Do you read in the bathroom? And a related query.

I'm an old-fashioned guy: I read the NY Times, print edition. Except if I have to go at work, in which case I don't want to broadcast the fact that I'm having a bm by carrying reading matter. I go after coffee in the morning. And often a second time in the evening. And you?

I read the the New York Times, DataLounge, and other sites...on my phone. Same thing, really.
Two revelations by OP; he poo's in public washrooms, and he poo's twice a day.
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OP is copying off my (oddly deleted) "Reading While Taking a Dump" thread.
As a kid, I loved to read, but the toilet was the only place I could get away with it for any period of time. My parents would yell, "What the hell are you doing in there?" and I'd answer, honestly, reading. That was long before I discovered what the hell my parents were thinking what I was doing in there.
r2. I'm not a fattie -- and I hardly think of those statements as "revelations." They're pretty average, don't you think? They'd be right at home in the brilliant Underwhelm Me threads -- which, come to think of it, would be great bm reading. r3 I know I'm copying. What happened your thread?
OP
I guess someone was offended by the reading-while-shitting talk, R5.
I don't know what guys are such prisses about this. I'm curious too. I read catelogues -- clothing, food, whatever -- and, although I ordinarily shit at home, occasionally I use the john at work and other places. I don't see that as a moral transgression or some flagrant faux pas. I wonder if str8 men are so uncomfortable with casual conversations about this bodily function.
what's the big deal?
If you poo at work - say ten minutes per dump @ five times a week @ 49 weeks - your shit will earn you 40 hours of money. That's like a week's vacation inside a tiled shit box!
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R8 if it is taking you 10 minutes you need more fiber.
No, but I stack books stylishly next to the commode in my $1,500/mo. 4th floor "studio".
Ryle
Two poops a day? How much do you eat?!?!
My bf and I both read NY Magazine. And, btw, I often go more than once a day. Nothing weird about it.
anonymous
really, takes me like 2 minutes to poop and i'm an eldergay! once a day too!
i do texts, etc, on my phone. Very regular. One bm a day. NOT at work.
anonymous
I have breakfast then coffee, thn poop before my morning shower. I don't read anything as it takes two minutes at most i do get up early so I can do all this at home and not at work.
What the hell is wrong with you, OP? Does asking such questions give you some thrill? Sad.
No. I have my Filipino houseboy Sammy read to me from Vanity Fair.
Poop threads are not allowed on DL. You will be banned from the site immediately. WEB MASTER!!!
If you tarry on the commode, you will develop hemorrhoids over time. Word to the wise!
OP, I already created a similar thread to this a couple of months ago. We've all discussed it ad-nauseum before.
I have the Kindle app installed on my phone. So I'm currently reading Kevin Mitnick's "The Art of Intrusion" and Brian Christian's "Most Human Human" So yes, I read wherever I damn well want to read, the bathroom, in bed. I love being able to hold a library of books in my hand. It's amazing.
LuciferTheLightBringer
Why don't you all just get this app?
http://www.ipoonow.com/index.html
I read on the Kindle app, too, and sometimes on my actual Kindle, if I'm home.
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I bring my mp3 player to listen to a book
Anonymouse
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Thank you, R24(R19). The misspelling AND the misplaced hyphen simply added stink to R20's wind.
i read various things on my ipad. don't know why some of the queens here are so touchy about this subject.
anonymous
I'm not on the toilet long enough to warrant needing anything to read. If you really need to be on the toilet that long, I suggest reevaluating your diet.
Dwight Garner in the NY Times recommended a book as "good bathroom reading" the other day and proposed a National Book Award category for such books.
anonymous
R4, I was in the same situation. My parents read in the bathroom, so it seemed natural. Outside the bathroom, if I read, my family would insist on better ways to spend my time. In a family of four, though, with only one bathroom, my reading was problematic for the family. To make it worse, my family was assuming I was doing the same thing your family assumed about you. Funny to see that we've reached the point where it's possible to surf the Internet while on the toilet. If that had been possible back in the day, I suppose my family's assumptions would have been accurate.
The New Yorker or Entertainment Weekly - depending on how intellectual I'm feeling at the moment.
I listen to a lot of audiobooks, so the terlit (as they say in The Outer Boroughs) is fine, too.
[quote]Do you read in the bathroom? Jesus Christ, no. I do my business, wash my hands and get out.
I only do a #2 at home, never in a public restroom. that's just fucking nasty. As a kid I would read a magazine or something. These days, I'll put a towel down on the counter or window sill and put my laptop on it. I'll watch something or read online. Sometimes I'll read this site for laughs.
No, I'm in the bathroom for like 90 seconds.
Leonard Lopate or Brian Lehrer, in describing an upcoming segment on how we like others to perceive us used this example: "We read People in the bathroon and the NY Review of Books on the subway." So we can assume npr listeners are a reading-on-the-can clan.
anonymous
I eat fiber, no time to read.
I have a coworker who takes her (work issued) iPad into the toilet for her daily 15-20 minute dump. I think that's fucking nasty.
I'm an npr listener,r37, but I don't read while I'm having a bm. However I have a radio in the bathroom and I listen to npr.
anonymous
Even without a lot of fiber in my diet, I've always been a speedy pooper. No time to read in the bathroom. I've always thought that was the weirdest thing...
I wonder what Janet Jackson reads while she's taking a shit on the toilet?
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I don't do much reading on the can. But I do like to go the Ken-Ken on the can. If it's an easy crossword day (i.e., Monday through Wednesday), no one else is home, and I'm not in a rush to get to work, I might do the small Ken-Ken, then the crossword, then the larger Ken-Ken... all on the can. My exciting life!
LoneRanger
Oops! Do, not go.
LoneRanger
Never understood this as sitting on the can is not my favorite activity. Do it quickly , clean up, wash hands, comb hair, done .
Read the Times on your iPhone in the loo, OP. Next!
Sometimes I read in the bathtub.