I'm going to be a little serious here, and suggest that you should actively avoid engaging with anything that might keep you on the toilet longer than necessary to do your business. That position puts a lot of strain on the rectum and anal hemorrhoids, and can exacerbate health problems that tend to go hand-in-hand with desk jobs.
Oh, absolutely. The upshot of my comment was "avoid things that put undue stress on your rectal muscles", which includes both straining and spending extended periods sitting on the can.
Absolutely do not stand on the seat. Beyond getting dirty shoes all over the toilet, the asymmetic force during initiation is a great way to break the toilet seat or overcompress the wax seal beneath the toilet (I had an ex-roommate damage my toilet this way). Putting your feet on the rim is a good way to slip and fall. If you want to simulate a squat toilet with a Western fixture, raise up your feet on a step stool. Sit down first then raise your feet. </rant>
Sometimes you are in a public place with nothing to use as a platform. Never use the seat, of course, since other people put their butts there, and as you say they can be fragile. I use the rim. I have never slipped or fallen. It is quite secure.
I always joke with my friends when I tell them the girls in Asian countries always have more shapely asses than their Asian-American counterparts. That's because they work out their asses when they need to do their business.
I wouldn't worry about it being similar. Put a twist on it - make it generate fake versions of the terribly boring magazines that lie around bathrooms forever. Or something similar - it'll still be interesting.
Take it as a very good sign that you're not the only app trying to do this! That means there is a market & customer demand for the product you have under development. Move fast and make things!
To call that "productivity [that has been] lost", means that there was productivity that should have happened and was somehow stolen.
Sure, there was "productivity potential" in those moments, but that's true for every moment. E.g when we're sleeping, making love or eating. We do we think we should be productive almost every second of our lives, or we "lost" something?
Isn't this why a few groups are working on iphone coding apps? :p
I had a teacher in elementary who didn't like her students staring at the ceiling while she taught. Thinking that we were trying to escape from the lesson, she put several famous paintings (Mona Lisa, Sistine Chapel, etc) on the ceiling so we would at least be learning to appreciate art while in her classroom. There was nowhere in the room to look which wasn't educational.
At work, before iPhone, I'd typically take to the bathroom a book that covered something I actually needed to know for work, so my time in the bathroom was actually productive time.
After iPhone, I read HN, Reddit, or Slashdot. So, at least in my case, there has definitely been a hit to productivity.
If you don't want to read this stuff, I would highly recommend Pocket (aka ReadItLater). You use an addon in your browser to bookmark articles, papers, videos, or whatever and Pocket will download it to your phone. You can then read your bookmarks while on the can, even if you don't have a good connection.
Yes of course, everyone reads while on the toitey, that is a given. But I read the NY Times on my kindle, and occasionally, OK, you got me often, HackerNews (just a second while I flush) ok, where was I... ah yes, what is needed, in my view, is a nice little stand or holder for your tablet, ultrabook, kindle, etc., my arm gets tired, the old time newspaper was much lighter. LOL. I am sure someone has already patented something like that!
Am I the only one who thought from the description that this would condense users' social media feeds, making them look like they were product back labels?
I know why I lost interest after the 2nd page refresh: I am not sitting on the throne right now. :-D Leaving aside the kryptonite and smurfs, trying to figure out which of those ingredients were real was quite a challenge!
Would you read product labels if they were randomly generated? If you couldn't possibly know them by heart? If you didn't learn something new about the world?
And before having Internet or a portable device I always bring a book with me. I always thought that the bookshelves must be in the bathroom: pure inspiration.
hiarious! indeed. Me doing marketing, I'm also intrested in the front. Is is it much of efford getting the front of the packages aswell. I would love to compare the individual USP's of the product.
With this change.. wow.. this could be a tool people might even pay for :)
thanks for the great joke.. Since I'm through with my stuff on the toilet I went for WordBliz ;)
At nearly every company I've worked at or consulted for, the only peace to be had anywhere in the building was in the bathroom, on the toilet. That's a sad state of affairs in an information+ideas economy. So I won't be firing up any apps on the john, thanks very much.
maybe its just me but I don't understand what the joke is ? I read through a label and didn't find it humorous ? Is it possibly because i didn't read the right one ?
you people are disgusting, who would spend more time on the toilet than is needed breathing in their own farts and smelling their own shit. And yet all over the net there are people who are proud of it.
Go to a doctor or change your diet. If your plumbing works taking a dump takes about the same time as picking your phone from your pocket and unlocking your screen - rendering the whole reading to keep yourself busy useless.
That said, this app is frickin' hilarious.