Page 9 | Most women hoover above toilet seat in public toilets to pee?

summerfinn · 2023-06-07T06:55:02+00:00

I was out this weekend and had to use the toilet to pee. I normally hoover above toilet seat to pee in public toilets and was thinking to myself this is difficult especially if I need to do a long pee🙈😂 Is this what most women do too or am I being extra germ conscious and should just wipe the seat and sit down? Sorry if tmi but I'm just curious

Harls1969 · 08/06/2023 18:37

No, unless it's really rank and I'm desperate. I don't eat off my bum and I shower daily. I'd be more worried about what I touch with my hands than what I touch with my backside (And I don't worry too much about that as I wash them).

DarrellRiversCriminalBehaviourOrder · 08/06/2023 18:36

Blankscreen · 08/06/2023 18:34

No don't struggle with life but I just can't stomach the thought of sitting on a toilet seat that has potentially 000's of other people's piss wiped all over it.

It won't if they sit. It will if they hover.

Thanks.

Blankscreen · 08/06/2023 18:34

No don't struggle with life but I just can't stomach the thought of sitting on a toilet seat that has potentially 000's of other people's piss wiped all over it.

DarrellRiversCriminalBehaviourOrder · 08/06/2023 18:31

Is there a bit of a "princess and the pea" mindset going on with some people?

HidingInAForest · 08/06/2023 18:30

Blankscreen and others - I wonder what would help? Do you strugglen in other areas of life. Would getting help for germphobia/ocd type tendencies help do you think?

Blankscreen · 08/06/2023 18:27

Nothing said here will stop me hovering i just can't bring myself to sit on a public toilet.

As for touching handrails absolutely no chance 🤢

DarrellRiversCriminalBehaviourOrder · 08/06/2023 18:21

Jumpingthruhoops · 08/06/2023 18:09

Maybe this?

'Streptococcus and Staphylococcus are two kinds of bacteria that have been found on toilet seats; the first can cause throat infection and impetigo, the second can cause skin infections, including boils and cellulitis. And viruses, such as the common cold virus and hepatitis A, can be found on toilet seats as well.'

Which is why I, too, have always hovered! (And that's if I can bring myself to use a public toilet in the first place!)

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And they can get in via the skin of your thighs!!!

Although chances are they're there already, as they commonly reside on skin. Sorry, but you aren't a completely sterile environment yourself.

Keep hovering and you might well give yourself a UTI, though.

How do you feel about handrails?

Jumpingthruhoops · 08/06/2023 18:21

MogsEgg · 07/06/2023 08:17

Because I'm dealing with my own pee and not countless other people's? And I've never got a drop of my own wee on myself or the seat.

I keep it in my bag at all times for going walking. (I only use a backpack) and once in ASDA, all the toilets were absolutely minging, I couldn't physically go get a cleaner to sort it as I was desperate, I didn't want to clean up other people's mess so I used the she-wee.

I also have a knee problem and sometimes when it's having a bad flare up it locks in a bent position and I just don't want to risk sitting down and getting stuck 😂😂 so that another reason I use it.

I was just offering an alternative for people who don't like touching the seat but don't want to hover.

If its not for you then that's absolutely understandable but there's no need to mock someone else for doing something that has absolutely no bearing on you.

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100% this! I'm always 🙄 at those people who can't seem to grasp the idea of personal germs Vs strangers germs...

PetitPorpoise · 08/06/2023 18:14

Always sat on the toilet properly and never caught anything. I shower daily and always wash my hamds with soap. The skin on the back of my legs is not broken and i am not flexible to lick myself there, so no, i'm not concerned about germs getting through my skin.

Suspect toilets would be far cleaner, and queues much shorter if people just sat down intead of sprinkling piss everywhere and leaving toilet roll from their makeshift toilet seat covers all over the floor.

midsomermurderess · 08/06/2023 18:12

Women so fastidious they have hover over the toilet; so fastidious they leave their own piss all over the seat for the next woman to clean up.

Jumpingthruhoops · 08/06/2023 18:09

WeAreTheHeroes · 07/06/2023 07:58

Boom! @ShowOfHands

I don't and never have. What exactly do you think is going to happen if you actually sit on a loo? Obviously if there's water from the flush on there I'll wipe it with loo roll first.

Maybe this?

'Streptococcus and Staphylococcus are two kinds of bacteria that have been found on toilet seats; the first can cause throat infection and impetigo, the second can cause skin infections, including boils and cellulitis. And viruses, such as the common cold virus and hepatitis A, can be found on toilet seats as well.'

