Every “Outhouse” sometimes referred to as bathrooms whether they have a tub/shower or not should have a copy of “Outhouse Humor” including the poem The Old Outhouse, by James Whitcolmb Riley. (Titles may not be exact).
Anything you ate was dangerous. The water had to be boiled. (Actually I didn’t have it that bad - I was bored before I started school.) My mom made the mistake of eating a salad at a restaurant, and was sick for a week. 
I am reading the SDMB on my laptop as I sit on the dunny (wireless network). I want to know - should I “red flag” the laptop - or maybe just the SDMB.
I’ve never heard of an outhouse that had a bathtub or a shower in it. Who would bother running plumbing outside of the house?
I think that post was meant to comment on the fact that we call rooms with only a toilet and a sink “bathrooms” despite their lack of bathing facilities.
Nothing to add other than I made a broad generalization. I wasn’t meant to you, personally.
My lady reads in the bath and our bath is less than an arms length from the toilet. So the toilet seat serves as a handy table. Two days ago she was in the bath reading and I went in to use the loo. Twenty minutes later I hear cursing from the lav. Ok sure, I should have put the toilet seat back down but it really is her responsibility to look at what she is doing and not blame me entirely when it was her who dropped the book down the pan :smack: .
The book was retrieved and dried on the radiator. I’m sure it’ll be fine.
It’s not uncommon for me to use the seat as a table to hold an ashtray and a glass of beer when I am in the bath. By the time any germs climb to the top a pint glass you can bet I am already finished using it.
I draw the line at eating food in there though, unlike some of the people at work if the empty sandwhich cartons and chocolate wrappers are anything to go by. Work no less :eek: , in a building with 30 or so cubicles.about 500 cubicles to share between about 500 males.
CONGRATULATIONS!
Your are far smarter that the average bear (or SDMBer who doesn’t read the post carefully.) A ‘bathroom’ isn’t one with out some sort of bathing facilites. Prooerly a toilet, men’s or ladie’s room, rest room (not really a place to rest), comfort station, etc. but never is it a bathroom under such circumstances.
You haven’t taken a proper shit if you’ve never sat on the john with a Sunday newspaper, a cup of coffee, and a cigarette, and let your sphincter utterly relax while you completely absorb yourself in the printed word. It takes three to five minutes just for your colon to get the clue that it’s evacuatin’ time, and to completely relax. And then it takes another ten or twenty minutes for all the backed up fecal matter to descend and disembark. You’ll know when you’ve taken a proper shit. You’ll feel not just relieved, but reinvigorated.
And none of that will happen if your attention is not diverted from the process. In fact, it’s my assertion that you can’t take a proper shit if you’re thinking about what’s happening. You gotta at least have some reading material… and not just any reading material, either. It has to be something interesting enough so that you’re not distracted by every little tickle or fart.
And that, ladies, is the secret behind why grown men tuck a newspaper under their arm and disappear for half an hour in the john.
“Red flagging” reading material that was used in the bathroom? You’re talking to someone who occasionally eats in there.
And I’ve lived to tell.
My wife and I have a private bathroom off our bedroom. It is cleaned daily by our maid and is spotless. We have a guest bathroom for people who visit. It is also cleaned by the maid after we have guests. Our maid has her own bathroom which is only used by her. As for reading, I always read in the bathroom. It is a moment when I can relax and concentrate on a good book, magazine or catalog. I have always been a bathroom reader since I was a child.
I’ve read in the bathroom for as long as I can remember. I’m also not a habitual hand washer. I think the OPs fears might be slightly overstated.
I’ve been known to be on the toilet for 20 to 30 minutes at a time, several times over the course of a few hours.
Reading material is ESSENTIAL.
You’d spend an awful lot of money on shoes around here!
The boots I took off when I walked in the door this afternoon have been in piles of poop from horses, cows, goats, and deer, and that’s just today. Over the last couple of years, I’ve stepped in a whole lot more than that with those boots. And you know what? After I let everything dry, brush it off, and put a little boot cleaner on them, they’ll look nice enough to wear just about anywhere.
Throw them away?!? I don’t think so!
I am genuinely curious (which is why I asked) and, yes, it is a Seinfeld reference. I’m not a Blue Tones fan (never heard of them) either, just FYI.
I’m not a germ freak, I merely wanted to know. I’ve taken books in before, and I wondered if I should not loan those books out. I’ve also come to breakfast, looking for the paper while I eat cereal. I’ll ask my mom about the paper, and it turns out my dad has taken it into the bathroom. After that I prefer not to bother with it.
Ah-hem.
I don’t know if that would qualify me as a germ freak, as much as it would qualify me as someone that doesn’t trust other peoples’ cleanliness. There’s a difference.
Never mind. There’s a song by them that references the same film that you are with your name and location. I didn’t know that song was based on a film until now, so some ignorance has been eliminated, at least 
Do you borrow books from the public library?
Do you tender, handle, and accept paper bank notes?
Do you ask where they have been or who has handled them?
IIRC most pathogens are relatively short lived outside the human body?
It is as Alfred E. Newman said, "What? Me worry?
To each his own, and all that . . .but I generally receive the message from my colon, rather than send it