What do you call the examination of poop?
February 27, 2019 3:40 PM Subscribe
As “feces” in Latin actually means dregs, and “poop” is used everywhere, science was missing a term for “excrement examined experimentally”. Here's (link CW) one suggestion. Therefore, In Fimo has been proposed as a scientific term (manuscript) - for example, what researchers studying Cahokia (elsewhere) are doing, or people studying poop frequency. Other scientists, who have been closely examining your poop, may have found nearly 2,000 uncultured candidate bacterial species happily living in it. Speaking of happily, in medieval times you could poop with friends (modern seats can be more high-tech, and we have toilet brushes). Appropriate leisure reading material while sitting? Perhaps the “poop fiction” genre, such as the much-banned “Walter the Farting Dog”.
I was starting to worry Metafilter was constipated.
Tomorrow is the last day of FecalFebruary, so the urge to release a large one was becoming overwhelming. Hopefully other MeFites will experience similar satisfaction.
posted by Wordshore at 3:50 PM on February 27, 2019 [15 favorites]
Tomorrow is the last day of FecalFebruary, so the urge to release a large one was becoming overwhelming. Hopefully other MeFites will experience similar satisfaction.
posted by Wordshore at 3:50 PM on February 27, 2019 [15 favorites]
damnit wordshore
posted by Homo neanderthalensis at 3:54 PM on February 27, 2019 [12 favorites]
posted by Homo neanderthalensis at 3:54 PM on February 27, 2019 [12 favorites]
Really looking forward to Manurial March!
posted by Celsius1414 at 3:57 PM on February 27, 2019 [7 favorites]
posted by Celsius1414 at 3:57 PM on February 27, 2019 [7 favorites]
I will burn this website to the ground.
posted by Homo neanderthalensis at 3:59 PM on February 27, 2019 [13 favorites]
posted by Homo neanderthalensis at 3:59 PM on February 27, 2019 [13 favorites]
Isn’t Fimo a trademarked name for a fun clay product? Do they know this?
posted by njohnson23 at 3:59 PM on February 27, 2019 [4 favorites]
posted by njohnson23 at 3:59 PM on February 27, 2019 [4 favorites]
Like a dog returning to its leavings, we may have examined this before.
posted by Greg_Ace at 4:03 PM on February 27, 2019 [4 favorites]
posted by Greg_Ace at 4:03 PM on February 27, 2019 [4 favorites]
I will burn this website to the ground.
Thereby participating in the long-running tradition of using fecal waste (dried, of course) as fuel when trees and wood are in short supply!
posted by sciatrix at 4:03 PM on February 27, 2019 [15 favorites]
Thereby participating in the long-running tradition of using fecal waste (dried, of course) as fuel when trees and wood are in short supply!
posted by sciatrix at 4:03 PM on February 27, 2019 [15 favorites]
For much of my career at IBM, I was a Customer Engineer in the Field Engineering division, so my job title was abbreviated as FECE, and we often got memos addressed, To: all FECEs.
At least, dregs is slightly better than poop.
posted by MtDewd at 4:09 PM on February 27, 2019 [6 favorites]
At least, dregs is slightly better than poop.
posted by MtDewd at 4:09 PM on February 27, 2019 [6 favorites]
Coprology, surely?
posted by praemunire at 4:11 PM on February 27, 2019 [4 favorites]
posted by praemunire at 4:11 PM on February 27, 2019 [4 favorites]
Like a dog returning to its leavings, we may have examined this before.
Dammit! I had a vague feeling the topic was familiar, but somehow missed the original in a search. Oh well; will ask the mods to delete this double, will rework it and submit it in the 20 minute window before FecalFebruary ends (UK time).
posted by Wordshore at 4:13 PM on February 27, 2019
Dammit! I had a vague feeling the topic was familiar, but somehow missed the original in a search. Oh well; will ask the mods to delete this double, will rework it and submit it in the 20 minute window before FecalFebruary ends (UK time).
posted by Wordshore at 4:13 PM on February 27, 2019
Note that we could always use the actual Latin word for crap, which is merda (or, slightly more politely, stercus).
