phatj wrote:

mozartpc27 wrote:

PrattRules wrote:

The Nightman Cometh wrote:has anyone else noticed that people who go to school for psychology are almost universally crazy?

Every swimmer I ever met was a bit off.

There's a swimmer on this board, PrattRules. You better watch yourself.

I was a swimmer, and at one time was condidering a psych minor, but in the end I decided that I was too busy skipping the engineering classes to take on anything more.

now Amazon is constantly hawking to me the PS3 games I can't play

You know what is weird when you think about it? That we have elevated one four-letter word for excrement, as a society, to "vulgar" status, such that is mostly kept off television and censored on certain message boards for example, but others are considered perfectly alright:

crap
poop
dung

There is no difference in meaning between bull crap and bull shit. If we're making value judgments, the term shit is older and appears in literature, whereas crap and poop are newer and for that reason alone appear in less works that might be studied in a literature class.

So why is shit considered vulgar, but crap, poop, and dung not?

As an aside, my favorite euphemism for poop is "night soil," which is what you'll find it politely referred to as in some Renaissance documents. Shakespeare's father was fined for making an unauthorized pile of "night soil" somewhere or other in Stratford-on-Avon.

Poop
poop
poop

C'mon, say it with me

poop

ahehe

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9uWjt2y_G0Q[/youtube]

I guess crap and poop were probably originally applied to "night soil" in order to get around saying shit, so that it is therefore unsurprising that they are deemed more acceptable than shit, but you couldn't say either of those on television for years, and then at first I think you would really only hear crap, and used only as an expletive, not as a substantive to refer to "night soil."

So why is crap as an expletive all right but shit not?

Moz, you raise an excellent point.

Also, poop

South Park told me it kept the dragons and intestine vomiting plagues away.

coworker just threw a 5 hour energy over my cube wall.

rage@wrk

phatj wrote:Poop
poop
poop

C'mon, say it with me

poop

ahehe

Story time:

One time when I was like 7 or 8, I was playing with my G.I. Joes and I had one saying to the other something about kicking the poop out of him or something like that. Well, my Dad overheard this (I never would have said it if I thought he was in earshot), and he didn't like for me to use language of this sort, so he got all mad and ultimately told my Mom, who also disapproved. So, the next day we had off from school for some reason, or maybe it was just a Saturday, but whatever as punishment I had to say a bunch of nominally "dirty" words like poop, butt, etc. some huge number of times each, or what sounded huge to me anyway. I had to count them out to, so my Mom could hear "Poop one, poop two, poop three," etc. I remember at one point she got a phone call and I skipped ahead a whole lot, thinking I was real clever. As if she really cared all that much in the first place.

What is particularly irritating about this looking back on it is my Dad was, to quote A Christmas Story, an "artist" when it came to profanity: "He worked in profanity the way other artists might work in oil or clay. It was his true medium." That's still my favorite line from any movie I think, because it's so true to my own upbringing: I STILL don't say curse words in front of my parents, and yet my father uses them, liberally, whenever the mood suits him.

Anyway, this is why to this day I hate the word "poop," I hate to count, and why I am the way I am. You have all gained some real insight into the origins of mozart's character today.

Really, what's unclear to me is why "feces" isn't used more. It's an excellent word.

phatj wrote:Really, what's unclear to me is why "feces" isn't used more. It's an excellent word.

Feces is alright, but it sounds to clinical to be used as an expletive. It'd be like saying "Coitus!" when you bang your head instead of "F---!"

I prefer the word excrement, it has more puissance.

mozartpc27 wrote:

phatj wrote:Really, what's unclear to me is why "feces" isn't used more. It's an excellent word.

Feces is alright, but it sounds to clinical to be used as an expletive. It'd be like saying "Coitus!" when you bang your head instead of "#$&!!"

Sounds like you're not banging your head right

EDIT: this doesn't make any sense

Anyway, I meant using feces in the literal way, not as an expletive.

PoopDoop

What's weird is that the ones that always strike me as the grossest are "poop" - because of its vaguely onomatopoeic sound - and "stool," I guess for the same reason.

Shit and crap are both less evocative of the stuff itself.

poopie squirts always gives me the willies

I think "poo" is the grossest of the terms. The lack of the "p" on the end makes it feel like the word keeps going and going and going...

"Poop" is a plop, a relatively clean job. "Poooooooo" is a winding snake of disgusting

I agree, poo is gross, and the extra "p" in "poop" is for the "plop."

I think we are approaching the Abbot & Costello version of this.

Poo's on first, Poop's on second, Plop is on third...

Who is on first?

Poo.

Poo is on first?

Who?

Poo.

Poop.

Plop.

i just pooped.

half was brown
half was green