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It's the active foaming ingredient in most shampoos! Also, a possible carcinogen.

  • May. 6th, 2009 at 2:32 PM
captain america (miggy)
karenhealey: I have to find that picture of me as a six-year-old, sitting on the toilet in my raincoat, pants pulled down, reading a book.
karenhealey: And put it on the internet.
brown_betty: The raincoat is really the best part. I mean, who *hasn't* read on the toilet at some point?
brown_betty: But the raincoat shows creativity.
karenhealey: According to my parents, I came in out of the rain, yelling that I needed to go toilet NOW.
karenhealey: And then I stopped to find a book.
brown_betty: Aahaha it might TAKE A WHILE! What if you had NOTHING TO READ?
karenhealey: I STILL DO THIS IN ADULT LIFE.
karenhealey: It's okay if I'm reading something already.
karenhealey: But what if I'm done and have nothing new? I stand in front of the bookshelf, dancing from foot to foot, trying to decide.
revena: Me too.
revena: ARGH and I hate when I'm at someone else's house.
revena: I end up reading ingredient lists of their shampoo bottles or whatever.
brown_betty: Yeah, man, wtf is Laureth ethyl sulphate? I don't know, but it's my constant companion in pooing.
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wtfbrain
May. 6th, 2009 05:39 am (UTC)
I'm really glad I'm not the only one who does that.
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labellementeuse
May. 6th, 2009 06:24 am (UTC)
My childhood would have been a lot easier if my parents had just understood the necessity of taking a book *everywhere you go*. Because, duh, ANYTHING could happen. (I, uh, was also a rather rude child, and used to read in restaurant bathrooms to get away from boring extended family members: another useful application of the book-to-toiled procedure)
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labellementeuse
May. 6th, 2009 06:24 am (UTC)
*toilet, of course, not toiled.
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vito_excalibur
May. 6th, 2009 04:50 pm (UTC)
used to read in restaurant bathrooms to get away from boring extended family members

I, uh, don't do that. Certainly not now that I have a G1 that is quite easy to read fic on. Because It Would Be Wrong.
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derryderrydown
May. 6th, 2009 06:35 am (UTC)
I always make sure I have a small-ish pile of magazines and books in my bathroom, just so I'm never trapped with nothing to read.

But at my mother's, I do the bookshelf dance, trying to find something to read. I usually end up with the RSPB Book of British Birds.
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__marcelo
May. 6th, 2009 08:56 am (UTC)
... Yeah. Instant identification. *g*
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astropoet
May. 6th, 2009 08:59 am (UTC)
How true, how true
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puritybrown
May. 6th, 2009 09:42 am (UTC)
My #2 rule of life: no matter where you're going, always bring a book. Preferably more than one. (You might finish the one you're in the middle of, and then where would you be?)

(My #1 rule of life is "there is no excuse for acting like an asshole".)
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furikku
May. 6th, 2009 02:46 pm (UTC)
Mom buys lots of funnies books and sets them up in the bathroom.

One bathroom in her house has now a large stack of such books, which blocks the tap on the sink.

We will never run out of reading there, even during the longest of emergencies. It is wonderful.
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costumegoddess_
May. 6th, 2009 02:48 pm (UTC)
This is why I have my big ass book of norse mythology on the back of the toilet. Entertaining AND educational!

~K~
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scottyquick
May. 7th, 2009 10:14 pm (UTC)
Mine's Egyptian!
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elneclare
May. 6th, 2009 03:59 pm (UTC)
Shampoo Bottles
I've think over the years, I read so many bottles and instructions on items near the toilet, that I can see them in my dreams.

Since I became allergic to some of the common ingredients used in soaps and shampoos, I find all that reading of labels has made it easier to shop for ones I can use safely.

Now we just keep a few books in the bathroom and have a full bookcase in the hallway next to the bathroom door.
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vito_excalibur
May. 6th, 2009 04:50 pm (UTC)
wtf is Laureth ethyl sulphate? I don't know, but it's my constant companion in pooing.

Oh my god, you're both me.
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delux_vivens
May. 7th, 2009 08:13 pm (UTC)
I've actually decided to stop using shampoos w/ sodium lauryl sulfate (and propylene glycol, thanks (?) lush), so i feel you.

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