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I hate the spring loaded, or otherwise mechanically complex toilet paper holders, because people end up touching and fiddling with it with their dirty, unhygienic hands in order to replace the toilet paper.

Whats wrong with a hook, people?

Another question: how many of you read in the toilet?

Yo'. Actually got a kindle for solstice day, so... though there is something like a small library in one of this house's bathrooms at this point, too.

Big thing is to not handle the reading material until after you've washed your hands, on your way out. Assuming said material isn't staying in the room, anyway.

Yeah, I don't go to the toilet without my kindle nowadays. I can actually spend 45+ minutes on the toilet when the book is good. I like toilet, because they're the one place where everyone respect your privacy and leave you alone to read.

I can sympathise with this, infact it's a great place to go in general if you just want to get away from people for a bit.

I can't imagine water actually working. You have to use the paper to scrape, water can't scrape, it only brushes. The
contact area may be greater but the friction and clinging power against poop is virtually null; you'd have to use a pressure washer

The water is for finishing touches, not removing chunks. When I lack for a bidet, I find that dampening a paper towel works reasonably well.

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Another question: how many of you read in the toilet?

I can only assume this is a habit primarily of people with constipation. Personally when I sit on a toilet, I don't spend much time waiting. Also seems a bit unsanitary. Consider the mechanics of scent. For you to be able to smell something, its particles must be in the air for you to smell. I'm unsure why anyone would particularly want to linger on the toilet longer than necessary. Have you ever smelled the clothes of a smoker? What do you think happens if you handle a magazine that lives on top of the tank of a toilet used by multiple people? And do you really want to handle your electronics in that sort of environment?

At least I got to see LB acting condescending about pooping. I can check that one off the LORDbucket list.

FTFY

Oh, and as for the the public restroom question, I can't public restroom.
Not won't, physically cannot.

I USED to have a nervous bladder/colon.
It has since upgraded itself to full on TRAUMATIZED.

I can need to go so bad I'm ready to do so in my trousers, and then the moment I go into a public restroom and stand over the urinal or sit on the toilet...nothing. Instantaneously I for all intents and purposes no longer need to go.
Which lasts for exactly as long as I sit/stand there. And then I'm right back to "its totally about to come out dude" level.

This is the hell I live in.

On a different note, why isn't this thread called "Everybody Poops"?

This thread should be called Everybody Poops.

People read actual books on a toilet? I thought this is why the shampoo bottles have text in all sorts of funny languages that you struggle to pronounce.

I've cleaned public washrooms for a living before.  What it taught me is that:

1.  People who stand up to wipe tend to get paper all over the place.  Don't do that, please don't do that.
2.  The more care you put into protecting yourself, the dirtier you make it for the next person.
3.  A dirty toilet is far less dangerous than camping.  (Not that that means I didn't clean mine)
4.  There's nothing magic about poop.  It's a thing that can be dealt with.