I had a basket full of comics in the bathroom. I would get stuck there for hours sometimes

you stare at a wall.

Try it next time.

My grandparents had like a basket full of magazines, comic books, etc beside the toilet. It was pretty good. They often buy weekly reader's digest and stuff like that. So it was usually new every time we visit.

We didn't have to poop back then. The act of pooping was invented by Larry Smartphone, who also happened to invent the smartphone. They were released together originally as a bundle but everyone has both nowadays anyways and you can mix and match.

Kids these days dont even know about disassociating lmao

I was lucky enough to grow up through the gameboy-->DS era so I've always been covered

We read a book or sat in silence with our thoughts. Most great ideas were created on the toilet.

Magazines, books, reading the backs of products, and sometimes people would even use a mirror or two to watch TV on the shitter.

We were much more use to undistracted time

Presumably on a toilet.

Books.

Well, before phones made social media conveniently available, people largely had to deposit their shit via telephone, written word, or in person.

We read the backs of shampoo bottles.

We used to have words printed on paper (the pressed corpses of trees) called books, magazines, and newspapers. They'd bring one of those.

Farmers Almanac. Used to come with a pre-drilled hole for hanging on a hook in the outhouse.

Magazine racks. Every home had a small one next to the toilet

Video game instruction manuals

Spanish people stopped learning greek after smartphones where invented.

Magazines and we read the ingredient list of bottles, like bleech.

In our pants. Toilets came out around the same time as smartphones, so it’s been a pretty revolutionary couple of decades around here.

We had a little basket thingy with books and magazines. Stuff like Calvin & Hobbes, I Spy books, Popular Science magazines, etc.

Huh, this vegan dog shampoo has not been tested on animals.

I feel like that's the one product they should test on animals so that my dog doesn't have to be the guinea pig.

We read the ingredients on shampoo bottles and we liked it!

Hopefully through their buttholes, not through their fingers and mouths.

I had to poop really bad the other day. I had to make a run for it and didn't have time to grab my phone first. I was in and out in like 2 minutes!

Pooping shouldn’t be a drawn-out process. You’re better off keeping your toilet time to less than 10 to 15 minutes, says Gregory Thorkelson, M.D., a psychiatrist in the department of gastroenterology, hepatology, and nutrition at the University of Pittsburgh.

In fact, you should only make your way to the bathroom when the urge hits.

If the urge to poop isn’t there, you might be tempted to push or strain to try to get the job done.

And all that straining could lead to the development of hemorrhoids—bulging blood vessels around your anus that can become swollen and painful or even bleed.

https://www.menshealth.com/health/a19521086/time-spent-pooping/

We'd look through the bathroom window, there was always something funny going on. Such as packs of velociraptors fighting each other, or a mastodon causing wreck on the neighbour's garden.

I would stare out windows a lot while I was in the bathroom. If you stare at leaves in a tree and let your eyes unfocus you can see patterns and shapes. Sort of like looking for shapes in clouds.

For bathrooms without windows I think I would just use my imagination. I've got a fairly vivid one and just think about random stuff a lot.

It's hard to remember though. I have heard about people reading the ingredients of chemicals while they go, but I've never personally done that.