.


4. And yet, when we have produced our own step 2 offering, we're not ourselves driven from the cubicle with anything like the level of disgust and immediate survival mechanism that we would if we walking into someone else's miasma.

So, what is the explanation for step 4? Why are we seemingly immune to the odour of our own droppings?

The fact that you still need to wipe your ass?

If you're going to try and introduce Lounge style humour into a thread that deliberately isn't in the lounge, do you think you could try to firstly be funny and secondly at least write in English?

I don't know about you, but even if I possessed a donkey-like animal, I wouldn't take it to the toilet with me, much less wipe it whilst I was there.

[Jem Thompson]

Kermit power said:

Jem Thompson said:

Kermit power said:

Here's a few facts that I'm sure everyone will agree on.


4. And yet, when we have produced our own step 2 offering, we're not ourselves driven from the cubicle with anything like the level of disgust and immediate survival mechanism that we would if we walking into someone else's miasma.

So, what is the explanation for step 4? Why are we seemingly immune to the odour of our own droppings?

The fact that you still need to wipe your ass?

If you're going to try and introduce Lounge style humour into a thread that deliberately isn't in the lounge, do you think you could try to firstly be funny and secondly at least write in English?

I don't know about you, but even if I possessed a donkey-like animal, I wouldn't take it to the toilet with me, much less wipe it whilst I was there.

Calm down, I meant the comment in a genuine manner. We (or at least I am) are not always immune to the smell, rather we sit in it because we still have to thoroughly clean our colons. The smell may be be disgusting, but it is infinitely preferable to not wiping. I think it is similar to the fact that when you need to urinate (or take a crap) very very badly you may sometimes go regardless of the state of the toilets.

[Kermit power]

Jem Thompson said:

Kermit power said:

Jem Thompson said:

Kermit power said:

Here's a few facts that I'm sure everyone will agree on.


4. And yet, when we have produced our own step 2 offering, we're not ourselves driven from the cubicle with anything like the level of disgust and immediate survival mechanism that we would if we walking into someone else's miasma.

So, what is the explanation for step 4? Why are we seemingly immune to the odour of our own droppings?

The fact that you still need to wipe your ass?

If you're going to try and introduce Lounge style humour into a thread that deliberately isn't in the lounge, do you think you could try to firstly be funny and secondly at least write in English?

I don't know about you, but even if I possessed a donkey-like animal, I wouldn't take it to the toilet with me, much less wipe it whilst I was there.

Calm down, I meant the comment in a genuine manner. We (or at least I am) are not always immune to the smell, rather we sit in it because we still have to thoroughly clean our colons. The smell may be be disgusting, but it is infinitely preferable to not wiping. I think it is similar to the fact that when you need to urinate (or take a crap) very very badly you may sometimes go regardless of the state of the toilets.

Ah, fair enough. It's still not an ass though!

[Jem Thompson]

Arse. In New Zealand we call them donkeys anyway.