I was in this cheap motel room once. The chairs were crap, the bed was uncomfortable, but the toilet - best seat available! I was using a laptop on a portable tray table, so it didn't matter where I sat. Must have been like 2 hours... 
Well...that's different. I mean, when I'm over at my girlfriends' house or something, one of us usually puts the lid on the toilet seat down and chats while the other does hair or makeup or something. I've even had conversations with someone using the toilet seat lid as a chair from inside the shower.
I just assumed you were talking about people who were actually making use of the toilet doing uhh...bodily function things.