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Don't use your phone while you poop
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#192Earlier quoted context omitted.
That's wild, my frequency has remained pretty consistent through my life, although I did have a couple years where somehow one of the days each week I'd do it would always be Monday, and I never had any explanation for why that was the case.
Not really a constipation but if out of nowhere I notice what I didn't #2 in a while what means I have a quite severe cold incoming - but yet without symptoms. > one of the days each week I'd do it would always be Monday, and I never had any explanation for why that was the case. Social functions, a specific food or beverages (Friday drinking night? Not to the Monday though...) on some days, travel for some.
I don't drink at all, and I honestly don't go out very much ever (including back them, probably very much related to the not drinking thing), so I wasn't consistently having the same thing to eat over the weekend. Interestingly, this did coincide with the period where I was going out to a specific event every Monday night, which is the only reason I remembered; I would be thrilled when it managed to come about during the workday rather than in the evening when I was out.
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#193Back when we lived without phones, we used to read instruction labels on all and any household cleaning products that were stored in the bathroom. I bet there too was some obscure newspaper column that advised against that. Yet, lo and behold, we survived!
My family had dedicated bathroom reading that sat on the top of every toilet cistern. Usually something like a Far Side comic collection or an "Uncle John's Bathroom Reader."
It seemed like Reader's Digest magazine existed solely for this purpose, if you grew up in the 60s-70s. Better form factor too.
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#194Earlier quoted context omitted.
Sounds like I'm still in the range then! Interesting that it varies so much. I've heard some people say (or I guess imply) that they do it daily, and it's so different from my experience that I've always wondered which way is more "normal". I guess both are!
you are full of shit /s
We all are, some of us just cycle it out more often
Re: Don't use your phone while you poop
#195Back when we lived without phones, we used to read instruction labels on all and any household cleaning products that were stored in the bathroom. I bet there too was some obscure newspaper column that advised against that. Yet, lo and behold, we survived!
That is a real phenomena for a chunk of the population but I'm trying to understand what it is. Is it ADHD?
I think it's just "I don't want to just sit there." I don't have ADHD, but I do want to read more or less incessantly. Why should potty time be any different?
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#196Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Your great great grandparents didn't effectively get fined for having each child. It was quite the opposite. What are you talking about?
I would assume that they mean your great great grandparents benefited greatly by having kids because it brought in more labor while it mostly just cost food. These days there are tons of extra costs to having kids that didn't exist in the past and none of those costs are offset by their labors.
We’re reaching further into the past than great great grandparents to get to the large families for farming but sure. Calling it a “fine” to have kids is really bizarre framing though.
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#197I think the biggest issue with phone (as well as book) is that it lets you sit on the bog for a prolonged time which is terrible for anal health.
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#198Earlier quoted context omitted.
Don't you think that if you have time to read your book then you don't really need to poop yet? Why not just wait until you're ready to go in?
Who says the readers are waiting while they sit? What's the rush out of there? Maybe this will make the concept easier for you to understand - Restaurant: sit, eat, drink, chatter, coats, car, home. Toilet: sit, splash, tinkle, read, wipe, wash, out.
You're getting your book dirty for what is, as far as I can understand, no real reason. Why not read your book after washing your hands? (If you have a severe chair shortage, then sure, I can sort of understand: sitting to read is pleasant.)
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#199Earlier quoted context omitted.
Who says the readers are waiting while they sit? What's the rush out of there? Maybe this will make the concept easier for you to understand - Restaurant: sit, eat, drink, chatter, coats, car, home. Toilet: sit, splash, tinkle, read, wipe, wash, out.
You're getting your book dirty for what is, as far as I can understand, no real reason. Why not read your book after washing your hands? (If you have a severe chair shortage, then sure, I can sort of understand: sitting to read is pleasant.)
It's worth clarifying, toilet-readers don't typically shit on their books.
Re: Don't use your phone while you poop
#200Back when we lived without phones, we used to read instruction labels on all and any household cleaning products that were stored in the bathroom. I bet there too was some obscure newspaper column that advised against that. Yet, lo and behold, we survived!
I am glad I'm not the only one. At least in France there were traditionally stacks of cartoons as well (and some magazines)