Do you read while using a toilet?
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Topic: Do you read while using a toilet?
Posted By: clarke2001
Subject: Do you read while using a toilet?
Date Posted: October 30 2009 at 17:59
 I think this one needs no further explanations.  I have to admit - I do, and I'm enjoying it. Since I was a little boy. Everybody in my family was/is doing it, so I'm no exception. Sometimes newspapers, magazines, comics, but mostly books. The bad thing (is it bad, really?) is an addiction (or perhaps an OCD?) on reading while being on toilet. It goes that far, if I don't have a book nearby, I'll read ingredients from a shampoo bottle or play with my mobile phone. If I have absolutely nothing readable at hand, I'll watch the patterns in tiles which resemble letters... Oh well. Your votes and opinions please! ------------- |
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Posted By: Snow Dog
Date Posted: October 30 2009 at 18:15
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Always. ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Snow_Dog" rel="nofollow"> 
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Posted By: Ricochet
Date Posted: October 30 2009 at 18:18
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Seldom. Never newspapers, always books.
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Posted By: Slartibartfast
Date Posted: October 30 2009 at 18:25
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It's something to do while you're doing your doo, isn't it? Never enough time to read while your doing a whizz.  Except of course ads over the unirals.  ------------- Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened... 
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Posted By: splyu
Date Posted: October 30 2009 at 18:25
| Almost always. |
Posted By: Dalezilla
Date Posted: October 30 2009 at 18:30
| I voted yes, but it's usually the nintendo ds. |
Posted By: Slartibartfast
Date Posted: October 30 2009 at 18:31
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Now that you mention it, I've got some reading material in the etagere at my flooded out house I need to move over to the apartment. I've got two books I haven't managed to get all the way through for more than a year now, one by Kevin Phillips and one by Noam Chomsky. I prefer reading material that can be read in short bursts.
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Posted By: Bitterblogger
Date Posted: October 30 2009 at 18:38
| Not when barfing. |
Posted By: Abstrakt
Date Posted: October 30 2009 at 18:53
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Occasionally. I did it just a few hours ago
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Posted By: Epignosis
Date Posted: October 30 2009 at 19:16
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Where do you think I'm reading this thread?
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Posted By: KoS
Date Posted: October 30 2009 at 19:22
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No. I have no idea what you people eat to spend so much time on the toilet. I usually do my business and get on with my life. |
Posted By: Epignosis
Date Posted: October 30 2009 at 19:24
You must not have much of a life. ------------- https://epignosis.bandcamp.com/album/a-month-of-sundays" rel="nofollow - https://epignosis.bandcamp.com/album/a-month-of-sundays |
KoS wrote:Posted By: Man With Hat
Date Posted: October 30 2009 at 19:24
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No. But not a bizzarre idea at all. ------------- Dig me...But don't...Bury me I'm running still, I shall until, one day, I hope that I'll arrive Warning: Listening to jazz excessively can cause a laxative effect. |
Posted By: KoS
Date Posted: October 30 2009 at 19:25
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Posted By: The Doctor
Date Posted: October 30 2009 at 19:28
^ gotta agree with you. i go in...do my business...and get out. no time for reading. the bathroom is boring...why would i want to spend time in there reading.  ------------- I can understand your anger at me, but what did the horse I rode in on ever do to you? |
Posted By: clarke2001
Date Posted: October 30 2009 at 19:31
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But it is a part of life... I used to sit and read for an hour or even hour-and-half, while the members of my household were shouting and banging at the doors. As I'm older now, I can't sit for longer than 15 minutes - my legs get 'fizzy'. But if nothing else, I finally have a newspapers stand and a bookshelf mounted on a wall next to a toilet seat, in my own toilet. The books get a bit moldy, though.  ------------- |
Posted By: The Doctor
Date Posted: October 30 2009 at 19:36
That might have been TMI.  ------------- I can understand your anger at me, but what did the horse I rode in on ever do to you? |
Posted By: mrcozdude
Date Posted: October 30 2009 at 19:47
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No I intend not to spent much time in there.It's not my favourite place to educate myself.
