Magazine rack in powder room

[Perp]

Thoughtful to your visitors, or tacky?

I have no idea what the etiquette is. Give me your views!

(Definitely having one in the ensuite, this is specifically asking about the toilet that will primarily be used by visitors.)

If you went to the bathroom in a friend's house and it had a magazine rack, would you:

1) think "uh - gross!",
2) pick up a magazine, or
3) not think anything of it?

 

[Mr. Fabulous]

What the hell is a powder room?

 

[Kinnon Bell]

I haven't read a magazine in the toilet since the creation of smart phones.

 

[Mr. Fabulous]

Powder room = toilet? Why didn't you just say toilet?

 

[property_girl]

We don't have one but think nothing of it if someone else does. I think it's a great place to put your read magazines. If there was one in someone else's home, I would pick up and read if interesting.

 

[Mr. Fabulous]

Calling the toilet (pardon me... 'torlet') a powder room reminds me of this scene from The Simpsons.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXJkLBj6G1k

 

[Perp]

Powder room = toilet? Why didn't you just say toilet?

Because I'm all ****in' class.

 

[Peter_Tersteeg]

I haven't read a magazine in the toilet since the creation of smart phones.

Eww. No way I'm ever going to use your smart phone...

 

[Mr. Fabulous]

Hey Perp, you spelt 'a.s.s.' wrong.

 

[Kinnon Bell]

Eww. No way I'm ever going to use your smart phone...

Ha! It's waterproof, I can wash it!

Reminds me of this:

 

[westminster]

Nope no toilet reading in the powder room. I don't want to touch something that has fecal matter all over it from when everything goes flying during a flush.

So keep it for your ensuite but I think no point for a powder room.

 

[Mr. Fabulous]

when everything goes flying during a flush.

If this actually happens to you Myf, I strongly suggest making an appointment to see your doctor with the quickness.

 

[wylie]

I wouldn't put a magazine rack in the powder room. Our "powder room" has a WHOLE BLOODY LIBRARY in it and hubby will sit there for hours. He thinks I don't know what he is up to, hiding from me and the family .

If a visitor wants or needs to read, then that means I'm sitting at the table twiddling my thumbs, waiting for them to come back and finish their cuppa. (Put a magazine in there and I may as well go and have a lie down.)

 

[Corey Batt]

Would be particularly useful if you were checking you were washing up when the zombie apocalypse took place.

 

[westminster]

If this actually happens to you Myf, I strongly suggest making an appointment to see your doctor with the quickness.

I once saw a super gross Mythbusters episode where they showed how much fecal matter got on things from a toilet flush. I almost threw up

http://www.discovery.com/tv-shows/mythbusters/mythbusters-database/fecal-matter-on-toothbrush/

 

[property_girl]

I once saw a super gross Mythbusters episode where they showed how much fecal matter got on things from a toilet flush. I almost threw up

http://www.discovery.com/tv-shows/mythbusters/mythbusters-database/fecal-matter-on-toothbrush/

I saw that one too. And the faecal matter gets on toothbrushes too. Whenever you smell something, it means particles of it are in the air. But I try not to get too hung up on those things. Much worse are door handles on public toilet doors--apparently they have more faecal matter on them than toilet seats.

Still think there's nothing wrong with a magazine rack next to the loo.

 

[westminster]

I saw that one too. And the faecal matter gets on toothbrushes too. Whenever you smell something, it means particles of it are in the air. But I try not to get too hung up on those things. Much worse are door handles on public toilet doors--apparently they have more faecal matter on them than toilet seats.

Still think there's nothing wrong with a magazine rack next to the loo.

Yup won't stop me enjoying a private read in my own loo but I don't want to touch anything in someone else's toilet

The amount of ***** on phones in the workplace is astounding too

 

[Peter_Tersteeg]

I once saw a super gross Mythbusters episode where they showed how much fecal matter got on things from a toilet flush. I almost threw up

http://www.discovery.com/tv-shows/mythbusters/mythbusters-database/fecal-matter-on-toothbrush/

Yep. That's why I'll never point a toilet in a bathroom or en-suite if I've got the choice. Toilets deserve their own special place.

 

[Mr. Fabulous]

That's why I'll never point a toilet in a bathroom or en-suite if I've got the choice.

You're doing it wrong.

 

[Perp]

I once saw a super gross Mythbusters episode where they showed how much fecal matter got on things from a toilet flush. I almost threw up

http://www.discovery.com/tv-shows/mythbusters/mythbusters-database/fecal-matter-on-toothbrush/

Um, doesn't the finding of an equivalent amount of fecal matter on the toothbrushes in the distant office prove that the toilet's no dirtier than anywhere else? i.e. Doesn't this experiment negate rather than support your position?