Merdological material sounds so delightful--mirabile ausu--doesn't it? And yet...
posted by sciatrix at 4:16 PM on February 27, 2019 [3 favorites]
Merdological material sounds so delightful--mirabile ausu--doesn't it? And yet...
posted by sciatrix at 4:16 PM on February 27, 2019 [3 favorites]
According to the portmanteau generator listed earlier in the week the definitive answer is "dropservation."
posted by Abehammerb Lincoln at 4:17 PM on February 27, 2019 [7 favorites]
posted by Abehammerb Lincoln at 4:17 PM on February 27, 2019 [7 favorites]
*adds sciatrix's name to the list along with Johnny Poopflower, Fizz and Wordshore.*
posted by Homo neanderthalensis at 4:19 PM on February 27, 2019 [6 favorites]
posted by Homo neanderthalensis at 4:19 PM on February 27, 2019 [6 favorites]
I like to think your list is written on a roll of toilet paper.
posted by Celsius1414 at 4:22 PM on February 27, 2019 [4 favorites]
posted by Celsius1414 at 4:22 PM on February 27, 2019 [4 favorites]
all joking aside Wordshore, you shouldn't delete this post, there's so much added material to the old one, it can stand on it's own I think.
posted by Homo neanderthalensis at 4:23 PM on February 27, 2019 [4 favorites]
posted by Homo neanderthalensis at 4:23 PM on February 27, 2019 [4 favorites]
Are…are you advocating for a poop post?
Stay tuned.
posted by Johnny Wallflower at 4:29 PM on February 27, 2019 [6 favorites]
Stay tuned.
posted by Johnny Wallflower at 4:29 PM on February 27, 2019 [6 favorites]
Tomorrow is the last day of FecalFebruary
Looking forward to MenstrualMarch.
posted by Abehammerb Lincoln at 4:30 PM on February 27, 2019 [19 favorites]
Looking forward to MenstrualMarch.
posted by Abehammerb Lincoln at 4:30 PM on February 27, 2019 [19 favorites]
Are…are you advocating for a poop post?
Oh god what have I done.
posted by Homo neanderthalensis at 4:31 PM on February 27, 2019 [6 favorites]
Oh god what have I done.
posted by Homo neanderthalensis at 4:31 PM on February 27, 2019 [6 favorites]
BTW, I feel like you missed this one.
posted by Johnny Wallflower at 4:32 PM on February 27, 2019 [2 favorites]
posted by Johnny Wallflower at 4:32 PM on February 27, 2019 [2 favorites]
Oh god what have I done.
Depends...
posted by Celsius1414 at 4:34 PM on February 27, 2019 [4 favorites]
Depends...
posted by Celsius1414 at 4:34 PM on February 27, 2019 [4 favorites]
Damnit Johnny.
posted by Homo neanderthalensis at 4:34 PM on February 27, 2019 [4 favorites]
posted by Homo neanderthalensis at 4:34 PM on February 27, 2019 [4 favorites]
Looking forward to MenstrualMarch
I like the way you think! We can tie it to JulyByWomen.
posted by Johnny Wallflower at 4:35 PM on February 27, 2019
I like the way you think! We can tie it to JulyByWomen.
posted by Johnny Wallflower at 4:35 PM on February 27, 2019
BTW, I feel like you missed this one.
Saw that one, hence the elsewhere link in the FPP here.
posted by Wordshore at 4:35 PM on February 27, 2019
Saw that one, hence the elsewhere link in the FPP here.
posted by Wordshore at 4:35 PM on February 27, 2019
Looking forward to MenstrualMarch.
The walk you do when things start a bit early and you're home alone and you forgot to bring your pads upstairs
posted by biogeo at 4:39 PM on February 27, 2019 [10 favorites]
The walk you do when things start a bit early and you're home alone and you forgot to bring your pads upstairs
posted by biogeo at 4:39 PM on February 27, 2019 [10 favorites]
What, no comparison to WomensMarch?
Never mind, never mind, I can certainly think of a few good topics. I've done cups twice and pads once; I bet you I can pull something interesting out for tomorrow without having to tangle with tampons...
posted by sciatrix at 4:42 PM on February 27, 2019 [5 favorites]
Never mind, never mind, I can certainly think of a few good topics. I've done cups twice and pads once; I bet you I can pull something interesting out for tomorrow without having to tangle with tampons...
posted by sciatrix at 4:42 PM on February 27, 2019 [5 favorites]
This poop post hits too close to home today.
I took my dog to the vet last weekend for her annual checkup, and was surprised to get a call Monday morning that her fecal sample indicated that she had hookworms! So, that night I pick up her meds from the vet and give her the first dose. (Dose 1 of 5, to be repeated again in 3 weeks.) The next morning I took her for a walk, and she had one normal bowel movement and one that was very large and soft. Still didn't trigger any alarm bells.
