eating poo

Faeces is harder to spell. S**t is considered rude. What else do we use. In Leicestershire it was bob bobs,

I just googled the question and there are many accounts of small children, about two, playing with and eating their own poop.

I don't consider the word shit to be rude, not the word itself. It can be used rudely, but so can faeces or crap or, even, poo. The how used counts. Just saying

BTW, rabbits eat their own shit. They get a second helping of nourishment the second time it goes through their guts. Grass is difficult to digest and they don't have four stomachs to do it with like bovines so they use the twice through the alimentary canal system.

You can tell rabbit shit that has been through twice from that which has only been through once by the colour. #howmanyofyouknewthat?

There is nothing disturbing about "grown women" using the word poo.

Stop sounding so pompous Absent.

Why? Nothing wrong with a dose of pomposity now and again.

Keep it up, absent. I like it . Better than euphemistic skirting around of ordinary everyday shit.

Or, to put it another way: "Be yourself. The people who mind don't matter and the people who matter won't mind."

Yo, jings! You too

Why not call a spade a shovel ? so much better than skirting round the subject, have you been ? and motions sounds so Victorian. We use poop or poopy to GC and when I was nursing young children, no point asking if they had opened their bowels {smile]

harrigran that reminds me of the time I was accompanying a child in my class at a school medical (those were the days). The doctor asked the 4yr old if he had 'passed water' that morning!!

DGD2 is being potty-trained and is generally very good, especially with the wee - or should I say expelling of urine as I am supposedly a grownup?
However, sometimes the expelling of faeces does not always happen at the right time. We went to the lavatory after lunch out, she did a wee. A bit later on she announced that she had done a poo in her knickers. We went back to the lavatory, luckily it was quite solid but as I carefully took off her knickers she said:
'Oh, yummy yummy yummy, mmm' and licked her lips. Then looked at me and giggled because she knew it was wrong.

Chocolate does have an unfortunate resemblance to excrement. Funny - that hasn't put me of chocolate.

put me OFF

Truffles especially!

Oh this thread is great, I've laughed so much the tears are running down my legs! Working as a nurse in the eighties, I helped care for emotionally disturbed children who would smear their poo, this was while they were in hospital, one said it helped them feel at home, and made the area around them theirs. Our bowels do impact on our lives in a big way, you cannot ignore them, and I certainly do not mean to be smutty or faecetious.

Chocolate does have an unfortunate resemblance to excrement.

Not just chocolate. A friend and I took our children camping one weekend and, obviously, meals were planned around what was quick and easy. We had bought a tin of Campbells Meatballs to have with some packet mash (yuk). My son refused to eat them but was told he had to as there was nothing else. The next day at school, he started to cry and told his teacher I had made him eat poo in the tent! I was actually called into the school by the headmistress as well - she did chuckle though when I explained what it actually was that he had eaten.

Here is Freud's take on poo:

www.makingthemodernworld.org.uk/learning_modules/psychology/02.TU.04/?section=12

absent you are having a go at me again as I started this discussion. I thought that the word poo was the most tactful and as we are almost all of us grandparents we are familiar with the word 'poo'. I would no doubt be criticised if I used the word s..., and Im not going all posh and say 'moved the bowels' because we are talking about kids therefore the word poo is appropriate.
I couldn't see my DD ringing me saying, 'mum, our S....... has just eaten the excrement from when she has moved her bowels'.

Please would you all refer to me as etheltbags not ethelbags. thank you

Rose I have just read the link to freud, its really interesting I will get DD to read it.

Don't take all of Freud's pontificating about sex as gospel, though. He was obsessed by it, and thought everyone else was too.

Beat me to it, Elegran. Freud had some strange ideas about certain behaviours, as did some of his followers.

When I was studying books by Freud, Eysenck et al (recommended reading on a course I was doing years ago), I had to borrow the books from the library as I could not afford to buy them.

One day I got home from work to find that the dog had chewed his way through the three books I had borrowed. I decided then and there that the dog may have had the best idea.

If you are insisting on your full monniker Etheltbags1 then the least you could do is return the compliment e.g. to rosequartz and anybody else. Mind you, few of us stand on ceremony here

I am not "having a go" at you Etheltbags1 now or at any other time. In fact, I hadn't really noticed who was the OP and was commenting on so many women of fifty, sixty or older using the juvenile word poo when talking to other women of fifty, sixty or older. It always strikes me as odd.

What word do you use, absent? I'm seriously interested.