Which is why I, too, have always hovered! (And that's if I can bring myself to use a public toilet in the first place!)

ALongHardWinter · 08/06/2023 18:03

ShowOfHands · 07/06/2023 07:55

I used to do this until my Dyson got too unwieldy to lug round the shopping mall so now I just take a dustpan and brush instead.

😂😂😂

S4uk · 08/06/2023 18:03

Nope; no hovering here!!!
unless there’s no seat.. and then I usually end up weeing on my shoes..

Notimeforaname · 08/06/2023 17:57

You can get UTI's from not sitting down to pee. Happened to me on holidays and the pharmacist asked me straight away was I hovering.
She said you dont empty it all out properly and some can go back up and cause infection.

Merrythoughts7 · 08/06/2023 17:53

No, it's extremely bad for your pelvic floor to do this

FatOaf · 08/06/2023 12:30

Darrell, not sure if you are joking...but I think this is actually what humans will be like in the future - living in a sealed, germ free environment and only leaving when they really have to.

I'm constantly amazed at how few people have read this...

https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Machine_Stops

The Machine Stops - Wikisource, the free online library

https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Machine_Stops

KimberleyClark · 08/06/2023 11:16

mrsrobin · 08/06/2023 10:01

Darrell, not sure if you are joking...but I think this is actually what humans will be like in the future - living in a sealed, germ free environment and only leaving when they really have to.

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I do wonder if some people would be happier in an android robot body - so much more hygienic and clean.

JesusMaryAndJosephAndTheWeeDon · 08/06/2023 11:10

Attictroll · 07/06/2023 19:57

Never hovered and always assume the nasty drips are from hoverers. So they all create a viscous circle for each other. Creating more hoverers.

It's bum flesh not open bits touching the seat ffs ...not open bits. It's the same as putting a hand on a rail if no mess on it.

It is less bad than using a handrail because we don't eat or touch our faces with our bum/thigh flesh.

Castlerock44 · 08/06/2023 10:58

I suppose it's a vicious circle. If I go in and see wee on the seat, I don't want to wipe it, especially as tissue doesn't clean it, so I hover too. But I'm expert at getting it in the toilet, not on the seat. 😊

WhatALightbulbMoment · 08/06/2023 10:53

FKATondelayo · 07/06/2023 19:39

What a bizarre thing to say. Do you think most women stay at home all day and perhaps do a quick one in Tesco when shopping for their husband's dinner?

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Why is it bizarre? Sounds like you're projecting a lot into my post. I work full time and seeing as I don't count toilets at work as public toilets (there are only about a dozen women I share the toilet with at work) I use a public toilet maybe once a week.

FusionChefGeoff · 08/06/2023 10:35

Nope I sit.

mrsrobin · 08/06/2023 10:01

DarrellRiversCriminalBehaviourOrder · 08/06/2023 09:13

Never mind that, we should all go around in sealed pods on wheels lest we are ever exposed to a germ, another human being or anything that isn't absolutely sterilised.

I wonder how some of these people ever leave the house sometimes. Obviously we should all practise basic hygiene but this life-ruling horror of other people and any surfaces that haven't been fumigated is just completely beyond any sense of proportion or actual reality.

Was it always like this or did the pandemic cause it?

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Darrell, not sure if you are joking...but I think this is actually what humans will be like in the future - living in a sealed, germ free environment and only leaving when they really have to.

DarrellRiversCriminalBehaviourOrder · 08/06/2023 09:13

inappropriateraspberry · 08/06/2023 08:43

Maybe we all need to carry around our own personal loo seats. All the public toilets are built without seats and we can put our own one down when we go. 🙄

Never mind that, we should all go around in sealed pods on wheels lest we are ever exposed to a germ, another human being or anything that isn't absolutely sterilised.

I wonder how some of these people ever leave the house sometimes. Obviously we should all practise basic hygiene but this life-ruling horror of other people and any surfaces that haven't been fumigated is just completely beyond any sense of proportion or actual reality.

Was it always like this or did the pandemic cause it?

BillyBraggisnotmylover · 08/06/2023 08:48

DarrellRiversCriminalBehaviourOrder · 08/06/2023 08:18

You should wipe up after yourself. Especially if you're a hoverer.

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I agree - but if you don’t hover there should be nothing to wipe up!

inappropriateraspberry · 08/06/2023 08:43

Maybe we all need to carry around our own personal loo seats. All the public toilets are built without seats and we can put our own one down when we go. 🙄