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  • My parents had the Desiderata 'poem' on the back of the toilet door when I was growing up, so I read it a thousand times.

    Being older and reading it again, it's a beautiful sentiment and something that, I think, seeped into my subconscious and made me a better person.

    My favorite line:

    "You are a child of the universe no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here"

    https://www.desiderata.com/desiderata.html

    by BLKNSLVR
  • Flip side: more sitting on the toilet ensures a more complete emptying and less rushing/straining.
    by sethammons
  • From an evolutionary perspective, this is a super vulnerable moment and are in a state of hyper vigilance.
    by ozten
  • But there aren’t enough shampoo bottles to read.
    by Waterluvian
  • Pooping is interesting. Having a toddler reminded me how pooping is this uniquely vulnerable, sensitive time for humans. I think a lot of us use books/phones/etc to distract ourselves from a sensorily intense activity. I'm not saying that's a good or bad thing, just noting it.

    I will say that playing my Nintendo DS on the toilet many years ago gave me hemorrhoids that still persist decades later. Don't camp on the toilet.

    by 01100011
  • Who read this while in the act?
    by brtkwr
  • If pooping is the only time you spend away from your phone, you're not spending enough time away from your phone.
    by Retr0id
  • Back 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!

    by huhtenberg

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