Ask Lemmy

If I hear someone on the phone in a public restroom I try to rip ass as loud as possible.

I'm not stuck in here with you, you're stuck in here with me.

I mean I try not to in public but if someone else does it, it just about makes my day, farts are so funny

No, I'm never embarrassed by my singing.

I have IBS so if I want to go anywhere I have to deal with the fact that I may end up making lots of noise in a public toilet. In my forties I’m pretty desensitized about it now. Everybody poops.

Yes. I wonder, though, why? What conditioned me this way? Also, in some societies, such as Japan, concealing toilet sounds is encrouaged by those otohime devices in public bathrooms.

I think they're funny and I'm tired of pretending they're not.

I only shit at home or in the woods. I hate walking into a public restroom and knowing a microscopic piece of another mans colon is now in my nose.

shouldn't this be in !lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world ? :P

I feel like no longer caring if strangers can hear you poop is a big part of growing up. Not to say I've reached that point.

Everybody poops as they say. The bathroom is the socially acceptable place for farts imo.

I used to clench up in public bathrooms if there was anyone else in the bathroom.

Now I just let 'er rip. Even if I know it's gonna be loud and funky.

No. Nature isn't embarassing.

I have been embarrassed when I shat my pants from drinking too much though.

Not even a little.

No, that's how I assert dominance.

No, the sound of a bath being filled doesn’t bother me.

If anyone out there is self conscious about this, remember: you should only be embarrassed by sounds that come out of your mouth when in the bathroom. If you're grunting and sighing in the stall you need immediate medical attention or a gag. Pull it together

No. Y'all know what goes on in there. If you don't, you're the one who should be embarrassed.

Unpopular opinion: toilets are perfectly shaped to make farts as loud as possible.

Not an unpopular opinion but a scientific analysis of the toilet geometry.

Unfortunately in engineering the toiler, we had to decide whether to A) let the poop and pee be carried away easy, with the down-side of big echo, or B) Have no big echo, but the poop and pee isn't taken away easily. Now in most engineered products, we would find some sort of balance between the two, but obviously that wasn't appropriate here.

as for your question, i used to but now i don't. Worrying about that stuff just holds you back. I'm on that thing hunched over clutching my stomach screaming out "oh god... OH GOD it's unbearable, I'm dying!!" Just to assert dominance.

it helps that public bathrooms stalls are (usually) not see-thru so with the right timing you can be completely anonymous. It's elegant, like a masked ball.

I used too but I remember it’s the shit room. You better be grunting and farting

In the bathroom, no. Outside the bathroom, yes.

Let it rip

No, because I deploy The Cough of Obfuscation!

Yeah. I tell my BF to go hang out in the living room or something. Like give me some privacy k? Ok thx😆👋

I think the, uh, acoustics, are mostly a necessary evil. The bowl has to accommodate a ton of water splashing around without going everywhere, and ideally also not go out of its way to trap any doodoo. That can't just be any old shape.

I thought the whole point was to piss as loud as possible to assert dominance?

Silent bathrooms are the fucking worst. When you go in, have to stand right next to some guy at a urinal, and you both can hear exactly how much piss is happening, or when it's not happening. Nothing shrivels up my bladders ability to expend faster than complete silence and the attention of a stranger.

Also once I was visiting a foreign country and found a girl on tinder, we were fuck buddies for the duration. She stayed over one night, and I had to shit in the morning. With her sitting on the bed quietly scrolling her phone like 5 feet away. It was awful. Felt like I couldn't fart, could barely get anything out, my diet had been bad so it was going to be a difficult poo anyway. It was awful.

But out in public, whenever I accidentally fart, or on purpose fart but I intended it to be silent, I just laugh immediately afterwards. If I think it's funny, then it's not awkward.