Kids these days dont even know about disassociating lmao
We read a book or sat in silence with our thoughts. Most great ideas were created on the toilet.
Magazines, books, reading the backs of products, and sometimes people would even use a mirror or two to watch TV on the shitter.
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.
Wash, rinse, repeat. List of ingredients. Wash rinse repeat
Mad magazine, Nat Geo, or if all else fails, back of the shampoo bottle.
We were much more use to undistracted time
Presumably on a toilet.
Books.
Well, before phones made social media conveniently available, people largely had to deposit their shit via telephone, written word, or in person.
We read the backs of shampoo bottles.
I fully educated myself about tampon insertion and toxic shock syndrome during trips to the bathroom.
I got a degree in chemical engineering at Poop U.
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.
Farmers Almanac. Used to come with a pre-drilled hole for hanging on a hook in the outhouse.
Magazine racks. Every home had a small one next to the toilet
Video game instruction manuals
Spanish people stopped learning greek after smartphones where invented.
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We used to read shampoo bottles that where usually shipped in Spain with labels in four languages: Spanish, Italian, Portuguese and Greek. So it was always funny to try to see how things were written in greek while pooping.
I used to do that too! But living in Eastern Europe, our shampoo bottles had like twenty languages. I didn’t manage to learn any, but I did develop a sense of how closely related they were.
Magazines and we read the ingredient list of bottles, like bleech.
In our pants. Toilets came out around the same time as smartphones, so it’s been a pretty revolutionary couple of decades around here.