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AIBU?

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Original poster

to find books and magazines by the toilet unnecessary and unhygienic

175 replies

SunsetMojito · 13/01/2013 21:50

I have even seen a magazine rack placed helpfully beside one!
Boak!
and how long to you actually need to spend in there that you cannot manage without reading?

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WorraLiberty · 13/01/2013 23:34

That makes sense Kentucky

So 'Council juice' doesn't translate particularly well when you take the global market into consideration.

Bogeyface · 13/01/2013 23:36

Juice? You're posh! It's council pop around here!

KentuckyFriedChildren · 13/01/2013 23:40

Lol no. Its like the law or summat. I used to make some cosmetics for myself and looked into selling them but you have to have everything checked loads and use funny names on the labels. I decided against it. Too much hassle

InLoveWithDavidTennant · 13/01/2013 23:42

must remember to play the alphabet game next time im in there.

dh used to read the packets of my sanitary towels before our book habit. he said it made him feel more knowledgeable and proud cause he knew more than most blokes

ComposHat · 14/01/2013 00:56

Is there anything finer than the 'weekend poo' with book/mag/newspaper/phone?

No you are talking, a leisure shite with a good book can be spun out for an hour or so. I only tend to get off when my arse gets numb from the seat.

Nanny0gg · 14/01/2013 01:22

Do you lot not flush with the lid down??

How are there particles if you do?

Iteotwawki · 14/01/2013 01:50

The particles escape on the moment of impact, I imagine. Unless you've had the forethought to put paper over the water surface first to lessen the splashiness :)

Also laughed (embarrassingly out loud) at using poo-covered finger for the crossword. Am at work, supposed to be v quiet.

DH always tells me when he's going for an iPoo (as opposed to a normal one) - I know he'll be ages and won't nag him to hurry up :) I am a slave to old fashioned habits, I have a loo library of books. All easy reading / short article type stuff, can't poo without reading!

DS 1 (6) has recently discovered the joys of reading in peace on the loo, it's a good job we have enough!

thatisall · 14/01/2013 03:38

We have a weirdly large loo room.......so I put a little bookcase on there and we put funny books on it.
Couldn't give a money's if its hygienic or not it always raises a smile when people see it for the first time lol

Kytti · 14/01/2013 03:55

My dear GF always took a paper to the toilet with him and I didn't know why. When I asked Grandma she said "to read of course" like I was thick. Thus began my love of reading on the loo. Fab. Only place I manage to get some peace these days, and unless I sneak off, not even then!

MsFanackerPants · 14/01/2013 04:00

Has this article already been posted?
Is reading on the loo bad for you

For those worrying about poo particles, microbes should die relatively quickly on paper but can live much longer on the nice shiny screen of your phone.

We have back issues of Private Eye, DP's professional magazine and The F word I used to also have a book on swearing but I have no idea where it is. We have a basket for them to live in.

Notafoodbabyanymore · 14/01/2013 05:18

Oh this thread has really made me laugh. So glad there are other loo readers about, I love a good poo and a read, me. That's what it was always called in our house . "Just going for a poo and a read..."

Also have often been known to read the back of any convenient packet or bottle, though mum and dad have a stack of Reader's Digests at their house, which are perfect.

My variation of the alphabet game is to pick a letter then see how many things in the room start with that letter. S and T are both quite good.

Clearly I find pooing very boring indeed!

Tee2072 · 14/01/2013 06:52

Well shoot I was working up a good aqua rant and then saw there was a reason for it.

I don't get people who don't read in the loo!

CelticPromise · 14/01/2013 07:33

I love this thread. I'm very happy to realise we are not the only household with a loo library. It has funny books, books of sports facts, that kind of stuff. If one of us gets given a suitable book we both know straightaway '
toilet book'!

I have only had positive comments from guests about the books, but I expect anyone who's about them keeps it to themselves!

WorraLiberty · 14/01/2013 09:20

@ 'going for an iPoo'!!

theodorakisses · 14/01/2013 09:30

We have a bookshelf and magazines and when potty training a paper and pencils for early training of toilet occupation. Lucky we have more than one bathroom really otherwise nobody would get a look in.

theodorakisses · 14/01/2013 09:31

I have all my Jill pony books in there and people my age often go missing for ages when they visit

WhispersOfWickedness · 14/01/2013 09:52

Bogey - you used to be able to find them on Sainsbury's products as they were officially J Sainsbury's but not sure if that's the case now as we don't shop there often You can also get lucky with postcodes for customer services sometimes

I'm loving the I Spy variation on the alphabet game too

BlackholesAndRevelations · 14/01/2013 10:02

I suppose I'm lucky in that I usually go in, poo, and leave. Don't need or want to sit around reading.

(do people flush their poo away and then continue to read, or just sit there with it festering beneath their arses?)

zingally · 14/01/2013 15:07

There's often books in my loo! So much so a friend got me "The Bumper Book For The Loo" book this past Christmas because "when ever I go in there, there's a book on the floor!" It's just a book of random facts. :)

thegreylady · 14/01/2013 15:12

I always have a book or two in the bathroom.I always have.I think I'd die of constipation if I couldn't read.Interestingly my dgs who is nearly 4 also asks for a book to look at if he needs a poo.

diddl · 14/01/2013 15:15

It´s funny what you get used to, isn´t it?

When I lived with my parents there was a lidded box/stool with books/magazines in the bathroom.

Think it was Mum´s way of getting some peace!

We often used to say that we were "going to the library!"

We have books & magazines in our bathroom.

Wouldn´t read in anyone else´s house though!

Pandemoniaa · 14/01/2013 15:17

Having a Lavatorial Library is so essential in our family that we probably can't perform without it. Despite this being in existence for many years (and for generations of the family earlier) none of us seem to have been Struck Down by Poo Bugs. Not least because we don't actually shit on the books and magazines but instead, put them down carefully before attending to the more toxic parts of our anatomy. Hands are then washed before we leave the lav and return to a world where, increasingly, just the thought of germs, seems to cause conniptions.

Delalakis · 14/01/2013 15:52

How can people get so obsessive about hygiene that they even have time to start worrying about reading matter in people's loos? I suspect those are the type of people whose kids get every bug going when they turn up at school because they've never had a chance to develop any immunity. I've kept mags and newspapers in the loo for decades, and neither I nor any of my family have ever succumbed to dreadful poo-borne plagues. QED, I think.

SPsFanjoIsAsComfyAsAOnesie · 14/01/2013 15:57

I buy Chat, Take A Break and love it for baths and toilet reading material

I also use my phone but after a phone in the loo accident its not very often

InLoveWithDavidTennant · 14/01/2013 17:34

the one book that permenantly lives by the loo is "the giant bathroom book of dumbology". dh has "shit my kids say" and i have an easy read novel... generally one thats written like a diary or one with very short chapters

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