Why do people say they're "taking" a piss?

[SandyCat]

Shouldn't it be leaving a piss? Are people collecting their pee?

 

[Red Hood]

Stop trying to take my piss! That belongs to ME!

 

[King Fructose]

I collect it and huff the fumes after it’s been sitting out for a few hours.

 

[Chin of Campbell]

It's the same concept as "taking a vacation". "A piss" is the act, not the product. Variants include:
"going for a piss"
"busting for a piss"
You are claiming one of an infinite number of invisible concepts as your own, the act of pissing, and therefore "taking a piss".

 

[SandyCat]

It's the same concept as "taking a vacation". "A piss" is the act, not the product. Variants include:
"going for a piss"
"busting for a piss"
You are claiming one of an infinite number of invisible concepts as your own, the act of pissing, and therefore "taking a piss".

Nice try, we all know you're collecting pee for your weird fetish

 

[Getwhatyou]

Take you female dick out and piss with it.

 

[Pangolin]

Medieval peasants would urinate into a sponge to muffle the shameful pee sounds from God. "Piss" is just an old way of spelling piece. They kept a bunch of sponges in buckets around town, and people would "take a piece" whenever nature called

 

[The Littlest Shitlord]

You aren't the first to wonder: "Why do they call it taking a dump instead of leaving a dump? You're not actually taking it anywhere! Funk dat!"--some wise sage probably

 

[Retink]

I take my piss from my bladder vault and deposit it in the urinal bank, just like any transaction obviously.

 

[Cats]

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they also say they are taking Shits

thunk pronging

 

[Chocolate Wombat]

 

[Just A Fat Round Bird]

its also "taking the piss" as in not being serious, isn't it?

 

[Stupidface]

They're taking a piss.. What is a single piss?

 

[Poppavalyim Andropoff]

its also "taking the piss" as in not being serious, isn't it?

has various uses. mocking someone & unreasonable actions of someone else

 

[zero-who]

They're taking a piss.. What is a single piss?

A piss refers to a single session of pissing, spanning from the time you enter the lavatory to the time you leave.
You don't hear people say "I'm gonna take some pisses" because typically you only need one session of pissing to drain all the piss from your balls.

 

[SandyCat]

thunk provonking

they also say they are taking Shits

thunk pronging

its also "taking the piss" as in not being serious, isn't it?

They're taking a piss.. What is a single piss?

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