yiskah: Gah, I am USELESS at communication at th

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yiskah) wrote,
@ 2007-12-04 11:13:00

Gah, I am USELESS at communication at the moment. Between having no access to my personal email at work, and Virgin being generally incompetent and sporadically cutting off our home internet, and my habit of putting my phone down in places in my flat where it has no reception or I can't hear it beeping, my life is currently strewn with missed calls and texts and emails that I never get round to replying to. Sorry sorry sorry if you are one of the people who has been trying to contact me of late; I FAIL AT LIFE and will try to do better.

I have so much work that it makes me cry a bit, but I am taking the time to do a wee poll that I have been thinking about for quite some time.

Poll #1100217 The world's divided into two types of person...
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 59

Pukers and shitters. Which one are you?

View Answers

I am a puker!
5 (8.5%)

I am a shitter!
19 (32.2%)

I do not conform to your binary worldview!
35 (59.3%)

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	WAHT? braisedbywolves 2007-12-04 11:22 am UTC (link)
	No, seriously, waht? (Reply to this) (Thread)

	Re: WAHT? yiskah 2007-12-04 11:23 am UTC (link)
	You mean the poll? (Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)(Expand)

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braisedbywolves, 2007-12-04 11:27 am UTC (Expand)

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yiskah, 2007-12-04 11:29 am UTC (Expand)

	ultraruby 2007-12-04 11:25 am UTC (link)
	See, even if I was, I think I actually would balk at ticking 'I am a shitter!' on the internet. Or indeed anywhere. The older I get the more I find I sort of like puking, or like what it does. The kind of high that comes after and the cleansing sort of feel of it. It's like 'well done, human body! Very exciting!' Heh. (Reply to this) (Thread)(Expand)

	yiskah 2007-12-04 11:28 am UTC (link)
	I feel the same way, but I also suspect that that is part of my nature as a puker: we pukers find shitting a lot more embarrassing than shitters do. I feel the same way about the post-puke high! In fact, I feel we may have discussed this as I was in the middle of my pukefest when you came to visit. (Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)(Expand)

	shewho 2007-12-04 11:31 am UTC (link)
	they are both useful and necessary bodily functions at different times. however puking is worse as it means something is wrong, whereas shitting doesn't. or something. i don't like this question. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	yiskah 2007-12-04 11:32 am UTC (link)
	But shitting can mean that there's something wrong! I would hate this question if someone else posted it. As it is, I am amused by people's responses. (Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)(Expand)

	libellum 2007-12-04 11:36 am UTC (link)
	I had never puked in my life until I experimented with ALCOHOL and DRUGS. Now puking has lost all its fear. Although I still do it much much less, and I'm trying to train my body to respond to hangovers and coming up by shitting rather than puking, because it is more convenient. (Reply to this) (Thread)(Expand)

	braisedbywolves 2007-12-04 11:44 am UTC (link)
	I wasn't aware I had a choice! The internet, it teaches so much... I was also thinking "but for shitting, you need a toilet, which is only an optimal option for puking!" but then I realised that I had short hair. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	braisedbywolves 2007-12-04 11:46 am UTC (link)
	No keep going, there are only three euphemisms left! :) (Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)(Expand)

	neil_scott 2007-12-04 11:54 am UTC (link)
	As a wise man once said: There are two types of people in the world: those who think there are two types of people in the world and those that don't. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	yiskah 2007-12-04 11:56 am UTC (link)
	Chuh: I actually did a poll to that effect a few months ago, and thought I was being TERRIBLY original. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	weefifer 2007-12-04 11:58 am UTC (link)
	Despite my response I have been known to experience a bisphincter event when suffering from gastric illness. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	yiskah 2007-12-04 12:00 pm UTC (link)
	Ooh, ack. That is possibly my WORST NIGHTMARE. (Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)(Expand)

	TMI, get yer TMI here! daegaer 2007-12-04 12:10 pm UTC (link)
	Rare though it has been, there have been moments of gastricity in my life when I've had to s(h)it hurriedly on the loo, only to leap up, spin round for a puke, then sit again . . . over and over. It tends to add dizziness to the already delightful symptoms. (Reply to this) (Thread)(Expand)

