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People who drop loo roll on the floor in toilets

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notedbiscuits · 22/11/2025 12:28

Whenever I use a toilet in a shopping centre, hospital etc, i regularly see loo roll on the floor. Why can’t people just pick these bits up and put them in the toilet? Obviously don’t wipe with these.

Do these people have loo roll around their toilet(s) at home? I doubt it!

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FiveShelties · 23/11/2025 08:12

soupyspoon · 22/11/2025 14:47

I frequently tear off a big clump of toilet paper, put it on the floor, scrunch it up under my shoe, wipe it around, then do another one because the floors are filthy and wet and I dont want my trousers to touch that once I take them down to sit on the loo

I dont pick those up, they're filthy and theres usually no bin in the cubicle anyway

Sometimes as I use a bit of loo paper in the normal way and go to chuck it in the loo, it falls outside the loo, I dont really want to touch that either to pick it up.

So a few times I am guilty of this.

That's nice dear🙄

PollyBell · 23/11/2025 08:09

I am still trying to workout where these spotless female toilets are that mn have told us about previously because male toilets are so gross

I am yet to see or hear about any clean toilets of either persuasion

notedbiscuits · 23/11/2025 07:51

KimberleyClark · 23/11/2025 07:17

I think people flush with the lid down, which is fine, but then don’t bother to check that everything has gone.

Most toilets don’t have lids on them. My current workplace and previous one didn’t have lids.

Nor does the shopping centre

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Simonjt · 23/11/2025 07:19

@soupyspoon The fact you think throwing used toilet paper on the floor rather in the toilet, dry urine on a floor and toilet and filthy toilet paper in a difficult to reach place makes an area in anyway clean speaks volumes about your hygiene, or lack of. If you washed your hands you would put your toilet roll in the toilet, so you’re making the cubicle worse, subjecting the next person to your soiled toilet roll and then touching everything with dirty hands.

KimberleyClark · 23/11/2025 07:17

notedbiscuits · 23/11/2025 07:10

I would like to know why people don’t flush. I have seen people’s poo left. I flush it and it works first attempt.

I was taught this flush after using when I was 3.

I think people flush with the lid down, which is fine, but then don’t bother to check that everything has gone.

KimberleyClark · 23/11/2025 07:16

Itbeginswith · 22/11/2025 14:52

I agree. I work in a school and was complaining about the state of our staff toilets just this week. Lots of toilet paper on the floor and skid marks in the toilet. Just pick up the paper and brush the toilets as you would in your own home!

Brushes are not always provided though. I would never leave skid marks if a brush was provided though plenty of people do.

Pricelessadvice · 23/11/2025 07:11

soupyspoon · 22/11/2025 14:47

I frequently tear off a big clump of toilet paper, put it on the floor, scrunch it up under my shoe, wipe it around, then do another one because the floors are filthy and wet and I dont want my trousers to touch that once I take them down to sit on the loo

I dont pick those up, they're filthy and theres usually no bin in the cubicle anyway

Sometimes as I use a bit of loo paper in the normal way and go to chuck it in the loo, it falls outside the loo, I dont really want to touch that either to pick it up.

So a few times I am guilty of this.

So YOU don’t want to pick up the paper you’ve wiped the floor with, yet you expect someone else to.

What a vile individual you are.

Here’s a thought. How about you just pick up after yourself like a decent member of society.
My friend is a cleaner and she has to deal with some awful things in toilets. Your post has made me very angry.

notedbiscuits · 23/11/2025 07:10

I would like to know why people don’t flush. I have seen people’s poo left. I flush it and it works first attempt.

I was taught this flush after using when I was 3.

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notedbiscuits · 23/11/2025 07:07

I get a wad of sheets and pick the dropped sheets on the floor. Then put them into the toilet including the wad.

