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  • #3523111
    Kattt
    BPL Member

    @kattt

    I am impressed at how deeply Adam went into this.

    #3523135
    DAN-Y/FANCEE FEEST
    Spectator

    @zelph2

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    #3523144
    MJ H
    BPL Member

    @mjh

    That seems too expensive for wiping. For that kind of money, you’d better use it for maps.

    #3523147
    BlackHatGuy
    Spectator

    @sleeping

    Locale: The Cascades

    “I recommend “Dissolving Paper”:”

    Talk about shitty handwriting….

    #3523442
    Dean F.
    BPL Member

    @acrosome

    Locale: Back in the Front Range

    Yeah, on two NZ backpacking trips that were infested with vegetarians, there was nothing but veggies, lentils, beans, rice, etc. I was pooping like a rabbit or moose in winter in nice clean little pellets, not like a omnivore or carnivore. Took like one sheet of TP instead of 12 folded bunches.

    That’s… really not healthy, Dave.  “Clean little pellets” sounds like the opposite of a high-fiber diet.

    Pooping rabbit turds will give you piles, Brother.  Did you mean that it was a nice type 4 or something?

    #3523459
    David Thomas
    BPL Member

    @davidinkenai

    Locale: North Woods. Far North.

    More of a Type 3.  I was definitely getting plenty of fiber and things were definitely moving through just fine.  It all came out cleanly with little need to wipe afterwards.

    More of a visual joke, but: Bear and Rabbit are chatting in the woods.  Bear asks, “Don’t you hate how the poop sticks to your fur?”  Rabbit responds, “The poop doesn’t stick to my fur.”  Visual: Bear arches an eyebrow, grabs Rabbit, and repeatedly wipes his own backside.

    #3523460
    Pedestrian
    BPL Member

    @pedestrian

    ^^
    That takes the prize!

    :)

    #3525113
    MJ H
    BPL Member

    @mjh

    This article reminded me of the squatting pictures above in this thread. Briefly, it notes that people in China can squat down with their heels flat on the ground and hold the position so easily that it is relaxing. And, try as I might, I could not squat with my heels flat on the ground. Since I’m balanced on the balls of my feet, it’s never going to be a comfortable position. My son (11) could get his heels flat.

    #3525153
    BlackHatGuy
    Spectator

    @sleeping

    Locale: The Cascades

    I wanted to give Gary another data point for his experiment, because I’m a helpful guy. I don’t use TP, so I buried my hand in my back yard and then checked on it five hours later. It hadn’t started to decompose at all, but I did get a pretty nasty sunburn.

    Hope that helps Gary!

    #3525188
    Roger Caffin
    BPL Member

    @rcaffin

    Locale: Wollemi & Kosciusko NPs, Europe

    If your hand is buried, how does it get sunburnt?

    Cheers

    #3525209
    BlackHatGuy
    Spectator

    @sleeping

    Locale: The Cascades

    Sorry Roger, I can’t say any more about my experiment as I’m trying to get the results published in an academic journal. At least I think Fetishes & Fantasies is an academic journal.

    #3525216
    Roger Caffin
    BPL Member

    @rcaffin

    Locale: Wollemi & Kosciusko NPs, Europe

    Not Warlock’s Swords and Sorcery? Shame!

    Cheers

    #3525234
    Brad W
    Spectator

    @blw2

    This article reminded me of the squatting pictures above in this thread. Briefly, it notes that people in China can squat down with their heels flat on the ground and hold the position so easily that it is relaxing. And, try as I might, I could not squat with my heels flat on the ground. Since I’m balanced on the balls of my feet, it’s never going to be a comfortable position. My son (11) could get his heels flat.”

     

    My grandfather was definitely not Chinese but he squatted like that all the time.  It was his resting position, smoking a cigarette or just visiting on the front porch when there wasn’t enough chairs.  He was a poor farmer from the mountains of KY.

    It’s certainly flexibility from long years of practice….but there’s something more I think.  Something circulatory that adapts to allow that sort of thing…. when I try it i feel like the circulation in my legs is pinched off.

    #3525242
    BlackHatGuy
    Spectator

    @sleeping

    Locale: The Cascades

    I think if you do full squats that way, all the way down into that position before coming back up (no weights) you’ll get yourself, and your legs, used to it. Do 10 every morning to start, when that’s easy do 15, etc.

    #3525336
    MJ H
    BPL Member

    @mjh

    Maybe. I’ve been practicing lately and I seem to be getting better, but I’m not sure if my ankle is getting more flexible or if I’m just improving my balance so that I can lean back more (without needing to hold on to something). Also, if I get so that I’m not worried about falling over into my own feces, it might not feel like camping anymore.

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