Originally published at: Stop taking your phone into the bathroom | Boing Boing
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Sheesh BoingBoing, enough with the shitposting!
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They’re really plumbing the depths here.
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No more swiping right?
Ew.
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Even before phones* I’ve always had to take something in to read (even a shampoo bottle if necessary). And when business is done, it’s done. Ten minutes. It’s not like you flush the reading materials, you can continue reading after washing up.
*I should probably use some term like “handheld computer” or something
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Sheesh. Eat some fibre dude.
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This is good advice as long as there’s nothing outside the bathroom that you’re taking refuge from. Annoying co-workers both doing less than you and getting praised more than you, five bosses stopping by every 20 minutes telling you you could be doing better, well-meaning co-workers who just blather on and can’t leave you alone… a game of Sudoku, checking a feed that others would frown upon, or just a quick note to someone you care about, it’s definitely worth it to have a phone in the bathroom and take your time.
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At home, I could easily lose an hour on the toilet
I find posting to be much quicker and easier from a real keyboard (ie, not the bathroom).
Shitposting, you’re doing it wrong.
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I can see using a phone in the bathroom as reading material but what I don’t get is making an actual call.
I’ve heard people in the stall carrying on a conversation right through the flush. I rarely use a public stall because I have issues and on the very rare, like maybe once a year, occasion I do I’m too busy worried about touching anything in there, a phone is the last thing I’d pull out in the bathroom.
Couple days ago I got to test my theory about being on hold with tech support. I was on hold resolving an ip issue with a website I manage, they said give them 5 minutes, perfect because I had to pee. It took less than 5 minutes…
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Reduces time in the bathroom.
Returns to his desk to browse the internet for an hour.
Seriously, unless there’s a line at the door waiting for you, who is harmed by this behavior? No, I don’t generally take my phone in there, but I usually have reading material (books of “interesting facts” are best, since articles are short and you can stop at the end of one). All I see this doing is shaming folks for relaxing in whatever way they shit fit… see shit… see fit.
And my work here is done…
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You and me both. Even slide-out phone keyboards are far slower than a full-size keyboard for me. Phones are fine for short messages, but not for anything much longer than a tweet.
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I’ll just leave this here.
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I have an acquaintance for whom it is always 1 minute or less. Always. It explains (correlation? causation?) why he’s so damn tense and uptight all the time.
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In the bathroom one takes the newspaper, possibly the sports newspaper.
It could also double as a backup in case of toilet paper roll failure.
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It won’t wash, you know (this attempt to keep phones out of the bathroom).
It’s just papering over the cracks.
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- Don’t take your phone into the bathroom.
- Take your phone into the bathroom.
- Compromise by turning off the camera.
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Gosh there must be some serious splashback from going so fast.
Probably doesn’t take any reading material in with him.
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Came here to look for this warning. Not disappointed.
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Yes, it’s a good thing that we’re all straining together here to flush out this crap advice.
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I have personally learned piles of information on the can.
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