49: Do Men Sit Longer on The Toilet than Women?

Rosie: [00:00:00] Is that a good Mandarin? It sounds really good. 

Roula: It's so good. And I also have my, uh, protein shake.

Rosie: Okay. Sheer, sheer, sheer. Sheer sheer. Okay. You don't put this Well, it'd make a good blooper to be honest. Okay. 

Roula: You, I do have a question.

Roula: Welcome to the Rosie and Show Marba. Good day. Oh, okay. I have one. It might not be a long episode, but. It's a quickie. Let's go. Oh, it's a quickie. Why men sit too long on the toilet. Oh, for goodness sake. 

Rosie: So true. And I, I only know this because, [00:01:00] you know, I don't have male partners. I mean, I did have a boyfriend once upon a time, but let's not go there.

Rosie: But just through living in, living in, in share houses and I guess as a kid and, um, they just seem to sit there. They must be on their phones. I don't know. Is it their, is it their time to just relax a bit? No one's talking to them. It's just chill out time. Like, is that what it is? I don't get it. How's it taking so long?

Rosie: All the men in the world constipated or something?

Rosie: They need some prunes. 

Roula: Well, uh, you know, I remember my dad used to take the newspaper and read it all. Mm-hmm. While he is 

Rosie: Wow. 

Roula: On the toilet. Our, what is gone in the field.

Rosie: You know what, I hate to admit this as a child 'cause I loved to read. When I went to the toilet, I would [00:02:00] sit on there and read my book, and if I was taking too long, mom would knock on the door go, oh, she'd open the door and crack and go, Rosie, gimme the book. She would just know. She's like, gimme the book.

Roula: It's time to get out. Yeah. I don't know if the recording was clear, because I was only hearing like, uh uh, uh oh, 

Rosie: for that whole thing. 

Roula: Yeah. Can you repeat the part? So you used to take the book? 

Rosie: Yeah, so I go 

Roula: to the toilet. 

Rosie: Hang on, I'll start again. Don't tell me what to do. So I'm a bit embarrassed to admit this 'cause we're talking about men, but as a child, when I'd go to the toilet and needed to do my business, not a wee, but a poo, whatever you wanna call it, excrement number two, I would take a book.

Rosie: I love to read and I would read, and of course you get lost in the book, and I was probably on there for ages and mum was onto me. She would open the door, a crack, she'd reach her arm in and go, Rosie, give me the book right now. [00:03:00] So yeah, I, I wasn't fooling anybody, but I used to do that. 

Yeah, because sitting on the.

It is boring. And you know what? Something totally different brought this question to my mind. I, I'm a list, I'm listening, reading a book, raising Boys Uhhuh, and, uh, there's a part in this book that, um, from the time of. It explains why a woman can multitask and men can't in a way. In a way. Okay. Okay. 

Rosie: I'm not sure I can multitask, but Yeah.

Roula: Oh, hold on, hold on, hold on. Let me get you to this. To the point. 

Rosie: Yes, please. 

Roula: So, and the hunter gatherer time, the man go to hunt. 

Rosie: Yeah. 

Roula: And when they come back. They don't do anything. They wait until the next hunting periods come in or the next hunting moment. Uh, so the men go hunting and come back and they rest.

Roula: The women were raising the kids and doing the [00:04:00] crops and growing the, the food. Um. Doing everything. Everything. Mm-hmm. That's why men cannot do multiple tasks because their DNA is to do one task. So this brought me, ah, this is why men sit too long on the toilet, because if I go to the toilet, I still have to hurry because I still have to do the dishes and hang the washing and to do the groceries.

Roula: Think about when I, this is so sexist. Is this sexist? They sit there. And yeah, there's nothing, there's nothing else to do after that until they're finished. They can't think of it because it's just one task at a time. And sit it, there is that one task. And yes, it sounds very sexist, but it's um, 

Rosie: it sounds sexist because it is.

Rosie: Can I just put that out there? You're all for equality, but listen to you right here, right now, [00:05:00] being sexist. 

