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Never been one for reading the newspaper on the bog, but I used to read motorcycle news etc, while visiting the bathroom. Noticed some people, not mentioning any names on here, who take their mobile phones into the bathroom. I tend not to ask these people, if I can use their phones to make a call. Their phones must be filthy. :eek:
 
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jonbeeza said:
Never been one for reading the newspaper on the bog, but I used to read motorcycle news etc, while visiting the bathroom. Noticed some people, not mentioning any names on here, who take their mobile phones into the bathroom. I tend not to ask these people, if I can use their phones to make a call. Their phones must be filthy. :eek:
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Are they going to be any more filthy than your motorcycle news?....
 
jonbeeza said:
Never been one for reading the newspaper on the bog, but I used to read motorcycle news etc, while visiting the bathroom. Noticed some people, not mentioning any names on here, who take their mobile phones into the bathroom. I tend not to ask these people, if I can use their phones to make a call. Their phones must be filthy. :eek:
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I also find the concept of using a mobile on the throne bizarre. What on earth is so important that a call or any other usage cannot wait!

Equally, I have been conscious of others at public urinals using their phones.....ditto with above thoughts. Not withstanding those that fail to even wash their hands before exiting!
 
I don't know anyone these days who doesn't take their phone to the bog

It's their personal property, don't see how it should affect anyone else, more hygienic than taking a magazine or newspaper in as phones are much easier clean
 
Box Brownie said:
I also find the concept of using a mobile on the throne bizarre. What on earth is so important that a call or any other usage cannot wait!

Equally, I have been conscious of others at public urinals using their phones.....ditto with above thoughts. Not withstanding those that fail to even wash their hands before exiting!
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I don't take any reading material into the toilet with me now. Although I did in my younger days when I was bike mad, and that was the place to read in peace.
 
I was waiting to use the toilet the other day, but one of the kids was in there with their phone. I was waiting for ages, they were too busy playing a game, instead of getting on with it.
 
How many of us have taken their camera in with them, and then study the camera menu, trying to figure out how to do something? :oops: :$
 
Two family members have dropped their phones down the toilet, no idea how they managed that. They wanted a bag of rice to put their phones in. I hope they threw the rice away afterwards.
 
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How many of us have taken their camera in with them, and then study the camera menu, trying to figure out how to do something? :oops: :$
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Brings new meaning to 'taking a sh*t" :exit:
 
I don't take my phone to the toilet.
I've seen guys in the gents, cock in one hand and phone in other, texting away...
Disgusting :hungover:
 
Bobsyeruncle said:
I don't take my phone to the toilet.
I've seen guys in the gents, cock in one hand and phone in other, texting away...
Disgusting :hungover:
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You put it so much more succinctly than I did in post #3 ;)
 
It is one thing taking a phone into the toilet but entirely different matter if used!

My attitudes to personal hygiene were strongly reinforced by my NHS path lab technician job in the 70's.

The bodily fluids and other stuff I had to 'handle' meant I was washing my hands a lot.

IMO modern toilet habits remind more of surgeons behaviour in days when a patients blood on his hands & clothes was seen a sign of a good surgeon. The trouble with unwashed hands is everything you touch thereafter you are depositing bacteria and viruses. Using a phone, pocketing it and then washing hands but then taking phone out of pocket. ....has just defeated any benefit of hand washing before!
 
Cagey75 said:
I don't know anyone these days who doesn't take their phone to the bog
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I don't even know where it is half the time.
But its likely to be somewhere in the house.
Or an outside chance that it's in the car.
 
Cobra said:
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I don't even know where it is half the time.
But its likely to be somewhere in the house.
Or an outside chance that it's in the car.
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Snap. I usually have to track it down if it starts ringing, or ask my wife to call it from her phone if I need to find it ... :)
 
MartynK said:
or ask my wife to call it from her phone if I need to find it ... :)
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Mine is usually on silent, well vibrate anyway.
If I lose it its usually gone for a day or so :D
 
my local paper has 9 pages of crosswords and puzzles every week... perfect to relax.. doing somethign helps you relax and not think about it and that helps the process... unless your regular and dont need of course :)
 
KIPAX said:
my local paper has 9 pages of crosswords and puzzles every week... perfect to relax.. doing somethign helps you relax and not think about it and that helps the process... unless your regular and dont need of course :)
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Too much information :D
 
Box Brownie said:
It is one thing taking a phone into the toilet but entirely different matter if used!

My attitudes to personal hygiene were strongly reinforced by my NHS path lab technician job in the 70's.

The bodily fluids and other stuff I had to 'handle' meant I was washing my hands a lot.

