# Do you use your smartphone while pooping? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [April 28, 2011, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-use-your-smartphone-while-pooping/580038 "2011-04-28T15:40:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![antonio107](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/7ea924/32.png) [@antonio107](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/antonio107)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2011, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-use-your-smartphone-while-pooping/580038/61 "2011-04-30T01:35:21Z")
Every cellphone I’ve owned. My kobo e-reader. Game Boy, DS and 3DS. PSP. Game Gear. Neo geo pocket color. My last two laptops. The real question is: what HAVEN’T I used on the porcelain throne? I’m gonna go with Magic Bullet and rock tumbler. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Marconi\_N.Cheese](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/57b2e6/32.png) [@Marconi\_N.Cheese](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marconi_N.Cheese)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2011, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-use-your-smartphone-while-pooping/580038/62 "2011-04-30T01:47:23Z")
I did until I found out these phones track your movements. ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2011, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-use-your-smartphone-while-pooping/580038/63 "2011-04-30T03:33:08Z")
> [@Marconi\_N.Cheese](#): > > I did until I found out these phones track your movements. Golf clap! ---
**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2011, 6:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-use-your-smartphone-while-pooping/580038/64 "2011-04-30T06:15:44Z")
All the time. I thought that’s why the iPhone was invented. Now, I bring my iPad in more often, but still use my phone if it’s not handy. (and my wife wonders why I’m taking so long) ---
**Author:** ![NinetyWt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/cc9497/32.png) [@NinetyWt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NinetyWt)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2011, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-use-your-smartphone-while-pooping/580038/65 "2011-04-30T18:37:32Z")
> [@Siam\_Sam](#): > > When I was growing up in West Texas, I was told, but never attepted to go verify it, that often in the Old West, a cowboy would accidentally drop his gun down the hole in the outhouse and would just leave it there rather dig through all that shit, assuming it was even close enough to reach. Supposedly, a few intrepid archaeologists have recovered some of these artifacts. Makes me wonder about the hazards of wielding an expensive smartphone near a shit-filled toilet. I’ve read posts about dropping a phone into a latrine while on military duty. Such a quandary! I’m another one who doesn’t get it … but I don’t surf the web on my smartphone since I’m at home and I have 2 desktop PCs, a laptop and a tablet for that. I prefer looking out the window. The windowsill is just the right height for my coffee cup. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2011, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-use-your-smartphone-while-pooping/580038/66 "2011-04-30T19:32:54Z")
> [@Marconi\_N.Cheese](#): > > I did until I found out these phones track your movements. Man, I wish I thought of that one. ---
**Author:** ![antonio107](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/7ea924/32.png) [@antonio107](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/antonio107)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2011, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-use-your-smartphone-while-pooping/580038/67 "2011-04-30T23:16:57Z")
> [@Marconi\_N.Cheese](#): > > I did until I found out these phones track your movements. I second the list of people lauding your scatological humor! ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2011, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-use-your-smartphone-while-pooping/580038/68 "2011-05-01T00:21:05Z")
> [@antonio107](#): > > I second the list of people lauding your scatological humor! What was I, chopped liver? ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2011, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-use-your-smartphone-while-pooping/580038/69 "2011-05-01T16:50:03Z")
> [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](#): > > I’m an in ‘n’ out in three minutes kinda guy. No yakkin’ in the express lane. Are we talking about your sex life or pooping issues? I is confused. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2011, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-use-your-smartphone-while-pooping/580038/70 "2011-05-01T16:51:11Z")
> [@Marconi\_N.Cheese](#): > > I did until I found out these phones track your movements. What if Beethoven wrote his greatest symphony on his smart phone whilst crapping? Would it be a double movement? ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2011, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-use-your-smartphone-while-pooping/580038/71 "2011-05-01T21:11:13Z")
Misread as “ **Do you use your _saxophone_ while pooping?** ” Smartphone: yes. Saxophone: god no. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-use-your-smartphone-while-pooping/580038.md?page=3)