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using your phone while on the toilet

alisaie

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    like ty said tbh where else am i gonna get five minutes of peace from customers
     
    Alex

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    Homeskulled Kid said:
    It is of my old-fashioned opinion that things should be kept separate. The bed is for sleeping, the kitchen for preparing food, the outside for roughhousing and the bathroom for hygiene and whatnot. When integration occurs, the whole system comes crashing down and suddenly the apocalypse arrives early.

    Besides, with stuff like bathing and all, ahem, that, it's a time for deep thought and meditation - not replying to girlfriends and playing Candy Crush.

    I guess what disturbs me most is that so many people find it difficult to put down their phone and just think - that they have to be entertained for every moment of every day, or have to be indulging in some activity. Life is its own activity. And yes, its a shame that discharging waste from bodies doesn't come with disco lights and a cabaret act, but not everything is meant to be interesting. In moments of boredom and the like, we have to think. Thinking is what makes the world go around, and the people who don't are the ones that make it stop.

    Another fact of life is that there is always somebody to provide the diatribe, and that just happens to be me.
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    people used to read magazines on the toilet well before smartphones became mass-produced. entertainment on the toilet is nothing new. i hear the larger point you're trying to make, but you are pushing this issue waaaay further than it deserves to go
     
    Homeskulled Kid

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    people used to read magazines on the toilet well before smartphones became mass-produced. entertainment on the toilet is nothing new. i hear the larger point you're trying to make, but you are pushing this issue waaaay further than it deserves to go
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    Yeah, it's old news, but I was hoping the habit wouldn't evolve alongside technology. Yet alas, we are all heathens beneath our Armani suits and Chanel dresses, and beneath even that we're just halfway competent monkey men. I should probably clip my expectations of the world, except when it comes to those who have attended Eton and the equivalent girl school.

    But studies have revealed that objects relatively proximate to the toilet show contamination of... certain particles. The gross kind. Grime will thrive if you let it, and boy does humanity let it. If toothbrushes at the other end of the room can get polluted, I don't imagine that iPhones are spared.

    I guess I'll leave it there. Converting the masses can wait until I refresh my blood sugar.
     
    Her

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    Homeskulled Kid said:
    Yeah, it's old news, but I was hoping the habit wouldn't evolve alongside technology. Yet alas, we are all heathens beneath our Armani suits and Chanel dresses, and beneath even that we're just halfway competent monkey men. I should probably clip my expectations of the world, except when it comes to those who have attended Eton and the equivalent girl school.

    But studies have revealed that objects relatively proximate to the toilet show contamination of... certain particles. The gross kind. Grime will thrive if you let it, and boy does humanity let it. If toothbrushes at the other end of the room can get polluted, I don't imagine that iPhones are spared.

    I guess I'll leave it there. Converting the masses can wait until I refresh my blood sugar.
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    it's a thread about pooping
     
    Homeskulled Kid

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    it's a thread about pooping
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    There is always room for debate. The whimsy of the subject shouldn't mean that there is no scope for differing opinions. Just as long as said opinions are posed respectfully and stay relevant to the topic, shouldn't we all have a good squabble?

    Anyway, everything branches off into deeper implications. It's now become a question of society's inability to not be entertained for the time it takes to discharge waste, and their blasé disregard to hygiene just because nothing is directly touching each other. That's worth discussing, though perhaps are better reserved for separate threads.
     
    Darkmaster006

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    Nope. Celphone addiction is a big problem and I think carrying it to the toilet just because you can't bother to just leave it for a while is a bad sign. Not to talk about the germs and all that.
     
    Sylphiel

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    • It's happened a few times, but not that often. I try not to take things in with me unless I'm engrossed in something and don't feel like being interrupted (such as if I'm in the middle of watching an interesting video, or reading a book).
     
    Azuviin

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    No ew that's disgusting, going to the toilet really doesn't take that long that you can't take a tiny break from technology. If you do than I pray you clean your phone.
     

    Margot

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    Ye. I don't have books or magazines sitting around in my bathroom, so why not scroll on twitter while you wait for business to finish up?
     
    EC

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    People spend far too long in bathrooms. Get in, drop trou, do your business in 60 seconds or less, do any wiping if that's what's required, zip up, wash hands, flush, and run.
     
    Trev

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    y'all we're not wiping our asses with our phone, ctfo

    and yes, I absolutely 100% use my phone while pooping and I have no shame
     
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