Evacuation.

[Mindful]

I bet Moonglow has never heard of Epicurious.

 

[Moonglow]

I'm just going to go beat myself in the face with a stick now.

I was going to enter into the vacuum of space and die.

Trust you to show up.

You guys and your poor English usage...

Do you know the difference between natural desires and vain desires?

I have had several vain attempts at natural desires yes....

You know, like having dogs instead of using terlit paper...or a terlit....

 

[Moonglow]

I'm just going to go beat myself in the face with a stick now.

I was going to enter into the vacuum of space and die.

Trust you to show up.

You guys and your poor English usage...

Do you know the difference between natural desires and vain desires?

Yet thread title, while not exactly a lie is somewhat misleading.

Please.dont call me back into this nonsense.

You've never evacuated yer bowels, I call it vomiting cause it makes me sick to think about it.

 

[Crepitus]

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Why come in the first place?

Couldn't resist, could you?

Yer thread title, while not exactly a lie, doesn't really tell the whole story does it.

Please don't call me back to this nonsense again.

 

[Mindful]

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Why come in the first place?

Couldn't resist, could you?

Yer thread title, while not exactly a lie, doesn't really tell the whole story does it.

Please don't call me back to this nonsense again.

I've not exactly got a gun to your head.

 

[Moonglow]

I bet Moonglow has never heard of Epicurious.

Isn't that a question nobody would have ever thought about but you?

 

[keepitreal]

^The anus is rich in nerve endings that are stimulated by the passage of feces. But more importantly, defecation fires up the enteric nervous system, the mesh-like system of neurons that inhabits the gut. Though the effect of this action remains unclear, the enteric nervous system contains over thirty neurotransmitters, including about 50% of the body’s dopamine and more than 90% of the body’s serotonin. Activation of parasympathetic afferents from the gut leads to a fall in blood pressure and heart rate, often accompanied by feelings of light-headedness and euphoria. Rarely, the fall in blood pressure can lead to loss of consciousness, so-called ‘defecation syncope’. The relaxing effect of defecation is heightened by the withdrawal and seclusion offered by the toilet. Toilet time, like prayer or meditation, offers a hiatus from the pressure and tumult of everyday life, or just a few moments to catch up with phone messages.

Relaxation goosebumps brought on by defecation may be accompanied by a tingling or shivering sensation that begins at the back of the head and runs down the neck and spine. A similar phenomenon is also experienced towards the end of urination, as the sympathetic nervous system acts to restore blood pressure. These ‘pee shakes’ are more common in men, perhaps because men usually pee in the standing position and therefore require a bigger sympathetic kick. Urine is generally odourless but certain foods can lend it a more or less appealing aroma. Among my favourite pee smells are asparagus and the French oak found in certain barrel-aged wines. Feces on the other hand never smell appealing. Oddly, many people enjoy the fragrance of their own farts, but not, generally, that of other people’s. This could be because other people’s farts are a vector of disease, whereas our own bacterial bouquet, assuming no one is around, cannot do us much harm.

 

[keepitreal]

Entire volumes are written on the pleasures of eating and drinking, sex, or meditation, but the pleasures of evacuation, though frequent and free, barely ever get a look in.

Entire volumes are written on the pleasures of eating and drinking, sex, or meditation, but the pleasures of evacuation, though frequent and free, barely ever get a look in.

Natural versus vain desires

The Ancient philosopher Epicurus recognized that pleasures generally arise from the satisfaction of desires, and distinguished between two different types of desire, ‘natural desires’ and ‘vain desires’. Natural desires can either be necessary, such as the desires for food and shelter, or unnecessary, such as the desires for luxury food and accommodation. Vain desires, such as the desires for fame, power, or wealth, differ from natural desires is that they are (1) inculcated by society, (2) not urgent, (3) not naturally limited, and (4) neither easy nor highly pleasurable to satisfy. To minimize the pain and anxiety of harbouring unfulfilled desires, one should submit to necessary natural desires while detaching oneself from unnecessary natural desires and entirely avoiding vain desires. In other words, if you want to be happier, stop being so ambitious and make more of your time on the toilet.

Moving versus static pleasures

Epicurus also distinguished between two different types of pleasure, ‘moving pleasures’ and ‘static pleasures’. Moving pleasures involve the satisfying of a desire, for example, eating a meal when hungry. Static pleasures on the other hand involve the state of comfort that arises from having had a desire satisfied, for example, feeling sated after having eaten the meal. Static pleasures are better than moving pleasures because they free us from the discomfort of need or want. Evacuation, like eating and sex, clearly leads to both types of pleasure; and though the static pleasure is the greater, the moving pleasure is the more intense, and the more neglected.

The physical pleasures of pooing

Defecation involves complex physical, physiological, and psychological processes. At a physical level, the colon propels stool into the rectum, leading to rectal distension and reflex relaxation of the internal anal sphincter. At this point, the urge to defecate leads to the voluntary relaxation of the external anal sphincter, with the stool expelled by peristaltic waves and the combined action of the pelvic floor muscles, abdominal wall, diaphragm, and expiratory chest muscles. The urge to defecate can be successfully resisted, with the stool returned into the rectum by reverse peristalsis. But repeated postponement leads to hardening of the stool and, eventually, constipation. Relaxation of the external anal sphincter is linked with relaxation of the urethral sphincter: once the feces have been extruded, urination signals that defecation is at an end. The act of defecation is intensely physical, and offers some of the same rewards, and risks, as exercise.

