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[-] NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 29 points 4 months ago

Id be less than thrilled if my name was permanently associated with the urge to take a shit.

[-] Cosmos7349@lemmy.world 22 points 4 months ago

Not to mention it's both the family name AND given name. Just so there's no doubt or confusion. 😂

[-] altima_neo@lemmy.zip 7 points 4 months ago

It was a letter in a magazine article. It was likely an alias, or bullshit.

[-] lars@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 4 months ago

Wikipedia says she’s real and doesn’t really mind the association

[-] MagnyusG@lemmy.world 23 points 4 months ago

That just sounds like that thing where entering a place of comfort makes the body relax, which could easily trigger said urge, the quirk here is that this lady had it pinpointed to bookstores.

[-] snooggums@midwest.social 11 points 4 months ago

I assumed they associated reading and using the toilet and the volume of books just triggered the association in their mind, and wasn't surprised to see it as one of the hypothesis.

[-] xia@lemmy.sdf.org 8 points 4 months ago

Oddly specific...

[-] Thcdenton@lemmy.world 7 points 4 months ago

Well if you read on the shitter ofc you gonna get all pavlovian in a bookstore

[-] can@sh.itjust.works 7 points 4 months ago

I wonder if those women know their picture is used in such an amusing article.

[-] Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee 4 points 4 months ago

Well ofc you can't go it in a library, it's way too noisy.

[-] Drusas@kbin.run 4 points 4 months ago

Not what I would want to have named after me.

this post was submitted on 25 Jun 2024
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