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Posted 7/15/2010 12:49 AM (GMT 0)
Sam - I remember that hilarious scene! Wasn't his trouble brought on by ex-lax? lol Not that any of us would do such a thing but it sure made for a funny scene....

One more movie mention, Along Comes Polly, starring Jennifer Aniston and Ben Stiller. They're out to dinner at a restaurant of her choice and he's trying to tolerate the food, with dire results. Turns out he has IBS and is trying to eat indian food. I cringed and laughed at the same time.

You know, we could have a fun topic to see how many funny bathroom related scenes in TV show and movies we've all watched over the years......

Years ago in my first marriage I stopped up the toilet in thehouse I shared with my ex. An old Sears catalog bungalow house, with the tall toilet talk (not up high but much bigger than what we all have now, porcelin handle and the whole bit, boy I'd love to have that toilet today!). Anyway, I should have flushed half way thru a huge bm but didn't. He had to use a plunger, a piece of wire fashioned from an old coat hanger, etc. Afterwards, he gave me a scolding because it was our only toilet. Shades of things to come decades later.....I dunno. But I've stopped up plenty of toilets since then. Sigh........
Posted 7/15/2010 12:49 AM (GMT 0)
Ha, today at work I was in between two people speaking a foreign language the ENTIRE time (at least 5 minutes). It was so awkward. All I wanted to do was pass gas and go #2!
I hate going to the bathroom at work! If there is someone else in there, I usually wait until they leave to poo or do it when they're flushing or something. I never used to poo in public places before UC!
Posted 7/15/2010 2:39 AM (GMT 0)
Haha I remember that seen in Along Came Polly too. Ironically my SIL and brother bought that movie for me to watch while I was in the hospital for my bowel rest.
Yeah speaking in different languages does make me uncomfortable especially when I know that they're talking about my poop!
Posted 7/15/2010 2:05 PM (GMT 0)
I absolutely hated the movie Along Came Polly. It made me really angry that they thought IBD was funny. I was probably flaring. It's not funny.
Posted 7/15/2010 4:48 PM (GMT 0)
Oh come on Peety, no one wants this disease, but if you have it why not make it fun. Honestly, not having the illness, I think I would have to enjoy this a bit too much. That is just the way I am. I'm making lemonade all the time.

I understand the role the women in this world are supposed to present. I think it is a load of B.S. If a beautiful woman ate something her stomach did not agree with, why isn't she allowed to destroy a restroom?

My wife is beautiful, slender, and sexy. She does things to toilets that outweigh anything I ever thought a human could. It doesn't change anything about her otherwise. She is still beautiful, smart, funny, sexy, and all those things when she gets out of the restroom as she was when she went in.

Face it pooping noises are funny. We all laughed at them at some point in our lives. I as well as my wife have some more respect for these situations now than we did a few years ago, however we try to keep our sense of humor high. It helps us both.
Posted 7/15/2010 5:06 PM (GMT 0)
Hi Callalily22,

Flush flush flush , also carry a spray or body spray in your purse. I have learned things thru the years to ease the stress of UC and public bathrooms. If you can go into the larger handicaped stall I feel its further away and your not so enclosed and can handle the situation a little bit better without feeling so enclosed and nervous.
I've had UC since I was 16 I am now 38 and you do start not to care what others think as you get older. Some one in the next stall could also have UC and thats how I look at it.
Best of luck :-)
Posted 7/15/2010 6:21 PM (GMT 0)
I hate it when you're in a restaurant and they only have one toilet per gender. Granted, it's more private that way, but if some one else is in there, and you gotta go...or if someone goes in right after you...

I've never had too much of a problem with public restrooms, but my family did a lot of traveling when I was little. Now that I'm older and a bit of a germaphobe, I hate going in them, but what choice do I have? I just put paper on the seat and take a shower when I get home.
Posted 7/15/2010 7:44 PM (GMT 0)
My restroom tricks:

Potterbarn Kids and potter barn always has tricked out clean restrooms that are private.
So do almost all children stores. I use them instead of the public free for alls.

I use the family restroom whenever I can. It is private - and it is also for those with disabilities (or some people still say handicapped). And I DO HAVE a disability. I make no apologies for using them.

