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I need to survive for 3 days without pooping, and eating as little as possible. I can pee, but not very often. It can't take up too much space. What food do I pack? (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by mizu6079@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
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Please don't ask why I need this.

It would be great if the food also made me sweat less.

It has to be something I can easily find.

EDITS FOR CLARIFICATION:

  • I am not planning on partaking in any illegal activities.

  • I do not condone the use of illegal substances and am not planning on smuggling anything anywhere.

  • I am not going on a hiking trip or mailing myself anywhere.

  • I will be staying in a tent (not a small one; a huge with with air conditioning and everything). I will be traveling for five days, returning to my current location on day 3 and traveling again on the last two days. I will not poop on the first three days (hopefully).

  • Clean toilets with all the expected facilities will be available to me. I am not going to poop for reasons that I wish to keep to myself.

  • If it gets bad, like really bad, like a-piece-of-poop-is-literally-halfway-out-my-ass bad, I will use the toilets.

Please stop asking because I am not telling anyone the reason.

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[–] yarr@lemmy.fmhy.ml 81 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Taking bets:

  • Participating in a competitive event where bathroom breaks are minimal or non-existent, such as a long-distance, multi-day gaming or eSports tournament.
  • Attending a religious or spiritual retreat where fasting or avoiding certain bodily functions is part of the practices or rituals.
  • Engaging in a survival challenge or a bet where the person has to limit food intake and avoid defecating for a certain period of time.
  • Undergoing a specific medical procedure or test that requires limiting food intake and avoiding bowel movements for a few days.
  • Participating in a scientific experiment or study where they have to control their diet and bowel movements.
  • Partaking in a performance art piece or protest where he's limiting his bodily functions as part of the statement.
  • Attending an event (like a music festival or convention) where bathroom facilities are notoriously unclean or inconvenient, and they want to avoid using them as much as possible.
  • Embarking on a long journey where bathroom facilities may not be readily available or convenient, such as a cross-country road trip or sailing expedition.
  • Participating in a reality TV show or film production where bathroom breaks are limited or inconvenient.
  • Engaging in a personal challenge or self-imposed discipline practice related to endurance or minimalism.
[–] mizu6079@lemmy.world 51 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (8 children)

Okay I'll give in a tiny bit only because this barely narrows it down: one of them is ridiculously close to what is actually the case. Like, I'm actually doing the thing you mentioned in the point, just your reasoning is wrong.

P.S.: The actual reasoning is borderline impossible for anyone to guess so just stop trying guys.

[–] LufyCZ@lemmy.world 24 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Just for readability, these are the options with reasoning:

  • Attending an event (festivalor convention)
  • Long journey, such as a cross-country trip (probably this one, as OP mentioned walking+travelling by train)
  • Reality TV Show / film
[–] Sleo@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

He's probably out on the Hajj, they travel to some of the key points by train. The bathroom facilities are not ideal and that's why he is asking for ways to trim down his poop times.

[–] LufyCZ@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

But he said that he'd make the whole trip twice and that he'd be able to poop the second time

[–] Sleo@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 year ago

As part of the hajj, the entire community travels to various points in and around the city. One of the points that's only for a few days is in Mina, which is basically a tent city outside the official boundaries of the city of Makkah. When they are in the tent (it's a fancy tent, air conditioned but with zero privacy with 20 other guys), the bathrooms there are communal, which in turn are not the cleanest in the world. Most of them are the eastern squatty potty style. Let's just say not going there for a poop seems very tempting. The counter to it is, most of the food there is free, and it is really good.... So it's a very delicate balance to say the least.

This is all speculation on my part, given the timing of it. For all we know it could be some weird kinky camping thing the guy is into!

[–] rackmountrambo@kbin.social 16 points 1 year ago

You can poop in the shipping container dude, what are the people shoulder to shoulder to you going to do? Leave?

[–] L3s@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

One of those scenarios + poop shy around S/O, S/O family, or friends is my guess.

Edit: also, cheese, lots of cheese.

Edit2: is this the new "found a safe"?

[–] JesusTheCarpenter@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago

Why would he not want to say the reason though? If that was the case, the OP could just say he is a shy pooper. Instead we now suspect that this is some kind of orgy with a fetish.

[–] LufyCZ@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They said that facilities would be everywhere "as normal".

Also, they said they'd be taking travelling, the same route twice, first time around they can't poop, second time they can.

[–] L3s@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Not sure how this goes against my theory?

[–] whyNotSquirrel@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

yeah, other people could move after day 3, allowing them to fume the tent

[–] AgentOrangesicle@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago

Damn, I thought you were just an Amazon employee.

[–] CoolBeance@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You're going to a Burning Man-style event and you don't want to poop on June 25th because it's Anne Frank's birthday and in your pursuit to become the true Hide & Seek Champion you think it would be best/hilarious to "Anne Frank" your poop for three days

[–] eyy@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

undefined> You’re going to a Burning Man-style event and you don’t want to poop on June 25th because it’s Anne Frank’s birthday and in your pursuit to become the true Hide & Seek Champion you think it would be best/hilarious to β€œAnne Frank” your poop for three days

Congratulations, you're the first person in the world to use that sentence.

[–] firipu@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Is it a sex thing? Please don't let it be a sex thing.

[–] redonyo@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 year ago

So much of what we do is horrible now a days. It would be nice if it was just a sex thing

[–] Butane@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

You are donating your poop for fecal implants.

[–] Ciari@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

My guess is that OP is going to be in a circus performance (which explains the large tent with air conditioning). As to the reason they don't want to poop, it might be because:

  • their costume(s) are difficult to remove
  • there is something about the bathroom that they find creepy/unsettling
  • they have an STD or other infection in that area of their body and don't want to risk having anyone find out unexpectedly, or don't want to risk spreading it to others via the toilet seat (gonna be real idk if thats even a thing but it feels like it could be)
  • they hold some kind of superstition about pooping during the initial travel period, or about entering the bathroom, or something that is in the bathroom
  • they have to get to the bathroom by passing an area and/or person that they dislike and/or feel uncomfortable around
  • they take notoriously large shits and don't want to clog the toilet
  • they just have really bad poop anxiety

Anyway, best of luck to you OP. Hope whatever you're doing works out and that you stay as safe as you can. Update us when you come back!

[–] lowleveldata@programming.dev 6 points 1 year ago
  • Just doing it for the sake of it because life is short

I'm betting on this one

[–] 666dollarfootlong@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

My guess: Airsoft/paintball whatever MilSim operation.

Edit: OP is a sniper in said operation. Perhaps re-enactment of The killing of Osama Bin Laden?

[–] Darorad@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

I don't see bottoming on that list

[–] Rachelhazideas@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] Rachelhazideas@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 year ago

You're missing a very like reason: that this has to do with OP's kinks.