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

Uncle John’s Bathroom Reader!

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

We read the backs of shampoo bottles.

Magazines and newspapers.

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

I wiped with a CD instead.

Our bathroom door has a built-in magazine rack dating back to the 70s. It holds phones pretty well too.

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.

Dr. Bronner's magic soap label

Good ole Reader's Digest.

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

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.

Spanish people stopped learning greek after smartphones where invented.

series of mirrors displaying the tv in the living room

Take a book with you....or start reading the backs of the cleaning products under the sink

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

Video game instruction manuals

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.

Teletype with an acoustic coupler. You place the handset into the rubber cups that block out the sound, so that the modem noises were clear through the phone line.

The perforations in modern toilet paper are an homage to the holes in the punched tape used to feed the teletype pre-recorded instructions.

Kids these days dont even know about disassociating lmao

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

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

We had print media that hadn't died yet.

That's why the boomers are so mad at younger generations. Used to be you could get a newspaper delivered to your porch daily, and magazines delivered to your mailbox monthly.

Why didn't they put the newspaper in the mailbox? Because the 12 year old on a bicycle at 4am doesn't have time for your particular brand of bullshit.

And now, it's all on screens that hurt their eyes. My mom LITERALLY turns on airplane mode, and THEN turns it off. Completely off. Just so she can charge it. When I asked why she does that, she told a room of people "because thats how you charge your phone".

She then began argueing that airplane mode needs to be on, and THEN power off before you connect the cord. Otherwise you'll use radios and it doesn't charge right.

The entire room, knowing how crazy she was just nodded their head. Yes mom, that IS how you charge your phone and/or tablet. We're not just saying this because it's easier to agree with you on something that ultimately is harmless vs argueing with you, with no real benefit on either of our ends.

But yeah. This is how boomers view technology. And print media is dead. You can only read a shampoo bottle so many times before you realize the word "poo" is in the name "shampoo", which you're reading while you poo.

And thats why boomers are mad.

In recent times, by reading. Before that, i think most people pooped faster than we do due to better digestable foods