On the road - I always stop at hotels. All hotels have public restrooms near their lobbies or restaurant and they are cleaned many times each day. They are sanitary and well stocked.

Finally - I ALWAYS carry baby wipes - good ones - with me. Cause I just never know. Just saying...
Posted 7/15/2010 8:47 PM (GMT 0)

husbandofill said...
Oh come on Peety, no one wants this disease, but if you have it why not make it fun. Honestly, not having the illness, I think I would have to enjoy this a bit too much. That is just the way I am. I'm making lemonade all the time.

I understand the role the women in this world are supposed to present. I think it is a load of B.S. If a beautiful woman ate something her stomach did not agree with, why isn't she allowed to destroy a restroom?

My wife is beautiful, slender, and sexy. She does things to toilets that outweigh anything I ever thought a human could. It doesn't change anything about her otherwise. She is still beautiful, smart, funny, sexy, and all those things when she gets out of the restroom as she was when she went in.

Face it pooping noises are funny. We all laughed at them at some point in our lives. I as well as my wife have some more respect for these situations now than we did a few years ago, however we try to keep our sense of humor high. It helps us both.

I stand by my view. If your wife was in excrutiating pain when she was making those noises, there would be nothing funny about it. IBD, UC flares also come with pain, they left that part out of that stupid stupid movie.

Posted 7/15/2010 8:52 PM (GMT 0)

entroypgrl said...
My restroom tricks:

Potterbarn Kids and potter barn always has tricked out clean restrooms that are private.
So do almost all children stores. I use them instead of the public free for alls.

I use the family restroom whenever I can. It is private - and it is also for those with disabilities (or some people still say handicapped). And I DO HAVE a disability. I make no apologies for using them.

On the road - I always stop at hotels. All hotels have public restrooms near their lobbies or restaurant and they are cleaned many times each day. They are sanitary and well stocked.

Finally - I ALWAYS carry baby wipes - good ones - with me. Cause I just never know. Just saying...

I knew about hotel lobbies, but not about children stores. Good tip!

I don't like First Watch restaurants. They serve coffee! and breakfast! yet their restrooms (at least the ones around here) have only one stall in them. So women get to come in and stand right outside the stall and wait for you...ugh.

Posted 7/15/2010 9:12 PM (GMT 0)
What kind of idiot comments about someone pooping in a public restroom? Even before I had IBD it would never occur to me to say something like that. I would have felt bad for the person who obviously wasn't feeling very well. That chic is lucky it wasn't me in that stall because I probably would have told her off!

For me the most annoying restroom situation is uni-sex bathrooms. While women pee on the seat occasionally, you can be guaranteed that when you go into a unisex one there will be pee on floor around the bowl. I hate having to roll up my pant legs so I don't get some guy's piss on my pants! >.<
Posted 7/16/2010 12:32 AM (GMT 0)

Peety said...
<strong>husbandofill said...</strong><BR>Oh come on Peety, no one wants this disease, but if you have it why not make it fun. Honestly, not having the illness, I think I would have to enjoy this a bit too much. That is just the way I am. I'm making lemonade all the time. <BR><BR>I understand the role the women in this world are supposed to present. I think it is a load of B.S. If a beautiful woman ate something her stomach did not agree with, why isn't she allowed to destroy a restroom? <BR><BR>My wife is beautiful, slender, and sexy. She does things to toilets that outweigh anything I ever thought a human could. It doesn't change anything about<strong></strong> her otherwise. She is still beautiful, smart, funny, sexy, and all those things when she gets out of the restroom as she was when she went in.<BR><BR>Face it pooping noises are funny. We all laughed at them at some point in our lives. I as well as my wife have some more respect for these situations now than we did a few years ago, however we try to keep our sense of humor high. It helps us both.

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I stand by my view. If your wife was in excrutiating pain when she was making those noises, there would be nothing funny about it. IBD, UC flares also come with pain, they left that part out of that stupid stupid movie.

I apologize. I understand the pains of passing a bowel movement. My stomach is just as sensitive as some here, as well as having went through e-coli poisoning a few years back.

I was simply trying to spin a new look on the ultimate decision that having UC and using a toilet correlate to embarrassment.

