We used to have words printed on paper (the pressed corpses of trees) called books, magazines, and newspapers. They’d bring one of those.
Bathroom books are absolutely a thing. My boomer aunt has dozens of Andy Capp booklets.
The hot fries guy?
I’m curious how old OP is. I still keep a book in the bathroom. It’s where I do most of my reading.
Well, before phones made social media conveniently available, people largely had to deposit their shit via telephone, written word, or in person.
Books.
Our bathroom door has a built-in magazine rack dating back to the 70s. It holds phones pretty well too.
“Door”!? I live in a one bedroom, one bathroom apartment, but even I can’t reach a door from the toilet…
In my house the bathroom door’s swing takes up about 1/3rd of the bathroom and the door slams into the toilet when it opens. So if someone (like a cat) swings the door open suddenly while one it pooping, they’re going to walk with a limp for a while.
But does it know why kids love the taste of cinnemon toast crunch???
It holds phones pretty well too.
Phones can have more than one app installed ya know lol
“Shelf” isn’t one of them, sadly.
Teletype with an acoustic coupler. You place the handset into the rubber cups that block out the sound, so that the modem noises were clear through the phone line.
The perforations in modern toilet paper are an homage to the holes in the punched tape used to feed the teletype pre-recorded instructions.
Huh, this vegan dog shampoo has not been tested on animals.
I feel like that’s the one product they should test on animals so that my dog doesn’t have to be the guinea pig.
While listening their neighbour poop.
Magazines, books, reading the backs of products, and sometimes people would even use a mirror or two to watch TV on the shitter.
There used to be racks/baskets dedicated to hold magazines in the toilet…
Wash, rinse, repeat. List of ingredients. Wash rinse repeat
Mad magazine, Nat Geo, or if all else fails, back of the shampoo bottle.
I used to find some neat patterns in the wood grain on the back of the bathroom door.
Classic. There’s the pattern in some ceiling finishes too.
There used to be a basket full of old National Geographic, Newsweek, and GQ magazines in the bathroom for you and any guests to enjoy.
You’ve forgotten Reader’s Digest.
And we can’t forget the episode of Seinfeld where George takes a book into the bathroom.
In recent times, by reading. Before that, i think most people pooped faster than we do due to better digestable foods
And before that, pooping was a social function .
They’re not going anymore, they’re sitting there arguing over who has to go get some toilet paper
No need for toilet paper 😅
Huh. It’s like a bidet, but worse
We didn’t have to poop back then. The act of pooping was invented by Larry Smartphone, who also happened to invent the smartphone. They were released together originally as a bundle but everyone has both nowadays anyways and you can mix and match.
We read the backs of shampoo bottles.
I got a degree in chemical engineering at Poop U.
I fully educated myself about tampon insertion and toxic shock syndrome during trips to the bathroom.
Farmers Almanac. Used to come with a pre-drilled hole for hanging on a hook in the outhouse.
Video game instruction manuals
Magazines and we read the ingredient list of bottles, like bleech.
