'Do you read on the loo?' blog discussion

Merkin

If I'm playing online poker I just take the laptop with me.

pukkamum

There is nothing i like better than reading on the loo, we have a basket full of magazines next to the loo and often friends and family will go to the loo and not be seen for hours!!!!!!
I love nothing better than reading the rubbish free catalogues full of tat that you get on the loo they are perfect for perusing for five mins.

I have had to watch what i leave in there though after finding DS (9) reading my Jackie Collins whilst sat there!!!!!!

I too have been known to read the back of loo rolls, shampoo anything really, hence the basket of mags!!!

I am female.

clockworkpurple

I read, surf the internet, play solitaire on my phone, play on my DS, do Sudoku....anything to keep me occupied! As a serial multi-tasker (and a woman, incidentally), just going to the toilet really doesn't occupy enough of my brain! And yes, I have been known to read shampoo bottles if necessary. But these days I keep some comics and books of quotations in there in case I forget to bring entertainment. I can't think of anything more boring than just staring at the bathroom wall thinking about doing your business!

Actually, it's gotten so bad that I even have to have something to do when I use the toilets at festivals, which even freaks me out as they're usually so foul. But sometimes people have stuck stickers on the door, which gives me something to look at...

florabell

Too many exciting things to do
To be sitting reading on the loo

(With apologies to William Topaz McGonagall ...)

Jennifleur

I'm a woman and I read on the loo. I've enjoyed it since I was a little girl. I do crosswords there too (please no rude comments). I don't understand why reading on the loo is any more unhygienic than simply sitting there. But as for skiving at work, I couldn't possibly have a poo at work!! That IS unhygienic!

Torry_Quine

No I don't read on the loo. Not usually there long enough and when I am it would be the last thing on my mind. Don't get people who won't go outwith their home, if I need to go I need to go wherever I am!!

EmehEm2005

I used to read the Radio Times by candlelight in my Nan's outside loo. With them being cut into squares and tied with a piece of string to a hook screwed into the whitewashed wall it was quite frustrating to only be able to read half an article or find out that you'd missed your favourite Lone Ranger episode that had been shown three weeks earlier.
Of course this was before the magazine became glossy. Then I had to use Izal.

Miss_E

I always read on the loo. I have a magazine holder right next to the toilet with a stack of National Geographic magazines, some fashion and sports magazines... so something for pretty much everyone! If I am somewhere else and there is no book or magazine then I tend to read shampoo bottles, toilet cleaner... anything really!

fluffytrollop

"look up how many germs you get on mags in dr's waiting rooms"


the moral there may be not to read in the dr's but wait til you get home, to the privacy of your own loo!!!:rotfl:

Anyway 3 kids all wanting to come with me, ask me sumat, get me to fix/make/explain sumat, yes, I do read in the loo. There'd only be a hygiene risk if I didn't wash my hands!

kieranfox

Martin, why do you refer to "Mrs MSE" when you're gay?