I was thinking about this post earlier today and started to ponder the origins of some of the phrases we use to describe defecation or things centering around the rectum. For example, why is a bowel movement taking a shit? You'd think it would be giving a shit? Yet when you don't care about something, you don't give a shit. So giving a shit means you care? Giving a shit should just mean you're shitting. That change in language would mean taking a shit would now imply the theft of shit, making a person who takes a shit a turd burglar, a derogatory name for gay men.
Which leads me to another question--leaving the offensive nature of these phrases behind for a moment, why do some people call gay guys turd burglars? This conjures up an image of the Hamburglar rummaging around in unflushed public toilets for solid masses of feces. Worst case, the Hamburglar reaches right up someone's ass to get the treasure of brown gold. Then what does he do with it? Put it on an Egg McMuffin and eat it? Smear it on a neighbor's front door and ring his bell? I'm confused!
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