Reading on the toilet

[mgb]

Is this an INTP trait?

I can't sit without my mind getting bored and I need something to focus on. I have read in the bathroom since I was little and still do.

I find this to be a little out of the mainstream but I wonder if I am not the only one on this site that does this.

[andy]

i dont take magazines or books with me into the bathroom. but i often read the instructions or ingrediants on the back of bottles or anything else i can find in the bathroom.

weird i know :D

[SheepDog]

I use the time to sort through my snail mail. It seems like an appropriate thing to do.

[Sam172]

I don't tend to spend long enough to read anything...
I'm in and out within a few minutes :D

[SheepDog]

Aren't you a vegetarian?

[Division56]

LMAO... vegetarian...



I used to, but no longer. I decided it was a little too gross.

[SheepDog]

gross? now that's ironic.

[Vagabond]

Is this an INTP trait?
Nope. My INFJ dad and ESFP sister do it all the time. I don't.

[InsurgentAlpha]

i dont take magazines or books with me into the bathroom. but i often read the instructions or ingrediants on the back of bottles or anything else i can find in the bathroom.

weird i know :D

Hehe, that's what I do too. Having three sisters I would usually be reading a tampon box stating the dangers of toxic shock syndrome.

[int]

lol. I've read the TSS warnings several times.

Currently there are 5 or so magazines on the back of the toilet. A copy of the Hitchhiker's Guide trilogy is on the counter. Upstairs I've got a copy of "Good Houskeeping" and Vonnegut's "Bagombo Snuff Box" - I think my mom was the one to leave the Good Houskeeping there. She probably figured it's the only place I'd read it. It has a few good articles on cleaning.

[crule81]

I spend too much time reading in the bathroom. When I was younger, I usually "read" atlases in there. That certainly helped me in the Geography Bee.

[Bluehaze]

Is this an INTP trait?

I can't sit without my mind getting bored and I need something to focus on. I have read in the bathroom since I was little and still do.

I find this to be a little out of the mainstream but I wonder if I am not the only one on this site that does this.

I do this.

[file cabinet]

I used to.. but then I got tired of sitting on the toilet so long.. so now I'm in and out in minutes usually.

[Sackanaka]

I usually wait until the big MM cannot be restrained any longer w/o worry of leakage. I run to the toilet and unless it's the kind that stays in the nooks and crannies, I can almost finish in less time than it takes some people to pee (I compare my time to a random pair of legs at a nearby urinal that I can see from underneath the stall walls). And yes, I wipe.

:) No reading books for me.

[Bluehaze]

I usually wait until the big MM cannot be restrained any longer w/o worry of leakage. I run to the toilet and unless it's the kind that stays in the nooks and crannies, I can almost finish in less time than it takes some people to pee (I compare my time to a random pair of legs at a nearby urinal that I can see from underneath the stall walls). And yes, I wipe.

:) No reading books for me.

That sounds a bit unhealthy on a serious note.

[Vicideus]

Yea. Eating quickly isn't too healthy for you, so I don't imagine that racing the guy at the urinal is very good for you either.

[flan2dave]

I don't.

[Arcael]

i dont take magazines or books with me into the bathroom. but i often read the instructions or ingrediants on the back of bottles or anything else i can find in the bathroom.

weird i know :D

Holy shit, yeah this is me

[flan2dave]

What did the person reading the bible on the can exclaim?

[INTrPosr]

Is this an INTP trait? I can't sit without my mind getting bored and I need something to focus on. I have read in the bathroom since I was little and still do.

I do. I can't go to the restroom without some reading material. However, I think it's conditioning. My dad does it, SJ, as well as my older brother, S/NF.

[andy]

i dont take magazines or books with me into the bathroom. but i often read the instructions or ingrediants on the back of bottles or anything else i can find in the bathroom.

weird i know :D

Hehe, that's what I do too. Having three sisters I would usually be reading a tampon box stating the dangers of toxic shock syndrome.

yeah toxic shock! thats a recent revelation i found out while visiting the toilet :D

[greenintp]

No way.

I find having to go to the washroom highly inconvenient. A couple minutes allowable at most. I unusually don't even go while I'm out. This includes while at work, which is now 12 hour shifts with an additional 2 hours of commute. Of course, this means I have reduced intake of food and drink while out. I can't stand reading material in the washroom (contamination paranoia).

