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Entries from March 2008

Phenomenology Simply Explained

March 31st, 2008 No Comments

Sometimes people say to me - “Mister Poo - what is phenomenology?”

I always point them to the example of the toad in the bowl.
If no one is there to see the toad in the bowl - then does it really exist? Or is it just a malformed shit of the universal mind? With warts.
As so [...]

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Public Toilets Can Be Found by Technology… At a Price

March 29th, 2008 No Comments

If you need to find a toilet in London, you can now text the word “toilet” to 88097 and the local council will text you back details of your nearest public toilet.
They call it Sat-Lav and it costs 25p. Where there’s muck there’s brass.

Bette Midler said “When it’s three o’clock in New York it’s [...]

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Big Fat David Hume Loses Argument Due to Weight

March 28th, 2008 No Comments

Look at this big fat fucker.
David Hume was famous for revolutionising Anglophone philosophical thought in the 18th century by rejecting God and standing up to the church in favour of the new rationalism and empricism. He was also a big lad.

So, one fine day in Edinburgh - and Hume’s out and about in Edinburgh - [...]

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Nihilism - What’s The Point

March 27th, 2008 No Comments

Mister Poo sincerely asks. Nietzsche says nihilism is a “will to nothingness” and should be opposed. He calls it the poisoning of the human soul.

What do you think he meant?
Could he not face a world full of nothing, as Depeche Mode put it. Nietzsche always urged man to higher things but where is he now?
Dead, [...]

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Toilet Und Ubertoilet

March 26th, 2008 No Comments

“The press, the machine, the railway, the telegraph are premises whose thousand-year conclusion no one has yet dared to draw.”
This is what Friedrich Nietzsche said and this is a picture of a sewage treatment plant:

Being the kind of dude he was, Nietzsche probably wasn’t thinking of sewage treatment plants when he wrote that but who [...]

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Guess The Poo - Win a Million Euros

March 25th, 2008 No Comments

Let us play a game. The prize is a million euros.
The first to guess what animal this poo came from will get a million euros.
Submit your entry on the comment form now - be the first to win a million euros - paid direct to your paypal account.

Mmmm?
Looks pretty fresh!

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How To Make Money In A Recession

March 24th, 2008 No Comments

Buy shares in toilets. It doesn’t matter what the market does - people will always need to poo.

Plus there are now golden toilets like this one that cost a quarter of a million Euros.
The toilet is called “Moscow” and its a far cry from the days where we used to shit in ditches

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Why The Long Face, Shitey Bum?

March 23rd, 2008 No Comments

Austrian 20th century philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein was unbelievably wealthy and was the best-known brain of the early 20th Century, famous amongst intellectuals the world over. So why the mardy mug?

Well, old Ludo reckoned at first that the facts of science told us everything but, later on , realised he was just talking and it meant [...]

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Existentialism - What The Fuck?

March 22nd, 2008 No Comments

Some people say to me: “Mister Poo - what is existentialism really?”
I can only answer in vagueries for that is what it was all about. If Descartes (a Rationalist) said “I poo therefore I am”, Nietzsche (an Existentialist) said “This poo is only any good because I made it”.

Later on, Albert Camus (a Frenchman) said [...]

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I Have a Phobia Too: of Ever Meeting These People

March 20th, 2008 No Comments

Mister Poo was saddened by last week’s story about the woman who was stuck to a toilet seat for two years.
In this video we meet some of the people involved in this miserable case of neglect and terror.

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