That's UNtertainment

February 12, 2019 6:17 PM

The mission of National Poo Museum on the Isle of Wight is "to lift the lid on the secret world of poo - to examine our relationship with it and to change forever the way we think about this amazing substance." Northern Italy's Shit Museum uses cow poop to generate electricity and heat. Yokohama's Unko Museum, however, is about adorable poo.

Fizz made me do it

posted by Johnny Wallflower (20 comments total)

You left out Poopoo Land in Seoul.
posted by ardgedee at 6:22 PM on February 12, 2019 [3 favorites]

Holy crap, there's also a toilet museum in the exurbs of Seoul. I hadn't known about that one.

I don't know what's better: The building shaped like a toilet, or the bronze statuary of poop postures.
posted by ardgedee at 6:24 PM on February 12, 2019 [1 favorite]

Total shit post.
posted by Fizz at 6:27 PM on February 12, 2019 [5 favorites]

It belongs in a museum!
posted by mmcg at 6:37 PM on February 12, 2019 [2 favorites]

A museum in England with not a single reference to Winnie the Poo(h)?
posted by oneswellfoop at 6:42 PM on February 12, 2019 [1 favorite]

where's the giant viking coprolite full of parasites
posted by poffin boffin at 6:49 PM on February 12, 2019

Goddammit Johnny.
posted by Homo neanderthalensis at 6:50 PM on February 12, 2019 [4 favorites]

tracks played by a poo jukebox

Is this where I leave a scat-singing joke? Asking for a friend.
posted by mandolin conspiracy at 6:55 PM on February 12, 2019 [1 favorite]

The Unko Museum reminds me that until iOS 10.2, the Pile of Poo and Soft Ice Cream emoji used identical swirls.
posted by zamboni at 7:13 PM on February 12, 2019

Joining the poo party with this 2014 exhibit at the Tokyo Miraikan.
posted by J.K. Seazer at 7:18 PM on February 12, 2019

“Lift the lid” *snicker*
posted by Pistache at 7:58 PM on February 12, 2019 [1 favorite]

Life imitates art, it seems. Brings to mind one of my favorite books that I've shared with the kid, Terry Pratchett's "The World of Poo", which is about a kid in Discworld who starts his own poo museum.
posted by vverse23 at 8:02 PM on February 12, 2019

Why is all that cute poo, and the poop emoji, shaped like an ice cream swirl instead of a log of some kind? Is this question answered at one of the museums described?
posted by Emmy Rae at 8:43 PM on February 12, 2019 [1 favorite]

Your poop doesn't come out like an ice cream swirl? You might want to check with a gastroenterologist.
posted by Johnny Wallflower at 8:54 PM on February 12, 2019

Nice try, Johnny, but I've consulted the Bristol Chart just like the rest of you.
posted by Emmy Rae at 8:58 PM on February 12, 2019 [6 favorites]

Your poop doesn't come out like an ice cream swirl?

This can be simply remedied by attaching a powerful turntable mechanism to your toilet seat.
posted by Paul Slade at 12:01 AM on February 13, 2019 [3 favorites]

Johnny, I love you. Keep being you. You're a sparkle of joy here. Thank you!
posted by hippybear at 12:52 AM on February 13, 2019 [2 favorites]

If you keep doing this, Mr. Wallflower, there will be nothing left when POOP MONTH returns. It’s like the fable of of the ant and the dung beetle.
posted by GenjiandProust at 1:45 AM on February 13, 2019 [4 favorites]

I admire Genji's optimism that humanity might stop producing crap to post online.
posted by hippybear at 1:52 AM on February 13, 2019 [4 favorites]

When POOP MONTH happens, I want it to be the best POOP MONTH possible, not just hasty FPPs made up of whatever crap is laying around. Plus, an 11 month “defication vacation” helps clear the palate...as it were.
posted by GenjiandProust at 4:12 AM on February 13, 2019 [1 favorite]