Books in the toilet....

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Just euugghhh Or is it just me???

My grandad always kept a pile of crossword books on the windowsill next to the toilet and it made me really uncomfortable 😂😂😂

Please say I'm not the only one who thinks it's a bit grim??

Yes, I have a "loobury". I even rotate stuff in and out of there. I haven't suffered from any illnesses as a consequence.

I do, however, know people who have a shower after every poop. Which is challenging but not impossible at work (you just have to go to the right toilet).

I know (different) people whose entire bathroom is bare apart from the bog roll, they only bring toiletries in when having a shower or a shave. Presumably because everything gets covered in poop dust otherwise.

I know someone who had their downstairs loo removed because it was "too close to the kitchen".

And that's without getting anywhere near the kind of Howard Hughes who refuse to let guests use their toilets.

Ds1 always spends ages in there scrolling on his phone

I don't know why anyone needs to spend so long sitting on the loo that they need entertainment while they are there

I don't know why anyone needs to spend so long lying in the bath that they need entertainment while they are there. After all, it only takes a minute to soap your body and rinse it off, surely? But hey, plenty of people do like to spend longer in there, reading or whatever, and that's just fine!

Gross. Get in, get out.

I have IBS-C so am often in there for 30-40 mins. As a child, I'd take magazines in with me. Now I scroll on my smart phone. It helps relax me so I can do what I need to do. Otherwise I'd probably be in there longer.

Rosie I like that one too, but it's a bit big for the space except for the bathroom - I could have it in there. I'll look at Wayfair, thank you.

'Babs, not much in the porch - the only place where we didn't have piles or shelves of books. Though I have occasionally walked home from the bus while reading and been unable to find my key, so waited around in porch with the book I'm reading anyway...

We have shelves of books in our downstairs toilet. We have travel books, a dictionary, books on best pubs and a few aviation books.

Yes @ Echt the people i cleaned for had a rattan basket full of loo rolls on the opposite side of the loo to the rattan magazine rack. Yuk.

I do wonder if those who read books in the toilet are, in fact, disrupting their concentration level and that's why they spend so long in there.
Their mind is wandering from the task in hand...

It's obvious that those without bowel conditions are unable to think outside of the box or have any kind of understanding for those who do

@WhoWouldHaveThoughtThat

I do wonder if those who read books in the toilet are, in fact, disrupting their concentration level and that's why they spend so long in there. Their mind is wandering from the task in hand...

Too much concentration is not your friend here. You need to relax...

Your poo, and some other body stuff is simply waste, you made it!! Yes of course operate sensible hygiene boundaries around body functions, but poo isn't some terrible out of control contamination from outer space!! I don't know anybody who has become ill or gone mad from contact with their own body products do you? So do you read in bed? What body emissions do you think you deposit onto your bedding even in one night? When I was younger we had an outside loo. Now that's considered unacceptably undesirable and low class. Yet that would have kept all the embarrassing body stuff right away from the house, if you follow the logic....
Sorry, understand it's the "thought" just asking why we people so often repelled by their own shit?

@echt

Gross.

And in a bid to derail this thread, I also detest the baskets full of lavatory paper next to the pan. You know they don't close the lid before flushing so the unused rolls are covered in miscroscopic bits of shit and drops of urine.

And coronavirus if anyone happens to have it.

www.businessinsider.com.au/toilet-flushes-create-a-vortex-of-airborne-coronavirus-poop-particles-2020-6?r=US&IR=T

COVID isn't top of my list, it's the poo-ey bog rolls that do my head in.

The bog rolls that are going to be used for - oh, wiping the poo off your arse.

The bog rolls that are going to be used for - oh, wiping the poo off your arse

I prefer to wipe the shit off my arse with lavatory paper that is not covered in other people's shit and urine.

Ah well, we’re all different. I honestly don’t give a shit. Particularly since I share body fluids with the only person who’s likely to have “contaminated” said loo roll.

I defo need 'in-shite' entertainment. I have IBS and I spend an above average amount of time on the loo.

I have IBD and can spend considerable time in the bathroom while my guts do thier thing.
Reading often helps my mind focus on something other than my intestines attempting to evacuate through the trap door and the pain that comes with it.

@Ginburee - thanks for that image, I've just had my dinner...

WhoWouldHaveThoughtThat, apologies but this (and worse) is a reality to many many people.

It's a no from me.

YANBU- it’s minging.

I think people who don't have books in every possible room are a bit strange, OP. But hey, wouldn't it be boring if we were all the same/insert cliche of choice here.

We've got a stack of Private Eyes in our loo. DS1 spends an inordinate amount of time sitting on the loo with whatever he's currently reading. I do ban him from taking his phone in there. I grew up, not just with books in the loo but an entire bookcase. Seems normal to me.

Just put the sodding seat down before you flush and wash your hands well, don't pick your book up after wiping - what's the issue?

The only book for the Loo is one called Cotswold Privies, cant remember the author but its hilarious