Roxy had separation anxiety when we first adopted her, so we had installed a couple security cameras in the apartment to keep an eye on her. Even though her anxiety is gone, we still turn the cameras on when we leave for work; it's fun to check on her periodically.
About an hour after we both got to work, I got a message from my partner: "Roxy just pooped in the kitchen." We were both stuck at work for at least a few more hours, anxiously watching her pace the apartment end-to-end and unable to do anything about it. Then she pulled the kitchen camera out of alignment and we couldn't see what she was doing.
I finally rushed home in between work meetings around 10:00 to find three very large poopsplosions in various locations in the apartment. There's a point in times like this where the cost/benefit of cleaning something vs tossing it is pretty clear - this level of destruction added to the possibility of re-infecting her (or ourselves - people can get hookworms) made that analysis pretty easy. Ended up throwing out a door mat, a kitchen anti-fatigue mat, and a cheap Ikea rug. Then I had to sanitize the floors with a bleach solution and wash every blanket and dog bed in the apartment.
I'm ready for Poop Month to be over.
posted by misskaz at 5:13 PM on February 27, 2019 [10 favorites]
I took my dog to the vet last weekend for her annual checkup, and was surprised to get a call Monday morning that her fecal sample indicated that she had hookworms! So, that night I pick up her meds from the vet and give her the first dose. (Dose 1 of 5, to be repeated again in 3 weeks.) The next morning I took her for a walk, and she had one normal bowel movement and one that was very large and soft. Still didn't trigger any alarm bells.
Roxy had separation anxiety when we first adopted her, so we had installed a couple security cameras in the apartment to keep an eye on her. Even though her anxiety is gone, we still turn the cameras on when we leave for work; it's fun to check on her periodically.
About an hour after we both got to work, I got a message from my partner: "Roxy just pooped in the kitchen." We were both stuck at work for at least a few more hours, anxiously watching her pace the apartment end-to-end and unable to do anything about it. Then she pulled the kitchen camera out of alignment and we couldn't see what she was doing.
I finally rushed home in between work meetings around 10:00 to find three very large poopsplosions in various locations in the apartment. There's a point in times like this where the cost/benefit of cleaning something vs tossing it is pretty clear - this level of destruction added to the possibility of re-infecting her (or ourselves - people can get hookworms) made that analysis pretty easy. Ended up throwing out a door mat, a kitchen anti-fatigue mat, and a cheap Ikea rug. Then I had to sanitize the floors with a bleach solution and wash every blanket and dog bed in the apartment.
I'm ready for Poop Month to be over.
posted by misskaz at 5:13 PM on February 27, 2019 [10 favorites]
Is it good poop?
Is it bad poop?
How do we define a normal poop?
Naturally, through fecalibration.
posted by allium cepa at 5:20 PM on February 27, 2019 [6 favorites]
Is it bad poop?
How do we define a normal poop?
Naturally, through fecalibration.
posted by allium cepa at 5:20 PM on February 27, 2019 [6 favorites]
Ah, we had pinworms, the lot of us, years back. That taught me all about the Bristol Stool Scale, helping me help my doc diagnose IBS-D a few years after that.
posted by tilde at 5:22 PM on February 27, 2019 [1 favorite]
posted by tilde at 5:22 PM on February 27, 2019 [1 favorite]
What do you call the examination of poop?
Whitehouse correspondent?
posted by w0mbat at 5:24 PM on February 27, 2019 [10 favorites]
Whitehouse correspondent?
posted by w0mbat at 5:24 PM on February 27, 2019 [10 favorites]
At first, the cannibals attempted to ignore the anthropologist. But he just would not go away, so they tried eating him. Unfortunately they found their subject's matter indigestible.
Forever after, he was known as the man who would not be de turd.
posted by allium cepa at 5:33 PM on February 27, 2019 [8 favorites]
Forever after, he was known as the man who would not be de turd.
posted by allium cepa at 5:33 PM on February 27, 2019 [8 favorites]
I have to confess I'm reading this, overcome with giggles at the thought of an official SI unit turd carefully preserved as a reference point, somewhere in Paris, surrounded by motion-activated lasers on guard against the incursion of anarchist dung beetles.
posted by allium cepa at 5:44 PM on February 27, 2019 [2 favorites]
posted by allium cepa at 5:44 PM on February 27, 2019 [2 favorites]
I like to think your list is written on a roll of toilet paper.
