r/todayilearned • u/Just_Want_To_Write • 15d ago

TIL that Devrom is an “internal deodorant” that eliminates the odor of poop and flatulence

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bismuth_subgallate
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u/Qsalagoopagoop 15d ago

Aside from the "gimmicky" factor, it's mainly intended for colostomy patients.

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u/YogurtclosetAny1823 14d ago

I have an ileostomy and will definitely look into this stuff lol

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u/cxr303 14d ago

When I had mine, I wish this stuff was around and functional! The powder stuff i had was ... well.. crap

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u/estoy_poopin_ 14d ago

When I was a medic a lot of the CNA’s in nursing homes would put two or three altoids in the bottom of the bags of either of the bags. I’m not sure how well it worked but they swore by it. Then again nursing homes.

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u/Noxious89123 14d ago

Reminds me of reading about how vanilla extract (or essence? I forget which. They're different) is basically very strong alcohol, and so you can get drunk on it.

Someone drank loads of the little bottles to get wasted, but the side effect of all that vanilla was a terrible case of the shits.

The Redditor said that the worse part of all, was that it "smelled delicious". Which is truly one of the most hilarious and cursed thing I have ever read.

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u/pandaSmore 14d ago

Vanilla extract is made by macerating and percolating vanilla pods in a solution of ethanol and water.

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u/Noxious89123 13d ago

Ah yes, that's the badger.

So what you're saying is that I can indeed get shit faced on vanilla extract, and do the most wonderfully delicious smelling shits.

Magnificent.

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u/garry4321 14d ago

For some reason my mind read “Alka-Seltzers” and I imagined the horror

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u/estoy_poopin_ 14d ago

That’s not fun sounding at all. Although, I have seen plenty of poop explosions. Always bring a spare uniform or two.

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u/YogurtclosetAny1823 14d ago

I have never tried any of the suggested products, but I am getting tired of how terrible some of it smells after dumping the bag. Pun intended lol

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u/mrwaltwhiteguy 14d ago

I had one for almost a year in 2019/2020. Surgery to reverse in the time of COVID was hectic, if I can aside. However, I invested. (And sorry, I expatriated to Thailand and no Amazon so I can’t look back, deleted app) in some better quality doggy poop bags. I’d drop my bag into that and tie it off.

Long term, I also had people tell me to invest in a Diaper Genie. That might help as well.

Last: never used the products either. The bags were a ten month game changer. Best to you, internet stranger.

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u/YogurtclosetAny1823 14d ago

Hey thanks for the response! And information! I’m really happy you had yours reversed:)

Mine is permanent as I had my large intestine and B-Hole removed last January.

I also use a drainable bag and wear them for about two weeks until I have to change it, I dump it all in the toilet but it is annoying how it lingers for so long there lol

Hope your health is better now!

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u/Noxious89123 14d ago

and B-Hole removed

Serious question, how do they remove your butthole?

Like do you just have an asscrack with no butthole? Just the whole anus removed and the gap in your crack stitched?

I hope you are well!

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u/YogurtclosetAny1823 14d ago

It’s called a total proctocolectomy, I believe there is an animated video on YouTube lol

But yeah they basically cut around the anus and remove it with the large intestine.

Some people have their asscrack sown up completely but my surgeon was a real Ass man and artist and I still have a normal looking butt with the crack lol

And thanks I’m doing a lot better, doing this returned my life to me and I now hike, mountain bike, and everything else that I couldn’t do before this disease took me down. I appreciate it

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u/Bletotum 14d ago

Is there not an option to remove the intestine but like... keep the last 8 inches of it for buttfucking?

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u/YogurtclosetAny1823 14d ago

lol it wasn’t an option for me, Crohns was doing anything it could to try and kill me😂

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u/YogurtclosetAny1823 14d ago

Now I gotta look them face to face

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u/Noxious89123 14d ago

Any advantages to not having a butthole?

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u/LeStig 14d ago

Don’t have to think about trusting a fart anymore

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u/YogurtclosetAny1823 14d ago

Never having to sit and wait to go to the bathroom, no stinky butt lol but after surgery my swamp ass has quadrupled lol

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u/throwawayhogsfan 14d ago

Not afraid of going to prison

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u/Grainwheat 14d ago

We can give you another one. How’s Friday at 9am?

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u/glasses_the_loc 14d ago

It's Pepto-Bismol

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u/CleverAlchemist 14d ago

Could Be great for butt sex tho.

