If you put fresh shit in a closed box, it will still stink up the whole room, but the shit in my ass will barely stink even if my ass is on your face, although there is a hole there. Why

  • Janx@piefed.social
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    Sphincters and seals: they do a good job! Not fun to think about, but that’s why when someone shits their pants, or dies and voids their bowels, it’s immediately obvious.

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      10 hours ago

      Sphincters are important for other things too. It’s basically any muscle that forms a ring. While anuses (anii?) are obvious use cases, you also have one between your stomach and intestines, and one in each eye. Probably other places too.

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      I heard a paramedic from a tv show says dead people cant fart because they need to be able to clench their asshole to release it, but i dont get how they can void their bowels since you pretty much need to be able to do the same thing to shit it seems

      Unless they ate enough to literally be full of shit that has to come out. Not sure if theres still peristalsis upon death eitherk

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        They wouldn’t day because everything would be open so there’d be no pressure to shoot a fart out of. Why gasses would be slowly released as death relieves pressure on the sphincters and let’s go. I imagine because of gravity and not being alive too keep muscles and whatnot on the correct places for normal function will just let all of your shit out too. It’s not that we need pressure to let shit out, but we use pressure to get it out in one go and we do so with many “airlocks” so we only lose what we need at that time.

        This is mostly me talking out of my arse but it sounds right to me as i type it. I imagine i don’t have the specifics down but maybe the general gist?