Stalin 'used secret laboratory to analyse Mao's excrement'

[cronus]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-35427926

Stalin 'used secret laboratory to analyse Mao's excrement'

A former Soviet agent says he has found evidence that Joseph Stalin spied on Mao Zedong, among others, by analysing excrement to construct psychological portraits.
By the sound of things, it was a top secret and rather smelly experiment.

According to Russian newspaper reports, in the 1940s Stalin's secret police had set up a special department to get its hands on people's faeces.
The ambitious aim: to analyse samples of foreign leaders' stools.

In other words, espionage via excrement

(continued, Stalin wanted the shit on people - and he got the shit...)

[mistermack]

You shouldn't mock. Shit can tell you a lot.

For instance, you've been eating too much junk food, (yellow) or plenty of healthy food, (dark brown, nearly black). And even when you switched, by the point where it changes colour.

I did read once that the degree of bouyancy was also significant, but I can't remember whether floaters were good or bad.

[jaydot]

you might have got that titbit from the jolly tower of london beefeater crowd pleaser:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DeiW_bWZ2Is

hella funny guy. somewhere in his natter, he remarks that floaters have lots of fat in them. what it signifies from a health point of view i have no idea.

[cronus]

Floaters of a moderate brown hue are healthy. The dark ones that sink are heavy with iron and that means blood and internal bleeding. Not so go good. Could mean a stomach ulcer or colon cancer. Either way you'll soon die without treatment.

[tuco]

I've had my fair share of shit to study on job where I was wiping asses. It can indeed be useful. Generally, own excrements are of interest as it was noted or for mothers when checking babies. On lighter note, any shit can be studied in great depth these days.

From the article:

"I am here to do more than eat and shit."

Its my observation that "more" means work and reproduce for great number of people.

[JimC]

Merde!

[devogue]

I thought this was about Maiforpeace for a second.

That was an odd second.

[pErvinalia]

Is this like those guys who stared at goats?

[JimC]

...with lust in his eyes...

[rainbow]

Could mean a stomach ulcer or colon cancer. Either way you'll soon die without treatment.

It is your bright and cheerful optimism that is your most endearing feature.

[pErvinalia]

What a shit job.

I'm here all month.