I HATE hearing other people shit. I find it to be one of the most repulsive parts of public shitting. I guess it's because I tend to poop pretty silently.

So if I hear another shitter, I'll usually vacate the premises. But I guess that's not shame at work... it's revulsion.

I'm working part-time for my friend's home-based company. The office is just off their kitchen where my friend and his wife are usually entertaining some other friends. The bathroom is just off the kitchen, and it has rice paper walls.

The other night I sauntered through the kitchen to the bathroom and shut the door and proceeded to take a long, loud piss. I could hear the others in the kitchen stop talking and then cough, rustle papers around, then start talking again. It was so funny. All I could think was "I wish I had a loud wet fart!!"

I'm shameful in that respect -- to me, it's just embarrassing for both parties (though more embarrassing for the shitter, naturally.) So if I'm a "listener" I usually try to get the hell out of the bathroom before they emerge from their stall. I sort of giggle to myself on the way out, though, happy I'm not in their shoes (girls don't usually take a public shit unless it's some bad diarrhea.)

I think its funny just so long as you're done pissing or done with whatever you're doing while the other person is shitting. Once the that person steps out of that stall, they claim instantaneous shamelessness, and some just can't cope with that.

I hate hearing guys shit!

I DEFINATELY avoid the simultaneous hand washing experience as much as possible.

HOW BOUT THEM BEARS",,,is more than i can take. I guess it's better than "Than last squirt sounded like bad news""

This is an interesting topic. My take on it is as follows: If you're a shameless shitter and someone you know who is dumping (like in the situation Doniker describes) is also shameless, there should be no problem at all in hearing the latter take an average to noisy dump. On the other hand, if either of the two parties is shameful about shitting, then one or both will be embarrassed. I always feel amused if I'm taking a leak or washing my hands in a public restroom and a dude comes out of a stall after a noisy dump looking as if he has committed a capital crime. On the other hand, I admire those guys who emerge from the stall with a satisfied grin and give you a hearty "Howdy!" Good commentary Doniker!

I hate it when someone tries to strike up a conversation with me while he is on the toilet. I get shy.

For me there is no more cosmic experience than pooping outside - especially under a big tree, near a big rock and overlooking a river. For some reason, a poop perch with a view just can't be beat. Recently, however, while performing this very personal p-act, I discovered I was not as alone in my nautural splendor as I thought. I was so careful about picking my place to poop - again, mostly concerned about the view - when out of nowhere a gaggle of girl scouts happened upon my pooping place. Well, with my pant far away from the pooping area, they not only listened but watched as well as I frantically tried to pre-empt my pooping process. I guess I can be thankful I caused as little commotion as I did - I would hate to think how irreversablly shameful it all would have been if those little girls had been from a Catholic summer camp. No one needs that kind of shame in there life.

But would Doniker have still been embarrassed if he did not know about Al's colon operation? Is the reason for embarresment the fact that the dump sounded so painful that Doniker associated this with Al's cancer op. So rather than acknowledge this, Doniker wanted to save the man his dignity by high tailing it out of there so Al believed he'd unloaded in private?

Or does Doniker just not like hearing people answering that call of nature? Interesting questions indeed.

Bottom line...they should outlaw restrooms that have the capability to allow more than one person at a time to shit and/or piss.

Every public restroom should have one toilet and one sink, behind a locking door. This way, if you emerge from the restroom and someone is waiting, nobody knows what you did in there....unless of course it stinks like hell.

I think this site is cool. I never realized that people had so many hangups about shit.I'm usually pretty shameless unless it is really raunchy in a public place. But anyone who says "I hate to hear guys shit" really needs to get a grip. I've always had more respect for a guy who lets one rip than one who has to flush 5 times.

I'm a guy who likes to be heard on the toilet having a good loud shit, therefore I like to hear other guys equally uninhibited as they sit there dropping their turds. I'm proud to sit there dominating the toilet dropping my plops into it; it means I'm using it, my body's working properly, I'm not wimpish about it, and the other guys can feel cool about the sounds they make too. Public shitting? Be proud of yourselves, JUST DO IT! PLOP!

I have to admit it: it absolutely makes my day when I go into the bathroom at work and someone else is in there grinding and grunting away. I love it! Women try so hard to be discreet, subdued, even silent. It's hilarious when they are forced to show their true colors.

At my office, there are only 2 stalls in the ladies room, and it's perfectly clear who's in the stall from their shoes or even from the color of their feet. It's also perfectly clear whose shit stinks, who plugs the bowl with turds, tampons and too much tissue. I find myself much more repulsed watching women staring into the mirror plucking their eyebrows, reapplying their lipstick or flossing their teeth than taking a noisy crap at work.

i am a shameless shitter, hoping i;ll change some day

does anyone have good advice to be less shy while having to shit. i'm more embarassed that i might let out a fart sound, than the smell. i am not ofended by others though. am i love coming home, relaxed to take a nice shit, reading a magazine in privacy, secretly hoping someome might spy on me without me knowing it. of course, it neverhappens. i know taking a shit is natural, but the embarassed part exists. help me someone outthere. when you take a shit, you know you never know when a far might slip out.

e.t. phone home!

to poopoo pal. i;ll glady call you when this girl has to sit down and take a massive dump. maybe you'll want to listen to the cracking and farting sounds too?

