I am always putting toilet paper down on public toilet seats…and most of the time they look clean. So my question is…what can you really catch from a public toilet seat? I mean what kinds of diseases if any? I have never talk to anyone who said…“geez this syphillis is killing me, I caught it off of a public toilet seat you know.”
Some public restrooms even provide you with that little paper horseshoe to put down on the seat. Is it the idea of the thing or are we really afraid we’ll get the crabs from a public toilet seat? I have been to parties at private residences with 50 or 60 people in attendance and never once put down paper on the commode lid.
“Look honey, there’s the little dipper, I’d show you the big dipper but my zipper is stuck.”
-aha
You couldn’t catch anything worse than a cold from a toilet seat because it’s not warm enough for bacteria to survive. If there was something so virulent and hardy that it could survive on a toilet seat, do you think a flimsy piece of tissue could block it? Those things are the biggest scam!
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Okay, I’ll admit it: I’m germ-phobic. I take a small can of Lysol with me in my purse, and if I * must * use a public toilet, then I spray the seat liberally with Lysol, wipe it off with a towel, put the “ass-gasket” in place, and proceed with buisness. But then again, I’m just paranoid about other people’s germs.
If the toilet seat is dry, then you really don’t have that much to worry about, as long as you don’t have any open sores on the skin that contacts the seat. I have seen reports of people siting in a puddle of pee and contracting herpes on their buttocks, so be careful out there, folks.
Me too lissa… I am just wondering where paranoid ends and compulsive behavior begins?
Funny too, if a public bathroom is dirty when I go in then I have a tendency not to flush or leave it clean… when I do flush I usually use my foot to trip the handle…I think others are they way too and it just snowballs into a very filthy restroom so I ALWAYS put the ass gasket down. If there ain’t one I make one with the “two fold” method.
“Look honey, there’s the little dipper, I’d show you the big dipper but my zipper is stuck.”
-aha
i recently read an article in the toronto star called ‘confessions of a foot flusher’.
ha.
anyway. the article basically concluded that as long as you find a dry seat, you’re fine. using toilet paper to dry the seat actually makes matters worse, as it spreads the bacteria around. there was also an explanation as to why putting toilet paper down on the seat is bad, too. but i forget.
the studies that were done concluded that the worst places in a public washroom are the handles for the taps. of course because people touch them before they wash their hands.
it also said that the least sanitary hand-drying device are the hot air blowing type.
this is because it sucks up bacteria-infested air, keeping gross stuff inside it’s filters and what-not, and the next person to use the dryer will get a shot of it.
anyway. i am done remembering.
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Oh, yes! the women I ask know how to hover over public toilet seats.
Anyway, Cecil sort of covered this in if men should wash their hands after peeing. He said so very important to do so because of the huge amount of coliform [sp] bacteria in your shorts. Thus, must be tons of it on public toilet seats.
Reminds me of 100 people pressing their naked butts on each others naked butts.
Anyway, hover? Easy to do. Be careful if you have projectile runs or huge farts inside as this can cause quite a splatter on zee wall.
Over Christmas, I was told a friend of a friend (note: urban legend alert) had the disgusting habit of first flushing his turds, then using the “fresh” toilet water cupping his hand to rinse himself off in what I imagine is a “bidet effect”. He supposedly contracted a veneral disease from a public restroom with this habit.
In a typical public men’s room, the seat is usually covered with urine droplets, which, after drying, I like to cover with the ass-gasket for ‘extra protection’
I was going to weigh in with an incisive comment here, but I find myself unable to shake handy’s image of 100 people pressing their naked butts on each others naked butts.
Ike? Forget that, MY pressing need is to know how that little can of Lysol makes it in her baggage on airplanes without exploding !!! Or, is this one of those deals where each city means a new <<fresh>> can of Lysol ?
I respect your paranoia, I just that I’d throw in my two scents
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I know I have been walking into a bathroom when someone else is walking out and I don’t want to stand next to the person, much less have my butt touch a toilet seat that their butt has been on.
Ok well alot of you have made my point… So I have alot of germs in my shorts and the bathroom and blowdryer are full of them … I still don’t recall ever having gotton sick after using a public restroom. Just grossed out.
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