(04-02-2025, 11:57 PM)Michigan Swamp Buck Wrote: I haven't been reading anything during a sit-down break in the bathroom for a long time now, until lately. I found an old book of totally politically incorrect ethnic jokes and have been reading that one while on the throne, and that seems appropriate. But back in the day, we had a magazine rack in the bathroom and we had some choice reading material for when we had some time to kill. Some of my favorite material from back in the day follows, just remember my list is from a whole family of influences, from Mom and Dad down to the youngest, not just my own.

Reader's Digest. Need I say more? The title says it all. The short condensed stories were just long enough to complete the mission and are on a variety of topics for everyone in the family. National Geographic was another family mag that was on the bathroom rack.

The daily newspaper, particularly the sports and comics sections. I wasn't a big sports fan, but everyone reads the sports section while doing their business. The comics section was always good even if it was from the previous Sunday.

Thinking of comics, The Freak Brothers and Mr Natural come to mind, good alternatives from my older brothers along with Easy Rider Magazine and the locally published newspaper from the head shop.

My younger brother is a drummer and couldn't take a dump without a recent copy of Modern Drummer magazine. I was into Guitar Player for one year, but I was more into different sports mags, mostly ones about fishing. I never had to have any particular publication to get the train out of the station. Of course, dirty magazines were out of the question and only to be found out in the garage, shed or in bedroom closets, plus none of that would facilitate a bowl movement anyway.

So, does anyone have anything to add?

(Yesterday, 12:47 AM)FlickerOfLight Wrote:

(04-02-2025, 11:57 PM)Michigan Swamp Buck Wrote: I haven't been reading anything during a sit-down break in the bathroom for a long time now, until lately. I found an old book of totally politically incorrect ethnic jokes and have been reading that one while on the throne, and that seems appropriate. But back in the day, we had a magazine rack in the bathroom and we had some choice reading material for when we had some time to kill. Some of my favorite material from back in the day follows, just remember my list is from a whole family of influences, from Mom and Dad down to the youngest, not just my own.

Reader's Digest. Need I say more? The title says it all. The short condensed stories were just long enough to complete the mission and are on a variety of topics for everyone in the family. National Geographic was another family mag that was on the bathroom rack.

The daily newspaper, particularly the sports and comics sections. I wasn't a big sports fan, but everyone reads the sports section while doing their business. The comics section was always good even if it was from the previous Sunday.

Thinking of comics, The Freak Brothers and Mr Natural come to mind, good alternatives from my older brothers along with Easy Rider Magazine and the locally published newspaper from the head shop.

My younger brother is a drummer and couldn't take a dump without a recent copy of Modern Drummer magazine. I was into Guitar Player for one year, but I was more into different sports mags, mostly ones about fishing. I never had to have any particular publication to get the train out of the station. Of course, dirty magazines were out of the question and only to be found out in the garage, shed or in bedroom closets, plus none of that would facilitate a bowl movement anyway.

So, does anyone have anything to add?

I got a kick outta this, so I'll play.

When I was young 'Archie' comics, Surfing or Surfer Magazine, and yep a whole lot of Readers Digest, shampoo bottles, soap labels, tooth paste labels; pretty much whatever was laying close by after I had sat down.

While in college I read a good portion of "A Farewell to Arms" while on the commode (old school slang).

Recently it's been those LTD commodities Magazines that sell all the random stuff. There's always some obscure items that are pretty cool in those magazines. 

I also used to read the Bible from my phone on a Bible app while I was working. 

Toilet stall permanent marker jokes are always amusing when on the road. Lots to read on the walls in some bathrooms. It's fun to put your friends phone numbers on those stall walls. 

"For a good time call MichiganSwampBuck 867-5309!" 

Cheers

Quote:Bathroom reading is the act of reading text while in a bathroom, usually while sitting on the toilet and defecating. The practice has been common throughout history and remains widespread today with both printed material and smartphones.

Quote:Bathroom reading and psychology

Even when people read for extended periods of time during defecation, it is rare for bathroom readers to feel disgusted by the smell of their own feces, or even to consciously notice the smell.[8][9] Sigmund Freud also noted this phenomenon in Civilization and Its Discontents, though he described lack of awareness of fecal smell in general, not just while reading: "in spite of all man's developmental advances, he scarcely finds the smell of his own excreta repulsive, but only that of other people's."[10]