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Posted By: Xanthous
Date Posted: October 30 2009 at 20:00
| I don't take that much time to release excrement from myself. I very rarely make it to the toilet, so adding reading to the equation would equal disaster. |
Posted By: Epignosis
Date Posted: October 30 2009 at 20:39
Sorry...just makes me feel more like a man.  ------------- https://epignosis.bandcamp.com/album/a-month-of-sundays" rel="nofollow - https://epignosis.bandcamp.com/album/a-month-of-sundays |
Posted By: A Person
Date Posted: October 30 2009 at 21:27
| I am too quick to have time to read, I poo like a ninja. TMI? |
Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: October 30 2009 at 21:36
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Newspapers are good: read it first, wipe with it later. Butt seriously, I spend far too little time on the potty to make reading there worthwhile. ------------- https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXcp9fYc6K4IKuxIZkenfvukL_Y8VBqzK" rel="nofollow - Duos for fave acts |
Posted By: Evolutionary Sleeper
Date Posted: October 30 2009 at 21:54
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I play tetris on my phone while on the john.
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Posted By: TheCaptain
Date Posted: October 31 2009 at 16:07
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I'll join the "There's not enough time" group although I'm sure I would if I had eaten a bunch of rubber cement or something. ------------- Curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal. |
Posted By: stonebeard
Date Posted: October 31 2009 at 16:09
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Yeah, but I generally don't chill out in there. So a quick crossword session or university newspaper is fine. ------------- http://soundcloud.com/drewagler" rel="nofollow - My soundcloud. Please give feedback if you want! |
Posted By: Equality 7-2521
Date Posted: October 31 2009 at 16:12
------------- "One had to be a Newton to notice that the moon is falling, when everyone sees that it doesn't fall. " |
Posted By: The T
Date Posted: October 31 2009 at 16:59
I read the whole Bible there once.... 
Well... nothing that long... But YES, always. ------------- 
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Posted By: Negoba
Date Posted: October 31 2009 at 21:52
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I read once that Hemingway wrote that a good poo was more satisfying than sex. That might have been later on in life. Or maybe I was just reading for an English final in the john. That was a long time ago. ------------- You are quite a fine person, and I am very fond of you. But you are only quite a little fellow, in a wide world, after all. |
Posted By: J-Man
Date Posted: October 31 2009 at 22:33
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Screw reading! I listen to my iPod with my noise cancelling headphones on the can! -Jeff ------------- 
Check out my YouTube channel! http://www.youtube.com/user/demiseoftime" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/user/demiseoftime |
Posted By: Ivan_Melgar_M
Date Posted: October 31 2009 at 22:37
Whatever i do in the toilet, is a secret between the toilet and me. So won't t4ell you if I read or not.
Iván. ------------- 
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Posted By: progkidjoel
Date Posted: October 31 2009 at 22:39
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Posted By: Plankowner
Date Posted: October 31 2009 at 23:33
| I have George Carlin's "Brain Droppings"and a little Zen book .. I used to have a chess puzzle book also, mate in 4, 5 .. But generally I only have time to read a few "quotes" from the above mentioned.. |
Posted By: Pekka
Date Posted: November 01 2009 at 01:41
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Yes, definitely, always. Usually I've got a couple of music mags on top of the laudry machine, now I'm reading (not at this very moment but in about five minutes) a book on the making of RHCP's BSSM. ------------- http://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=42652" rel="nofollow - It's on PA! 
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Posted By: progkidjoel
Date Posted: November 01 2009 at 02:53
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Usually a page or two of a novel I'm reading, but not always. -------------
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Posted By: Vompatti
Date Posted: November 01 2009 at 05:55
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Usually yes. I read most of my mail on the toilet. If there's no mail, I pick one of the unfinished books that I have lying on the coffee table. Preferably something with short chapters, unless I have a good reason to assume that it'll be a lengthy visit, in which case I'm drawn towards something with a tumultuous palpitating flow. The Bible suits both occasions, so does Bukowski. |
Posted By: el dingo
Date Posted: November 01 2009 at 06:34
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At home yes always, everywhere else, no.