I understand doniker, you and I are similar beasts.
I watched a dog slurp up a pile of turds like spagetti today, dry heaving ensued.

I am a shameful shitter but I'm currently working on overcoming my shyness. The sound of another guy shitting his brains out is the sound of freedom. It lets you know that guy has the guts (and bowels) to express what he had for dinner last night.

I we are to be free from our shitting constraints, doesnt that mean that even if you have to listen to another person take a shit, you still salute them for heaving one in Public?

I have no problem hearing someone else piss and/or shit. The only thing that bothers me is the smell afterward.

Growing up, My buddies and I shared a house with a "Jack and Jill" bathroom. We would make the announcement/question by saying, "S.S.W.T.S. anyone?" This stood for "Shooting the Shit While Taking a Shit". We would go in to the adjoined bathrooms together and, well, shoot the shit....while taking a shit. It's alot less lonely and ever since, I've never had a problem with mine or anyone elses shit. I'm a father now, and I try to encourage shamelessness about pooping with my boys. It just makes life easier.

A very REGULAR guy. Like you I am bringing up my boys to be shameless about pooping.

But with two provisos:

1) I personally want them to look upon this as an activity with other males. (They have seen their mother and their sister using the toilet, and our little girl has seen me, and them - all as part of their overall education.) All three of us males use one bathroom, and my wife and daughter use another.

2 I want them to be a bit reticent with other people, without being shameful and embarrassed. Part of the training has been (a) to sit on the toilet in somebody else's house, eg grandparents and other relatives and friends. Usually that has been when the two of them have been staying their together and the younger one has more confidence when the older one is with him.

2 They have also learned to do it without anybody else being in the bathroom. My younger boy did this on his own recently at his grandparents, and was very proud of himself.

3. They also have to learn to use public toilets. My older boy and his pal recently graduated into sitting on the toilet at school. Shortly they are going away on a field trip, and will have to do things like that while there.

The 2. and 3. shouldn't be there in my last two paragraphs

Mr. Sitting Wiper,
I commend you for taking "potty training" to the next level. That's just goooood parenting.

Thankyou, Craptain Pooping for your compliment. My training has recently shown results. Part of it has been to train my older boy to train the younger boy. If I've gone to work early, before they are up, he takes him into the shower with him, and before school supervises his teeth-cleaning and tucks his shirt in for him and helps him to look respectable after he's finished sitting with his trousers down. I'm dead proud of both of them.

i love it when i hear and smell the wet bodily gases releasing from another being. It expresses their individual style. For some the wet ones show that they are lactose intolerant. While the loud dry ones show to be a regular kinda shitter. 4 me im both on certain days. On Baked Beans n ham Tuesday i express my wet side. While Sausage Sunday i show my dry side. Be not ashamed my friends, 4 we all do it and it is Natural.People need to learn how to shit with pride and pleasure. So next time your in the public listening to the guy next door, just say "What a relief. ehh..?" and chances are the guy will say "hell yeah dude" and then u will talk to him when u r done and become friends and go out for a drink. Long live the shameless!!

To be honest, I really think that shitting shouldn't be "shameful" or associated with that word at all. It's natural(like many have mentioned), organic, and healthy. I do agree with Mrs Shameless Shitter about girls and their makeup and whatnot. It makes me wonder why some people prefer to believe in boob jobs, skin stretching and other cosmetic surgery than poo. Come on, JUST POO AND GET OVER IT.

The great thing about shitting in a public toilet is listening to the noises made by the guys in the adjacent stalls and replying with your own collection of farts and grunts and plops. That's why shopping malls where they play canned music in the toilets really get me enraged.

I am a shameless shitter, and will admit that I love to hear others shit with pride and gusto! Power to the Poopers!! Yeah, I am new to the site, but you're not going to hold that against me, are you? I love this site!! I have to get up really early, but I stumbled onto this and can't break off...

I know now that I am a shameful shitter but I dont want to be, I want to be able to shit with pride like any shameless shitter, maybe some day

i am a shamles shitter. at my work there is a unisex toilet blok wich has no stalls just 7 small chemical tolets lined up in this one shed with no walls or nothing in between them. u can just see the other person taking a dump. not many people like to use the toilets because of this.

Have some company...as they say shitting is a zen moment, so pissing, or shitting with someone in the next stall making tons of noise is not a conducive environment for leaving a load of shit.

I hate taking a piss in a long horse like water bin, because everyone knows who is male that all of the others males in the same area taking the piss too are trying check out the lizard that everyone else has. But no man will admit it. Its like men don't know not to look. Where's the freakin privacy at the urinal. Those dam small walls of separation don't cut....

There should be specialist out there for designing better restrooms.

Time was I used to be a shameless listener. Things have changed in large part to my girlfriend. She laughed so hard one day after hearing me take a loud, hurricane style shit. Since then things have been less ackward and sometimes we have compititions to try and make the loudest shits.

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Number One . . . I order you to take a number two.

I don't mind hearing someone next door to me doing their business, just as long as the ass gas isn't too intense.
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It's not nice to fool mother nature.