Seriously - am I the only one who refuses to use those paper toilet seat covers?

[LynneSin]

#1 - something is going to have to touch the nasty seat whether it's my ass or my hand spending 2 minutes trying to get the thing on the seat properly

#2 - I somehow have managed to live several decades and not die of some horrific ass disease I caught off the toilet seat.

#3 - If the bathroom this that disgusting I know how to go without even touching ass to seat. I have skillz you know.

#4 - The bathrooms that do stock the toilet seat covers are usually ones that are kept really clean so really I'm just creating extra waste with a damn seat cover.

[rcrush]

1. I live dangerously

As long as the toilet is flushed and the seat 'looks' clean I'll take my chances if I REALLY got to go #2



Edit

The single handicapped family restrooms in movie theatres are usually really clean.

[LynneSin]

2. And that's the other problem- I gotta go

I don't have 2 minutes to fiddle with the damn seat covers. Time is of essence here!

[Taitertots]

3. You seem fairly adamant about this

#1 I've put hundreds of those things on without touching a toilet seat.

#2 I've eaten a raw egg. The whole point isn't that you get something every time, but herpes once is enough for most people.

#3 People who think they can hover are one of the main reasons toilets get nasty. Why don't we just switch to squat toilets if everyone needs to hover anyway?

#4 The things that are bad on a toilet are not necessarily the things you can see. The bathrooms that stock them are clean because people use them.

[LynneSin]

5. reply

#1 - I have many talents but covering toilets while needing to go to the bathroom isn't one of them and I'm ok with that

#2 - I'm an old fart and somehow this perceived fear has never affected me. I also don't believe in Bike Helmets or using purell 80 times a day. And toilet seat covers are like condoms - if they aren't used right you'll still get whatever is on the toilet seat. Hell you can get herpes even if you are successful at using a condom.

#3 - trust me, the toilets I need to hover you'd hover too. And not only are they not cleaned but they aren't stocked with seat covers. And there's a good chance that I have no clue who 99.99% of the people who used the seat before me.

#4 - There are alot of bad things I can't see and they all aren't necessarily living on a toilet seat waiting to jump out a get me. I've learned ages ago that I just need to accept this and deal with it else I'll turn into some sort of germaphobe living a life of fear over things that I can't see. I made it this far NOT being that person, let's not change things mid-stream.

[LNM]

4. I have a friend that calls them "ass gaskets"

I laugh my ass off every time I think of it. :rofl:


Oops. I can't spell.

[Javaman]

9. ...

:spray:

Ass gaskets!!!!

:rofl:

OH MY GOD THAT IS SO FREAKIN FUNNY!!!!

:rofl: !!!!!!

[sarge43]

17. Rim shot

Pardon the pun.

[AggieGal]

45. I Laugh Also

My husband calls them that.

[TZ]

6. I don't

FYI its actually quite difficult to get an infection from
a toilet seat..highly unlikely as a matter of fact... Btw it's impossible to get herpes from
there. The virus does not survive on surfaces.

[LynneSin]

22. Doesn't herpes need like 98 degrees temperature to survive?

in that case I will avoid all toilets in Saunas

[Kali]

7. kitchen is where all the nasties really are, anyway

I'm like you, byt the time I find the bathroom time is usually of the essence, no time to make up the toilet seat.

As for the rec to have all floor squat toilets, you must have better knees than me - I've used those, and hovering over a regular toilet is WAY easier than going into full deep knee bends.

[LostInAnomie]

8. I put then down to make sure I'm not going to sit on any unseen pee droplets.

Those little dribbles show up pretty well on the thin paper.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

10. I don't use them either.

After all, I don't eat with or off of my ass, and I don't let anyone else eat off of it, either. Most of the time I don't even touch it. So whatever gets on it from a toilet seat has never caused any problems.

[madinmaryland]

11. So you're the one pissing all over the toilet seat!

[LynneSin]

24. what are you doing pissing in the ladies room

nuff said.

If I'm squatting over a toilet it is probably a nasty ass toilet that looks like something out of the worst bathroom in Scotland. There is no hope for cleanliness so I'm doing my duty and done.

[madinmaryland]

27. Why do you hate people from Scotland? Alerting for bigotry.

We are not bad people.

[LynneSin]

39. When did Scotland end up in the middle of Maryland?

and it's from a movie you dingbat!

[madinmaryland]

41. Dingbat? I thought that was Robb.

:shrug:

[Skittles]

12. I AGREE WITH YOU 100% LYNNESIN

yes INDEED

[theNotoriousP.I.G.]

13. I live in Germany

these women stand up to pee and splash all over the toilet seats. I'm using the fucking sanitary paper thingies cause my legs aren't strong enough to squat over the john for THAT long. :silly:

[mysuzuki2]

30. The mens room at work has a large dispenser of these things

as far as I can tell, NO ONE has ever used one. Every so often, wwhen they have all turned yellow with age, they are replaced with a whole new batch. It must be a girl thing. OTOH, they might make good bibs at lunchtime...