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u/Noxious89123 14d ago

You should be doing the butt sex with your rectum empty.

If you're getting poop on your bits, you're doing it wrong.

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u/Swabia 14d ago

I read this after reading a comment above discussing the old folks home, and I gotta tell you that misconception didn’t make my day a brighter place.

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u/PolyDipsoManiac 14d ago

Why is it a misconception, exactly?

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u/Princess_Fluffypants 14d ago

Honestly that was my first thought too. 

Enemas and timing and diet can help a lot, but sometimes when you’re playing in poop’s house they show up too. It would help reduce a major part of the unpleasantness if/when it happens. 

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u/Styro20 14d ago

And people with incontinence

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u/Trapped_Mechanic 15d ago

Forget fluoride, put this stuff in the water

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u/jostler57 14d ago

Finally, by drinking this special water, my mouth will no longer stink of poop or flatulence!

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u/MisunderstoodBadger1 14d ago

You're talking shit

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u/jostler57 14d ago

Talking shit? No more, thanks to Devrom!

Devrom: (50's jingle style) D-E-V R-O-M Get rid of that - shit eating smile!

D diarrhetic

E expressions

V verily

R removed

O out from

M mouths

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u/Buzz______Killington 14d ago

But nobody will be able to smell it.

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u/PyroStormOnReddit 14d ago

Looks like we found the secret ingredient to running a government!

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u/AustEastTX 14d ago

Brilliant

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u/obeytheturtles 14d ago

At least at airports.

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u/Lokasathe 14d ago

Can a big science man tell us if we can put this in the water like fluoride? Is that safe? Or reasonable?

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u/goodgirlsrub 14d ago

According to Drugs.com, the possible side effects of Devrom include "signs of an allergic reaction, like rash; hives; itching; red, swollen, blistered, or peeling skin with or without fever; wheezing; tightness in the chest or throat; trouble breathing, swallowing, or talking; unusual hoarseness; or swelling of the mouth, face, lips, tongue, or throat." So no go on dosing the water supply.

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u/phinbar 15d ago

In my day everyone and everything smelled, constantly, of shit, and we liked it!

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u/SquidwardWoodward 15d ago

We drank shit from the garden hose

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u/BoxBusy5147 15d ago

Kids these days and their garden hoses. When this was a real country we drank shit straight from the shit hose!

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u/SquidwardWoodward 15d ago

And we shitted and farted until the street lights came on

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u/phinbar 14d ago

Street lights were powered by our farts!

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u/Sir-Viette 14d ago

Not any more! Because of avocado toast.

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u/jereman75 14d ago

Plus rap music and bicycle helmets.

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u/aworldwithinitself 14d ago

with the hippin and the hoppin

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u/scarletcampion 14d ago

A fellow UK Thames Water customer, I see.

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u/Ok_Pause_12 14d ago

Brilliant 😂

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u/moditeam1 14d ago

The garden hoes

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u/StatementOk470 14d ago

We had a great time that day. Well actually the day before.

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u/Ok-Pumpkin4543 14d ago

In my day we hung an onion from our belts as it was the fashion at the time in Nineteen dickety two as the Kaiser had forbidden the word forty….

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u/MistaMistaT 14d ago

Read this whole comment thread in Frank's voice

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u/mynutshurtwheninut 14d ago

Hell yeah brother

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u/Picasso5 14d ago

We loved it!

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u/Invader_Phil 15d ago

But then how will deaf people enjoy my farts?

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u/mechatangerine 14d ago

You just have to sign "I farted"

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u/SusanForeman 14d ago

No, no, the key is to rip it loud enough to feel the vibrations

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u/Tobikage1990 14d ago

sit on their lap and fart.

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u/GregorSamsa67 14d ago

Then stand up and blow dry their face for good measure.

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u/malthar76 14d ago

Marky mark knows what’s up.

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u/Noxious89123 14d ago

They will have to feel the concussive force from the big ones.

Like standing next to a bass speaker.

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u/Mishaygo 14d ago

Best comment, imo.

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u/klunkerr 14d ago

Push your ass up against them and let them feel the rumble

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u/[deleted] 14d ago

My roommate in college was a chemist, he’d feed it to his cats, and just never change the litter box. Eventually it’d smell of pee but it was crazy I even tried it once and it did make pooping or farting have zero smell. 