Currently reading Ernesto Guevera's The Motorcycle Diaries in my can - short chapterlets, perfect
When finished Che: The Howard Marks Book of Dope Stories - short sections again ------------- It's not that I can't find worth in anything, it's just that I can't find worth in enough. |
Posted By: someone_else
Date Posted: November 01 2009 at 06:41
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Occasionally. Once I read this one one a toilet wall:
Some people come here to s1t and th1nk
Some people come here to sh1t and st1nk
But I came here to scratch my mailto:b@lls - b@lls
And read the writings on the mailto:w@lls - w@lls
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Posted By: el dingo
Date Posted: November 01 2009 at 06:54
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There's no writing on my toilet wall to read. I've got a few pictures and a medicine cabinet tho ------------- It's not that I can't find worth in anything, it's just that I can't find worth in enough. |
Posted By: BaldFriede
Date Posted: November 01 2009 at 08:30
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As the German poet Joachim Ringelnatz said: "The toilet is the place where you manure and harvest literature".
-------------  BaldJean and I; I am the one in blue. |
Posted By: LinusW
Date Posted: November 01 2009 at 09:19
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Absolutely! Not always though, but certainly more often than not. Often history magazines. |
Posted By: ExittheLemming
Date Posted: November 01 2009 at 09:33
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Assuming the congregation don't object, yes.
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Posted By: Vibrationbaby
Date Posted: November 01 2009 at 10:05
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Posted By: Jim Garten
Date Posted: November 02 2009 at 05:14
Me? Usually - but only mind enhancing literature; current read of choice?
Can't beat a good giggle whilst having a great big continued p985 ------------- 
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Posted By: Moogtron III
Date Posted: November 02 2009 at 06:24
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Yes, sometimes. Sometimes it feels like an absolute waste of time to go to the toilet and then I take a book with me. Heavy stuff also, no cartoons. Good for the digestion
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Posted By: crimhead
Date Posted: November 03 2009 at 14:01
| Seldom, I am lucky that I don't have to work or wait too long when that magic moment arrives. |
Posted By: Jozef
Date Posted: November 03 2009 at 19:11
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Sometimes, I'll bring a book in there once in awhile. The bathroom is the perfect distraction free environment. < id="gwProxy" ="">< ="jsCall;" id="jsProxy" =""> ------------- 
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Posted By: npjnpj
Date Posted: November 04 2009 at 04:48
| I never go. I find it very unladylike. |
Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: November 04 2009 at 06:24
It depends on how neat the handwriting is...
Of course, if it's too neat then I've gone through the wrong door again.  ------------- What? |
Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: November 04 2009 at 06:25
------------- What? |
Posted By: jampa17
Date Posted: November 04 2009 at 10:53
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Occasionally... the newspaper is fine enough to a light reading, but sometimes in the night I take the novel I'm reading and do a copule of chapters... Is the magical space for me... ------------- |
Posted By: Green Shield Stamp
Date Posted: November 04 2009 at 12:23
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I always read music magazines whilst having a poo. Currently I am enjoying Classic Rock Presents Prog every morning between 7.35 and 7.45 (on work days). ------------- Haiku Writing a poem With seventeen syllables Is very diffic.... |
Posted By: Henry Plainview
Date Posted: November 04 2009 at 14:06
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It takes less than 2 minutes to poop, why would reading be worth the trouble? That has never made sense to me. If you want to read for an hour, you should be reading with your pants up...
Next you guys are going to tell me that you pee in the shower! ------------- if you own a sodastream i hate you |
Posted By: Slartibartfast
Date Posted: November 04 2009 at 14:15
I read the toilet paper. The perforations are very informative.
Hey, we only had one toilet fer cryin out loud. ------------- Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened...
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Posted By: Negoba
Date Posted: November 04 2009 at 14:17
Surely you don't bother getting out of the shower to pee?
