Collins Dictionary describes poo thusly:
poo
noun
> (a piece of) solid waste from the body: "Ugh, it looks like poo! Have you done a poo, Ellie?"
poo
verb
> "Ten minutes after we'd left home, Anna announced that she needed to poo"
Here is a gallery of poo graffiti that might just break your heart.
poo
noun
> (a piece of) solid waste from the body: "Ugh, it looks like poo! Have you done a poo, Ellie?"
poo
verb
> "Ten minutes after we'd left home, Anna announced that she needed to poo"
Here is a gallery of poo graffiti that might just break your heart.
12. If ever you worry that you are failing to live up to your potential, consider this: at least you didn't spend close to two hours searching the Internet for examples of people writing the word "poo" on walls.
11. A man in his forties put together this gallery of images, when he could've been spending time with his family, or catching up on domestic chores. Or writing a book or a film, like some of his friends and acquaintances have done.
10. This middle-aged man's browser history is now full of terms such as "poo graffiti", "poop graffiti", "kid writes poo on wall" and "bum graffiti".
9. What makes it particularly tragic is that this man was once fêted, considered by others to be destined for great success in the creative industries. Since he can remember, however, this college drop-out has been failing to live up to his potential, the words of his middle school teacher Mrs Brookes - as related to him by his proud mother and father, following a parents evening - still ring in his ears: "Your son is university material."
8. Most of this man's peers have respectable jobs. They host dinner parties. They go to art galleries. He sits on the sofa searching for puerile images of such profound unsophistication that a 12 year-old would struggle to find them amusing.
7. Let us trace back this man's journey. At the age of 8 or 9, he recalls getting into to trouble with his parents, for painting the word 'poo' on a concrete step in the garden. He used blue house paint, and the word remained in situ for some years.
6. On another occasion, he went to unnecessary lengths to prove to a boy in his class that he had done a poo in a bird cage in his father's shed, and had since kept it as a sort of pet, feeding it pieces of toilet paper.
5. He once got shouted at by his mother for purchasing a baseball cap which featured a replica excreta on the brim, and the legend "Shit head" printed upon it, after attempting to wear it to a family wedding.
4. Even when you consider these formative experiences, it is somehow tragic that this man has barely progressed since those years. Unless... is creating an internet gallery of others who have written 'poo' on things somehow a way to justify those pre-pubic actions, and make him feel less alone, less alien? Less of a failure...?
3. When seen in such a way, does this gallery not represent a cry of angst? A form of primal scream therapy? A release? A form of rebellion against what society deems is and isn't acceptable for a man of his age?
2. What is more tragic here - a man who remains unashamedly connected to the bodily functions of his inner child, or a culture that is so profoundly disgusted by its own digestive processes that discussion, laughing, looking at faeces is somehow deemed taboo? Is that not a form of self-loathing en masse?
1. We ask you: who is the real failure here?
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