What does your toilet reading material say about you?

[TettyLouBar]

We have:
How to be proper Cornish
A Cornish Language Dictionary
A 1930's little book of Don't's for husbands
The Pendants revolt (Truth about facts you thought were true)
Is it me or is everything shit? (Pessimistic rants about everything)
The Official Encyclopaedia of the Cornish Pasty
The little book of Cornwall
The little book of classic cocktails
& Never push when it says pull (Humorous life observations type stuff)

So basically, we are pasty munching, cocktail swigging, factoid hungry pessimists!?

Just curious...your turn

When I was a child I used to read on the loo for ages and ages until my legs went numb, I suppose my feet didn't touch the floor then and my bum was skinny.

Doesn't happen now...wonder why?

I do mumsnet in the bath though, on the iPad.

i can't say we have any books or magazines in our bathroom but i do sometimes check my phone or pick up and read the back of toilet duck or some cleaning products. so i guess that says i'm perhaps ocd i guess.

No specific stuff. The Sunday times, glamour/vogue magazine, how to be a woman, wired magazine. It keeps changing.
What does that make us...a technology obsessed, fashion fanatic feminist household ?

Loolita
War and Piss
Harry Potty

We have
The Scapegoat - Daphne Du Maurier
The Beach - a collection of short stories
A really old copy of The Greatest Short Stories ever written - which is fab.

The latest magazines from National Trust, Home and Garden, The Times,

on the wall is a guide to British Butterflies and Wildlife Trust sites to visit near us.

Can't beat reading on the loo in my opinion! Its the only peace and quiet I get and I fall asleep too quickly if I try and read in bed!

At least you don't fall asleep on the loo Gremlin! lol

It is DH who puts all the reading material in the bathroom so we have several issues of New Scientist and a few books about climbing techniques.

I don't see the problem with reading on the loo. Why is it disgusting? You haven't actually touched anything unhygienic at the time you are reading. Having said that DH thinks it's disgusting so all the booms in our bathroom are mine : poetry anthologies, London guidebooks, miscellany type books including some rude ones, Jacky Fleming cartoons.

My sister once came to visit me and coming back from the bathroom said, 'why do you keep books in the loo?'. I was becuase we'd always had books in the loo at home and she has magazines in her bathroom. I said 'I always have books in the loo'. She said 'actually in the loo?' and I said 'yes', thinking she had gone bananas. Anyway, a little while later I went into the bathroom and was to see that the window had blown open and several books had fallen off the window ledge and into the toilet (lid was open of course).

33 Borrow an ultra violet light - you'll soon see why it's not a good idea. The same reason why unconvered tooth brushes shouldn't be anywhere near the toilet.

unconvered? uncovered...

What?s wrong with reading on the loo? You don?t really use reading material to wipe your arse! Fgs!

Ultra violet light? Uncovered toothbrushes? Tell me Chipping, where do you buy your toothbrush covers?

It says that I need to buy new magazines as they're all from 2009/2010.

Apparently Mythbusters 'busted' the idea of the mushroom cloud of spray that comes from the loo but I've not seen it.

It needs to be a UV light that 'black lights' - it highlights urine. Urine has a horrible way of travelling around a room

Fliss - borrow a lamp

33 mine live inside the bathroom cabinet but you can buy them in travel sections of boots etc.

well I can see that some people might think it is unhygienic, but if your in there doin what your doin...and you wash your hands afterwards - what does it matter that you read in there? The books I have in the toilet are to remain in there. I would never take them out and then give them to a charity shop or lend them to a friend! Once they leave there they're binned. But what's the harm as long as your clean and always wash afterwards???

Tetty - if you don't mind holding everyones urine while you read - then I guess that's up to you isn't it. Personally, I'd sooner not

... and, I imagine there are very few people who do that. Most would just treat them as ordinary books and not give it a thought

well other things in the toilet are touched by people and no doubt have urine on, for example: light switches, toilet flush, toilet brush, toilet roll holder, I know all these thing in theory are wipe clean surfaces but you can't really escape urine in a toilet!
Read on I say! (then wash your hands with warm soapy water!!!)

Let me understand, does pee evaporate and contaminate everything in the loo (including the clothes of everyone who visits the loo?)

Or do people wee all over their bathroom possessions?

Children's books - it says I'm in the loo for such a short time I can only get through a paragraph per visit, so I need something quick & easy to read. Never library books.

Most of the reading happens while I clean my teeth though.

DH doesn't read anything on the loo.

well some must manage to get on things in the bathroom/toilet (ours are old fashioned separate rooms) not from literally spraying it around or weeing on stuff obviously people! But human hands transmit germs and substances that they get into contact with very easily. I'm not talking gallons I'm talking microscopically.

I keep mine on a high shelf in the shower room, Passing time in the loo was a good one. Why is everything shit, also lighthearted and funny. Also have some quotation books and copies of House and Garden and Vanity Fair.

I could be gone some time.

Anyway, I clean the bathrooms daily, everything out, deep clean and mop. It's the spraying urine theory that makes me never re use a towel either.