Etiquette question ... nude phone calls ...

My partner and I once had sex (I think its only been once) whilst having a convo on the phone. Two of the three (the two in discusion and the third also in bed)involved thought it was fine, so the majority had the say in etiquette. I hope I worded this right!

PBO Well I suppose your mate thought he was the king sitting on the throne!

colourful sydney racing identity said :

I am also in favour of nude posting on RiotAct

Eeww now that’s just sick.

Seriously people – some of you need to get more fibre in your diet! Who needs to spend that long on the toilet?

takahe said :

Okay, am I the only prude who finds not only eating (wtf) but reading (I am so not touching those mags in the rack) or using any kind of electronic device rather on the nose, so to speak? ~shudder~

ROFLOL, I think that this is going to get weirder and weirder. I had a mate who saved time by putting a bookshelf above the toilet roll and a flatscreen on the back door. Now i know that is going too far.

Okay, am I the only prude who finds not only eating (wtf) but reading (I am so not touching those mags in the rack) or using any kind of electronic device rather on the nose, so to speak? ~shudder~

Brings a whole new meaning to push button phones I guess.

As for taking calls while on the bog, it’s certainly not something I would do, but I do have experience with the subject. My previous job was in a small office building of three levels with shared toilet facilities on the middle level. Sometimes you’d go in for number 2s and everything would seem normal until the mobile phone of the bloke a cubicle or two down started ringing.

The guy would answer it and carry on his business, pardon the pun, as if he were sitting in his office. No shame at all. Used to freak me out at first, but then I just laughed and tried to imagine what the person on the other end of the phone would think if they knew. I found flushing the dunny mid-call probably helped give them an idea, haha.

IMO:

Calling in the nude = ok
Eating while on the toilet = just plain grose (and I don’t care how much time you save either!!)

I am in the nude as I am posting this.

I am also sitting on the crapper.

I might be some time………

(plonk)

Hmmm… does anyone post on RiotACT in the nude?

Accually I answered the phone in the nude a couple of days ago to a person in a high position (local member of parliment), didn’t think anything of it, but PBO that is discusting eating while on the toilet YUK!

Yep, no problems – I often make/receive phone calls in the nude.

My colleagues at the call centre sometimes give me strange looks though.

Isn’t doing everything naked more fun?

Though Helen, I think people who answer the phone while on the toilet is wrong and disgusting. It’s up there with the people who work on my floor who finish their business and promptly walk out without washing their hands.

Do you have any photos of yourself nude on the phone?

Do you want to buy some?

Helen said :

My partner quite often answers his phone when he’s on the toilet – I think it’s disgusting! I think it’s the thought of what they’re doing in there while talking to you – you may not be able to smell anything but you can certainly picture it and it’s just not pretty.

But I have no problems with nude phonecalls, business or otherwise.

Imagine the other things people could be doing while they are on the phone to you: picking their nose, clipping their toenails, watching skin flicks with the volume down, drinking cheap wine – eeewww! 🙂

But seriously, why is ok for me to wander in and around my home in a swimsuit (it’s summer, I have a pool) but not in my undies and bra? I dare say my standard daily underwear hides a lot more of me than my bikini…

I know someone who not only makes nude telephone calls but quite often is sitting on the toilet at the same time

Coach said :

What a great discussion topic………….

It reinforces that almost all that goes on in and around our life is driven by our own perceptions and feelings about it. Our learned beliefs drive everything. If you lived in a nudist colony, you would think it odd to even be discussing this topic. Yet we are so accustomed to only sleeping (or not even then) washing and having sex without clothes on, that we think it odd to be having a phone conversation in the nude.

Yet do it a few times, and the oddity will disappear, and you will wonder what the fuss was all about. You just have to get over judging it to be wrong.

A good comparison is the practise of eating beef. In parts of India, you would be committing a mortal sin by eating a cow, yet here you are the exception if you don’t.

Learned beliefs that influence our thoughts and our actions…..It’s so powerful, that if most people make a call in the nude, the person on the other end of the phone may well know something is not right, because our unease would transmit through our voice.

“The joys of being Human”

Psychology aside – it feels pretty good… doesn’t it.

“I’m curious – how many rioters would feel comfortable making a business call in the nuddy? Is it impolite? And would you consider it rude if someone you don’t know called you in the nude, whether you were told or not?”

Do it all the time, one of the advantages of living on your own. Yelling at telco companies and the like is so much more relaxing when done in the nude, the day of video calling threatens to soon ruin this great past time though.

I think that if we all sat down and had a meal on the toilet we all

… would be lucky to not end up with the odd bout of E.coli poisoning from time to time.

Seriously! There are lots of things I will do on the loo – play games on my iPod, chat on the phone, entertain my 5yo, read books and magazines – but eating is DEFINITELY not one of them.

On the subject of nude phone calls, yes I have done this and it would only creep me out if someone who wasn’t friend or family actually made a point of telling me they were nude!

What a great discussion topic………….

It reinforces that almost all that goes on in and around our life is driven by our own perceptions and feelings about it. Our learned beliefs drive everything. If you lived in a nudist colony, you would think it odd to even be discussing this topic. Yet we are so accustomed to only sleeping (or not even then) washing and having sex without clothes on, that we think it odd to be having a phone conversation in the nude.

Yet do it a few times, and the oddity will disappear, and you will wonder what the fuss was all about. You just have to get over judging it to be wrong.

A good comparison is the practise of eating beef. In parts of India, you would be committing a mortal sin by eating a cow, yet here you are the exception if you don’t.

Learned beliefs that influence our thoughts and our actions…..It’s so powerful, that if most people make a call in the nude, the person on the other end of the phone may well know something is not right, because our unease would transmit through our voice.

“The joys of being Human”

Inappropriate said :

I don’t see what’s wrong with it? I eat my lunch in the nude…but the other patrons in the food court keep staring; I wish they’d stop.

Would you eat a sandwich on the toilet? I ate a cup of oriental instant noodles whilst having an explosive episode one day, I looked down into the toilet and then look at my noodles in the cup (same colour, thankfully not same consistency) and the whole experience put me off to the point I no longer eat noodles.

However i am an advocate of eating food in the toilet as i can see that in someway it saves time somehow. I think that if we all sat down and had a meal on the toilet we all may learn something.

I don’t see what’s wrong with it? I eat my lunch in the nude…but the other patrons in the food court keep staring; I wish they’d stop.

No problem with nude phone calls – one of the joys of having an office with a door.

I am also in favour of nude posting on RiotAct

My partner quite often answers his phone when he’s on the toilet – I think it’s disgusting! I think it’s the thought of what they’re doing in there while talking to you – you may not be able to smell anything but you can certainly picture it and it’s just not pretty.

But I have no problems with nude phonecalls, business or otherwise.

I’m sorry Marge, you’ll have to speak up, I’m only wearing a towel.

You’ll have to speak up – I’m wearing a towel

You will have to speak up, I am in the nude!

I have a bad habit of making and recieving calls when i am on the toilet. At first you think that you will get away with the other person none the wiser, until you realise that toilets have a particular resonance to them. I try not to tell folk where I am until they ask me, at that point I mention that I am in the toilet (1’s or 2’s, it just dont matter) and they immediatly get disturbed. They go eeeughhh and i say you cannot possibly smell that! Optus and Telstra do not offer Smellephones!

As long as you cannot hear something dropping into or hitting the water there should not be a problem.

If someone phoned you, how would you know whether the caller was nude or not unless it were mentioned? The next call you take could be from some 160kg 50 year old naked guy and you’d never know!