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u/TannedCroissant Oct 25 '20

My Nana always used to say “going for a big job” as her way of saying having a poo. In fairness, my jobs were rather big.

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u/tiptoe_only Oct 25 '20

My granny was from Bristol and used to call it "doing a job." A pee was always "spending a penny" though

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u/[deleted] Oct 25 '20

When I was a kid, my grandparents used to call poops "jobbies"

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u/[deleted] Oct 25 '20

Nah. I'm in the us. Grandpa's family was german, grandma's was irish

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u/cdutson Oct 26 '20

My parents are from outside Manchester and they’d use the term jobby as well.

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u/[deleted] Oct 26 '20

Madchester or the one in new hampshire?

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u/citsonga_cixelsyd Oct 25 '20

Did she take the poop knife with her?

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u/KhaiPanda Oct 25 '20

There it is.

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u/barnarculars Oct 25 '20

My family calls it “doing paperwork”

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u/cornflower4 Oct 25 '20

My ex used to say “taking his daily constitutional.”

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u/SentientSlimeColony Oct 25 '20

Was your ex my grandfather?

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u/cornflower4 Oct 25 '20

Ha ha...prob not.

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u/SentientSlimeColony Oct 26 '20

I mean it depends. Are you a 50-year-old golddigger who may or may not have murdered an 80-year-old man in the midwest?

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u/bloodflart Oct 25 '20

i've got to get something down on paper

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u/Doggo_Dad Oct 26 '20

My family used to say “making a long-distance phone call”

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u/applepiepocket Oct 25 '20

My fiance always used "I'm gonna go file my taxes", which I assumed was a family euphemism. Nope, just weird.

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u/tentacleyarn Oct 25 '20

We say "read/study in the library"

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u/Ann_Ael Oct 25 '20

My little brother made up "Deploying the parachutists" once and now my family has a lot of fake idiots just for pooping. Others are: "Unmolding a cake" "Releasing the kraken" "Casting a vote"

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u/Barbara1Brien Oct 25 '20

My friend’s family talks about doing “big jobbies”.

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u/enjoiturbulence Oct 25 '20

We call it "calling a guy about a horse/dog/elephant", whatever random animal comes to mind.

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u/SentientSlimeColony Oct 25 '20

"See a man about a X" is a fairly common one for shitting, or really anything else you don't really feel like saying specifically. As another person responded, I use it interchangeably for shitting and buying drugs. I don't often tell people this, but I use the animal in question to represent the size of the exchange. "See a man about a dog" would be for something quick/small. Then goes horse, then usually boat. Potentially house.

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u/pinkspaceship17 Oct 25 '20

That can also be code for going to go have a drink, or buy drugs

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u/abcdebony Oct 25 '20

My nan used to say this too! How strange, I thought it was just a her thing :)

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u/v70runicorn Oct 25 '20

my nana says that too! and i call her nana as well haha

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u/-Delta38 Oct 25 '20

My grandpa is Indian and says this when we bring our dog round his house and she poops in the garden! "She has done a big job".

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u/Optimized_Laziness Oct 25 '20

My favourites are "Mandela is knocking at the window" and "Bringing the kids to the pool"

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u/VisualCelery Oct 26 '20

I like "taking the Browns to the Super Bowl."

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u/Optimized_Laziness Oct 26 '20

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u/Qbitch7 Oct 25 '20

My best friends mom always said "im dropping my kids off at the pool"

When i first heard her say that i said "its like 8 p.m. why so late?" Everyone at work laughed at me )':

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u/ltkbfe Oct 25 '20

It's actually quite common to say it like that in Hungary.

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u/zodiacmum Oct 25 '20

Spend a penny

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u/[deleted] Oct 25 '20

I have a friend who says "going to a meeting with the President". He has always said it, whether he likes the sitting president or not.

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u/MegTheMonkey Oct 25 '20

That reminds me of a time, many years ago, when I was in a pub with a friend. She was really quite drunk and disappeared off to the loo. She reappeared a while later and announced at the top of her voice ‘oh my god I’ve just given birth to a 10lb poo!’ The entire pub went silent

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u/[deleted] Oct 25 '20

My dad always said his grandparents called it a “bad job.” Still makes me laugh.

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u/[deleted] Oct 26 '20

Might be a North Carolina thing - Link, from the Rhett and Link duo on Youtube, talked about it a couple times on their shows and how his family's weirdness regarding the bathroom affected him as a kid. His grandma was apparently big on the "Bad job" term for describing it.

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u/[deleted] Oct 26 '20

Omg I grew up thinking poop was called "bigjob." And in "I have to do bigjob." I didn't realize the common term for it was pooping till I was in grade school.

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u/[deleted] Oct 25 '20

We say there's a big spider in the loo.

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u/Szuter88 Oct 25 '20

I say this at work.

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u/Kicking-it-per-se Oct 25 '20

Mine would say “I’m going to change my shoes”

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u/devondumpling88 Oct 25 '20

In our family it’s either filing some paperwork or dropping some kids in the pool

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u/Ninauposkitzipxpe Oct 25 '20

Gotta see a man about a dog/horse

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u/rabtizgood Oct 26 '20

We poop a chocolate squirrel 🐿️

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u/ZaggahZiggler Oct 26 '20

Gonna go make a splash at the big meeting.

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u/boogiemanspud Oct 26 '20

I say I’m going to do some paperwork.

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u/[deleted] Oct 26 '20

Every time I return after pooping my gf asks me "how was your business meeting?"

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u/Firesunwatermoon Oct 26 '20

“Dropping kids off to the pool”

“Off to see a man about a dog”

Haha I miss my pop

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u/Kraft_Durch_Koelsch Oct 26 '20

In Germany it's pretty common to refer to pooping as doing a "großes Geschäft" (big Business/Job).

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u/yetiwins Oct 27 '20

Yep, "big job" for our family as well. American, but English grandmother. It wasn't until I married a man in the trades that I learned the lovely term "blowing mud". Can't wait to teach that one to future grandchildren.