	Re: TMI, get yer TMI here! daegaer 2007-12-04 12:12 pm UTC (link)
	Having just unwisely clicked on the fecal vomit link, I almost inadvertently became a puker RIGHT NOW. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	dermfitz 2007-12-04 12:25 pm UTC (link)
	I am utterly terrified of puking, because it happens in front of my eyes and inside my nose, normally. When shitting, I can pretend it's happening in another room because I can't see it. Mostly. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	dermfitz 2007-12-04 12:27 pm UTC (link)
	Also: I have been sick once in the last five years. In front of my boss. At work. Into a bin. About two months into my new job. And I've been sick about 5 times since the age of 10. My terror of it is so great I think my body actually listens and sends the badness the other way. (Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)(Expand)

	cigogne 2007-12-04 01:02 pm UTC (link)
	I used to prefer puking to... the other, until I discovered alcohol. Non alcohol related puking is comforting and lovely, and you go to bed feeling all shaky but well. Alcohol-related puking is usually just the start of a day of hell for me (unless I can manage the night before tactical chunder, and only then if I can pull myself together and go dancing later.) (Reply to this) (Thread)

	yiskah 2007-12-04 01:22 pm UTC (link)
	Huh, that is weird, because I am just the opposite: a drunken or hungover puke will make me feel better instantly (aside from the memorable occasion a few weeks ago where I threw up every half hour for about four hours while hungover - horrible), whereas an actually-ill puke comes with no such guarantee. (Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)(Expand)

	Re: Yet more TMI yiskah 2007-12-04 01:24 pm UTC (link)
	Oh, this is fascinating! Although you did not vote in the poll, this comment suggests that you're more of a shitter than a puker, while leedy claims to be a puker; I'd always suspected that such things ran in families, but it is evidently not so! (Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)(Expand)

	yiskah 2007-12-04 03:25 pm UTC (link)
	I am lucky in that I have a fairly iron-clad gag reflex, so smells never make me puke (or perhaps I've never smelled anything bad enough...). (Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)(Expand)

	circumlocute 2007-12-04 03:02 pm UTC (link)
	I don't understand. I do need you to call or email me, however. x (Reply to this) (Thread)

	yiskah 2007-12-04 03:21 pm UTC (link)
	Virgin have inexplicably cut off our home internet access - email me on my work address? jessica at gara dot org dot uk. x (Reply to this) (Parent)

	paste 2007-12-04 03:27 pm UTC (link)
	tragic as it sounds, this is easily the best thing i have read on the internet all day. (Reply to this) (Thread)

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	yiskah 2007-12-04 03:43 pm UTC (link)
	Hahahaha! I am loving the comments; it's always amazing what people are prepared to reveal... (Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)(Expand)

	starfishchick 2007-12-04 03:40 pm UTC (link)
	I hate throwing up. HATE IT. I don't drink to excess anymore because one time it made me puke. NEVER AGAIN IF I CAN HELP IT. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	yiskah 2007-12-04 03:44 pm UTC (link)
	That is a far more sensible reaction than mine, which was hate puking -> puke from drinking -> keep drinking until become inured to puking. D'oh. (Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)(Expand)

	listersgirl 2007-12-04 04:50 pm UTC (link)
	I haven't puked in YEARS, and I'm pretty sure it's always been from illness, not from drinking. But I often feel like I'm about to puke -- I think everything just manifests itself as me feeling decidedly nauseous, even if it's really that I'm about to faint. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	yiskah 2007-12-04 06:28 pm UTC (link)
	Oh, I know what you mean in that often when I feel faint it manifests as nausea. Honestly, I think nausea is one of the worst feelings ever, which is probably partly why I don't mind puking so much - at least it's over with! (Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)(Expand)

	yiskah 2007-12-11 02:35 pm UTC (link)
	Whoa, that is a HORRIBLE side-effect! Booo, Wellbutrin. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	spittingkittens 2007-12-11 12:10 pm UTC (link)
	Hello! I am just about to friend you! This post is also bringing back fond memories of managing to not trade vomiting stories over dinner with you. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	yiskah 2007-12-11 02:36 pm UTC (link)
	Hello! It is you! I couldn't remember your username, other than it was something to do with 'kittens' which doesn't really narrow it down much on LiveJournal. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	striped 2008-01-02 10:01 pm UTC (link)
	Hi! I'm Irma, I'm 25, I practically never puke, I found you through the flist of maid_ov_metal, and I've added your journal to my friends list because you seem interesting. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	yiskah 2008-01-03 11:11 am UTC (link)
	Hello! I will add you back. It is nice to meet you! (Reply to this) (Parent)