Newspapers in the john

[Faithless]

Is this primarily a "guy thing"?

Most times than not, there will be a newspaper or two in poop stall at work.

Mostly the Chronicle. Sometimes a Wallstreet Journal.

[ellsworth81]

i usually bring in print-outs of popular science articles or time magazine articles

[ism]

Is this primarily a "guy thing"?

Most times than not, there will be a newspaper or two in poop stall at work.

Mostly the Chronicle. Sometimes a Wallstreet Journal.

No reading material. I use the unisex bathroom. There's a feminine waste disposal where a stack normally would be. Priorities, I suppose.

The male-only bathroom doesn't have a place to put one unless someone wants to invest in a wall-mounted rack. I'd welcome it and stock it myself with the subscriptions I never read.

I think it would be more likely to find in a men's stall than in the women's. Guys generally aren't as squeamish about the possibility of handling tainted matter in a public restroom (considering how many guys I see walk right past the sinks to leave. Of course, I've never observed how many women do this). This probably doesn't matter in the long run, since everything in the room is as tainted as reading matter would be, including the air you're breathing since the fecal matter is airborne.

Interesting choices you have at work there. At my old dotcom we had the Times and WSJ. Management were 90% former iBankers. I'd bring in technical documentation and brought a pen to jot down algorithms.

[>:^|]

I dunno if it's just a guy thing, but our local library has a sign prohibiting reading materials in the bathroom--on the men's room door only.

[thaite]

with wireless internet, i just bring my laptop with me.

[TB4000]

Yeah, whenever it's time to release the hounds, as it were, I've read video game magazines, old Archie comics, instruction manuals, and whatever is on hand at the time. The bathrooms at the campus have magazines in a rack inside, so I would think it's pretty obvious that they know their consumers.

[Faithless]

i usually bring in print-outs of popular science articles or time magazine articles
Print-outs? Cheap-o! Unless you're leaving 'em behind for edification purposes.

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I dunno if it's just a guy thing, but our local library has a sign prohibiting reading materials in the bathroom--on the men's room door only.
Now, there's got to be limits, somewhere, I agree.

Nothing like having a glossy Architechtural Digest mag all clammy.

[yoMAMA]

with wireless internet, i just bring my laptop with me.

wouldn't it "mess up" the computers, though?

:wink:

[tvbdude]

I don't even need to go in that long to read something.

[mr. x]

i know this is crude askign but how long it take u guys to do the deed? cuz ive always wondered how people could bring war and peace into the john cuz i normally dont take that long enough to even read a book jacket

[Hiroshi2]

Oh man not only do I read while taking a shit, I've done homework and made phone calls while sitting on the shitter. You gotta do something man, cause that's like 10-12 minutes of nothing but thinking time.

[mr. x]

Oh man not only do I read while taking a shit, I've done homework and made phone calls while sitting on the shitter. You gotta do something man, cause that's like 10-12 minutes of nothing but thinking time.
i swear i must be the shortest shitter cuz on average im out in like 5 minutes tops

[Hiroshi2]

i swear i must be the shortest shitter cuz on average im out in like 5 minutes tops





My parents used to tell me that I would hurt myself if I only came out in 5 minutes. Now they get mad cause sometimes I spend 30 minutes in there (reading a good book or magazine, you know).

[mr. x]

My parents used to tell me that I would hurt myself if I only came out in 5 minutes. Now they get mad cause sometimes I spend 30 minutes in there (reading a good book or magazine, you know).
hurt yourself?!? :eek:

damn im gonna die

[Hiroshi2]

hurt yourself?!? :eek:

damn im gonna die





Nah relax man I think they just said that to scare me................



But then again, why would they want to scare me into not rushing on the commode?



I think you will hurt yourself, now that I think about it. You can't just say plop plop and flush that shit down the toilet. You gotta take your time.

[mr. x]

well i think when your a kid you are tempted to get lazy and then u might just sit your butt on it and then go "all done! ive tried..." u know? they want u to make sure u finish what u started

[Faithless]

Nah relax man I think they just said that to scare me................

But then again, why would they want to scare me into not rushing on the commode?

I think you will hurt yourself, now that I think about it. You can't just say plop plop and flush that shit down the toilet. You gotta take your time.
I think this is the case for an extention of that old dude adage:

"If you're shake it more than x times, your playing with it."

In this case, if you're spending more than five minutes in the shitter, maybe they think you're playing with it. :frown:

[Hiroshi2]

Or playing with myself.......................LOL.

[kimpossible]

well i think when your a kid you are tempted to get lazy and then u might just sit your butt on it and then go "all done! ive tried..." u know? they want u to make sure u finish what u started

unless you're one of the speed shitters?

[Emperor_Mike]

Hilarious! You're all insane.

That said, a laptop with wireless access is great. I can read my cases and check email! Woohoohoo!

[NotAsian]

This topic is completely alien to me.

Could someone please explain how to influence the amount of time you spend taking a crap? I mean, surely you just keep crapping until you've finished, right? Heck, I don't think I could spend more than 4-5 minutes having a crap if I wanted to. If my ass is already clean, I'm not gonna bother wasting toilet paper for another seven minutes...

As for reading material - seriously, there are actually public toilets out there that give you stuff to read? What use is reading in the toilet anyway? You spend, say, a minute max having a crap, and after that you have your hands full, right? Are you supposed to hold a big broadsheet newspaper in one hand and wipe your ass with the other?

[Hiroshi2]

^ It takes me about 5 minutes to take a dump, but you need another 5 minutes to be sure that nothing else is gonna come out.

[tvbdude]

Or playing with myself.......................LOL.

usually when I crap, I pee also.

[Faithless]

No reading material. I use the unisex bathroom. There's a feminine waste disposal where a stack normally would be. Priorities, I suppose.
If I had nothing to read, I'd probably read the wrappers those things come in. I've read the ingredients for toothpaste and shampoo just to keep myself amused.

If it's not reading material, I'll bring the cell phone in and play a quick game on there. Or even a deck of cards for 10-20-30 solitaire.

If you know you're gonna be in there for a while, why not put your mind to use.

I can't imagine using a laptop -- seems to restricting. I mean you have to probably close up your legs and lift them just-so so the thing doesn't fall.

When I was a kid, I took that tank cover off to play solitaire. I dropped that sucker, and that was that.