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How a Poop Company Amassed a Cult Following
Squatty Potty® toilet stool is designed to put you in the natural squatting position right over your own toilet. Squatting to eliminate is proven to straighten out your anorectal angle to prevent blockage of crap (literally) in your colon and allow for a faster, more complete elimination; giving relief to preexisting issues and preventing issues from starting. I mean, everyone wants to poop better. But, before Squatty Potty, you’d never be caught dead talking about this in a public setting. So, how in the world did Squatty Potty make what once was just a geriatric device, something cool enough to suggest to your friends? Too many people have been suffering in silence to the sound of grunts and sweat dripping off the forehead. There has been a real issue here. Even worse, some even thought that this was normal. You should never have to strain to eliminate. But, without your BFF Google, you wouldn’t know that. Squatty Potty knew the information needed to be shared, so they started brainstorming. With over 27 Million views in a week on their latest video titled, Discover the Most Pleasurable Way to Poop, it’s safe to say what they created is ‘marketing magic’. Let’s call it a “spoof-educational commercial”. You laughed for three minutes straight, yet now know what a puborectalis muscle is and, more importantly, what to do to relax it so you can poop better. Every living human does it, and until now, it was a topic that wasn’t widely talked about. Squatty Potty commercials have opened the door for conversation, resulting in a cult following of happy poopers. The company caught the attention of Bloomberg News when they released their first commercial in 2015, This Unicorn Changed the Way I Poop, which lead to a 600% increase in sales AND won a Webby Award! (kind of a big deal). Bloomberg explains the Squatty Potty as “a toilet accessory that’s gone from giggly subculture to full-blown phenomenon.” In 2016 Buzzfeed published an article, 17 Things You’ll Understand If You’re Slightly Obsessed With Your Squatty Potty. #11 is my personal favorite. With over 277,000 loyal squatters on Facebook, I think it’s safe to say that squatting to poop really works.
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College Freshman’s Worst Nightmare Comes True
Freshmen have a lot to worry about. “What will I wear on my first day? Do we have assigned seats? What if I get lost? What if my roommate is a slob? What if my roommate hates me? When is lunch?” That’s not even including the topic of community bathrooms. “Do we have a bathroom schedule? What if I take longer than the 3 minutes assigned?” or the dreaded: “what if I clog the toilet?” Well, this dreaded option was a reality for this poor University of Utah freshman; we’ll call her the anonymous pooper. You read that right. Anonymous pooper, the poor soul, clogged the co-ed community toilet. She did what any sensible freshie would do when they can’t find a plunger and left it for the janitor to handle (no one wants to claim that thing). As if this could get any worse- there is a group message going off about said clogged toilet. #wasntme The anxiety-ridden anonymous pooper is now panicking. Naturally, she sent out the last-resort SOS to mom. At least she has a sense of humor. Lucky for anonymous pooper, her mom had a solution other than transferring schools: Unicorn Gold (an odor eliminating spray with gold nanoparticles to completely eliminate odor, or in this case: multiple-day clogged-toilet stench). She sent a box of Unicorn Gold spray to the University, along with Squatty Potties (to ease that bathroom timing anxiety we talked about earlier). What a good mom.
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Pinching a Loaf and Other Poophemisms
In polite company, we often use euphemisms (nice ways of saying something) when discussing sensitive subjects, such as death and sex. Loved ones don’t die; they “pass away.” The neighbors may be having sex with the windows open, but we prefer to say they’re “doing it.” Along those lines, one of the most uncomfortable subjects to discuss is the elimination of solid waste from the human body — what we at Squatty Potty politely refer to as “pooping.” Because pooping is so common, and poop is so gross, it has become the butt of many jokes and puns and has inspired perhaps the largest collection of euphemisms related to any sensitive subject. You can find plenty of poop euphemism lists online. There’s even a book devoted to such euphemisms cleverly titled Poophemisms: Over 1737 Fun Ways To Talk About Taking a Poop. In the spirit of maintaining an accurate archive, here are 60 of our favorites: Baking a loaf Baking brownies Building a log cabin Busting a grumpy Catching up on some reading Communing with nature Crowning Decorating the Oval Office Delivering a load Dirty bombing Dropping a biscuit in the basket Dropping a bomb/brick Dropping a duke Dropping anchor Dropping the kids off at the pool (note: there are both public and private pools) Evacuating the building Feeding the fish Going number two Greeting Mr. Hankey Growing a monkey tail Gotta go Having the squirts Heaving a Havana Killing the cobra Launching the torpedoes Laying cable Laying down some wolf bait Laying pipe Leaving a floater Letting loose Letting the dogs/hounds out Logging out Making a deposit at the porcelain bank Making fudge Making room for dessert Making sausage Making stinky Needing some alone time Opening the gates Paying off a loan Pinching a loaf Planting corn Prairie dogging Releasing the beast Releasing the hounds Releasing the Kraken Ripping a deuce Rolling a nut log Sawing logs Seeing a man about a horse Shooting the Hershey squirts Sinking the Bismarck Squeezing one out Stocking the pond Taking a load off your mind Taking the Browns to the Super Bowl Taking a dump Taking a seat on the porcelain throne Taking it to the hoop (Our personal favorite) Mind if I try your Squatty Potty?
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