Roula: Okay. Okay, so that brought me to the idea, the explanation why masks sit so long on the toilet. It's because it's in their DNA hunting, it's in their DNA and they're waiting to go and hunt. 

Rosie: So when is it, is it in their DNA to leave the toilet seat up as well?

Rosie: Maybe we should have had that in that episode. It's just in their DNA. No, that's 

Roula: also sexist. We agreed that when women, men and women, we all should put down the toilet seat. 

Rosie: Mm. 

Roula: Right. Guess. Okay. I mean, yes, we can always be very politically correct and be, uh, making balance between the genders, et cetera, but there are some frustrations out there that need explanation.

Roula: And when we understand the explanation, we tolerate them. 

Rosie: Mm. 

Roula: So no, I don't 

Rosie: like your explanation, but that's okay. I don't have to agree. Okay. I think it's bullshit. 

Roula: What would be your explanation? 

Rosie: I don't think it's just men, to be honest. My ex used to do it all the time. She'd just sit there on her phone.

Rosie: I'm like, for [00:06:00] fuck sake, like, what are you doing? Yeah. 

Roula: So it's not just me. Okay. Running away. Okay. No, not just me. Let, let me, okay. That's so true because I used to do this to get away from their, from the kids when they were little. Wow. That was the only place when no one would bother me. 

Rosie: Mm. Wow. 

Roula: Well, they would, but then they know they can't enter.

Roula: So that was for me, the five to 10 minutes time where I'm just alone. 

Rosie: Wow. 

Roula: And probably a lot of mothers do this. 

Rosie: Mm. 

Roula: Just spend a lot of time. That's actually really sad. The only place where you can be alone. 

Rosie: But do kids really respect your privacy? I feel like that just fling the door open anyway. 

Roula: Yeah, but the only thing when, when you are in that space, the toilet, it's not like you can run out.

Roula: No. They understand that, you know, you have to finish and wash your hands and it's a whole process and they don't know when you're gonna finish. [00:07:00] 

Rosie: Hmm. 

Roula: Yeah. That's why you can play on that timing. Mm-hmm. I might finish in 

Rosie: 10 minutes. This is an interesting strategy. Yes. So, yes. 

Roula: I also used to spend a lot of time at the toy on the toilet.

Roula: Not sitting on the floor next to it. Sitting on the floor. Sitting on the toilet. On the toilet. And were you doing anything or were you just sitting there? Because I mean, the lie has to have some truth in it. 

Rosie: Well, that's the thing, right? We sit on the toilet. But I feel like for most of that time, you're probably not actually going to the toilet, but you're still sitting in there.

Rosie: You haven't decided to leave the toilet. 

Roula: Yes. Yes. That's, that's, this is what takes time. Deciding to leave and go and face your life outside that door. Then you've been there so long. You've got pins and needles. Yeah. Yeah. And like a red, red 

Rosie: on your.

Roula: Oh my God, yes. Okay. Okay. So I [00:08:00] hope that no one's gonna be, uh, offended by this episode, but you know, we can please everyone. Sometimes it's true, sometimes it's a lie. Sometimes we're exaggerating and sometimes really the book and give us this. Freaking idea about hunting and the toilet, 

Rosie: which is a lot of crap.

Rosie: But hey, why not? Why not? Yes, let us know. Yes. Do you sit on the toilet for a long time? Why do you do it? Is it men only? Is it women only? I feel like kids do it a lot too, actually. 

Roula: Yes. But the problem with kids when they're little, they want their parents to sit with them there. Oh 

Rosie: my God. Really? 

Roula: Yeah. 

Rosie: Wow.

Rosie: So that, no thanks. So that 

would be terrible. 

Rosie: Could get a bit smelly. 

Roula: Yeah. But when it's, I mean, the cats, the dogs, they're all smelly. When you love someone, you don't.

Rosie: Oh shit. 

Roula: All right. Okay, let's turn this off before it becomes disgusting. 

Rosie: Yeah, let's, let's put a lid on [00:09:00] this. Let's flush it down the drain. See you later. It's the end of the episode. Bye. Bye.

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