I think possible contamination is also a big factor in me not going while away from home. My new job affirms my concerns. I find public washrooms are just plain gross. I am currently doing private security in a very large office complex which has retail stores, food courts and a lot of public traffic from the transit system. The things we catch people (from street people, right up to big executives) doing in there excelerates a loss of respect for the human race.

[crule81]

No way.

I find having to go to the washroom highly inconvenient. A couple minutes allowable at most. I unusually don't even go while I'm out. This includes while at work, which is now 12 hour shifts with an additional 2 hours of commute. Of course, this means I have reduced intake of food and drink while out. I can't stand reading material in the washroom (contamination paranoia).

I think possible contamination is also a big factor in me not going while away from home. My new job affirms my concerns. I find public washrooms are just plain gross. I am currently doing private security in a very large office complex which has retail stores, food courts and a lot of public traffic from the transit system. The things we catch people (from street people, right up to big executives) doing in there excelerates a loss of respect for the human race.

You're like Finch from American Pie! Hopefully, Stiffler won't slip a laxative into your drink or meal at work.

[greenintp]

cruel and unusual idea....oh the mental trauma.



No way.

I find having to go to the washroom highly inconvenient. A couple minutes allowable at most. I unusually don't even go while I'm out. This includes while at work, which is now 12 hour shifts with an additional 2 hours of commute. Of course, this means I have reduced intake of food and drink while out. I can't stand reading material in the washroom (contamination paranoia).

I think possible contamination is also a big factor in me not going while away from home. My new job affirms my concerns. I find public washrooms are just plain gross. I am currently doing private security in a very large office complex which has retail stores, food courts and a lot of public traffic from the transit system. The things we catch people (from street people, right up to big executives) doing in there excelerates a loss of respect for the human race.

You're like Finch from American Pie! Hopefully, Stiffler won't slip a laxative into your drink or meal at work. :o

[Groty]

What did the person reading the bible on the can exclaim?

Beyond the obvious...

Oops, no TP, will I go to Hell for this?

[jimkopelli]

What did the person reading the bible on the can exclaim?
Oh come on... holy shit, of course...
I used to read in the john (back when I was supposed to be doing homework for elementary school...) but now I'm in and out too fast to do anything. No, I'm not vegetarian, either.

[Aryan]

haha...
Come to think of it i did read many books in the toilet
In fact i did many of my math's research by writing on the toilet wall with just fingers and water

i thought i am a seriously screwed up guy until these 25 posts came to my rescue

[MacGuffin]

That is where I read the paper!

In my younger days, it was a nice quiet break from the family = quality reading time.

[Werdna]

Nowadays I'm just in and out, but when I was younger I always read the backs of every bottle i could find, like I was obsessive-compulsive or something.


haha...
Come to think of it i did read many books in the toilet
In fact i did many of my math's research by writing on the toilet wall with just fingers and water

i thought i am a seriously screwed up guy until these 25 posts came to my rescue
I thought I was a seriously screwed up guy until this site came to my rescue. At least that's what I thought at first. Lately I've found out I'm still screwed up, just in some other ways... :D

[inignot]

Hehe, that's what I do too. Having three sisters I would usually be reading a tampon box stating the dangers of toxic shock syndrome.
Along with the correct method for inserting the tampon. And I thought it was just me.

[hemanthraz]

Not usually, but if it is a good book then of course. I remember reading "red dragon" almost completely in the loo [not all at once though].
Shampoo bottles are the best. The claims they make are hilariouos.

Other things i do is draw water animals with my fingers, or toilet paper folding which is tougher than origami.

[mgb]

My uncle used to call it "terminal ring around the ass".

[Orual42]

lol, "terminal ring around the ass." I love it.

Yeah, I pretty much require constant stimulation or I get bored, so I've always read on the toilet. When I was little, I used to finish my books too - I once read Bambi all the way through.

Alternately, I mentally spell out a verb paradigm that I'm trying to memorize, play geometric games with the tiles, or build on my fantasy world.

One weird thing about me (and my brother) in this sort of reading is this (and I'm curious if anyone else did / does the same thing): we never use bookmarks in the bathroom books, but just pick the book up - usually a lightweight novel - and read a few pages somewhere in the middle. Eventually, we have the whole story and it's been read, but not in order. Sound familiar to anybody?

[outmywindow]

This might be the oldest necromance I've seen. I'm not sure if I should congratulate you or scold you.

At least you typed more than "haha yeah."

[HoneyCyclical]

Beyond the obvious...

