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??

@WhoWouldHaveThoughtThat

What do you people do if you have to use a restaurant / public toilet? Do you have a Readers Digest Compendium of Short Stories on your person for these occasions? Or just read the walls?

Most people try to avoid having a shit in public toilets if at all possible. Reading matter doesn't tend to be wanted for a quick pee.

Toilets seats are always down in my house unless I am sitting on it

We're talking about the lid, not the seat!

Restaurant - social activity with other people, so I would not linger in the toilet and keep them waiting.

At home - see @ElizabethWoodviIIe's response above - if I have the time, it's a great escape.

Well, leaving a book in the bathroom led to a whole mess of trouble for Walter White!

(Breaking Bad fan)

Always done it in our family, and whilst we are a confessed family of Filth Wizards, I have noted many a naice home, inhabited by non-filth wizards that have books/magazines in the loo...

Have not died of it yet, will continue to read on the toilet.

For those of you saying 'if it takes so long theres something wrong with you'... you know that if you are forcing out a poo and rushing it, thats also not good for you either.

Have not died of it yet, will continue to read on the toilet.

Although I can't see the hygiene issue either, I should point out in the interests of science, that those families who have been killed by some microbe that was clinging to their copy of Horse and Hound are hardly in a position to come on MN to post about it. It's literally survivorship bias.

That's horrid, Davros. In addition to the books in the bathroom, I also have Country Life, The Spectator and some Christie's porn catalogues.

I was in my bookless loo this morning wondering if I’ve been missing an opportunity for some extra me-time, and should get a few books in there. This thread might have changed my life!

@Gobbycop

Weird,

How long to people need to do a shit?

It takes as long as it takes. The more relaxed you are the more likely you are to completely finish the job (as it were).

@DadDadDad

Have not died of it yet, will continue to read on the toilet.

Although I can't see the hygiene issue either, I should point out in the interests of science, that those families who have been killed by some microbe that was clinging to their copy of Horse and Hound are hardly in a position to come on MN to post about it. It's literally survivorship bias.

Only if they were all wiped out simultaneously, and surely that would have got in the papers? :)

FIVE DIE IN TOILET TRAGEDY
Case blows the lid off secret world of loo readers

ravenmum -

It sounds like a great plot for Silent Witness.

I genuinely don't understand how it can take so long to poo. Surely it happens quite quickly once you've sat down? Do people sit for twenty minutes reading whilst it dries on your bum? Not being weird, genuinely confused!

It's not a matter of it taking a long time to poo or wee, I just find it boring sitting there staring into space if I'm there for two minutes or ten. I tend to have a magazine on the go so I can just read short articles if I'm not in there for long.

@RiteAid

Also I rmember reading somewhere that if you have time to read there is something wrong with your elimination. It should not take any time at all if healthy.

Why are people so shocked that bowel disorders exist...? Between 10 and 20% of the population has IBS, and that’s only one of the many disorders that can mean it takes people a while on the loo.

It’s not a moral failing to have digestive difficulties...

Some people also read very quickly. I tend to read magazines in the loo rather than books, but would expect to finish an Private Eye article well within 30 seconds.

@Pobblebonk - even worse if someone is taking their time in a cubicle and their friend waiting outside strikes up a conversation with them.

(I think that was a basis for a Jim Davis joke)

Yep it's awful. Sat in top of your own filth

Jesus...some people really get worked up about THE most ridiculous things ffs 🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️

just thought - if I leave some books in the loo, will my kids read more...?

Haven’t rtft but ExMIL used to have a full length mirror directly in front of the toilet (close enough to touch it).

I’d rather have a crossword to look at than have to stare up my clown hole while having a wee 😂

I have the QI 1227 Fascinating Facts next to the loo.

I think this every time I visit my MIL, she has a book on the small pedal bin next to the loo, she doesn't take baths and quite often they are library book She also rarely cleans so it's just grim all round. No thanks

A pile of books by the loo is for me quite old fashioned. It is something that I saw as a child, but not more recently. Looking back it was a bit grim; lots of unwashed hands handling the same object. TBH I am never on the loo long enough to read anything anyway.

For all the posters shuddering at the airborne poo particles, Phillip M. Tierno, a microbiologist and the author of The Secret Life of Germs says we are covered ("literally bathed") in fine particles of poo as is pretty much everywhere else (whole house, offices, gyms, etc) with the loo (the room) tending to have the least bacteria because it tends to be the most "vigorously and regularly" cleaned room.

Hmm... lovely thought

My husband and several other men I know often have a cup of tea and read The Spectator on the loo on Saturday morning, it is a weekly ritual. My parents had a friend years ago who read the whole of
Encyclopaedia Brittanica on the loo to escape his wife's endless chatter. I always read on the loo as a child and think it's desperately mean if there is no loo literature available when visiting friends.

We used to have a loo just off the kitchen, it was very convenient but we decided that being able to open the dishwasher while sitting on the loo was a bit disgusting.

A library book @Nellisterr?!

err. there are some of us that are under a specialist and you want to take away something we need to pass the time grrr. lol