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Cebello · 22/11/2025 21:29

There’s some twat at work who put a load of loo roll in the sanitary bin and because it’s light it doesn’t go into the bin, it just clogs up the bin meaning it is impossible for anyone who needs it to use it.
Just put the loo roll down the loo, you weirdo.
Honestly, if I ever find the people who do this I will happily kill them as it drives me mad.
The same cli lice with the blocked bins also have loads of loo roll on the floor. What on earth are they doing in there?

notatinydancer · 22/11/2025 20:31

soupyspoon · 22/11/2025 14:47

I frequently tear off a big clump of toilet paper, put it on the floor, scrunch it up under my shoe, wipe it around, then do another one because the floors are filthy and wet and I dont want my trousers to touch that once I take them down to sit on the loo

I dont pick those up, they're filthy and theres usually no bin in the cubicle anyway

Sometimes as I use a bit of loo paper in the normal way and go to chuck it in the loo, it falls outside the loo, I dont really want to touch that either to pick it up.

So a few times I am guilty of this.

That is disgusting. You could use more paper to pick it up and throw it away. How can paper fall on the floor when you’re using it ?
presumably you wash your hands?

seveneight · 22/11/2025 20:03

I always pick up other people's toilet paper off the floor after using the loo. I'm going to wash my hands anyway so don't consider it unhygienic, and I don't like leaving it a mess for the next person.

Until reading this thread I assumed any toilet paper on the floor had been dropped by accident. It never occurred to me people did it on purpose?! Shock

Arlanymor · 22/11/2025 19:44

soupyspoon · 22/11/2025 14:47

I frequently tear off a big clump of toilet paper, put it on the floor, scrunch it up under my shoe, wipe it around, then do another one because the floors are filthy and wet and I dont want my trousers to touch that once I take them down to sit on the loo

I dont pick those up, they're filthy and theres usually no bin in the cubicle anyway

Sometimes as I use a bit of loo paper in the normal way and go to chuck it in the loo, it falls outside the loo, I dont really want to touch that either to pick it up.

So a few times I am guilty of this.

Are you for real? That is disgusting behaviour. All of it. And the irony of you saying there is no bin when you could FLUSH the paper down the toilet. Honestly you are revolting. Please make it your 2026 New Years Resolution to stop behaving like this.

Poppins2016 · 22/11/2025 19:38

soupyspoon · 22/11/2025 14:47

I frequently tear off a big clump of toilet paper, put it on the floor, scrunch it up under my shoe, wipe it around, then do another one because the floors are filthy and wet and I dont want my trousers to touch that once I take them down to sit on the loo

I dont pick those up, they're filthy and theres usually no bin in the cubicle anyway

Sometimes as I use a bit of loo paper in the normal way and go to chuck it in the loo, it falls outside the loo, I dont really want to touch that either to pick it up.

So a few times I am guilty of this.

I just don't understand this... you're saying it's not ok for you to pick up your disgusting mess, but it is ok for someone else (who happens to be a fellow human being with no more or less feelings about how disgusting it is than you have).

You think it's OK, because it's a cleaner? What if that cleaner was you, or your friend/sister/mother/daughter?

I have, on many occasions, picked up loo roll off the floor (using some folded loo roll as a decent barrier) and then flushed it down the loo because the floor looks so disgusting and I feel sorry for the poor cleaners who have to deal with it. If I can do it, so can you. Just pick up the tissue (with more tissue as a barrier) and flush it (no bin is not a good excuse, loo paper is flushable) once you've wiped the floor.

ShodAndShadySenators · 22/11/2025 19:26

soupyspoon · 22/11/2025 14:47

I frequently tear off a big clump of toilet paper, put it on the floor, scrunch it up under my shoe, wipe it around, then do another one because the floors are filthy and wet and I dont want my trousers to touch that once I take them down to sit on the loo

I dont pick those up, they're filthy and theres usually no bin in the cubicle anyway

Sometimes as I use a bit of loo paper in the normal way and go to chuck it in the loo, it falls outside the loo, I dont really want to touch that either to pick it up.

So a few times I am guilty of this.

But you're going to wash your hands properly when you come out of the cubicle, so what's the issue?