IMO modern toilet habits remind more of surgeons behaviour in days when a patients blood on his hands & clothes was seen a sign of a good surgeon. The trouble with unwashed hands is everything you touch thereafter you are depositing bacteria and viruses. Using a phone, pocketing it and then washing hands but then taking phone out of pocket. ....has just defeated any benefit of hand washing before!
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When I got my knee and head operation done the other week, they said they could not do it in the previous clinic, as they needed a sterile environment. When I did get my op done, non of the team had head coverings on, I always thought they did. Knowing how much bacteria a mobile phone can have, its strange they do have them on them, as I have seen nurses and doctors using them. Maybe they sanitise their hands, after using the phone.
 
the black fox said:
Trouble is you can’t wipe yer bum with a mobile phone the way you could with the news of the world
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But judging just how filthy some mobile phones are, they very well might have been doing just that.
Going by a report a while back, reporting just how filthy mobile phones are, they found traces of faeces and Salmonella amongst other things. o_O

Never realised faeces is just faces but with another letter e, in the middle of the word.
 
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I often take my mobile into the karzi but only because if I take it out of my shirt pocket, I'll forget where I've put it!
 
My mate has a stack of bike mags in his bog, I never read them when I visit his bathroom, as much as I am tempted to read classic bikes.
 
I'd never dream of taking my phone into the karzi. It's bad enough that my watch talks to my phone as I obviously wear that, but if it rings - it gets ignored anyway.

People that can take books, papers or phones in with them obviously have too much time on their hands or are skiving. When I was working, I rarely had time to use the karzi, let alone do any reading. :facepalm:

Still, that's the difference between being self-employed or employed by someone else I suppose. :rolleyes:
 
Bobsyeruncle said:
I don't take my phone to the toilet.
I've seen guys in the gents, cock in one hand and phone in other, texting away...
Disgusting :hungover:
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Box Brownie said:
You put it so much more succinctly than I did in post #3 ;)
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As a contextual note......

I recalled reading/hearing about this before but have rechecked ;)

All mammals regardless of physical size (excluding rats) will pee for about maximum of 21 seconds, though can be as low as 10 seconds.

Now just what the heck are those blokes doing on their phones that cannot wait a minute or so (including handwashing time) and/or means they are occupying a urinal longer than necessary!
 
Sky said:
I'd never dream of taking my phone into the karzi. It's bad enough that my watch talks to my phone as I obviously wear that, but if it rings - it gets ignored anyway.

People that can take books, papers or phones in with them obviously have too much time on their hands or are skiving. When I was working, I rarely had time to use the karzi, let alone do any reading. :facepalm:

Still, that's the difference between being self-employed or employed by someone else I suppose. :rolleyes:
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Or retired?
 
I was watching this baking program, and the woman was wearing a bracelet with a link chain, and the chain kept touching the pastry items. I though about when she goes to the toilet and wipes herself, surely the long chain around her wrist, will touch her bare skin being wiped. o_O
 
jonbeeza said:
I was watching this baking program, and the woman was wearing a bracelet with a link chain, and the chain kept touching the pastry items. I though about when she goes to the toilet and wipes herself, surely the long chain around her wrist, will touch her bare skin being wiped. o_O
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No idea really but apart from a wedding ring do women, or men for that matter, remove such jewellery before commencing proceedings ???
 
Considering how many people I've seen that don't wash their hands after using a toilet - it make you wonder just how much s**t we eat when dining out really doesn't it? :wideyed:
 
Sky said:
Considering how many people I've seen that don't wash their hands after using a toilet - it make you wonder just how much s**t we eat when dining out really doesn't it? :wideyed:
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One might say that standards of personal hygiene and post toilet handwashing have..........








Gone down the pan :coat: :naughty:
 
Box Brownie said:
No idea really but apart from a wedding ring do women, or men for that matter, remove such jewellery before commencing proceedings ???
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Missus used to watch the Chef James Martin, I could not watch him. He turned my stomach, the way he would dip things in batter, while wearing his rings, all the filth beneath them, I know the heat of frying should kill things. But seeing the rings on his fingers covered in batter, made me feel sick. :puke:
 
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A former GF of mine dropped her flash new phone into the toilet on a train on her first day out with it. Sadly it survived. She was the most distracted phone obsessed person I've ever known.
 
LOL! Serves her right for using it in the loo in the first place. :ROFLMAO:

Strangely enough, one of my neighbours said yesterday that he'd dropped his down the loo. He wasn't impressed when I laughed and said the same, but he wasn't using it, it was in his top pocket - when he bent forward to put the seat down it slipped out. I still laughed. :LOL:
 
jonbeeza said:
Missus used to watch the Chef James Martin, I could not watch him. He turned my stomach, the way he would dip things in batter, while wearing his rings, all the filth beneath them, I know the heat of frying should kill things. But seeing the rings on his fingers covered in batter, made me feel sick. :puke:
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Think on this then...

When we seat ourselves on the throne, we drop our trousers and once the kids have been dropped off at the pool (in public bogs and probably at home), we pull our trousers back up and deal with buttons, zips and belts before washing our hands, very possibly pulling them up very close to the pockets. Anyone do the laundry every throne session? We're not dead yet!!!
 
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