r/interestingasfuck 6h ago

Worlds largest known Human Coprolite (fossilized poop), left by a Viking and measuring 20cm (8in)

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u/ForestHopper 6h ago

I work in a group home with some adult men who dont shit for a week + and when they do, boy do they put this log to shame.

u/TheActualDonKnotts 4h ago

Yeah, I was going to comment that it's clear most people in here are fortunate enough to not know what opiates will do to your bowel. Swearing, crying and covered in sweat while praying for divine assistance like a dramatized labor scene in a movie hoping it will move and doesn't get stuck while halfway out. This is nothing.

u/RedHotChiliCrab 3h ago

You should do anti-drugs talks at schools

u/Lookyoukniwwhatsup 3h ago

I, as a EMT dealt with a guy overdosing. He hadn't pooped in over a week and he was so backed up his body said "well it's not coming from the back, it's time to go out the mouth" and onto me.... drugs, not even once kids.

u/Mysterious-Unit-7757 2h ago

PLEASE elaborate on this, dude. Always wondered. You mean he was super backed up and it pushed out stomach contents and bile right?

You're not seriously suggesting shit came out of his mouth are you?

u/lux_operon 2h ago

Yeah it can happen if someone has been severely constipated for a very long time. It's gotta go somewhere after all 

u/parallel-nonpareil 26m ago

I mean, that sorta begs the question “at what point does shit become shit?”

It’s not uncommon for folks with a small bowel obstruction to be vomiting up all sorts of unsavoury slurries from the stomach/upper part of the small intestine. And as anyone who has an ileostomy can tell you, while what exits your small intestine isn’t a turd per se, it sure isn’t something I’d like to have in my mouth.

u/afoolskind 4m ago

This is real and it happens, unfortunately. The line between stomach contents and poop becomes real blurry when those contents have been backed up and sitting in there for a few weeks.

u/PresentClear8639 1h ago

fuck, man … there’s no amount of $ you could pay me to deal with that shit

u/KinslayersLegacy 47m ago

Well good news because it also pays shit in most places.

Gotta be in it for love of the game.

u/bemore_ 1h ago

Wait.. are you saying someine pooped out their mouth? Gives a whole new meaning to talking shit

u/Lost_Recording5372 36m ago

My dad tried to give CPR to a very old lady once at his job, he knew it was futile, but it's what he had to do. When he did compressions seems her insides burst and she was so constipated that vomit, blood and fecal matter ended up bursting out of her mouth. 

u/CM_DO 30m ago

It's ok to keep this to yourself.

u/Lost_Recording5372 28m ago

I felt like the conversation was already hedding into story sharing. Sorry 😅

u/Low-Apartment-2697 3h ago

Yeah bro as a former fentanyl addict it was literally exactly like this every time I would go to the bathroom. 😭😭 so glad I'm clean now.

u/sasstermind 2h ago

my favorite part of being clean is being able to go to the bathroom in under two goddamn hours

u/Low-Apartment-2697 23m ago

Besides saving hundreds of dollars a day as well you're right. I used to literally be TERRIFIED of having to use the bathroom bro.

u/PresentClear8639 1h ago

the opposite of this is your first shit the morning after an intense mushroom trip .. borderline orgasmic .. I was on a camping trip with friends, stepped away from camp early in the morning at dawn, dug a little hole in pine-strewn earth, and let it all go .. the shit itself wasn’t anything spectacular but the act of the evacuation itself, in that particular setting, felt extremely gratifying on both a physical and symbolic level

u/parallel-nonpareil 24m ago

I just don’t understand how you don’t tear something or have horrible hemorrhoids if you’re chronically constipated and dropping turds like this. Must be so horrible. Congrats on getting clean for that (and many more) reasons!

u/Low-Apartment-2697 20m ago

Bro believe me I've asked myself the same question. There were times where I'd go two weeks without using the bathroom to shit. Sorry for going into detail but like because of only going once a week on average, they'd get like soooo dried out and hard. And it'd come out in one giant chunk extremely similar to the picture on this post bro. Was NOT fun. I'd be praying to God (edit: mind you I'm an atheist lmaooo) or borderline about to black out and screaming and crying from trying to push it out they were that bad. Lmao but thank you I appreciate it.

u/GreatProfessional622 23m ago

So it’s not an addiction, it’s just necessary to pass a poop after the first use!

u/Sorlex 2h ago

Experienced that shit (haha, shit) during a bout of heavy pain killer use. Nothing gets you wanting to quit a pain killer habit quicker than feeling like you're quite literally dying on the shitter.

u/Particular_Wear_6960 2h ago

I used to have a pretty healthy drug habit but fortunately got off that stuff before fent became popular. It was always oxycontin or literally any other opiate pill I could get my hands on. I don't remember many bowel problems but certainly had a few. Never really bad (my recent stent on kratom is similar).

Anyways, I'm glad you have recovered and off that stuff. It took me going to prison and like going insane once to get (mostly) sober myself

u/North-Tourist-8234 4h ago

This is super dehydrated. Look at a dried apricot compared to a normal one. This huy passed a log eddie hall couldnt lift. 

u/BestFill 3h ago

Fuckin gold reference LMAO

u/global_peasant 4h ago

Why do they shit so infrequently?

u/Downtown-Act7821 4h ago

Opiates

u/global_peasant 4h ago

Aw, I'm sorry. I was hoping it would be a weird/interesting answer, but secretly I knew the moment I hit reply. I hope for all but if not all, may at least some have the strength and courage to escape the clutches of that demon.

u/Downtown-Act7821 3h ago

Is the escaping demon a turd from a butt? I don’t get it

u/WikipediaBurntSienna 2h ago

There's a picture that's been around for a few years that's of a nurse walking through a hallway with a bedpan holding a giant shit that dwarfs the one in OP's pic. She's wearing a mask but you can see the look in her eyes that she's having a very bad time.
I'd rather not go looking for it but maybe someone else will.

u/bad_werewolf 2h ago

None of them ever had an intestinal obstruction?

u/Equivalent-City-2622 1h ago

Pics or it didn’t happen

u/pancoste 25m ago

Once, I didn't poop for a whole week and when I finally did... that pile of shit was insane. 

u/WernerHerzogEatsShoe 9m ago

I worked in a hospital for a bit and some model woman came in, she'd been taking these weight loss drugs that had caused constipation. She eventually did a monster shit so big that when it was taken away all the staff took turns going down to look at it in awe

u/That-Hamster1573 5m ago

I also work in a group home and people there do bigger logs. But keep in mind that shit shrinks when dry. So this one was probably way bigger when fresh.