Oops, no TP, will I go to Hell for this?


My dad has a song for this:

Stranded, Stranded
Stranded on the bathroom bowl
Stranded, Stranded
Stranded and you can't find a roll
What do you do when you're stranded
and you can't find a roll?
Well, you prove you're a man
and you use your hand

REPEAT, etc.

Some kind of Army song supposedly.

Whenever I became "stranded" on the bowl as a kid and yelled for toilet paper he would sing this to me outside of the bathroom door while laughing. :sadbanana:

Kid toture at it's finest.

(and I wonder why I find poo funny)

[Limey]

In my younger days, it was a nice quiet break from the family = quality reading time.

How quiet can racing the flush refill be?

[Digital Future]

Look after your ass and it will look after you.

Causes of Hemorrhoids
Hemorrhoids are caused when the veins around the anus and lower rectum become swollen and inflamed. This inflammation can occur from many reasons but most medical experts explain that it is caused by straining when trying to have a bowel movement , constipation and too much time spent on the toilet.

[dubbeltop]

Reading on the toilet

No...too much shit on my mind...

[zago]

I sit down, I shit, and I wipe my ass. At what point am I going to have time to read? After I shit?? Cause if that were the case the shit would just start drying on my asshole and I'd have a buttcrust. What, does it take 10 minutes for the shit to come out of your ass or something?

[Orual42]

This might be the oldest necromance I've seen. I'm not sure if I should congratulate you or scold you.

At least you typed more than "haha yeah."

The sad thing is, I didn't even notice that this thread was four and half years dead. I just started posting today and I'm not all that used to forums, period. Still, it looks like others are willing to join in the revival. :happpy:

[Digital Future]

Still, it looks like others are willing to join in the revival. :happpy:

THE SHIT RETURNS! OR DID IT EVER REALLY LEAVE.

[Ferrus]

Saki makes good bog lit.

[Sureshot]

I sit down, I shit, and I wipe my ass. At what point am I going to have time to read? After I shit?? Cause if that were the case the shit would just start drying on my asshole and I'd have a buttcrust. What, does it take 10 minutes for the shit to come out of your ass or something?

I'm wondering the same thing. I was reading a book yesterday and I haven't even finished a few sentences before I dropped the package.

[mgb]

lol, "terminal ring around the ass." I love it.

Yeah, I pretty much require constant stimulation or I get bored, so I've always read on the toilet. When I was little, I used to finish my books too - I once read Bambi all the way through.

Alternately, I mentally spell out a verb paradigm that I'm trying to memorize, play geometric games with the tiles, or build on my fantasy world.

One weird thing about me (and my brother) in this sort of reading is this (and I'm curious if anyone else did / does the same thing): we never use bookmarks in the bathroom books, but just pick the book up - usually a lightweight novel - and read a few pages somewhere in the middle. Eventually, we have the whole story and it's been read, but not in order. Sound familiar to anybody?

Ahh, Orual42, remind me to keep an eye on you.

I used to read Choose Your Own Adventures on the toilet, does that count?

Getting a Blackberry has really taken my toilet reading to a new level.

[ciphersort]

If I am reading something when the urge strikes I might carry it into the bathroom and make it through a few paragraphs before I am done.

[Digital Future]

If I am reading something when the urge strikes I might carry it into the bathroom and make it through a few paragraphs before I am done.

Yes, in the early days porn was just words.

[Oso Mocoso]

If I am reading something when the urge strikes I might carry it into the bathroom and make it through a few paragraphs before I am done.

Same here. I sometimes make it through a page or two if I really take my time.

[Digital Future]

I'll assume you read my post above and therefore know what you are saying :p

[ciphersort]

Yes, in the early days porn was just words.

I'll admit that was very funny. You ass :p

[s0978]

Wow, the threads from back in the day really were far superior to the ones we have now.

[melancholeric]

Wow, the threads from back in the day really were far superior to the ones we have now.
Quite.

I've never read on the toilet.

My former flatmate had a laptop in the toilet. With internet connection. That was actually annoying because well, there were others who needed to use it too. The toilet, I mean. Not the laptop.

[mgb]

Wow, the threads from back in the day really were far superior to the ones we have now.

Hey, STFU, this is an important issue! I think it really goes to the core of what an INTP is.

[C.J.Woolf]

My former flatmate had a laptop in the toilet. With internet connection. That was actually annoying because well, there were others who needed to use it too. The toilet, I mean. Not the laptop.
I knew Finland was better connected to the Internet than most countries, but this is ridiculous.