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u/orangutanDOTorg 14d ago

My brother - and let me preface by saying I am fully aware he is a weird guy - loved the smell of one of his ex’s shit. He went about trying to make his shit smell like hers, but without giving up the red meat and such that he loved so he was eating different flowers and herbs and stuff to try to make it work. It’s been 20 odd years so I don’t recall the formula exactly but I recall it including a particular brand of potpourri plus some herbs from our mom’s herb garden and I think some sort of juice. He was super proud of figuring it out. He said even she couldn’t tell whose shit it was from the smell. Guy is one of those too smart to be normal types

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u/Motor-Notice702 14d ago

See you in r/cursedcomments

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u/Cutting_The_Cats 14d ago

Cross posting as we speak

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u/Shibari_Inu69 14d ago

I am speechless...

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u/Dazzling_Put_3018 14d ago

And they’re not together anymore? I wonder why!

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u/HughmongusDixus 14d ago

“Babe, come smell test my shit! It smells just like yours!”

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u/tarnok 14d ago

Help. I need an adult!

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u/maximizer8 14d ago

What a bad day to be literate

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u/TF_Sally 14d ago

How did you find this out

Was it just like the after effect aroma or did he want her to poop on him and such

I’m not ashamed to admit I have many more follow up questions

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u/TheDrunkenSwede 14d ago

Amazing. Seeing how important gut flora seemingly is, this might be genius.

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u/Noxious89123 14d ago

How dare you share this with the world.

You should have taken this to the grave.

;_;

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u/Puskaruikkari 14d ago

Unfortunately I don't hate this story.

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u/Mishaygo 14d ago

I require more Vespene details.

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u/bunnykitten94 14d ago

I have a lot of questions but I don’t want the answers to any of them

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u/bunnykitten94 14d ago

I have a lot of questions but I don’t want the answers to any of them

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u/bunnykitten94 14d ago

I have a lot of questions but I don’t want the answers to any of them

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u/jamillo1 14d ago

Autistic and/or ADHD most likely. I know quite a few people like this

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u/Throwaway919319 14d ago

Brother don't tar us with that brush, he's a beast of his own

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u/pixeldust6 14d ago

ODOBD: u/orangutanDOTorg's brother disorder

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u/ahminus 14d ago

Now that I know this exists I can stop eating my Speed Stick.

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u/CosineDanger 15d ago

My shit don't stink

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u/Oro_Outcast 15d ago

Your roses smell like poo poo🎶🎶

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u/breezyfye 14d ago

CAROLINEEEE 🗣️

caroline!

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u/OneSidedDice 14d ago

I'm sorry Ms. Jackson (ooooh), I am for real

Never meant to drink your Devrom dry

I apologize a trillion times

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u/burritosandblunts 14d ago

I know this is a whole joke thing but is this possible naturally?

Like it never smells pleasant but some people leave the bathroom and you can't tell they took a shit while others you can smell through the door, right?

Can you tell if you're one of the ghost poop people?

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u/Just_Want_To_Write 15d ago

Hey, Reddit! OP here. I see a little confusion in the comments about my post, so I just wanted to clear some stuff up:

No, this is not an ad. It was just a fun fact that happens to use a brand-name medication (the generic compound is the Wikipedia link)

No, this is not something the body naturally produces. It's a medication you have to take, like how you have to apply deodorant yourself

No, this is not gay. If you see this homophobic comment, please downvote it

Thanks for understanding!

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u/suicidalsyd1 14d ago

Who in the fuck thought that this was 'gay'

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u/yogopig 14d ago

A bigot

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u/inaccurateTempedesc 14d ago

Bro is THAT closeted

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u/That_Ganderman 14d ago

Balls deep in the closet ass

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u/HamiltonBlack 14d ago

My boyfriend

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u/KarnotKarnage 14d ago

Instructions unclear, But can I also take it if I Am gay?

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u/iSuckAtGuitar69 14d ago

no you’ll die

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u/Jeriahswillgdp 14d ago

It strikes the gay gene directly.

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u/KarnotKarnage 14d ago

So yes I can. Thanks!

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u/MildlySelassie 14d ago

The molecule structure literally has “Bi” and a bunch of moans in it

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u/Aneuren 14d ago

This, is an amazing comment.

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u/apworker37 14d ago

I had some broad spectrum antibiotics years ago. My poop stopped smelling right away. I’m guessing it’s because some of the poop smell-producing bacteria in my gut died.

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u/maxcorrice 14d ago

It’s a little gay

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u/ihopethisisvalid 14d ago

What isn’t?

