Is it acceptable to read a library book in the bathroom?

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(let's posit defecation here)

Poll Results

Option	Votes
Yes, it's fine, who knows where else that book has been already and it's not like people lick their library books	29
No, that's disgusting, you should be ashamed of yourself for even raising it as a question	12

― Guayaquil (eephus!), Monday, 4 October 2021 14:48 (two years ago) link

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― Evan, Monday, 4 October 2021 14:50 (two years ago) link

I lick my library books

― Gardyloominati (Neanderthal), Monday, 4 October 2021 15:03 (two years ago) link

When I was younger, I would bring any book or magazine into the bathroom or the tub with me. Nowadays, I really only have a special selection of books that I don't care about too much that I'll take in there.

― peace, man, Monday, 4 October 2021 15:07 (two years ago) link

Is it bad for a baby to see you reading a library book in the bathroom

― Gardyloominati (Neanderthal), Monday, 4 October 2021 15:41 (two years ago) link

fecal matter should be the least of your concerns w/r/t library books

― a (waterface), Monday, 4 October 2021 15:44 (two years ago) link

^ checked out The Turner Diaries

― Gardyloominati (Neanderthal), Monday, 4 October 2021 15:53 (two years ago) link

I'm just gonna assume everyone who votes "no" also spends their free time pooping directly into library books

― talkin' about his flat tire (DJP), Monday, 4 October 2021 20:26 (two years ago) link

Acceptable in my bathroom at home, not acceptable in a public bathroom. In a bathroom of the library itself, it's a coinflip.

― Nature's promise vs. Simple truth (bernard snowy), Monday, 4 October 2021 22:59 (two years ago) link

Skid marks obscure the sacred words within

― Gardyloominati (Neanderthal), Monday, 4 October 2021 23:28 (two years ago) link

middle class fear of contact with urine and fecal matter, no matter if it only exists in homeopathic quantities and at several removes, is a marvel to behold.

― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Tuesday, 5 October 2021 03:18 (two years ago) link

fun fact, Phil Collins's "You Will Be in My Heart" is about the accidental consumption of fecal matter and how it can lead to health complications

― Gardyloominati (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 5 October 2021 04:55 (two years ago) link

How about a dvd

― When Young Sheldon began to rap (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 5 October 2021 07:26 (two years ago) link

Fuck no

― paolo, Wednesday, 6 October 2021 07:28 (two years ago) link

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

― System, Saturday, 9 October 2021 00:01 (two years ago) link

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

― System, Sunday, 10 October 2021 00:01 (two years ago) link

If you put the book down before wiping, wash your hands, then pick it up again, then it’s no problem surely? If you wanted to be careful you could wipe the plastic cover with a Milton wipe or something, I suppose. I have a kid so I assume everything is covered in shit anyway

― Chuck_Tatum, Sunday, 10 October 2021 08:05 (two years ago) link

of course it’s fine

― groovemaaan, Sunday, 10 October 2021 10:25 (two years ago) link

Beats the alternative

― fix up luke shawp (darraghmac), Sunday, 10 October 2021 10:40 (two years ago) link

wipe with the book

― Gardyloominati (Neanderthal), Sunday, 10 October 2021 13:20 (two years ago) link

one year passes...

It's a communal book, only fair it should share communal waste product

― Cthulhu Diamond Phillips (Neanderthal), Thursday, 27 April 2023 17:05 (eleven months ago) link

science has proven that there's already poop on everything

― z_tbd, Thursday, 27 April 2023 17:19 (eleven months ago) link

^Aesop Rock's best

― Cthulhu Diamond Phillips (Neanderthal), Thursday, 27 April 2023 17:26 (eleven months ago) link

I read Wayne Kramer's autobiography entirely on the toilet
It look awhile, but I made it through

― Andy the Grasshopper, Thursday, 27 April 2023 17:28 (eleven months ago) link

In one sitting?

― Cthulhu Diamond Phillips (Neanderthal), Thursday, 27 April 2023 17:32 (eleven months ago) link

that's the kind of reading where the legs go completely dead and you have to crawl out

― z_tbd, Thursday, 27 April 2023 17:40 (eleven months ago) link

colloquially known as an animal crossing

― z_tbd, Thursday, 27 April 2023 17:40 (eleven months ago) link

I have bill Simmons book of basketball under my bathroom sink, seems like the most appropriate place for it

― brimstead, Thursday, 27 April 2023 17:41 (eleven months ago) link

xp The Stranger

― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Thursday, 27 April 2023 17:42 (eleven months ago) link

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