[ciphersort]

Wow, the threads from back in the day really were far superior to the ones we have now.

Booking passage on sinking ships is a hobby of mine. Some of us are just biding our time until INTPc is resurrected to the full glory of all we have been told about!

http://www.animeontv.com/mg/starblazers.jpg

[Limey]

If your standard fare is a type 1, then this could be one of the weightier discussion issues.

[melancholeric]

I knew Finland was better connected to the Internet than most countries, but this is ridiculous.

It's not ridiculous, it's the way of the future.

[blue willow]

Honestly, when else would I have time to skim through my magazines?

[Limey]

Have a pulled pork sandwich on the Delaware riverfront, not only is there no time to read, but you'll be pulling the pages out of war and peace and then be looking for more.

[floid]

The only time I would take literature to the crapper was if there were nothing else to wipe on.

To my father, however, it was a veritable library which relegated the rest of the family to using the bushes on occasion.

Something about the aroma of the place causes my concentration to drift, or maybe run, toward the idea of finishing up and getting out of there.

[Ratatosk]

I prefer to think on the toilet.

[edge walker]

I prefer to think on the toilet.
You do realise what punchline you lined yourself up for, do you?

[Ratatosk]

Oh. Crap.

[Daaf]

i dont take magazines or books with me into the bathroom. but i often read the instructions or ingrediants on the back of bottles or anything else i can find in the bathroom.

weird i know :D

qft

sometimes this even cures minor constipation for me :happpy:

[Solitaire Unraveling]

My bathroom is furnished with New Yorker and Wired magazines.

[Limey]

My bathroom is furnished with New Yorker and Wired magazines.

If you swab them and applied the swab to a petri dish, do you think it would produce an interesting result, or is there a strict read/wipe dual homing explicit policy ban in your bathroom?

Why does your bathroom come with rules, man?

[Solitaire Unraveling]

If you swab them and applied the swab to a petri dish, do you think it would produce an interesting result, or is there a strict read/wipe dual homing explicit policy ban in your bathroom?

Why does your bathroom come with rules, man?

My bathroom comes with options, man. As long as they leave me the latest issue, my visitors can read, borrow, steal, or make origami Nuclear Physicists out of them.

Why on earth would you assume their presence is legislated?

[Etherealsage]

I used to read in the bathroom as a kid. It was one of the few times certain annoying voices would shut the fuck up during the day. As a result, I do most of my serious thinking in the bathroom (I take long showers) or at night in bed, times when, as a kid, I was able to get away and think about what I chose to for once. I no longer have to run to the bathroom in order to read though.

[skycloud86]

I used to read on the toilet, but I tend to just daydream when on the toilet nowadays.

[80 page GIANT]

I have some digestive problems and sometimes have to spend a lot of time in the loo, and I always keep some magazines and comics in my bathroom. Its good to have reading material around and they're also handy if you run out of toilet paper.

[Curtis24]

I used to read in the bathroom as a kid. It was one of the few times certain annoying voices would shut the fuck up during the day. As a result, I do most of my serious thinking in the bathroom (I take long showers) or at night in bed, times when, as a kid, I was able to get away and think about what I chose to for once. I no longer have to run to the bathroom in order to read though.

Ditto. Sometimes the bathroom is the only place I can find peace. I love thinking in the shower, too.

[Qfwfq]

I don't go to the bathroom unless I have something to read. What do they expect me to think about, estimating the dilation of my anoos? Oh yea, I also do a lot of my thinking in the shower.

[md5fungi]

I think it's kind of sacrilegious, so shit no. What if Dostoevsky rose from the dead and visited me?

"Yes, I have read your books, on the shitter in fact!"

I also think I'd get addicted to shitting. I'd be so anxious to read the next chapter of my toilet book, I'd eat a shit-ton just so I could take another shit.

It would take a large number of shits too, because it generally doesn't take me that much time to take a shit.

[Ill eagle]

I think it's kind of sacrilegious, so shit no. What if Dostoevsky rose from the dead and visited me?

"Yes, I have read your books, on the shitter in fact!"

I also think I'd get addicted to shitting. I'd be so anxious to read the next chapter of my toilet book, I'd eat a shit-ton just so I could take another shit.

It would take a large number of shits too, because it generally doesn't take me that much time to take a shit.

funny, I just loaned C&P to someone who reads exclusively on the john.