[JonLP24]

14. I do too

I actually never thought about using a toilet seat cover and wasn't even aware of it's existence til a few years ago. If the toilet or restroom in general is nasty I don't bother even taking a dump at all and hold it for later. Though porta-potty's and outhouses in Iraq/Kuwait are incredibly NASTY and you really have no other options. Also it's interesting the amount of graffiti there is, I've seen my name inside a stall thousands of miles away from our home base in Kuwait. People here in the US don't have a clue how lucky they have it.

When I was in the Army(while at Ft Lewis) I cleaned public toilets and restrooms to very high standards so if I was to catch anything it would be from cleaning them rather then taking a dump. I was surprised how much pubes a toilet collects from day-to-day use.

[ThomCat]

15. I never use them.

I always carry a big fanny-bag with me that has all my meds in it. There's room in there, so I always pack a bunch of sealed packets of sanitary wipes too. I can't tell you how often the handicapped stall in restrooms is disgusting, so I wipe it down with the sanitary wipes.

that is far more effective that sitting on tissue paper. At least this way I know the damned toilet surface is clean.

I don't understand what it is about public bathrooms that turns people into total fucking slobs. If I ever catch someone pissing all over the toilet without lifting the seat, I swear I'm going to run him down with my wheelchair repeatedly until his legs don't work and He really needs to use that handicapped stall from now on!

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

21. People really are slobs, aren't they?

What's especially gross is when they don't even bother to flush. And I'd love to see your assault on a seat-dribbler: Thump...crunch! "Ow!" "DON'T EVER..." whirr, thump..."PEE ON THE SEAT..." whirrr, thump, crunch ... "AGAIN!!" ...crunch.. "OW!" And they'd deserve it.

[sarge43]

16. No

Like you I've avoided seat induced ass rot. Besides in most cases what, if anything, that's on the seat can't be much worse than what's going into the bowl.

[LynneSin]

23. or on the door handle of the stall or door into the bathroom

or on the spigots.

Think about this - I wipe my butt and then I go wash my hands. Nuff said

[sarge43]

28. Then there's all itty bitty critters in or on the soap. n/t

[Parche]

18. why are you so special?

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :hi: :hug:

[Gormy Cuss]

19. You do live dangerously.

No bicycle helmet?

I agree with you that the bathrooms with the seat cover supply tend to be the cleanest. I have found one good use for them - dropping one on the seat is the easiest way to see where some previous user left some piddle.

[Shell Beau]

26. Helmets, like seatbelts, are a must in my world!!

[jakefrep]

20. I don't use assgaskets either

I have great difficulty believing that I will asborb a nasty disease through my buttskin.

[Shell Beau]

25. I rarely use them. When I was preggo, and hovering and being

good at it wasn't an option, I did use them. Public toilets, even the clean ones, are gross to me. And when I was pregnant, I would use the toilet at least 3 times in an hour's time, so they did come in handy at that time. If there was a wet spot on the seat, I used them. Eeewwww!

[Xipe Totec]

29. Anybody who uses them is a deluded fool

All bets are off after you drop the first rock and the splash back hits you in the ass.

[Iggo]

31. It's called an ass-gasket.

And using one is an art form.

[SeattleGirl]

32. I don't use them.

In part, because of the reasons you state, and in part (and this may be the weird part), because they gross me out. I don't know why, but they do.

[doc03]

33. Never used them. I saw a women walking around Walmart

a couple months ago with one hanging out of her pants. :blush:

[Wapsie B]

34. Some airports have toilets where the seat liner automatically changes

for you before you sit down. I figure why not? I've never used one I've had to put on myself though.

[Silver Swan]

35. The only time I worry about the toilet seat

is in porta-potties that are unisex.

Even though men can pee in the little trough, it always seems like the seats are wet.

And in poorly lit places, I always wipe the seat off first, just in case it's wet.

The thought of microbes doesn't scare me, but I hate to sit in someone else's pee. If everyone sat, the seat would be dry and relatively clean.

[LynneSin]

42. Porta-potties scare away my need to go to the bathroom

I was at an outdoor concert and the portapotties stank badly. Somehow I didn't have to go after I smelled that bad stench.

I do like that some venues will have porta potties segregated for sex - usually those I can tolerate.

[PVnRT]

36. No, they're a pain to use

Every time I try, half the damn thing just falls into the toilet before my bulbous ass can even hit the seat, so what's the point?

[dropkickpa]

37. I don't use them.

If the seat has sprinkles, I take a little wad of TP and wipe the seat. I grew up with 5 brothers, I'm far from squeamish and I'm more tham capable of WIPING THE FUCKING SEAT!

[schmuls]

38. No, I don't either - I think they are silly.

[MissMillie]

40. I don't use the covers... but

I always wipe the seat down before sitting on it, because there are too many people out there who think they can go w/o touching the seat w/ their butt, and they usually miss.

[WildEyedLiberal]

43. Hahaha- browsing this thread at work and I didn't log in

At the bottom of the thread there's an ad for bidets. Priceless :rofl:

[CaliforniaPeggy]

44. My dear LynneSin!

I'm with you!

The ONE time I used one was in a restroom so gross that I felt compelled to...:puke:

Otherwise, in all my 65 years...NEVER.

And I haven't caught anything yet...

:hi:

[trackfan]

46. Haven't used one in years.

I can't see that they really do anything except perhaps provide some psychological comfort.