On the Pleasures of Evacuation

 

[Moonglow]

Intermission

 

[Mindful]

^The anus is rich in nerve endings that are stimulated by the passage of feces. But more importantly, defecation fires up the enteric nervous system, the mesh-like system of neurons that inhabits the gut. Though the effect of this action remains unclear, the enteric nervous system contains over thirty neurotransmitters, including about 50% of the body’s dopamine and more than 90% of the body’s serotonin. Activation of parasympathetic afferents from the gut leads to a fall in blood pressure and heart rate, often accompanied by feelings of light-headedness and euphoria. Rarely, the fall in blood pressure can lead to loss of consciousness, so-called ‘defecation syncope’. The relaxing effect of defecation is heightened by the withdrawal and seclusion offered by the toilet. Toilet time, like prayer or meditation, offers a hiatus from the pressure and tumult of everyday life, or just a few moments to catch up with phone messages.

Relaxation goosebumps brought on by defecation may be accompanied by a tingling or shivering sensation that begins at the back of the head and runs down the neck and spine. A similar phenomenon is also experienced towards the end of urination, as the sympathetic nervous system acts to restore blood pressure. These ‘pee shakes’ are more common in men, perhaps because men usually pee in the standing position and therefore require a bigger sympathetic kick. Urine is generally odourless but certain foods can lend it a more or less appealing aroma. Among my favourite pee smells are asparagus and the French oak found in certain barrel-aged wines. Feces on the other hand never smell appealing. Oddly, many people enjoy the fragrance of their own farts, but not, generally, that of other people’s. This could be because other people’s farts are a vector of disease, whereas our own bacterial bouquet, assuming no one is around, cannot do us much harm.

Are you embarrassed? Or outraged?

But you read it just the same?

 

[Mindful]

I bet Moonglow has never heard of Epicurious.

Isn't that a question nobody would have ever thought about but you?

I've no idea.

You probably didn't do Shakespeare either.

 

[Moonglow]

I bet Moonglow has never heard of Epicurious.

Isn't that a question nobody would have ever thought about but you?

I've no idea.

You probably didn't do Shakespeare either.

I didn't get a chance to do Shakespeare he was dead before I was born...

 

[Mindful]

I bet Moonglow has never heard of Epicurious.

Isn't that a question nobody would have ever thought about but you?

I've no idea.

You probably didn't do Shakespeare either.

I didn't get a chance to do Shakespeare he was dead before I was born...

After a few years on these forums, I'm getting an insight into the American mentality.

 

[Moonglow]

I bet Moonglow has never heard of Epicurious.

Isn't that a question nobody would have ever thought about but you?

I've no idea.

You probably didn't do Shakespeare either.

I didn't get a chance to do Shakespeare he was dead before I was born...

After a few years on these forums, I'm getting an insight into the American mentality.

Which one?

 

[Mindful]

I bet Moonglow has never heard of Epicurious.

Isn't that a question nobody would have ever thought about but you?

I've no idea.

You probably didn't do Shakespeare either.

I didn't get a chance to do Shakespeare he was dead before I was born...

After a few years on these forums, I'm getting an insight into the American mentality.

Which one?

The one.

 

[Moonglow]

 

[Moonglow]

Isn't that a question nobody would have ever thought about but you?

I've no idea.

You probably didn't do Shakespeare either.

I didn't get a chance to do Shakespeare he was dead before I was born...

After a few years on these forums, I'm getting an insight into the American mentality.

Which one?

The one.

Love at first site..

 

[Mindful]

I've no idea.

You probably didn't do Shakespeare either.

I didn't get a chance to do Shakespeare he was dead before I was born...

After a few years on these forums, I'm getting an insight into the American mentality.

Which one?

The one.

Love at first site..

OMG I love Josh.

 

[JoeMoma]

There is a certain pleasure to being regular.

This could be the beginning of a poem about pooping.

 

[keepitreal]

^The anus is rich in nerve endings that are stimulated by the passage of feces. But more importantly, defecation fires up the enteric nervous system, the mesh-like system of neurons that inhabits the gut. Though the effect of this action remains unclear, the enteric nervous system contains over thirty neurotransmitters, including about 50% of the body’s dopamine and more than 90% of the body’s serotonin. Activation of parasympathetic afferents from the gut leads to a fall in blood pressure and heart rate, often accompanied by feelings of light-headedness and euphoria. Rarely, the fall in blood pressure can lead to loss of consciousness, so-called ‘defecation syncope’. The relaxing effect of defecation is heightened by the withdrawal and seclusion offered by the toilet. Toilet time, like prayer or meditation, offers a hiatus from the pressure and tumult of everyday life, or just a few moments to catch up with phone messages.

Relaxation goosebumps brought on by defecation may be accompanied by a tingling or shivering sensation that begins at the back of the head and runs down the neck and spine. A similar phenomenon is also experienced towards the end of urination, as the sympathetic nervous system acts to restore blood pressure. These ‘pee shakes’ are more common in men, perhaps because men usually pee in the standing position and therefore require a bigger sympathetic kick. Urine is generally odourless but certain foods can lend it a more or less appealing aroma. Among my favourite pee smells are asparagus and the French oak found in certain barrel-aged wines. Feces on the other hand never smell appealing. Oddly, many people enjoy the fragrance of their own farts, but not, generally, that of other people’s. This could be because other people’s farts are a vector of disease, whereas our own bacterial bouquet, assuming no one is around, cannot do us much harm.

Are you embarrassed? Or outraged?

But you read it just the same?

Are you embarrassed? Or outraged?

But you read it just the same?

ROFLMAO.... neither

I will not bother asking you, if you're embarrassed...
obviously, that would be a stupid question

I assumed the thread had something to do with Hawaii,
boy, was I wrong...a few sentences was all I read

So, no, I didn't waste my time, 'reading it, just the same'

Ooh, I do have a question for you....
Are you on too many drugs or not enough?