… um, no, you actually can’t even catch cooties. Or, let me rephrase that and say you are EXTREMELY, HIGHLY unlikely to catch cooties, let alone anything else.
So ladies, and everyone else, please, please, PLEASE stop squatting over the seat… that’s far more messy and potentially unsanitary to the next person than just plonking your butt down.
Oh, and don’t use your SHOE to flush, either. Not everyone does this and I’d rather touch a “normally” dirty flush lever than one with stuff all over it from the bottom of everyone else’s shoes. Use your hands and then WASH your hands with SOAP afterwards and you won’t die.
Lice are very easily if not commonly spread in communal type arrangements via Public restrooms, in particular toilet seats. Barracks, Gyms, Schools, etc. Don’t let anyone fool ya.
I think you are confusing cooties (lice in pubic hair) with head lice. Head lice are indeed highly contagious, but even head-lice one doesn’t catch through toilet seats.
Not to put words in the mouth of the Master, but I don’t think Cecil was referring to body (or pubic) lice when he used the word “cooties”. Cecil knows it is highly unlikely you can get lice from public toilet seats. Cecil was undoubtedly referring to the more charming definition of cootie: “a children’s term for an imaginary germ or repellent quality transmitted by obnoxious or slovenly people.” (New Oxford American Dictionary 2nd ed.)
So use your shoe. If I’m in a public restroom, I may be wearing a coat or have other items I’m trying to not drop or have fall into the water. I’m not about to bend over to reach those stupid industrial flush levers they place so far behind and to the side and which are often wet with condensation, thanks.
Besides, some toilets splash up as they flush and others get feisty and overrun and I’m dressed and poised to beat it out of there as soon as the flush begins so I can avoid either situation. (No, they don’t go over the top because of me. Hmph.).
Go ahead. Do it with your shoe. It’s good exercise.
Back in the 1970s, ABC ran a special on VD, hosted by Dick Cavett.
DC:(holding a toilet seat) “It’s not true that you can catch VD from a toilet seat. Let’s get rid of that myth right now” (Tosses Toilet Seat offstage.)
Voice from Offstage: “Owwww!”
DC: “But you CAN catch other things from toilet seats. That man caught a broken toe from one.”
Yeah, bleeech would sanitise the seat for certain.
You think that’s bad? I wandered into a dippy-psychic shop once and saw a sign over a case of Tarot decks that said “Owing to the personal nature of these items, we regret that they may not be refunded once sold”. :rolleyes:
Yes, it means “has germs on it”. As misstenacity said, squatting over the toilet seat will likely leave the toilet seat a lot more unsanitary than sitting on it, for the simple reason that it’s a lot more likely you’ll be a lousy shot if you’re hovering than if you’re plunked down on it.
