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Using Tablets Becoming Popular Bathroom Activity
alphadogg says "With the market flush with hot-selling tablet computers, it shouldn't bowl anyone over to learn that many users are taking the plunge and bringing their devices to the bathroom. According to a new survey published by Staples Advantage, the business-to-business division of Staples Inc., 35% of tablet users copped to using their iPad or other tablets while in the bathroom, while a whopping 78% of tablet users said they used their tablets while lying in bed. And in a data point sure to further damage techies' reputation for social skills, Staples Advantage also reported that 30% of tablet users said they used their tablets while at restaurants."
"Angry Birds has changed the way the world goes to the bathroom"
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Come on, we all know what your REALY up to in there.
"Have you ever thought about just turning off the TV, sitting down with your kids, and hitting them?"
1) Tablets are replacing paper media, not surprised to hear that magazines and other reading materials are disappearing from bathrooms.
2) I can't name anyone who bought a tablet who did not envision using it as an eReader. Isn't reading still the most popular bedtime activity?
3) Tablets are great in restaurants. You can show things to your friends and family. It's the douchebags who use tablets instead of conversing at the table that give only themselves a bad name. No different than whipping out a smartphone.
If I'm at a restaurant alone, what should I do while waiting for my food to come? If I have a tablet, why not?
"And in a data point sure to further damage techies' reputation for social skills, Staples Advantage also reported that 30% of tablet users said they used their tablets while at restaurants."
I'm not sure that the techies will be atypically hard hit by this one. Back in the day, when obsessive computer use required an obsessive interest in gaming and/or some techie esoterica, and it was cost-prohibitive to compute on the move(much less get internet access...), the techie social skills reputation was not exactly bolstered by the tendency to stay inside and play with their computers.
Then came the mass adoption of laptops and blackberries by practically every 'road warrior' type suit with a salary high enough that paying for the ability to bug him while he was away from the office made sense. This certainly did include some techies; but the population of management/sales types brandishing their blackberries and monopolizing flat surfaces absolutely exploded.
Now, with cellphones falling well into affordable for all but the most squalid, and Apple having WAFed the hell out of portable computing, it sure isn't techies who I see logging the most socially inappropriate screen time... Not being able to finish a single bloody meal without ignoring the present company to text frantically about nothing is now a mainstream behavior. If anything, the more 'social' people do it more because they have more people to text, and derive greater satisfaction from group-affirming social chatter...
Ah, but can you return them after they've been in the bathroom?
(Jerry and George are at Brentano's. George is trying to return the book)
GEORGE: Yes, I, uh, I need to return this book.
CASHIER: (Puts the book's code into the computer) I'm sorry, we can't take this book back.
GEORGE: Why not?
CASHIER: It's been flagged.
GEORGE: (Confused) Flagged?
CASHIER: It's been in the bathroom.
GEORGE: It says that on the computer?
CASHIER: Please take it home. We don't want it near the other books.
GEORGE: (Outraged. Leaving) Well, you just lost a lot of business! Because I love to read!
There's no -1 for "I don't get it."
You take airline pilots to the bathroom with you?
You people need to eat more fiber.
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My solution is simply to not go to restaurants where I would expect kids. Why would I give my iPad to a child?
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About the same percentage that disinfect and wash their clothing, which also accompanied them on the little trip to the bathroom. Oh and your napkin goes on your lap, on your pants - yeah, those same pants that were pulled down and touched the dirty toilet bowl/floor. Yeah, now wipe your mouth with that napkin.
Attention Germ freaks: A LITTLE GRIME WILL NEVER KILL YOU. You just think it will.
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the ipad is a killer cook book. i have hundreds of recipes including video of how to do some things on mine
You cook on the toilet?!? I guess it cuts out the middle man.
Science advances one funeral at a time- Max Planck
You know, I'm fine with using a smartphone to check email or read the news in the bathroom. But do people really have to answer calls and talk in the stall??
I leave the door open so I can hear voice chat while raiding. Occasionally someone asks for heals and I shout out "lag!"
there are these things called cases for ipads and they prop it up just fine.
Why is it that every Apple device requires that you spend at least an extra 20% beyond the purchase price of the device to get the accessories that are required to make the device functional in the real world?
there are these things called cases for ipads and they prop it up just fine.
Why is it that every Apple device requires that you spend at least an extra 20% beyond the purchase price of the device to get the accessories that are required to make the device functional in the real world?
I ended up making my own stand out of one of two metal bookends I somehow ended up with a few of, and some of those little rubber sticky feet they always include with low end rack-mount computer gear that could also be used sitting on a table.
Stick two on the outside edge of the bottom to keep it from sliding off, and I also put two on the very top of the back so the fairly sharp (to plastic anyway) metal doesn't cut groves into the back of my tablet.
http://oi53.tinypic.com/2aanadl.jpg
Works great on the side of my desk at work in landscape mode to have a movie playing in the background, and in portrait mode you just sit the tablet upside down so you can still plug the cable in the 'bottom'. The screen reorients itself so it's always right side up anyway.
Like I said, I had the bits-n-pieces laying around already, but if I had to go on a quest to purchase those parts, I can't see it costing more than $2.
Most "dollar stores" should carry both, and you could probably beat one dollar on the bookends if you hunt around at salvation army type places.
With enough super glue, almost anything can become a sticky rubber foot pad.
After the surgery I only have a semi-colon, you insensitive clod!
By the taping of my glasses, something geeky this way passes