when is a number 2 not a number 2?

puerile, i know, but this amused me no end at work this week.

Normally we just tick a chart to say if a client has 'been' on any given day but now we have to categorize it.

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a normally quite boring task has been given a much needed humour boost as we debate consistency

what do you work as?

Originally Posted by rancido64

what do you work as?

Yeh I was going to ask the same thing...

Please say biochemist!

i was always told the best ones were meant to be 'pliable and conker-brown'

checking for conker brown-ness can't be too disconcerting, but pliability...

Your not a colonic irrigator are you?

I look after our elderly demented. the money is rubbish but i enjoy it

Originally Posted by fee

puerile, i know, but this amused me no end at work this week.

Normally we just tick a chart to say if a client has 'been' on any given day but now we have to categorize it.

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a normally quite boring task has been given a much needed humour boost as we debate consistency

Oh fee,,, not seen them yet... Had a colleague who had a book on this, as you say...lightened up the day/night x

I can't see how that's fun but if you enjoy checking out the contents of the toilet then by all means, go ahead.

I saw this in the Independent years ago when Bristol first devised it. It looked like a huge joke at the time. Who would have thought the muppets who 'manage' the NHS would actually start using it? OK, perhaps anyone who is working under these muppets could probably have guessed. But there's nothing like making work for beaurocrats! Perhaps the ward staff should just pass the stools on to them and have them catagorise them.

Alternatively an experienced nurse could ask the patient and make a note in the patient's record. My dad was in hospital a few months ago with a problem totally unrelated to bowels/ diet. He still had to go through this sh!t.

Smelly thread :eekk: !!

The things you find on AO...

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which of the types of poo is supposed to be healthiest?

I'm guessing not 1 cos it looks like rabbit droppings, and not 7 cos that's someone who's been on the **** & eating dodgy curry.......

so 3 or 4 then?

Originally Posted by rancido64

which of the types of poo is supposed to be healthiest?

I don't think it's healthy to examine poo ... to that level of detail anyway!!!

Originally Posted by 156Chris

I don't think it's healthy to examine poo ... to that level of detail anyway!!!

brilliant!

Type 6 - fluffy FLUFFY?

Well that's ruined a perfectly good word for me; I'll never be able to use it now without thinking of poo.