I’m not kidding, I’ve seen it!
This is at Jorvik Viking Center.
Submitted 7 months ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz
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fossilesque@mander.xyz 7 months ago
CorrodedCranium@leminal.space 7 months ago
I feel like I’ve taken bigger poops than that.
I need a shirt like that but it says “Women want me plumbers fear me” and a toilet instead of a fish.
ThePyroPython@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I touched it during a primary school trip there.
CorrodedCranium@leminal.space 7 months ago
That can’t be the record for the largest poop
DharmaCurious@startrek.website 7 months ago
I imagine it was probably larger before it was… Dried out.
Also, 8 inches by 2 inches is pretty fucking large. I say this as someone who has had 8 inches back there.
PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee 7 months ago
So like do you use ruler markings to measure that or do you just measure after taking it to the hilt?
Rolando@lemmy.world 7 months ago
New Olympic sport: Coprolite Extrusion.
JoMomma@lemm.ee 7 months ago
I’ve shat bigger than that, and i didn’t go saving it for posteriorarity
FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I’m trying to figure out if you regret this or are proud of it.
JoMomma@lemm.ee 7 months ago
Yes
CptEnder@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Yeah that one pic with the nurse carrying the bed pan was like 4x this size
Zozano@lemy.lol 7 months ago
Fun story for y’all.
I used to drink a lot of milk. I was a constipated teen. I took a shit one day, and to say it was anything short of awe aspiring wouldn’t do it justice. This thing was one solid thick rod sticking out of the water.
I called my stepdad to check it out. Naturally, he was so surprised he had to tell Mum to come over. A few minutes later we’ve got a whole family of six in a bathroom admiring my turd.
My stepdad claims to have uploaded it to ratemypoo.com, but there is no way I’m going to sift though that nightmare of a site to find it.
This day I learned our family was not normal.
Hadriscus@lemm.ee 7 months ago
This is why we have the “poop chainsaw”, son
acetanilide@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Why did i click that lmao
MamboGator@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I wonder if the reason it was so well preserved is the viking was proud and wanted to show it off.
thefartographer@lemm.ee 7 months ago
Elaaaaaiiiinnne! You have to come see the poopay!!!
ItsAFake@lemmus.org 7 months ago
I wonder how many courics that is.
SayJess@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 months ago
Hey Sharon!
pH3ra@lemmy.ml 7 months ago
Literal shitposting
z00s@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Did a shit
A bank grew out of it
Sounds about right
squeezeyerbawdy@lemmy.world 7 months ago
But was it as big as Klee Irwin’s description on his infamous TV infomercial for dual cleanse? I ask you…. I watched this infomercial in absolute awe and confusion once back in 2005/2006 eating lunch at home sick. I had to look this up again seeing this post.
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“I’ll never forget the first time I saw my four-year-old daughter’s bowel movement in the toilet. It literally scared me. She wasn’t more than 45 pounds, but her bowel movement was about as thick as my wrist and about as long as her arm. And I thought, ‘Oh my God.’ I got scared. I was going to call my wife. I thought, ‘How could something that big come of something—a little child—that small. And I thought, I’m six feet tall and I weigh 190 pounds and by proportion to my size compared to hers my bowel movements were very inadequate to say the least.”
ExfilBravo@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I will now refer to Trump as Coprolite. Because hes a fossilized piece of shit.
Hadriscus@lemm.ee 7 months ago
Frankly I haven’t heard something so awesomely fitting in a long time
ChallengeApathy@infosec.pub 7 months ago
How incredibly mature 🙄
chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 months ago
I need more context regarding the poop viking’s illness
fossilesque@mander.xyz 7 months ago
minds.wisconsin.edu/handle/1793/64732
p. 39, parasitic infections. I actually have that report they reference (print book). I’ll have to dig it out tomorrow.
GreyEyedGhost@lemmy.ca 7 months ago
Probably what that viking said the night before.
fossilesque@mander.xyz 7 months ago
Zoift@hexbear.net 7 months ago
“Analysis of the stool has indicated that its producer subsisted largely on meat and bread, despite evidence suggesting that other people at the same place and time had access to fruits, leeks, shellfish, and nuts. The presence of several hundred parasitic eggs suggests the person was riddled with intestinal worms.”
Amazing
Satanic_Mills@hexbear.net 7 months ago
Even in the Viking Age we had RETVRN guys.
They didn’t eat fucking berries in the sagas! Hang on, I gotta go post on the noticeboards to ask about how to deal with these fucking tapeworms.
PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee 7 months ago
Most flavorful native English cuisine
sweaterpuppys@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Damn that shit is expensive!
shamrock@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I don’t know who would pay thousands of dollars for an old shit, but I’m quite certain they ain’t my kind of people
Sanctus@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Don’t forget the parasite infestation!
Asidonhopo@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Is 1200 years long enough it would be sterile? Like, no original bacteria or parasites?
fossilesque@mander.xyz 7 months ago
Peat is anoxic. It’s great for preservation and you get tonnes of stuff that doesn’t preserve elsewhere. Google “Must Farm, UK”
Enkrod@feddit.de 7 months ago
Well the human gut is anoxic too, so that shouldn’t be a problem for the gut-bacteria in that log and in the bog mummies. I think it way more likely that the sphagnan and the other tannins in peat-bog-water conserved this as well as the bog bodies.
weariedfae@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Bog bodies are dope as hell.
fossilesque@mander.xyz 7 months ago
From …org.uk/…/environmental-archaeology-2nd/ (free pdf)
galoisghost@aussie.zone 7 months ago
Someone had fun on the Wikipedia article
The layers that covered the coprolite were moist and peaty.
iamnotdave@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I know soldiers who have had larger shits after field training. Source I worked at a rec center that would be their first stop as they prep to go home. And I would check the bathroom and see that it was left when they could not flush it.
ben_dover@lemmy.world 7 months ago
how many keurigs?
RagnvaldG@lemmy.world 7 months ago
About 1/75th of Bono.
dditty@lemm.ee 7 months ago
I believe it is Courics named after Katie Couric
MonkderZweite@feddit.ch 7 months ago
Why does an archeological artifact have monetary value?
fossilesque@mander.xyz 7 months ago
This site is very famous.
Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I think I just found my new label for describing our ruling class.
We live in a coprocracy, run by coprolites.
fossilesque@mander.xyz 7 months ago
Listen, at least coprolites are really useful for science.
Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Oh there’s plenty of good science I can think of!
How many coprolites can be cut in two by a single motion of a guillotine blade?
Does a coprolite puree make a viable fertilizer?
How do coprolites hold up against extremes in temperature, pressure, or acceleration?
AFaithfulNihilist@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I guess coprocracy is just the fossilized remnants of kakistocracy.