A really sh*t question

nickcuk
nickcuk Posts: 275
edited August 2009 in The bottom bracket
I wonder why you can change your own kids nappies and scoop up your own dogs mess on walks, but if you catch a whiff of somebody else's, you retch ?

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  • zedders
    zedders Posts: 509
    That's such a crap question.
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  • White Line
    White Line Posts: 887
    You like it really. You've just been brought up to act as if you don't.
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  • pedylan
    pedylan Posts: 768
    Something to do with revulsion being a good Darwinian survival mechanism, The things that revolt us eg putrefaction, faeces etc are generally full of potentially lethal micro organisms. The individuals who weren't revulsed might go playing in it and so die and leave no ancestors. The revolted took over the earth.

    Then along come nappies and pets. So you just have to get over it to ensure your own offspring aren't caked in their own sh*t and hence pathogens. You just pick your dog's sh*t up because you're confusing it with an offspring and according it the same privileges.

    Although, as you started this thread you might be subject to an unhealthy fascination not explicable by the usual evolutionary theory or hereditary bonding. :wink:
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  • finchy
    finchy Posts: 6,686
    My little nephew, when he was only 1, took a dump in his nappy, then reached in, pulled it out and smeared it all over the doors and walls of the front room. And luckily I wasn't on hand to clean it up. 8)
  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,667
    It's odd how we gleefully wallow in our own foul trump-guffs yet other people's are hideous.
  • Special K
    Special K Posts: 449
    It's like that saying about children being like farts: you can just about stand your own, but other people's are awful.
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    Where the rain gets in.
    But they're ever so small
    That's why rain is thin. " Spike Milligan
  • finchy
    finchy Posts: 6,686
    Speaking of farts, why is it that women find it so offensive when we men take a good sniff when we've done one? Have they got nothing more important to get wound up about?

    Bless 'em.

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