As a guy, I feel that our bathrooms are a lot more to the point. It is understood that we are there to pee or poo. Thats it.

On the contrary, a womens bathroom is a place of sanctuary. You can relax there, couches in some, do make up, fix hair, and other things I know nothing of. So wheres the area to pee and poo?

Just a topic raiser please don't kill me.
Posted 7/16/2010 12:37 AM (GMT 0)
Well I for one find bathroom humor relevant and not offensive. However I have arrived at this opinion 11 years after the fact. For the first few years I probably wouldn't have laughed much because I was so sensitive about my situation - pooping like a newborn baby, darn it!

But now I'm okay with the jokes and actually find these silly scenes in movies fun to watch.

I can see how they'd be offensive to some of us though. It does hit a little too close to home. And those making fun of us probably do not have bowel issues - at all.
Posted 7/16/2010 2:49 AM (GMT 0)
I had just put some but wipes in my purse the day before and I was like ahhhh I have butt wipes!!
I love shopping in places with fancy bathrooms!! I'm afraid to go into pottery barn for their policy...you break, you buy. I'd definitely break and have to buy! :)
Posted 7/16/2010 3:11 AM (GMT 0)
I hated the bathrooms at my last internship. The staff ones on my floor were right outside the judge's office and were in no way soundproof. Ugh. I would usually try to just go to the public bathrooms out in the hall, but urgency was such an issue that I often didn't have time to go that far
Posted 7/16/2010 5:20 AM (GMT 0)
I'm not afraid of my smell but of my sounds. I rarely stink anything up, but I am one noisy pooper. I'm so shy of pooping in public bathrooms. I'd never make a comment out loud but before UC I might share a look with mom or even now I might make a face if I'm alone. Even though I'm more understanding lol So I'm like, I KNOW these people will think I'm gross, 'cause I'm kinda the same way.

I hate packs of girls and when people wait right outside the door too!

Oh and like, automatic flushers. Sometimes we have to do extra wiping and it starts flushing before I'm done so I always go, "God!" and throw my toilet paper in angrily lol. Happened today in fact =p
Posted 7/16/2010 5:22 AM (GMT 0)

Peety said...
I absolutely hated the movie Along Came Polly. It made me really angry that they thought IBD was funny. I was probably flaring. It's not funny.

 I just don't like Jennifer Aniston lol
Posted 7/16/2010 6:03 AM (GMT 0)
I was shopping yesterday and had to make a quick dash to the restroom. As I was sitting there making sure it was ok to flush and leave the stall a lady entered the stall next to me. I still sat for a minute just to make sure I was good to go. She was also sitting and I felt like she was waiting for me to leave. I wanted to say "It's ok, I understand, just do whatever it is you have to do" Instead I hurried, washed my hands & let her be alone in there.....well, until the next person walked in. :)
Posted 7/16/2010 4:11 PM (GMT 0)
Emmadog I hate that too! When you go into a bathroom and there are at least 8 stalls and they are all open so you go into one and someone comes in and has to pick the stall right next to you! Geez, no one knows bathroom etiquette.
Posted 7/16/2010 6:45 PM (GMT 0)
It's like being in a parking lot...I park far away, and when I come out, someone is always snuggied right next to me. WTH??


It's the herding instinct methinks...LOL.q
Posted 7/16/2010 6:59 PM (GMT 0)
I am very uncomfortable pooping in public restrooms. I think I have only done it a handful of times in my life. My husband on the otherhand, who does not have IBD, goes #2 anywhere, anytime. He has no problems with it.
Posted 7/18/2010 3:29 AM (GMT 0)
RE urgent need to use public restroom: one weekend while browsing in womens' clothing shop at a very busy mall, I noticed a French-speaking family pass by. The wife obviously wanted to try on some outfits-- so the husband took charge of their little girl (about 2 1/2) plus infant son in stroller. Suddenly, the little girl shouted in the most anxious tone: "Papa, pipi! Maman, pipi!" My heart absolutely went out to her. At that young age she realized that a toilet was nowhere in sight & feared she couldn't hold in the peepee long enough to find one! / Old Hat (30 yrs with left-sided UC; presently in remission taking brandname Colazal)
Posted 7/18/2010 6:10 AM (GMT 0)
Aww poor little girl!
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