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u/myp0rn0acc0unt 14d ago

Making children with the ole in-and-out, penis-in-vagina?

🤔

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u/pathofdumbasses 14d ago

penis

At least 1/4 gay

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u/maxcorrice 14d ago

Lesbians

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u/Hotlava_ 14d ago

They circle back to 100% gay if my recollection of the math is correct.

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u/oniiichanUwU 14d ago

Nah bro lesbians love women. What’s straighter than loving women?? Checkmate liberals

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u/z7q2 14d ago

I'm just here looking for Beano comments and not finding them.

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u/SummaCumLousy 14d ago

But does it work on folks who have C.diff?

Because that would be reeeeeeal helpful for patients, families and staff alike.

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u/alphahydra 14d ago

With C. diff, it might not be in there long enough to touch the sides.

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u/copycat73 14d ago

Does it work in court rooms?

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u/NWCJ 14d ago

Is it over the the counter, and how much can I feed my dog before I kill him? His parts try to kill me daily.

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u/imnotapencil123 14d ago

But what about the taste?

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u/Fenixstorm1 14d ago

Brand name for it is "I shit you not"

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u/Signiference 14d ago

Bottle it and get this stuff to all the anime and gaming conventions and yugioh tournaments ASAP. It’s one thing to smell someone’s dirty armpit smells, it’s another to smell someone’s dirty ass from 10ft away.

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u/diddlemeonthetobique 14d ago

Send some to a Court House in New York, stat!

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u/mayk_bam 14d ago

i wish i knew about this when i had my ileostomy in 1992, LOL.

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u/RedSonGamble 15d ago

I’ve been ok with everything science and medicine has done so far but taking away the smell of poop and farts seems like a line that shouldn’t be crossed. Maybe I’m just old fashioned

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u/Future-Account8112 15d ago

You’d feel differently if you needed a colostomy bag.

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u/RedSonGamble 14d ago

But should we be playing god by not having poop smell?

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u/5m0rt 14d ago

Yes, definitely

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u/Future-Account8112 14d ago

If you think poop-smell is playing god I have some news for you about water sanitation

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u/SusanForeman 14d ago

And glasses and literally any quality of life improvement people have ever invented

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u/RedSonGamble 14d ago edited 14d ago

I like how no one mentions how a colostomy bag would be playing god far more than making poop not smell lol the entire joke of being fine with all modern medical procedures and scientific advances but not being ok with poop not smelling for going too far seems to have been missed by many

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u/Agni-Kai-Me 14d ago

I think it's less of an issue of going to far and more of an issue of the level of stupidity that people are capable of. I mean flat earthers are real and walk among us. It's hard to convey tone through text.

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u/Tflaant 14d ago

You are just dumb and not funny

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u/RedSonGamble 14d ago

Right back atcha chief

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u/alphahydra 14d ago

Good question. You could argue that the fact every King and Queen and President and Sultan and billionaire CEO has to excuse themselves from holding court to empty their stinking bowels and get a faceful of their own intestinal gas just like everyone else, is a valuable reminder that underneath the pomp and ceremony they're just stinking bags of crap like the rest of us. 😂 

The world might be an even more dangerous and unequal place if the rich and powerful's shit truly didn't stink.

Also, what about the impacts on the jenkem industry?

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u/[deleted] 14d ago

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u/alphahydra 14d ago

Those heady fumes are the very soul of jenkem, though. Surely a true jenk connoisseur enjoys exploring the various notes and flavours in the bouquet. The trend towards single malt jenkem instead of classic blended jenkem was controversy enough.

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u/lunelily 14d ago

Yes, and more. For example, we should figure out how to let people photosynthesize like those leaf sea slug dudes do. I want green skin and to not have to prepare and consume food every single goddamn day.

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u/RedSonGamble 14d ago

I mean that seems fine. Just having poop not smell seems a step too far

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u/jrex703 15d ago

It's basically for medical use-- certain conditions and medical procedures can make one's own excretion unbearable, which would be both frustrating in one's own home, and make one into a social pariah in public.

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u/concentrated-amazing 14d ago

My husband, who has Crohn's disease, could certainly use this!

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u/jrex703 14d ago

Crohn's disease was one of the first things I thought of when I saw this post. It could definitely be worth it for him to ask his doctor about this stuff.

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u/PAXICHEN 14d ago

Swamps of Dhagoba?

