We’ve all made our fair share of late-night trips to the toilet. It’s dark, you’re half asleep and your aim isn’t exactly up to par—not the best odds for maintaining a spotless bathroom floor. Which brings us to the important question of night-peeing strategy: Do you pee...
The gasses released when you fart are like apples: All it takes is a single bad one to spoil the whole bunch. Most of the gas that comes tooting out of your hind end, including carbon dioxide and methane, is odorless. But when even just a little...
Sulfuric compounds are like the Adam Sandler of bad smells—the source of so many offensive releases. Rotten eggs. Room-clearing farts. And, you guessed it, the smell of asparagus in pee. We’ve discussed the implications of the color of your urine, but its aroma also provides clues to...
There are some gifts that can only be given from yourself, to yourself—like self-confidence, self-acceptance and self-love. And while you might not consider self-flatulence a gift, the truth is that if you’re going to be asphyxiated with a stinky fart, it’d better be your own stinky fart....
When you gotta go, you gotta go. And if you’re a professional athlete in the midst of competition, you have two choices: Let it out right then and there, or sprint for the nearest restroom. This past weekend, Rugby World Cup referee, Craig Joubert, opted for the...
Come on, admit it—you’ve done it. Peeing in the pool is practically a summer ritual, like catching fireflies, strolling on the boardwalk or lying about having sex at camp. While only 17 percent of swimmers come clean about it, a whopping 85 percent of people assume it’s the other...
Sometimes the smell from your trip to the toilet is so terrible that it could be used as a weapon of mass destruction. Unfortunately, other than changing your diet—e.g., decreasing the amount of meat in your diet—there’s not much you can do about the odor of your...
This just in: The bathroom, where from time to time you evacuate your bowels, is probably not the best place to keep your toothbrush. Well, at least not within close proximity to the porcelain throne. Or so says the science. University of Leeds microbiology professor Mark Wilcox...
A bear does it in the woods, campers do it in a groover and cats prefer to do it in the dirt. While you don’t have as many acceptable options concerning the location of your bowel movements, when it comes to the frequency of your poops, there’s...
