Precise calibration is essential

**Hitcher** · 23rd February 2010, 20:50

The Bristol Stool Scale or Bristol Stool Chart is a medical aid designed to classify the form of human faeces into seven categories. Sometimes referred to in the UK as the "Meyers Scale," it was developed by Heaton at the University of Bristol and was first published in the Scandinavian Journal of Gastroenterology in 1997. The form of the stool depends on the time it spends in the colon.

The seven types of stool are:

* Type 1: Separate hard lumps, like nuts (hard to pass)
* Type 2: Sausage-shaped, but lumpy
* Type 3: Like a sausage but with cracks on its surface
* Type 4: Like a sausage or snake, smooth and soft
* Type 5: Soft blobs with clear cut edges (passed easily)
* Type 6: Fluffy pieces with ragged edges, a mushy stool
* Type 7: Watery, no solid pieces. Entirely liquid

Types 1 and 2 indicate constipation, with 3 and 4 being the "ideal stools" especially the latter, as they are the easiest to pass, and 5–7 being further tending towards diarrhoea or urgency.

**merv** · 23rd February 2010, 20:54

... and the precise reason for you sharing this information with us is?

**Oakie** · 23rd February 2010, 20:54

Proof positive that sometimes you just talk shit Mr Hitcher.

**Oakie** · 23rd February 2010, 20:55

Oh dear God. Please don't let this end up as a poll !

**Hitcher** · 23rd February 2010, 21:01

Originally Posted by Oakie

Proof positive that sometimes you just talk shit Mr Hitcher.

Now that you have a calibration chart, you should be able to specify exactly what type. You couldn't do that before, now could you?

**Mikkel** · 23rd February 2010, 21:02

That's some serious shit mate!

**Mully** · 23rd February 2010, 21:05

Is this the new method for classifying threads on KB, Hitcher?

**Oakie** · 23rd February 2010, 21:10

Originally Posted by Hitcher

Now that you have a calibration chart, you should be able to specify exactly what type. You couldn't do that before, now could you?

No. You are right. I thank you...I think. I may have to put up a copy of the chart in the dunny. Purely for evaluative purposes of course.

Best not to confuse this with the Beaufort Scale although I suppose they may have some things in common.

**Mikkel** · 23rd February 2010, 21:13

Originally Posted by Mully

Is this the new method for classifying threads on KB, Hitcher?

Threads? Posters are more like it...

Type 7 - completely without consistency.

Type 4 - smooth...

Type 1 - ranting, no coherency.

etc.

**R6_kid:Me** · 23rd February 2010, 21:15

I usually enjoy passing a good type 3/4. Sometimes I have to deal with numerous type 2's after a night of drinking and over zealous consumption of food.

**Laava** · 23rd February 2010, 21:35

Is this the new rating system we must all use now? As in, " That is just a puddle of No7!" or "That is a great bit of advice! Good No 3/4!"

edit; should have read thread first What a shithead!

**Maha** · 23rd February 2010, 21:42

I've had 1-7 easily!

**gijoe1313** · 24th February 2010, 10:05

So when you say you have to do a number two, that suddenly doesn't rate so well on the Stool Scale now! So I guess you'd have to state an estimation like "off to do a number seven! Get out of my way!"