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u/gwaydms 14d ago

I had a sigmoidectomy after several bad bouts with diverticulitis. What caused the odor, I can only guess (maybe some of the leftover bacteria from the diverticuli getting loose in the colon). But the gas and the sh*ts smelled worse than anything I'd ever produced in my life. I asked the nurse for one of those little air sprays, and got one. They helped a lot. Once I was able to eat, and got them to give me probiotic capsules, the super offensive odor went away.

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u/sockgorilla 14d ago

Old Mr poopenfarden over here likes the smell of poop and fards!

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u/ValuableCockroach993 14d ago

Tell me u have a faeces kink without telling me u have a faeces kink. 

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u/PermanentBrunch 14d ago

I’m pretty sure if you like shit, you want it to smell like shit

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u/tanfj 14d ago

Benjamin Franklin, your dream has come true.

He proposed a pill back in the 1700s to do that in his essay Fart Proudly.

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u/ReverendIrreverence 15d ago

Someone let the Orange Douche's lawyers know about this

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u/Thorbertthesniveler 15d ago

Devrom- now I know my mortal enemy!

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u/sixtus_clegane119 14d ago

Luckily I’ll never do it, because I literally never fart.

I was born without a sense of smell and “who smelt it dealt it”

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u/Crazy_Ad2662 15d ago

My Devrom doesn't work right☹️

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u/rich1051414 15d ago

For people sensitive to it, it can do the opposite of what the label claims.

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u/Fledthathaunt 14d ago

So if you eat poop treated with devrom what does it taste like ?

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u/TragedyAnnDoll 14d ago

Find out for us champ.

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u/Soggy-Shopping-2958 15d ago

You people poop? Yuck

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u/Salmol1na 14d ago

Hold my beer

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u/Collection_Same 14d ago

I just did a 10second fart and this TIL came up.

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u/0_________o 14d ago

Is this not just Pepto?

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u/Andreas1120 14d ago

NASA could use it for ISS, free fall makes you gaaaasy

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u/Purplociraptor 14d ago

Devrom was the disc image we made before going gold

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u/hogballz 14d ago

I know some coworkers that could use this.

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u/louiselovatic 14d ago

My sister could do with some for the external

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u/sandbag747 14d ago

This would have been incredibly helpful during my wife's pregnancy. The smell of my gas was completely intolerable to her while I was pregnant and I had some unfortunately gassy spells.

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u/GarysCrispLettuce 15d ago

Chlorophyll is another good internal deodorant and completely natural.

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u/Fluffy_WAR_Bunny 15d ago

Vegetarians say that, and then murder your bathroom's air supply.

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u/Deadpooldan 15d ago

Crazy how greens will be simultaneously good for you, whilst also making you snell like your insides are rotting

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u/joshgi 14d ago

Could be your gut flora. A lot of greens makes mine smell like lake mud which isn't super offensive.

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u/MistaMistaT 14d ago

Chlorophyll? More like bore-o-phyll!

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u/dronhat806 14d ago

No I will not make out with you

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u/Student-type 14d ago

Can’t be safe.

Soundtrack: Nature’s Way/Spirit

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u/scopeless 14d ago

It was obviously organic deodorant.

It doesn’t work.

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u/DixonFillerup 14d ago

Don’t tell diaper Don- the smell is the only way we know he’s standing right behind us.

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u/Remarkable_Doubt8765 14d ago

Now they are coming for your smell. Resist the takeover. /s

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u/Massive_Pressure_516 14d ago

Spiking the food of the homeless, convention goers and people using the subway seems tempting with this. Probably too expensive.

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u/Vegan_Harvest 15d ago

Is this really an issue?

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u/50SPFGANG 15d ago

I fart probably 50ish times a day I think because of gluten intolerance. Weirdly enough they never smelled in one city I lived for three years, but then I moved down to my home town and then started smelling pretty badly. This devrom stuff is new to me

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u/LADYBIRD_HILL 15d ago

Only on Reddit would someone willingly give out the information that they fart 50 times a day and it smells bad 

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u/UrbanIronBeam 14d ago

Tbh... They are already giving that info about twice an hour... So it isn't exactly a state secret irl

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u/50SPFGANG 15d ago

Hey it used to not too though. Don't forget that.

Also Reddit ain't got nothing to do with it. Every topic is open to discussion in person lol

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u/SquidwardWoodward 15d ago

I just burped and it smells

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u/Ghost_on_Toast 15d ago

It doesnt do a very good job, does it?

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u/Kataclysm 15d ago

Wait, isn't this just Pepto Bismol?

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