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TL;DR: Everyone loves Shakespeare, and Shakespeare loved a poo joke
Toilet humour is unifying. Grounded in human bodily functions, every human has experienced going to the toilet, and therefore every human can find toilet humour relatable. Fart jokes transcend cultural or linguistic differences – they don’t need translating.
Scatological humour has been well-used as a literary device by many celebrated writers and artists. Shakespeare’s plays are littered with dirty jokes; Titian’s painting of Bacchus and Ariadne hides multiple visual innuendoes; James Joyce’s works are filled with flatulent onomatopoeia. These works are considered ‘high art’ and have received continual popularity despite of, or perhaps owing to, their prominence of poo jokes.
The counter would be that Martin Luther, one of the least funny people in the history of unfunny people, also had a spectacularly potty mouth.
Vulgar is beautiful
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