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Ladies, listen up, it's time for me to drop some science on your ears about the bathroom situation.

The fact that you can catch an STD from a toilet seat is a myth.

What part or your body touches the toilet seat? If you're anything like me, it's your ass/thighs. It's not your vajayjay. It's not your butthole. I'm pretty sure I don't hump my  toilet seat. Okay. So it's my buttcheeks and thighs. Personally, mine are pretty clean. They stay protected in my clothing all day. I don't wipe so crazily that fecal matter or urine end up on them. In fact, I'd go the extra mile and say my thighs and buttcheeks are cleaner than my hands. Seeing as they stay inside my clothes all day and aren't out touching all kinds of things.

Women are very good at urinating standing up. Typically, it gets all over the toilet seat. The toilet seat that would have stayed pristine if you had actually sat on it in the first place.

Okay, so all things considered: STOP HOVER PISSING!!!!! Seriously. It just gets things disgusting for the rest of us. I am so sick of walking into a stall only to find yellow droplets all over the toilet seat. EW!

And for the love of all things civil, if you dribble, clean it up. Gawd. We're grown ups now, it's time to respect each other's most basic right to urniate in a clean environment, okay?

Okay, so all things considered: STOP HOVER PISSING!!!!! Seriously. It just gets things disgusting for the rest of us. I am so sick of walking into a stall only to find yellow droplets all over the toilet seat. EW!

This pisses me off beyond belief!

Good Rant :)

It would also be nice if everybody flushed the toilet.  When I worked at a movie theater we had to do bathroom 'checks' as in, no scrubbing, but wipe down the counters and fill the soap, and check the stalls for tp and to flush what needed to be flushed.  And the womens washrooms were consistently dirtier.  Mens smelled worse, but womens were dirtier.  Sure, maybe they get used more, but that shouldn't really matter.

I'm sorry but I just can't.  It may be a bit OCD of me but I just can't sit on that seat!  Yuk!  I promise to leave it clean though.

I do agree, but would also point out that piss is sterile, so...

Also, please flush.  If I can use my foot to press down that lever, so can you.

Thanks!

STOP HOVER PISSING!!!!!

He he he, too funny. Love your rant.

Also, please flush.  If I can use my foot to press down that lever, so can you.

Absolutely. There's no excuse to not flush.

You know, I am at times, a little bit OCD (and I HATE public restrooms... but with all the water I drink, I have to use it).  So, despite that, even I sit on the seat, AND flush.

I just use the little paper covers, and flush with my foot.  No biggie.  However, I do use paper towels/toilet paper to latch/unlatch the door (people wipe, then touch that...ick), and same on the faucet handles.

If there's no paper cover, I just use toilet paper to wipe other people's drips, and just sit.  I agree.  Hover pee is gross.

I find is disgusting how some people leave restrooms.  I mean, why wouldn't you flush?!  It makes no sense!

Edit:  This post randomly reminded me of the time I was foot flushing, and I was wearing slingbacks, and almost lost one of them to the toilet.  That would have sucked.  If it did fall in, what would you do?!

Nomo - piss is sterile in the urinary bladder, but when it passes through the urethra, it comes in contact with normal flora... so it's not sterile when it is eliminated.

Still, though, I agree with Heather.  Quit peeing on the seat, ladies.

two things:

first, isn't having to wipe up afterwards more disgusting than sitting on the seat in the first place?  isn't the slim possibility of others' pee on your thighs better than the surety of your own pee on your hands?  (i know pee is sterile, but still...)

second, i've been guilty of the foot flush, too, but the stuff on the bottom of a shoe is likely far more disgusting than the stuff on most people's hands.

okay - three things:

third, it's the door handles and taps you need to be wary of, not the toilet seat.

I have officially decided to incorporate "vajayjay" and "hover pissing" into my vocabulary.    Doesn't "hover pissing" sound like it should be some kind of sport?

Seriously - if someone's really that paranoid, carry your own seat covers or line it with toilet paper, and remember to flush for crying out loud!!

This is too funny.  I had to explain to my husband the horrors of sitting down on a seat only to realize you didn't see the droplets and should have swiped it with toilet paper first.  That is the MOST uncomfortable feeling.  *shudder*  Even he was terrified ;)

Original Post by santonacci:

Seriously - if someone's really that paranoid, carry your own seat covers or line it with toilet paper, and remember to flush for crying out loud!!

Sadly... I OWN some of these.   Haha.  My hubby bought them for me when I was backpacking, cause he knew how much I hated public restrooms.  :)

"If you sprinkle, when you tinkle, be a sweetie-wipe the seatie!"

       &nb sp;               &nb sp;              Guess that sums it up. (Sorry, couldn't help myself)

I'm totally on board with the hatred of pee covered toilet seats.  That's just wrong.  In terms of toilet flushing, that's a different matter.  I only flush maybe one in six times at home.  I drink a ton of water, so my pee is clear and doesn't smell.  I usually flush in public toilets, but that's just out of habit.  I don't have a problem with unflushed toilets, unless there's a big turd in there.  Why does that bother you guys?

Original Post by j-snyder:

This is too funny.  I had to explain to my husband the horrors of sitting down on a seat only to realize you didn't see the droplets and should have swiped it with toilet paper first.  That is the MOST uncomfortable feeling.  *shudder*  Even he was terrified ;)

Um, this is the reason why a lot of people DO hover piss!  It's a defensive thing!  I don't wanna wipe up your pee and I don't want to accidentally sit in it and traumatize myself for the rest of the day. 

Also I think it's a partially a cultural thing.  I grew up with it drilled into my head that sitting on the seat and possibly in someone else's pee is worse than eating gum off the ground.  Consequently, I just can't bring myself to do it! On the bright side, although I do wipe up any of my droplets that may scatter, decades of hover pissing have given me amazing quad stability, balance, and aim so I rarely sprinkle.  :-)

Editted to say: Regarding unflushed toilets, they are bothersome because I feel wasteful flushing first and then going, and I refuse to pee on top of someone else's pee.  Splash back, hello!

Original Post by medveditsa:

In terms of toilet flushing, that's a different matter.  I only flush maybe one in six times at home.  I drink a ton of water, so my pee is clear and doesn't smell.  I usually flush in public toilets, but that's just out of habit.  I don't have a problem with unflushed toilets, unless there's a big turd in there.  Why does that bother you guys?

 A lot of my relatives were country folk when I was little. It was common to not flush after just urination to save water. I lived through 2 droughts and our city asked people to not flush after each urination to save water. I don't have a problem with that at home.

That said,  I don't want to walk into a public bathroom and see/smell someone else's pee.

I've never heard of splash back.  I guess I've never peed so forcefully that the pee (or water) in the bowl has bounced up high enough to hit me in the butt cheeks.  

This is too funny...

I thought only guys pissed on the seat since well most of us stand up...

"If you sprinkle while you tinkle please be neat and wipe the seat"

 

Re flushing:

sometimes you see a toilet that has a lot of toilet paper in it already -- i don't want to investigate what may or may not be lurking under that toilet paper and i don't want to see it if I have to flush because you didn't

at home, i agree, if it's yellow let it mellow - if it's brown, flush it down

but in a public restroom, just take care of your own bodily functions completely - don't leave other people to flush behind you - you're not a toddler anymore

 

As much as I hate to spread negativity - I agree x100, Heather. And oddly, have been becoming more resentful of the practice recently. I thought I was the only one sitting! :D

I agree!!  Hover Pissing is a great phrase  Who are these people who don't flush?  They are probably the ones who don't wash their hands either :(