Reading on the Toilet

pappyodaniel · 07-06-2014 09:53PM #1

It seems to be mainly a male thing as I'm yet to meet a female who'll admit to doing this. It's a very peaceful place to read without any distractions...apart from the smell :pac:

What do you think?

qo2cj1dsne8y4k · 07-06-2014 09:55PM

I do it all the time. In fact, i only ever used to play candy crush on the toilet and I got to level 90 or something. Good times.

wazky · 07-06-2014 09:55PM

I play Angry Birds, sometimes I get lost in the emotion of it and spend half an hour in the jacks.

pappyodaniel · 07-06-2014 09:56PM

Poll added.

catallus · 07-06-2014 09:56PM

I can't understand anyone who uses their phone or reads anything on the jacks. It is just weird.

Arthur Beesley · 07-06-2014 09:56PM

I don't suffer from constipation, so no, I don't read on the toilet.

MRnotlob606 · 07-06-2014 09:56PM

Disgusting whoever does that should be shot up against an ice cream van

Chucken · 07-06-2014 09:56PM

LexieOnRale wrote: »

I do it all the time. In fact, i only ever used to play candy crush on the toilet and I got to level 90 or something. Good times.

wazky wrote: »

I play Angry Birds, sometimes I get lost in the emotion of it and spend half an hour in the jacks.

Reading as taken on a whole new level

IrishHomer · 07-06-2014 09:57PM

catallus wrote: »

I can't understand anyone who uses their phone or reads anything on the jacks. It is just weird.

I do it every morning it's most enjoyable part if the whole day

Judgement Day · 07-06-2014 09:57PM

Is it not primarily old men like George Hook who have problems with their bowel functions that read on the toilet while they await some activity?

qo2cj1dsne8y4k · 07-06-2014 09:58PM

Chucken wrote: »

Reading as taken on a whole new level

I read boards too! Sometimes I even post from there.

Legs.Eleven · 07-06-2014 09:58PM

Constipated People Anonymous.

Vinz Mesrine · 07-06-2014 09:58PM

I'm doing it right now

wazky · 07-06-2014 09:58PM

Chucken wrote: »

Reading as taken on a whole new level

Well I'm not playing it with my ears so It does involve sight I suppose?

shopaholic01 · 07-06-2014 10:01PM

No, it's supposed to lead to constipation because you're not concentrating on your, eh, evacuation.

In, job done and straight out.

Tail Docker · 07-06-2014 10:01PM

It's the seat of all learning.

Leogirl · 07-06-2014 10:01PM

I always thought it was male thing til I went to Brazil- at home they leave stacks of reading material in the loo! Men's & women's mags- so the women do it too it seems.

pappyodaniel · 07-06-2014 10:04PM

Leogirl wrote: »

I always thought it was male thing til I went to Brazil- at home they leave stacks of reading material in the loo! Men's & women's mags- so the women do it too it seems.

I quietly used to love an oul' gawk at Cosmo or Heat magazine back in the day so that may not be strictly true.

Leogirl · 07-06-2014 10:07PM

pappyodaniel wrote: »

I quietly used to love an oul' gawk at Cosmo or Heat magazine back in the day so that may not be strictly true.

I asked the girls- they do & had no problem admitting it. They thought I was odd for finding it odd! :-) Like a lot of things in Brazil...

Mena · 07-06-2014 10:16PM

I couldn't trust someone that doesn't read in the crapper.

Lenin Skynard · 07-06-2014 10:22PM

Leogirl wrote: »

I always thought it was male thing til I went to Brazil- at home they leave stacks of reading material in the loo! Men's & women's mags- so the women do it too it seems.

I doubt that's a Brazilian thing, in my family house where I grew up, the bathroom was referred to as "the library". Big heap of magazines and books in there. I still end end up reading the "Liz Jones' Diary" article from the Sunday Mail magazine and my horoscope when I go down for Sunday dinner, god help me.

Leogirl · 07-06-2014 10:52PM

Lenin Skynard wrote: »

I doubt that's a Brazilian thing, in my family house where I grew up, the bathroom was referred to as "the library". Big heap of magazines and books in there. I still end end up reading the "Liz Jones' Diary" article from the Sunday Mail magazine and my horoscope when I go down for Sunday dinner, god help me.

We call it the library but only when my father goes in :-) And I think he's reading novels in there, the length of time he's gone for!!!

Sir Osis of Liver. · 07-06-2014 11:04PM

My neighbours father had a Toilet Roll holder with a built-in radio.
The dirty bastard would disappear to the jacks on a Sunday afternoon to listen to the Gaa match on his toilet roll.He could squat there for 2 hours shouting "Gwan Tipp" while sh1tting his fat arse off.

Colser · 07-06-2014 11:04PM

Leogirl wrote: »

We call it the library but only when my father goes in :-) And I think he's reading novels in there, the length of time he's gone for!!!

If he takes his phone in with him I doubt that its novels hes looking at tbh

Penny Tration · 07-06-2014 11:06PM

I can't poo comfortably unless I'm reading something. At times when there's no reading material in the bathroom, I read shampoo bottles.

I also don't have constipation (I've never been constipated in my life, don't even know what it feels like), but I read for a minute or two after I've pooed and then finish off.

Davarus Walrus · 07-06-2014 11:07PM

Nothing too highbrow when perching on the pot. I'll leave The Idiot by Dostoevsky to those who consider the can a place to catch up with the classics. Prefer something a bit lighter and more frivolous. The VIZ Das Kraptial is ideal, as it over 500 amusing words and phrases to describe the act you are engaging in at that moment.

catallus · 07-06-2014 11:08PM

The Idiot by Dostoevsky is as light and as frivolous as it gets.

B0jangles · 07-06-2014 11:10PM

Every toilet in my house has a stack of books on a wide variety of topics. Whenever I come across new books I sometimes think "hey, you would be a great toilet book!", generally because whatever it is is it is divided into fairly short pieces.

If I am in a strange house with no books at all in the bog, I tend to end up reading the back of the shampoo bottles. That gets old pretty quickly; there's only so many times you can read about sodium laureth sulphate without getting bored.

IMHO This is unquestionably the best toilet book:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_Biographical_Dictionary_of_Film

myshirt · 07-06-2014 11:12PM

Gave a friend of mine a lift to view an apartment once, and he brought a newspaper with him for some strange reason. Said it was all he needed. Space in the apartment was on the tight side. Just enough room to swing a tiger. But that was through my eyes.

First thing he done, sat on the jacks, spread the newspaper. Perfect. Could just fit a broadsheet. And with that, he took the apartment on the spot.

bumper234 · 07-06-2014 11:17PM

I read war and peace on the toilet (not in one sitting) it was what i called my bog book. Also read all of Stephen king and David Eddings books on there over the years. Nowadays it's boards, thethunderdome or twoplustwo for reading material

paddydriver · 07-06-2014 11:17PM

Don't forget Hank Schrader

broke the massive crystal meth operation

with a bit of light reading in the jax..

Oops...:eek:

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