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Next time you borrow your mate’s phone, give it a quick rub down with a wet wipe first. Especially if your mate is a man.
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According to a new study by the University of Oxford and University of Canberra, men love scrolling on their mobiles while on the toilet.
Now, the study’s *main* focus was on why people avoid watching and consuming the news. The big headline total was of the 2,000 Australians featured in the study, more women (53%) than men (45%) find news can have a negative effect on their mood, so they avoid it, and that more men (18%) than women (11%) avoid news that can lead to arguments.
But things got interesting when the research examined *where* people looked at news, with 265 (26.5%) men saying they enjoy using their phone, tablet or laptop (seriously, where are you resting your laptop when pooping?) to read the news when they are on the toilet.
How much more? Well the figure for women is around 20%, so us men are a bit more, if not massively more into getting settled in and having a good browse.
This also leads us to the question, which app do you use most while sitting on the throne? For most of us here in the office it seems to be Instagram, but we want to know if that’s a wider trend. So tell us, what’s your go-to toilet app?
Bonus points if you read this while sitting on the toilet, by the way.
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Carl Anka is a London-born journalist, former Shortlist contributor, and broadcaster who believes that everything deep down is a wrestling storyline. You Are A Champion, co-written with England International footballer and child food poverty campaigner, Marcus Rashford, is Carl’s debut novel (published by Macmillan Children’s Books, 2021). A follow up, You Can Do It, was released in July 2022. He has written for BBC, the Guardian, VICE, NME, GQ and BuzzFeed among other publications online and in print and specialises in writing about pop culture, video games, films and football. He is currently a reporter for sports media group The Athletic and resides in Manchester.