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Reading on the Toilet

Rated E

Rated E

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So last night I was taken aback when my friends were taken aback upon discovering that I like to take books into the bathroom to read when I'm sitting on the toilet. It came up when I was telling the story of why I started reading Gulliver's Travels (which I'm currently reading). I was dangerously close to going to the toilet, but I wanted to take something to read in with me, so I ran into my brother's room, which was next to the bathroom, and frantically went through his shelves for a book that I wanted to read. I saw Gulliver's Travels and grabbed it.

"I hope you haven't brought any of my books into the toilet!" one of my friends said in shock.

"Umm... I definitely have, sorry," I replied. If I was borrowing his books at the time, then they would undoubtedly have been the books I brought in there with me. If I'm at home, and I have some time free, I love to bring a book to the toilet with me. On weekends I do it each morning. I polish off a chapter or two. Obviously I also read newspapers and magazines, whatever's on hand really.

So, let's get to the bottom of this BL'rs!
 
I must say I'm quite guilty of this as well. I've even read the first few chapters of the bible when i stayed in a hotel for a while, purely because I had fuck all else to read while I was on the throne. I was relieved to see that Phil Collins had nothing to do with the Genesis chapter, but that God chap was more than a little harsh to say the least.

I have magazines hidden away under the sink. I'm also known to take my ipod with me & I have an Archos media player as well that I sometimes watch part of a movie or tv show on, lol.

If you work in a factory or workshop & have a coffee shop/locker room with magazines lying around, keep an eye out for the one's that have a crease down the middle. That's a sure-fire sign of having a "toilet fold" & has been heavily thumbed in a cubical during it's life =D
 
I don't read while I'm on the toilet--I'm not normally on there longer than a couple minutes. Hooray for fiber and regularity. ;)

However, I have no issues with someone reading in the bathroom. :) I don't think it's weird or anything.
 
addictivepersona said:
I don't read while I'm on the toilet--I'm not normally on there longer than a couple minutes. Hooray for fiber and regularity. ;)

However, I have no issues with someone reading in the bathroom. :) I don't think it's weird or anything.
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Neither am I...Well, I'm not evacuating my bowels for more than a minute or two (unless I've gone on an opiate binge) but sometimes it's the only place that you can get any privacy.
 
^ Eh, privacy isn't a huge issue in my house... There's only one other person and they're only around/awake while I am from like 11a 'til 3p. :P
 
_Keaton said:
Neither am I...Well, I'm not evacuating my bowels for more than a minute or two (unless I've gone on an opiate binge) but sometimes it's the only place that you can get any privacy.
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Yea, it's like this, except I don't sit there because of the privacy, I could get privacy in the house easily. I just find it a really great place to read.
 
Well I'm still living at home, with my sisters, mother and aunt. So sometimes it is the only place to get any privacy.
 
I don't read on the toilet... I always try to finish and get out of there as soon as possible. :)
 
Probably half or more of my BL posts within the last year have been from the shitter.

Yes. Including this one.
 
Regularly read on the toilet and it often long surpasses the action of taking a dump. Had no idea that this was any sort of social taboo haha.
 
Rated E said:
Yea, it's like this, except I don't sit there because of the privacy, I could get privacy in the house easily. I just find it a really great place to read.
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Until someone starts banging on the door asking when you'll be finished.

I read on my own time. Like AP, I'm in there for five minutes, tops. I find it not strange, but annoying and time consuming when someone takes a book (or action figures [ little brothers]) into the restroom with them. I severely dislike waiting for a toilet when the person can't just shit and get out.

It's called closing your bedroom door and putting up a sign on the front so others know you're busy (no kids here, of course). We honestly don't need to be entertained every minute of the day. Using the rest/bath/washroom as just that, a RESTING time, is where I draw my own line. It's not a read'nshitroom.

If your bowels are healthy, it shouldn't take you longer than a few minutes to shit. You don't see dogs taking 20 minutes to take a crap. You'd get annoyed at waiting.

/end rant
 
^ If someone is waiting then fair enough, I'll finish off the sentence and clean up etc. But if not, then why bother hurrying up, resting/relaxing goes hand in hand with reading to me, so the activities compliment eachother perfectly, it's not about being entertained at all.
 
^Sure, it is. You want something to keep you occupied because you're bored. So you read. It's entertainment. You can't rest without reading? It may go hand in hand, but only because it's habitual for you to read on the shitter.

Also, you don't need to hurry up, but hey, when you're done, why sit on the toilet and wait for your legs to go numb (I know it's happened to almost everyone here when you sit so long on the toilet)? Go sit in a comfy chair and read.

Edit: here's the definition:

en·ter·tain·ment
   /ˌɛntərˈteɪnmənt/ Show Spelled[en-ter-teyn-muhnt] Show IPA
–noun
1.
the act of entertaining; agreeable occupation for the mind; diversion; amusement: Solving the daily crossword puzzle is an entertainment for many.
 
Simply_Live said:
^Sure, it is. You want something to keep you occupied because you're bored. So you read. It's entertainment. You can't rest without reading? It may go hand in hand, but only because it's habitual for you to read on the shitter.
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yes, as I matter of fact, before nearly all acts of rest/relaxation I read, whether it be sleep or lounging around. No, not because I'm bored, but because I find it to be a great relaxant.

Bit pointless whipping out a dictionary definition of entertainment presuming it will somehow give you an intellectual upper hand, because you know, through all this reading while on the shitter I may just have come across the word before.

That and your bolded section of the said definition could quite easily cover absolutely everything in life, including resting/sleeping...
 
Some come here to sit and think,
Some come here to shit n stink

We have a magazine rack in there with a selection of readings. It is a one way route though, they are thrown out once they reach their use by date. I can't imagine wanting to handle any book that has been use as water closet reading. I find newspapers too big and clumsy. Current reading includes a couple of design mags and an Indian edition of Better Photography.

Note to self: I am never using another BLer's phone ever again.
 
Lol, this thread reminds me of when I had some vegan hippie roommates. I shared a bathroom with one other guy, and I'd always go into the bathroom and find a vegan cookbook sitting on the back of the toilet, with a huge nasty vegan shit in the toilet bowl. That shit smelled awful, lmfao.
 
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