[djm]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H60jKJ4VrdQ&feature=related

I also read on the lav :mellow:

[1104]

this is how i was potty trained. then it turned out that whenever i wanted to read, i'd go to the toilet.

[Jennywocky]

i dont take magazines or books with me into the bathroom. but i often read the instructions or ingrediants on the back of bottles or anything else i can find in the bathroom.

I try to take books or magazines in with me.
If I forget to bring something, I actually do sit there and read instructions/ingredients from bottles and toothpaste and similar silly things until I'm done. Yeah, reading is sort of compulsive.

I like to take hot baths while reading too.

[OrionzRevenge]

Guilty as well.
If I lack reading material, I will pull out my cell phone or grab the razor or whatnot and pretend it is a Starship.
I do that INTPish thing of pretending I’m giving a lecture about the class of starship it may be, point out the launch hatches for the ‘Viper’ type star-fighters (cell phone keypad), or the force-field protected landing bay (LCD screen).

(This may have been the silliest confession I have ever made here.)

I used to frequent an old used bookstore that had a bookshelf in the bathroom that employees and patrons had stocked with all manner of books over the years.
…it never failed that I would hear natures call when I entered the place.

[Jennywocky]

If I lack reading material, I will pull out my cell phone or grab the razor or whatnot and pretend it is a Starship.

heh. i have texted from the bathroom, and I even have shaved my legs from time to time while being otherwise preoccupied. (I am a multitasker by [call of] nature I suppose, if nothing else.)


I do that INTPish thing of pretending I’m giving a lecture about the class of starship it may be, point out the launch hatches for the ‘Viper’ type star-fighters (cell phone keypad), or the force-field protected landing bay (LCD screen).

Okay, now you're just a freak. :ph34r:


I used to frequent an old used bookstore that had a bookshelf in the bathroom that employees and patrons had stocked with all manner of books over the years. …it never failed that I would hear natures call when I entered the place.

:theclap: it sounds like, if you were bored that day, you could just go down and make an afternoon of it.

[D33P7HR047]

I call the bathroom my "Clean Zone," as it is normally the only place that allows me to settle down and type on INTPc. I'll be sitting on the toilet and have my laptop placed exactly at a 45 degree angle. Sometimes I'm required to pull back the shower curtains all the way so that I don't suspect something might be behind them. The counter top should also be cleaned regularly, and the toilet is strictly used only for sitting. Any placement and disposal of waste occurs only after the glass jars available become near the brim with urine and waste matter. As result of possible air contamination caused from splatter or flushing of the toilet liquid, I have created an impenetrable seal around the lid. By extension the only reading I will ever do is on the toilet.

[1104]

I used to frequent an old used bookstore that had a bookshelf in the bathroom that employees and patrons had stocked with all manner of books over the years.

sick.

[OrionzRevenge]

^^^ uhm... not that kind of book store.

[BAJ]

I do read in the bathroom. I put shelves in the bathroom for reading material. I buy fresh magazines for the bathroom, such as "Discover" magazine or Scientific American...whatever. I have books in there, especially books on art and fish and things I'm interested in.

[Arcturus]

Is this an INTP trait?

I can't sit without my mind getting bored and I need something to focus on. I have read in the bathroom since I was little and still do.

I find this to be a little out of the mainstream but I wonder if I am not the only one on this site that does this.
I don't know if it's general INTP, but I certainly do it. I try to keep the "bathroom books" separate from the general population...

[Bking]

I set that time aside for me to read biography's about sport's legends in the sports illustrated. It's a nice little peice of American history I enjoy while taking a dump.:yes:

[Chloe]

i love reading on the toilet... it just feels so good.... productive!

[kali]

I read labels over and over on the loo, enough to know that cheaper shampoo has ammonium laureth sulfate while the more expensive ones have sodium laureth sulfate. With this knowledge I feel like I can tackle the world.

[fripping]

the toilet has gone from a place to read to a break from constantly reading.

[HoneyCyclical]

I find reading vexing for fear of getting poo particles on paper. Instead I prefer to have someone recite verse to me in a loud voice either through the door or planted and perplexed at the edge of the tub. I've lost a few dates this way.

[wenzmeister]

i hate going to the toilet. its just such a pain in the ass. yes sometimes literally. hence i like to spend as little a time in there as possible, no time for reading only time for pooping kamehameha dbz style.