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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?

Original Post by anndjoe:

We were after all talking about things you can catch from public toilets, well that's what I caught, but boy did it rattle a cage! 

 Well, for all those paranoid about toilets, step away from your keyboards and phones, as it's been reported that there are more germs on those items that what you find on a toilet seat.

Here here!!  LOL - I hate that too!  Woman are the absolute WORSE pigs in public washrooms!!  I have had to clean men's and woman's washrooms and I will take the men's any freaking day!!! 

Original Post by kathygator:

My crime has been using antibacterial soap. But I just don't seem to stay as fresh, or feel as clean without it.

 

I just saw a show on common things people have misconceptions about. One of them was antibacterial soap. They took 10 people with really dirty jobs. Let them work all day and then took a hand print from each of their hands to show bacterial contamination.

Before they let the people wash their hands, they instructed them on proper handwashing: turning on faucett first, putting soap on, scrubbing, proper washing time, etc. They had five of the people wash with antibacterial soap and had the other five wash with regular soap.  They then took another hand print immediately after washing to show how much contamination was removed during the washing process.

The contamination left on the hands was almost identical from both groups of people. There was no statistical difference between the antibacterial soap users and the regular soap users. They recommended that no one use antibacterial soap.

 

Double ^5 to heather.  Leaving piss on the toilet seat is disgusting and one of my personal pet peeves.  We had a seat pisser somewhere in my building.  Apparently, I was not the only one who was pissed off at the pisser, because they put up signs in each stall.  Seems to have worked because the pisser has either stopped pissing on the seat, cleans up afterwards, or has pissed off to another bathroom in the building.

It's okay if you squat, but leaving pee on the seat is not!

Now, if the ladies would only stop leaving their hair on/in the sink and dropping the little pieces of toilet paper on the floor - THROW THE TP BITS IN THE DAMN TOILET!  I wonder if their bathroom at home is just as disgusting.

BATHROOM COMMON SENSE: sit on the seat to pee OR hover with the seat lifted. DO NOT use foot to flush, your shoes come into contact with bird/dog poop, spit, vomit, bugs, gum and all sorts of germ laden items. If you aren't willing to smear those onto your hands then don't deposit them where others will. I shouldn't have to ask you to move out of the way so that I can wash my hands, so use your compact mirror to apply more makeup. DO NOT PEE IN THE SINK. Put your feminine products in the recepticals provided. Lastly, if you are at an establishment with a small bathroom (1 toilet), lock the d*** door, other customers, small children and the staff DO NOT NEED TO SEE YOU PEEING.

Original Post by anewdawn:

Here here!!  LOL - I hate that too!  Woman are the absolute WORSE pigs in public washrooms!!  I have had to clean men's and woman's washrooms and I will take the men's any freaking day!!! 

Not if they used the urinal to #2.

143: The bacteria that is present on the skin in the warm moist places of the body is what causes odor. Under arms, feet, etc. Those areas are effected by antibacterial soap, as is the bacteria present on the face. 

I get extreme amusement from one (hopefully just one) woman on my floor at work who leaves handprints on the toilet seat. The fingers are facing inwards towards the bowl like she has put her hands on the seat to support her while she squats - HELLO?! You're so concerned about pee-germs but think that touching 'them' with your hands is the best option? There are seat covers provided in each stall btw.

I can just smile at her expense as I sit my butt down on her hand prints. And wouldn't you know... no STDs or other horrible disease for me yet!

That's true, Kathy.

It doesn't matter what kind of soap you wash your hands with because those bacteria are removed mechanically (i.e. they're loosened by the scrubbing motion, and they're caught in the soapy lather and rinsed off with the water), rather than being killed.

Antibacterial soap IS more effective than regular soap against those bacteria in the areas Kathy mentioned, though.

Alright I see that I am very late to the party, but I have to say that I am completely APALLED at the foot-flushers! I had no idea this was in common practice. Ew. Disgusting....and really the whole issue, from hover peeing to foot-flushing to not flushing at all, depresses me. It is an example of how we don't seem to care about eachother anymore, as a society. As long as our own hands/ass remain clean, who cares about the next guy.

I personally sit. I have always thought along the lines of the OP about it all. I have learned from experience to examine things carefully before entering, though. I HATE dirty bathrooms with a passion but refuse to add to the disgustingness by not sitting /cleaning up after or foot flushing. Can't we all think a little about those around us more?? We are living in a SOCIETY here people (said with a George Constanza inflection hehe).

Hey anyone else have Dirty Bathroom dreams when they are sleeping and have to pee really bad? I have had epic dreams, wandering from one situation to another where I have to pee in the worst way but all the bathrooms are filthy and getting worse by the minute...the last one I had was in a McDonalds in Bolivia of all places, and the stalls were filling with cruddy water and then the stalls themselves started lifting so everyone could see in and I lost a shoe in the crud and it just went on and on, I finally woke up so I could go pee! I worry one day I will dream I am peeing and wet the bed in real life!

OMG! Victoriagirl, I thought I was the only one who had the Nasty Bathroom nightmares.  Maybe we should form a CC Group?  Nahhh.  I still remember a couple of my more disturbing dreams, but I'd rather not relive the details.  When I start dreaming about not finding an acceptable bathroom, I wake myself up because if I find a worthy bathroom in my dream, then it's too late. lol

Haha this post made my day! Actually things like this don't tend to piss me off (no pun intended) because I'm not the type to get angry easily...if the person before me hover-pees, I just wipe it off the seat. But I can understand how it bothers some people.

 

I totally pop-a-squat, and will continue to do so.
I do the whole "foot flushing" action also.

I rarely use public restrooms anyways.

 

Here are my washroom rants:

1.)  Not cleaning up after yourself if you "miss".  It's gross to just leave it there, and really, it doesn't take much to grab a piece of toilet paper and clean up after yourself.

2.)  Not flushing the toilet when you're done with it.  Nobody wants to look at your crap! (And I mean literally "Look at your crap".)

And this last one is more of a washroom "design flaw" that really bugs me.  Obviously a man has designed the washroom when there is no dispenser for pads or tampons! I usually carry at least one in my purse should an emergency arise and I need it, but sometimes it gets used and I just forget to replace it, then when Aunt Flo comes to visit and I'm not at home, I usually end up running to the nearest washroom with a quarter, frantically looking for a machine, only to find out it doesn't exist!  And toilet paper does a completely unsatisfactory job.  I've had many times when I've been in the store and had this happen, and then I've had to run to feminine hygiene aisle and buy a whole pack just to get one.  I remember one time it was so bad I actually stopped at a 99¢ store to get something for it because I'd remembered seeing four pack boxes of tampons there when I was there a few days earlier, LOL.

Something else that bothers me, too, is when those dispensers are actually there but they're broken or EMPTY!  

I'm totally with everyone on the flushing thing. Please, please flush when you are done. Whats worse, however, is when girls get period blood ALL OVER the toilet. And then just leave it there. Its truly disgusting.

Original Post by santonacci:

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!!

 LOL! Man! that made me laugh!  hover pissing should be an olympic sport.

The worst is when you check the seat and don't see anything, then sit on it and when you stand up you can feel your thighs wet because there WAS something on the seat!  Gag!

Also, Oprah did a little thing on her show about how disgustingly dirty women's purses are - from setting them on floors in public restrooms.

I don't get paranoid about stuff like that because as an evolved human, my immune system should be up to par for the most part.

Women - really?  Do you set your purses down on the floor in public restrooms?

I thought that was what the hooks on the back of the door were for... just sayin'.