Try to empty your bowels every day.
One patient elaborated, "You empty your bowel and you … thought it was completely empty….
On sMars, you can't walk out the door, send an email or empty your bowels without a solid team effort.
Empty your bowels and bladder.
Empty your bowels to avoid flatulence.
The local livestock show their appreciation of modern art by emptying their bowels over them.
Excrement would spurt from the bungholes of the young cows; the older ones looked composed, but I knew that was for show, since I could see their tails draw up under their rumps to keep them from emptying their bowels.
Birth can involve beautifully lit pictures by birth photographers, doulas massaging our backs by candle light, and other such internet-ready happenings – but it also involves cervical mucous, emptying the bowels as the baby comes out, cuts and stitches to our genitals, vomiting and sometimes orgasms too.
Survivors of the lethal crush bore tearful witness to the vice-like squeeze, the cracking of ribs, arms and legs, faces losing colour, the vomiting and emptying of bowels and bladders, relatives and friends dying next to them, the still barely believable piles of dead bodies at the front of the "pens".
At times there's a touch of Dr Strangelove satire – Iain Glen's UK foreign secretary taking a life-or-death call while emptying his bowels in a hotel loo in Singapore, or the US secretary of state in Beijing insisting brusquely that the Brits stop interrupting an important game of ping pong and start killing people.
