Are you are morning or an evening person (read on!!)

Pittcity same here

I think that if anyone had been so ill mannered as to ask such a question at a dinner table where I was sitting, I would change the subject immediately. If he/she persisted, I would then provide him/her with a detailed but quietly spoken account of the effects of a hemicolectomy until I had successfully put him/her off the next course.

I can think of no circumstances other than an appointment with a Gastro doctor or nurse, where I would want to share this information and even fewer when I would thank anybody for sharing with me.

I think it could be a really interesting conversation. A morning, shortly after breakfast, habit is a memory from the dim and distant past. These days it's more likely to be any old time which isn't anything like as convenient. An ageing thing I suppose. Yet another one. sigh.

What is so awful in discussing bowel habits?

Me too jingle. Any time of the day, whenever the need arises, and wherever the nearest loo is. I'm not a fussy woman.

I think this sort of discussion should only ever occur after drinking too much. I suppose how much it might depoend on how well you know eveyone.

Noooooo - this is so wrong . I would have to be almost paralytic to find this a suitable conversation topic for the dinner table.

AshTree I could cope with it only when I had passed out under the table! This is not a subject to discuss when you are eating a meal and probably not one for general conversation under any circumstances. I DO NOT WANT TO KNOW!

I wouldn't want to talk about it over dinner.

But then I get tense when people start going into their operations when I'm eating as well. Sooner or later they mention blood.