Funny you should mention that.
posted by Ashwagandha at 5:49 PM on February 27, 2019 [2 favorites]
Funny you should mention that.
posted by Ashwagandha at 5:49 PM on February 27, 2019 [2 favorites]
BTW, I feel like you missed this one.
Saw that one, hence the elsewhere link in the FPP here.
(I wasrubbing it in to addressing homo neanderthalensis.)
posted by Johnny Wallflower at 6:38 PM on February 27, 2019 [2 favorites]
Saw that one, hence the elsewhere link in the FPP here.
(I was
posted by Johnny Wallflower at 6:38 PM on February 27, 2019 [2 favorites]
(I was rubbing it in to addressing homo neanderthalensis.)
Johnny was just being a butt.
posted by Homo neanderthalensis at 6:41 PM on February 27, 2019 [3 favorites]
Johnny was just being a butt.
posted by Homo neanderthalensis at 6:41 PM on February 27, 2019 [3 favorites]
The LEGO Movie had "Taco Tuesday, but on a Friday", so I foresee no difficulties with Fecal Fridays on Wednesdays...
posted by RedOrGreen at 7:12 PM on February 27, 2019 [2 favorites]
posted by RedOrGreen at 7:12 PM on February 27, 2019 [2 favorites]
Did you know that diarrhea is hereditary?
It runs in your genes.
I ate four cans of alphabet soup yesterday.
Then I had probably the biggest vowel movement ever.
Have you seen the movie Diarrhea?
It leaked so they had to release it early.
Have you seen that new movie Constipated?
It hasn’t come out yet.
Did you hear about the constipated accountant?
He couldn’t budget.
Did you hear about the constipated mathematician?
He worked it out with a pencil.
You never really appreciate what you’ve got until it’s gone.
Toilet paper is a good example.
What’s big and brown and behind the wall?
Humpty’s Dump.
Do you want to hear a poop joke?
Never mind it’s too corny.
What do you call Clark Kent with diarrhea?
Poop-erman.
What do you call a vegetarian with diarrhea?
Salad Shooter.
What do you call a magical poop?
Poodini.
What’s brown and rhymes with Snoop?
Dr. Dre.
What do you get when you poop in your overalls?
Dung-arees.
Children are like farts.
Your own are just about bearable, but everyone else’s are horrendous.
What did one fly say to the other?
Is this stool taken?
People say love is the best feeling ever.
But I think finding a toilet when you’re having diarrhea is better.
Did you know that when you say the word “poop”, your mouth does the same motion as your bum hole?
The same is true for the phrase, “explosive diarrhea”.
Poop jokes aren’t my favorite jokes.
But they’re a solid #2.
How do you get the bathroom unlocked in a hurry?
With a doo-key.
If pooping is a call of nature.
Then is farting a missed call?
I haven't had much to say in these poop posts, but I figured everyone would appreciate these Charmin jokes.
posted by BlueHorse at 8:41 PM on February 27, 2019 [10 favorites]
It runs in your genes.
I ate four cans of alphabet soup yesterday.
Then I had probably the biggest vowel movement ever.
Have you seen the movie Diarrhea?
It leaked so they had to release it early.
Have you seen that new movie Constipated?
It hasn’t come out yet.
Did you hear about the constipated accountant?
He couldn’t budget.
Did you hear about the constipated mathematician?
He worked it out with a pencil.
You never really appreciate what you’ve got until it’s gone.
Toilet paper is a good example.
What’s big and brown and behind the wall?
Humpty’s Dump.
Do you want to hear a poop joke?
Never mind it’s too corny.
What do you call Clark Kent with diarrhea?
Poop-erman.
What do you call a vegetarian with diarrhea?
Salad Shooter.
What do you call a magical poop?
Poodini.
What’s brown and rhymes with Snoop?
Dr. Dre.
What do you get when you poop in your overalls?
Dung-arees.
Children are like farts.
Your own are just about bearable, but everyone else’s are horrendous.
What did one fly say to the other?
Is this stool taken?
People say love is the best feeling ever.
But I think finding a toilet when you’re having diarrhea is better.
Did you know that when you say the word “poop”, your mouth does the same motion as your bum hole?
The same is true for the phrase, “explosive diarrhea”.
Poop jokes aren’t my favorite jokes.
But they’re a solid #2.
