If you must hover (meaning your pee is most likely going to spray the seat) please wipe the seat after! God, this pisses me off (no pun intended). I go in a bathroom, glance at the toilet, looks okay, sit, pee, wipe, stand…oh,oh – the backs of my upper thighs are wet. YUCK! I’m not germ-a-phobic – I always thought those ass gaskets were b.s. - but I do hate the idea of someone else’s pee on me. And I just know it was some woman who IS phobic “hovering” her ass over the toilet and spraying the seat in the process.
Sycorax, I applaud you. I couldn’t agree more.
“I’m the luckiest man in the world, now that Lou Gehrig is dead.” Homer Simpson
The Lysol can doesn’t go in the luggage, it goes in my huge purse. I take it everywhere I go, and everything my butt touches is sprayed. I don’t care if your house is immaculate. I don’t care if you’re my mother, my best friend, Martha Stewart or the Pope, it still gets sprayed.
I rarely if ever sit on a public john. I flush with my foot and i was my hands with soap and hot water for at least 30 seconds. I never thought I would be a germaphobe, but, alas, I am. Thanks to having a nurse for a mom and living in the most densely populated state in America.
If you are waiting in a line to use a toilet, you are obviously using that seat immediately after the person before you. If they leave any residue on that seat it’s mere seconds before it touchs you. Maybe they have something nasty, maybe they don’t. I don’t know how long a germ can live but why take that chance? albiet a slim chance it’s still there and definately avoidable. I keep a bottle of lysol at work as well. and that purell stuff is a staple.
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I never thought I’d have said anything like this, but you’re making me seriously reconsider my desire to ever give another blow job as long as I live. I mean, if those coliform germs are so prevalent that it’s critical for a man to wash his hands thoroughly after so much as touching his penis, what have I been exposing myself to when I put it in my mouth? Eeeeeewwwww!!! (And I do not say this lightly, as it’s something I thoroughly enjoy doing. At least I used to.)
Lissa, do you think your Lysol trick would work on penises too? Perhaps I should try that next time. OH, even bigger yuck! Ok, I’ve sufficiently grossed myself out now. I’m ducking out of this thread with my head hung low. Please excuse me 
“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.” - Anne Frank
I always put paper down, not to block germs but to block grossness (wet pee, popped butt zits, etc) I also flush with my foot and turn on the faucets with the back of one knuckle rather than grabbing it… I also grab a little bit of paper towel first , then use that to crank out more paper towel after I wash my hands so I don’t have to touch the lever/crank. I try to keep skin contact with bathroom doors to a minimum as well.
Again, most of this isn’t so much about GERMS as about GROSSNESS. I don’t want someone else’s dried saliva/mucous/boogers/earwax/pee/poop/etc on me! I don’t care if it’s fucking STERILE I still don’t want it on me.
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While we’re on this subject, don’t ever eat the little mints at the exit in public places. A number of people DO NOT wash their hands after using the bathroom and then stick their hands in the bowl to get mints. Guess what’s in the mints!!! YUCK
Shayna, exactly. I mean how many people wash before having sexual contact? I think that this alone refutes Cecil’s statement about how dangerous it is to not wash after peeing.
Lysol? Oh my.
Snopes covers this and it’s done frequent rounds in alt.folklore.urban as well.
Basically, the evidence for this claim is lacking.
And whatever you do, don’t leave the house or touch anything and for God’s sake don’t even think of breathing the air! I mean, other people have breathed it and they’ve had cigarettes and germy meat and other people’s private parts in thier mouths. You could be breathing that when they exhale!
[ChandlerBing] Could you guys BE any lamer? [/ChandlerBing]
Marge: “You know, Homer, it’s very easy to criticize.”
Homer: “Fun, too!”
Scientists tested toothpicks in restaurants & they were filthy. I guess people went to bathroom, came back & got toothpicks.
If you wash you hands & then retouch the faucet to turn off the water, doesn’t that just put the crap back on your hands???
Our airport & hospital has automatic water turn on faucets, nice.
I don’t know what the actual risks are - but…
I heard that priests that had VD would always blame the toilets.
Ok women may look the other way right now…
Men here is something that occured to me as I sat on sears’ toliet. As I sat on the stool my penis hung down and touched the white porcelan part ( thank goodness it isn’t long enough to hang down to the water)
So I thought mmmmmm I wonder if some kind of germ from the porcelan part is crawling up my urethra right now. :0
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There are two people I’d like to see posting to this thread right now. One is MajorMD, for the “Straight Dope” on the risk of getting sick (and when I see her online I’ll ask her!), and the other is Diane/Kitten. We ran this topic around the old board a year or so ago, and she had a link to a site that taught women how to pee standing up. I looked at it, but I didn’t save it, unfortunately.
-Melin
Nah, it was this board. (It was in a thread by CowGod but I forget what the topic was. Perhaps “ICUP, haha” or something.)
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If memory serves you spread your labia with two fingers and hike your clitoris up like a little penis then let fly. (Takes some practice, I’m sure ;))
Marge: “You know, Homer, it’s very easy to criticize.”
Homer: “Fun, too!”
Wowsa that’s quite a little mental image there.
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Cave Diem! Carpe Canem!
Yes why?
Yes, I remember pasting the instructions for how a woman can pee standing up & with her jeans on. Very titillating for you aha.
One reason guys have so much coliform bacteria in their shorts is because they put their pants back on before they wash their hands.