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.
How did people poop before smartphones were invented?
Submitted 8 months ago by PenisDuckCuck9001@lemmynsfw.com to [deleted]
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BakerBagel@midwest.social 8 months ago
Botzo@lemmy.world 8 months ago
You’ve forgotten Reader’s Digest.
And we can’t forget the episode of Seinfeld where George takes a book into the bathroom.
HonkTonkWoman@lemm.ee 8 months ago
In our pants. Toilets came out around the same time as smartphones, so it’s been a pretty revolutionary couple of decades around here.
BeliefPropagator@discuss.tchncs.de 8 months ago
Pooping shouldn’t be a drawn-out process. You’re better off keeping your toilet time to less than 10 to 15 minutes, says Gregory Thorkelson, M.D., a psychiatrist in the department of gastroenterology, hepatology, and nutrition at the University of Pittsburgh.
In fact, you should only make your way to the bathroom when the urge hits.
If the urge to poop isn’t there, you might be tempted to push or strain to try to get the job done.
And all that straining could lead to the development of hemorrhoids—bulging blood vessels around your anus that can become swollen and painful or even bleed.
JamesTBagg@lemmy.world 8 months ago
That seems, I’m not sure the word, but not correct. You can find a doctor (any professional) to say anything.
I bring my phone and keep a book in the bathroom because I’m NOT straining. I sit down, and while gravity is doing its thing to my guts, I read a chapter. I’m not rushing or pushing or popping hemorrhoids because I’m on my phone writing a stupid comment about pooping while pooping.
I don’t think Dr Greg knows how people are using their phones in the bathroom. People aren’t reading the back of shampoo bottles because they’re in a hurry.
untorquer@lemmy.world 8 months ago
That’s weird. I read comments in political posts because the straining from the rage really seems to help when i don’t have an urge at all.
BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Books.
Kaput@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Archie comic books.
OpenStars@discuss.online 8 months ago
We did not.
lemonSqueezy@lemmy.world 8 months ago
LOL. Playboy magazine. 70% was real articles. When you weren’t pooping you wood use the other 15%.
PenisDuckCuck9001@lemmynsfw.com 8 months ago
I watch pornhub for the storyline and character development dynamics trust me bro.
s_s@lemm.ee 8 months ago
I still have my OG gameboy w/ Tetris near the toilet
JackbyDev@programming.dev 8 months ago
I would stare out windows a lot while I was in the bathroom. If you stare at leaves in a tree and let your eyes unfocus you can see patterns and shapes. Sort of like looking for shapes in clouds.
For bathrooms without windows I think I would just use my imagination. I’ve got a fairly vivid one and just think about random stuff a lot.
It’s hard to remember though. I have heard about people reading the ingredients of chemicals while they go, but I’ve never personally done that.
toynbee@lemmy.world 8 months ago
In my childhood household, at all times, there were in-progress books on the back of the commode. You would simply select the one relevant to you.
Cadeillac@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Like a family relay race of books?
toynbee@lemmy.world 8 months ago
There were individual books per person.
Neon_Carnivore@lemmy.zip 8 months ago
They didn’t. Which is why boomers are full of shit.
cm0002@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Gameboy Advance and then later a Nintendo DS or laptop and then a PSP or laptop towards the end right before I got my first smartphone lol
BaldManGoomba@lemmy.world 8 months ago
We were much more use to undistracted time
son_named_bort@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Presumably on a toilet.
DrSteveBrule@mander.xyz 8 months ago
I had to poop really bad the other day. I had to make a run for it and didn’t have time to grab my phone first. I was in and out in like 2 minutes!
2ugly2live@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I used to keep a book under the sink.
TachyonTele@lemm.ee 8 months ago
Are you talking about back when the world wasn’t in color?
wjrii@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Death_Equity@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Sears catalog.
rustydomino@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Ahh. I see you have good taste in porn, good sir.
Death_Equity@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Vintage static softcore is just better. It is all about what you can’t see that makes it more arousing. I mean, yeah, we can’t see her dilating butthole, but imagining what her winking turd cutter looks like means it is the hottest possible gaping balloon knot imagineable.
EleventhHour@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Magazines and bird photo books
Rentlar@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
Learning French (Spanish in the US) by reading the back of the toothpaste bottles and whatnot. Newspapers, crosswords and magazines were very common in household washrooms.
brb@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
I had a basket full of comics in the bathroom. I would get stuck there for hours sometimes
frigidaphelion@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I was lucky enough to grow up through the gameboy–>DS era so I’ve always been covered
Itdidnttrickledown@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Falcon 3.0 flight manual.
sunbrrnslapper@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Like animals.
paddirn@lemmy.world 8 months ago
What else were you supposed to do on the bus ride home?
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
maintain eye contact with yourself in the mirrored shower door.
rickyrigatoni@lemm.ee 8 months ago
We fell asleep on the toilet a lot.
alsimoneau@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
Y’all take more than a minute to poop?
Pacattack57@lemmy.world 8 months ago
We read a book or sat in silence with our thoughts. Most great ideas were created on the toilet.
ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net 8 months ago
Ewww, reading words from a dead tree? Gross.