How do you get the bathroom unlocked in a hurry?
With a doo-key.
If pooping is a call of nature.
Then is farting a missed call?
I haven't had much to say in these poop posts, but I figured everyone would appreciate these Charmin jokes.
posted by BlueHorse at 8:41 PM on February 27, 2019 [10 favorites]
Bless you, BlueHorse.
posted by Johnny Wallflower at 8:54 PM on February 27, 2019 [2 favorites]
posted by Johnny Wallflower at 8:54 PM on February 27, 2019 [2 favorites]
What did one fly say to the other?
Is this stool taken?
Two flies are on a piece of poop. One farts; the other exclaims, "Hey - I'm eatin', here!"
posted by Greg_Ace at 9:30 PM on February 27, 2019 [1 favorite]
Is this stool taken?
Two flies are on a piece of poop. One farts; the other exclaims, "Hey - I'm eatin', here!"
posted by Greg_Ace at 9:30 PM on February 27, 2019 [1 favorite]
Speaking of poop in ancient times, The Five Constipated Men in the Bible.
posted by ActionPopulated at 9:35 PM on February 27, 2019 [2 favorites]
posted by ActionPopulated at 9:35 PM on February 27, 2019 [2 favorites]
What’s wrong with “shit”?
posted by jjderooy at 3:05 AM on February 28, 2019 [1 favorite]
posted by jjderooy at 3:05 AM on February 28, 2019 [1 favorite]
Scatology.
posted by transient at 4:38 AM on February 28, 2019 [2 favorites]
posted by transient at 4:38 AM on February 28, 2019 [2 favorites]
aw yeah, this is the good shit i come to metafilter for
posted by wires at 4:58 AM on February 28, 2019 [2 favorites]
posted by wires at 4:58 AM on February 28, 2019 [2 favorites]
re: the examination of poop...
Links between gut microbes and depression strengthened - "The authors used DNA sequencing to analyse microbiota in the faeces of more than 1,000 people enrolled in Belgium's Flemish Gut Flora Project."
posted by kliuless at 5:34 AM on February 28, 2019 [2 favorites]
Links between gut microbes and depression strengthened - "The authors used DNA sequencing to analyse microbiota in the faeces of more than 1,000 people enrolled in Belgium's Flemish Gut Flora Project."
posted by kliuless at 5:34 AM on February 28, 2019 [2 favorites]
If we do Menstruation March, we could have Micturation May.
posted by wellred at 6:33 AM on February 28, 2019 [1 favorite]
posted by wellred at 6:33 AM on February 28, 2019 [1 favorite]
As I have a partially-drafted FPP on the benefits of prunes, #MotilityMarch is also a possibility.
posted by Wordshore at 6:59 AM on February 28, 2019 [1 favorite]
posted by Wordshore at 6:59 AM on February 28, 2019 [1 favorite]
Oh, if you want weird sperm, I'm your gal! Remind me to do a rundown of seminal configurations and team ups sometime.
posted by sciatrix at 7:45 AM on February 28, 2019
posted by sciatrix at 7:45 AM on February 28, 2019
I study frass. There are certain microbe spores that germinate better after passage through the gut of a snail. So I collect the frass and examine it microscopically. I do not see the humor here.
posted by acrasis at 8:16 AM on February 28, 2019 [2 favorites]
posted by acrasis at 8:16 AM on February 28, 2019 [2 favorites]
Metafilter: If you want weird sperm...
posted by Greg_Ace at 9:07 AM on February 28, 2019 [2 favorites]
posted by Greg_Ace at 9:07 AM on February 28, 2019 [2 favorites]
It is shocking how quickly you can become accustomed to looking at stranger's poop. However, I don't see a time when sputum doesn't make me gag.
posted by MaritaCov at 3:05 PM on February 28, 2019 [1 favorite]
posted by MaritaCov at 3:05 PM on February 28, 2019 [1 favorite]
MetaFilter: become accustomed to looking at stranger's poop.
posted by Wordshore at 3:11 PM on February 28, 2019 [1 favorite]
posted by Wordshore at 3:11 PM on February 28, 2019 [1 favorite]
When did "poop" become the term de rigueur? Something about it reads to me as a toddler word, so it feels really out of place to see it in serious publications.
posted by lucidium at 6:52 PM on February 28, 2019 [1 favorite]
posted by lucidium at 6:52 PM on February 28, 2019 [1 favorite]
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