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Never played that. It seems for promoting composting? [1] Looking on Internet without a concise answer [2]. Research [3]

[1] https://fitznaturalist.com/2021/01/01/poop-in-the-woods-does...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shit_stick

[3] https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C5&q=+sti...

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For promoting composting? Jesus, I don't think you've ever been within 50 feet of a child, nevermind having been one at some point in the long-distant past.

It's fundamental play. Sight, smell, touch are stimulated, in the context of incremental, controlled danger, and tool manipulation.

The poop is "bad", but it's stationary, so safe to approach and investigate the edges of.

Subgames include:

- breaking the crusty layer on the surface, revealing fresh shit inside

- getting close enough to smell the poop, learning how the hedonic treadmill works

- breaking it into pieces

- smooshing it back together

- trying to pick up pieces with the stick

- showing the poop to other kids, seeing if they are disgusted or interested

This reply is more thorough and wholesome that I'd imagine a reply to "poking excrements with a stick" could be - or should be.

Pretty sure we played all of these as kids.

Another culture... other games. Don't overestimate your experiences and culture please.

If you (re)read the grandparent comment, you’ll find that most of what is being talked about is not related to culture, but with nature.

If you read my message it talks about experience. This is an ad hominem attack.

I only remember doing this as a kid out of curiosity and to annoy other people :)

As a young adult I arrived late in the middle of the night at a remote place and unrolled a tent exactly over a cow patty. The smell and sensations I could not point to in the dream or in the tent. I have worked for less than three hours at a metro sewerage plant. I heard stories of workers being washed away and drowning in the sewer.

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