I do turn Monica in loos in shops/airports etc, I always leave it nice if it was messed with bits of loo roll. And wipe down the area by the sinks. I'm going to wash my hands thoroughly afterwards, so why not?

Barneysmomma · 22/11/2025 19:11

My department at work only has one loo & I've had to remind the team that the cleaner isn't our Mum so to pick up after themselves. Falls on deaf ears every time!😡

Icecreamandcoffee · 22/11/2025 18:57

The germaphobes are the most vile users of public toilets IME. The hoverers who spray piss everywhere. The ones who flush the toilet and lock the door with their shoes. The nest builders who must build a nest of toilet roll to sit on the loo and then parts of said nest fall on the floor or they knock all the nest onto the floor when they have done because God forbid they interact with the toilet.

Looneytune253 · 22/11/2025 18:51

soupyspoon · 22/11/2025 14:47

I frequently tear off a big clump of toilet paper, put it on the floor, scrunch it up under my shoe, wipe it around, then do another one because the floors are filthy and wet and I dont want my trousers to touch that once I take them down to sit on the loo

I dont pick those up, they're filthy and theres usually no bin in the cubicle anyway

Sometimes as I use a bit of loo paper in the normal way and go to chuck it in the loo, it falls outside the loo, I dont really want to touch that either to pick it up.

So a few times I am guilty of this.

This has to be rage bait otherwise I think we have found an absolute scruff of society

IAmKerplunk · 22/11/2025 18:49

SparrowFeet · 22/11/2025 18:44

I think this too. People who are germaphobes but don't give a shit about spreading their own germs around.

Yes - because they think their shit and piss is better than everyone else’s!

SparrowFeet · 22/11/2025 18:44

LivingDeadGirlUK · 22/11/2025 15:07

I think this is from people who line the toilet seat with paper before sitting down, it falls on the floor when they get up and they are too scummy to pick it up.

I think this too. People who are germaphobes but don't give a shit about spreading their own germs around.

IAmKerplunk · 22/11/2025 18:08

@soupyspoon just take some more (clean) toilet paper to pick up the bit you dropped on the floor and put in toilet. Flush. Then wash your hands. Don’t kick dirty tissue to the back of the cubicle!

Honestly, why are people so scuzzy?

Okiedokie123 · 22/11/2025 17:25

@soupyspoon aren't you washing your hands a minute or so later? Making a mess to deal with someone else’s mess isn’t a solution.

Cornflakegirl7 · 22/11/2025 17:20

KimTheresPeopleThatAreDying · 22/11/2025 15:39

But then you wash your hands, so what exactly is the problem?

I can’t believe people trying to justify this.

It was more of an odd psychological thing.

And I didn't want loo roll touching my bum that someone else's hand that had just been up THEIR bum, had touched? Handwashing wouldn't recify that.

KimTheresPeopleThatAreDying · 22/11/2025 15:39

Cornflakegirl7 · 22/11/2025 15:35

I developed a habit of doing this admittedly but I don't do it any more. I do have top think not to do it however, if that makes sense?

I once was staying at someone's house and noticed a tomato seed stuck to the loo roll. I could only reason that a tomato seed had extracted itself from someone's bum, and they'd then reached for more loo roll and somehow left it stuck to the remaining loo roll as they tore some off. For this reason I will never use the end part of the loo roll, reasoning hands that have already wiped bums may have touched it.

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But then you wash your hands, so what exactly is the problem?

I can’t believe people trying to justify this.

Cornflakegirl7 · 22/11/2025 15:35

I developed a habit of doing this admittedly but I don't do it any more. I do have top think not to do it however, if that makes sense?

I once was staying at someone's house and noticed a tomato seed stuck to the loo roll. I could only reason that a tomato seed had extracted itself from someone's bum, and they'd then reached for more loo roll and somehow left it stuck to the remaining loo roll as they tore some off. For this reason I will never use the end part of the loo roll, reasoning hands that have already wiped bums may have touched it.

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