On the formation of a proper stool

[Top Cat]

Originally Posted by jtur88

Perhaps one of you experts can answer this qustion, which I think I once posed to Grandstander, but I cannot recall the response. To wit:

If you are a guest in someone's home, and you lay a floater which does not respond to a reasonablel number of flush repeats, what is the best course of follow-up action?

Put in the swimming pool.

[Nocahoma]

Originally Posted by Top Cat

Put in the swimming pool.

*sniff* It's no big deal.

I can't believe with all of this exposition on excretion that there has been no mention of the fabled "Clean Break."

[dlb]

Those among us who are of organized bent will be happy to hear that medical science has developed a scale for assessing the quality of one's stools. It is a bit like the Richter Scale, in that its measurements are meant to be taken through observation rather than through some sort of objective analysis.

I offer you, then, The Bristol Stool Form Scale:

This was developed in the University of Bristol, UK, and is a guide to the seven types of stool formation. It must be stressed that stools do not rigidly fall into these seven types in an 'either-or' fashion, and there is some continuity between them.

Type One - Separate hard lumps, like nuts (hard to pass)
Type Two - Sausage shaped, but lumpy
Type Three - Like a sausage, but with cracks on its surface
Type Four - Like a sausage or snake, smooth and soft
Type Five - Soft blobs with clear-cut edges (passed easily)
Type Six - Fluffy pieces with ragged edges, a mushy stool5
Type Seven - Watery, no solid pieces; entirely liquid

As suggested in our previous discussion, Types 3 and 4 are to be preferred.

Also from the same link I offer this fascinating observation:

Man has evolved to be the greatest of all the species. And the organ that has ensured this is the hand. Yet, were I to put in your hand a mixture containing matter solid, liquid and gaseous and then ask you to selectively release the gas, you could not. And yet, the lowly anus can do so, with ease, and I might add, several times a day...
- Admiral Rollins, circa 1900

BBC - h2g2 - Defecation

[Top Cat]

I have to admit a nice #7 now and then isn't such a bad thing. I feel cleansed thereafter.

And I have always referred to #6 as spackle.

[gilesfan]

A 8 inch terd that takes 3 wipes or less to get clean makes my day.

[dlb]

Happy is the man who takes joy in small things.

[Top Cat]

Originally Posted by dlb

Happy is the man who takes joy in small things.

I hear DD is very happy.

[Nocahoma]

Originally Posted by gilesfan

A 8 inch terd that takes 3 wipes or less to get clean makes my day.

Well, that borders on a Clean Break, but not quite.