Besides, I'm hyper, I read while standing taking a leak. ------------- You are quite a fine person, and I am very fond of you. But you are only quite a little fellow, in a wide world, after all. |
Posted By: J-Man
Date Posted: November 04 2009 at 14:23
Wow that's sad. -------------
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Posted By: Vompatti
Date Posted: November 04 2009 at 14:27
^ I usually pee before I get a shower. And if I take a bath, like I usually do, I don't pee in the water. But if I'm reading in the bathtub, I might get up and pee while still reading. (In fact I'm going to take a bath with William Burroughs right now.  ) |
Posted By: Negoba
Date Posted: November 04 2009 at 14:36
So much to read, so little time. ------------- You are quite a fine person, and I am very fond of you. But you are only quite a little fellow, in a wide world, after all. |
Posted By: J-Man
Date Posted: November 04 2009 at 14:38
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I'm getting some nasty images in my head right now.... -------------
Check out my YouTube channel! http://www.youtube.com/user/demiseoftime" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/user/demiseoftime |
Posted By: Epignosis
Date Posted: November 04 2009 at 14:59
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My wife doesn't read. I know this because she perpetually leaves the door open.  ------------- https://epignosis.bandcamp.com/album/a-month-of-sundays" rel="nofollow - https://epignosis.bandcamp.com/album/a-month-of-sundays |
Posted By: TheCaptain
Date Posted: November 04 2009 at 19:18
I'm sorry but I'll have to report you to the authorities. I'd have no problem if it were consensual but I seriously doubt that can be the case. ------------- Curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal. |
Posted By: himtroy
Date Posted: November 04 2009 at 20:35
| Yes, but not using it's bathroom function. |
Posted By: mrcozdude
Date Posted: November 04 2009 at 20:40
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Posted By: Alberto Muñoz
Date Posted: November 04 2009 at 21:04
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Yes, always. -------------  |
Posted By: JJLehto
Date Posted: November 04 2009 at 21:09
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Occasionally. Only when I feel it may be a particularly long venture. |
Posted By: Drew
Date Posted: November 04 2009 at 21:13
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No- strange ------------- |
Posted By: Vompatti
Date Posted: November 05 2009 at 00:23
Go ahead, they're already after me. |
Posted By: clarke2001
Date Posted: November 05 2009 at 10:40
Phew...I'm often peeing in the sink while shaving myself.  ------------- |
Posted By: Negoba
Date Posted: November 05 2009 at 10:42
Manscaping? ------------- You are quite a fine person, and I am very fond of you. But you are only quite a little fellow, in a wide world, after all. |
Posted By: Vompatti
Date Posted: November 05 2009 at 10:43
I've heard it keeps the pipes clear of debris. |
Posted By: Jim Garten
Date Posted: November 05 2009 at 10:45
I am learning waaaay too much about fellow forum members  -------------
Jon Lord 1941 - 2012 |
Posted By: clarke2001
Date Posted: November 05 2009 at 11:50
That would be a handy disinfectant, but no. ------------- |
Posted By: Green Shield Stamp
Date Posted: November 05 2009 at 12:06
------------- Haiku Writing a poem With seventeen syllables Is very diffic.... |
Posted By: mrcozdude
Date Posted: November 05 2009 at 12:19
It did mention about Moyles and the toilet book right?I hadn't checked but I remember it on that episode. ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/cozfunkel/" rel="nofollow">
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Posted By: jampa17
Date Posted: November 05 2009 at 14:58
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We are entering into a dangerous place right know boys... too much information... ------------- |
Posted By: markosherrera
Date Posted: November 05 2009 at 17:22
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Only when there are many people that want the newspaper
------------- Hi progmaniacs of all the world |
Posted By: valravennz
Date Posted: November 06 2009 at 03:48
 - It must be a "man" thing. I sure don't have time to spare in "the smallest room in the house".  ------------- 
"Music is the Wine that fills the cup of Silence" - Robert Fripp |
Posted By: Syzygy
Date Posted: November 06 2009 at 04:07
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Yes, always. The average person spends three years of their life sitting on the toilet, and (in the UK) it takes 3 years to get a university degree. Therefore, if you read something every time you go, you'll have the equivalent of a university education (although in my case that would be an education in sports results, Far Side cartoons and Colemanballs). ------------- 'Like so many of you I've got my doubts about how much to contribute to the already rich among us...' Robert Wyatt, Gloria Gloom |
Posted By: Jim Garten
Date Posted: November 06 2009 at 04:58
Chris, I've got two words for you: Real Ale  -------------
Jon Lord 1941 - 2012 |
Posted By: Negoba
Date Posted: November 06 2009 at 08:37
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In America, Stag will serve the same purpose. Slicker than a whistle. ------------- You are quite a fine person, and I am very fond of you. But you are only quite a little fellow, in a wide world, after all. |