@canidmajor Why on earth do you assume, @Hypocrisy_Central, that people spend so much time in there if they don’t have to? Did you do a study?
OK, seeing this is a place where people attest to use reason and logic (even though, as now, emotion rules better) that one goes into the toilet to use it to what¸ pass human waste. That being the case, once the act is done, why would you still be there? That, to me at least, makes about as much sense as sitting at the table alone staring at the empty plate you just finished, sitting at the monitor once the DVD finished for no reason. Maybe there is a reason I don’t know, why do you think I asked?
And really, your entire detail section was, as I said, snide and mocking. Nothing was said about healthy people with normal digestive systems.
Do you deny there is a smell to human crap? I don’t like the smell of my own crap and surely there are no articles so interesting that I would linger more minutes in it than I have to. Nothing in the details was said it was speaking of people with medical problems, did it? I could have assumed that by the context people could not follow it was healthy people, I guess I should have used a disclaimer but even when I do around here I might as well be speaking pig Latin as no one listens to it.
There are actual reasons why people, even with fairly healthy elimination circumstances would read in the bathroom that have nothing to do with spending the time productively.
Do tell then, what are some viable reasons someone with healthy, normal bowel movements would hang around in the toilet after the process of elimination is over with their pants or panties around their ankles? You could have went there 1st and been in line with the question instead of the tangent you left on.