• John@discuss.tchncs.de
    21·
    2 个月前

    I remember reading any text i found while beeing on toilette when i was a kid(even shampoo ingredients).

    • Andonyx@lemmy.world
      5·
      2 个月前

      Ah, the panic of having to use the bathroom so severely you can’t make it to your book or magazine in time. Oh look, I wonder what Methyllaurelsulfate does?

      I always thought the bathroom reader books were tacky and stupid, then a I got a couple and they came in clutch so many times.

      Now that I have a phone, I think it’s kinda gross to have items out for everyone to touch while using the toilet. Weird how perception changes.

  • edric@lemm.ee
    15·
    2 个月前
    • Watch tv.
    • Read a book.
    • Play single-player pc games.
    • Literally go outside and touch grass.
    • lennybird@lemmy.worldEnglish
      71·
      2 个月前

      There’s something to be said for browsing TV. Having favorites channels and recalling between two different shows between commercials. Sucks if commercials were synced.

      Like, some films I wouldn’t put on voluntarily but I’d watch if I caught it on you know? Also found a lot of new stuff I wouldn’t have otherwise seen.

      • Altima NEO@lemmy.zipEnglish
        2·
        2 个月前

        It’s interesting how some movies suck you in even though they’re definitely aren’t your thing.

        • MrsDoyle@sh.itjust.works
          2·
          2 个月前

          Back in the 80s TV where I lived used to show Bollywood films at about 1am, which was when I got home from work. So I started watching this film, which was apparently a romance. Sparky career woman rejects advances of handsome fellow. Everyone starts singing and dancing. Ok, a musical then. Thugs burst in and shoot the place up. Woman’s father is killed, she swears vengeance. Uh ok… Local politician tries to shut down newspaper our heroine has just inherited, handsome fellow intervenes. More singing and dancing, ending in fireworks! which is apparently Bollywood for hot sex. Plot twist, handsome fellow is actually a baddie! I had to stop watching at 4am, no idea how it ended up.

  • Xanis@lemmy.world
    13·
    2 个月前

    I was getting my vehicle worked over recently. At the time I was listening to a podcast. A couple other people, probably early 50s were chatting. The old dude in the corner, likely around 70-80 was just sitting there hands empty, looking around, reading nothing like some kind of psychopath.

    For 40 minutes.

    He did nothing.

    It was honestly rather impressive.

      • Xanis@lemmy.world
        4·
        2 个月前

        Whoaaa whoa, whoa now. I don’t want the block demolished. Psycho old man strength vs shooty patootie police? I was just there for an oil change and to check on some potential damage.

  • Swarfega@lemm.eeEnglish
    121·
    2 个月前

    I used to grab anything I could to read when taking a shit. Even reading shampoo bottle labels. Now I’m here typing this mess to you guys as I take a dump.

  • Furbag@lemmy.world
    11·
    2 个月前

    I mean, if you want an answer to that you could just stop using your smartphone for a few weeks and see what your brain comes up with. Here’s a short list of some examples that were popular when I was a kid and smartphones did not exist yet:

    Magazines, the daily newspaper, books, going out and exploring, shopping at malls, doing a hobby or craft, personal projects, television, chit-chatting with friends or even strangers, video games, puzzles, play with your pets, exercise, play sports, sitting quietly and being alone with your thoughts.

    • Bahalex@lemmy.world
      2·
      2 个月前

      For toilet time there was riveting reading material such as: Shampoo ingredients. Hand soap ingredients. Bodywash ingredients. The latter two assuming it wasn’t bar soap.

      Maybe someone was around to bring you a magazine… or tell you to hurry up and finish and get it yourself.

      Clearly I don’t read even now, as my comment is a more or less the same as others here, and a day late.

  • pantyhosewimp@lemmynsfw.com
    11·
    2 个月前

    Let me tell you a tale about downloading erotic jpeg files over 28k modems and stitching them back together, in which the image file was split into pieces, uuencoded and posted on Usenet.

  • Resol van Lemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish
    121·
    2 个月前

    Television was actually fun to watch. Magazines were actually fun to read. Video games were actually fun to play. Hell, playing outside was fun. Playing with toys was fun (even as an adult). Spending time with users on early internet forums was also very fun. Music was much more aesthetically pleasing to listen to (at least the hits of the 00s were, imo). We fidgeted with literally anything we could think of. Pens, rulers, balls (it’s not what you think), toys, even our own fingers.

    It was really easy to get bored back then too, but at least it was really easy to escape boredom back then.

  • Valmond@lemmy.world
    10·
    2 个月前

    We also were bored quite much. We also did lots of slightly less boring things like just runnung around, reading half bad books or learning assembler.

  • Boozilla@lemmy.worldEnglish
    10·
    2 个月前

    Some tropes of the 80s and 90s: Teenagers ignoring their family while listening to a Walkman. Dads reading the newspaper and ignoring their family. Moms talking on the landline phone with friends and neighhbors. Nerds reading comic books. Dads playing golf. Mom shopping. Teens just “hanging out” at some random place like a parking lot, near a lake, under a bridge, behind the band hall, etc. Smoking. Crossword puzzles. Jigsaw puzzles. Cards.

  • AA5B@lemmy.world
    9·
    2 个月前

    In addition to reading ….

    As a kid, we were constantly outside. In the summer, spend all day in the pool. Three seasons, in the woods. Any time, playing with neighbor kids. Winter, skiing, sledding, snow forts

    Without doom scrolling, we had time for actual activities. Marathons of Risk or Monopoly. Assembling and painting scale models. Building, fixing, or repairing whatever needed it

  • MrFloppy@lemmy.world
    8·
    2 个月前
    • Work more.
    • Go to church.
    • Go to a witch burning.
    • Participate in a crusade.
    • From which century are you asking?

  • Phegan@lemmy.world
    7·
    2 个月前

    Over the last two decades we have reduced the amount of time spent to get many of the items we need. Since we can now order online from our homes we don’t have to go out and get them, this frees up a reasonable chunk of time.

    Also, over the last 50 or so years we have lost many 3rd places. A 3rd place is where you would spend your time that is not work or home. A bar, community center, an arcade…ect. those were a common place to spend time socializing.

    Finally, items like reading and watching TV filled a lot of time. From reading the newspaper to getting the local news. Channel surfing was a big thing for a while. You would cycle through channels until you found something you wanted to watch, you could cycle channels for a while before finding something, so that took up a large chunk of time.