If you are in Italy and the toilet bowl has no seat....

[flitwit99]

Are you meant to hover or do you sit on the bowl?

I think people sit unless it's a hole in the ground. I hover on all public toilets anyway though! I even hover on aeroplanes! They're always so disgusting.

I'd wipe the seat then half sit. Like my right buttock/thigh is on the seat so minimal contact but I'm managing not to splash like many hoverers.
Mum always taught me to hover but honestly life is too short and my squat muscles leave a lot to be desired

Wipe any splashes caused by the hoverers and then sit. Sitting on the rim is no different to sitting on the seat, apart from it's less comfortable.

I will never know what people are fearing when the backs of their thighs touch a surface that has been touched by the backs of someone else's thighs? .

I need to know HOW people hover? I'd consider myself to have fairly strong glutes and thighs but there's no way I can squat over a toilet at a funny height, for the whole length of a wee! Maybe it's because I'm short!?

Then stand, legs apart.

Witchy it could be a height thing...I'm 5.5 not tall but not short. I have very strong thighs and a fear of germs. True fear will strengthen the weakest muscles!

Barbara It's the little wee splashes! They're always there and I don't want someone else's piss on my legs!

Irony: hover-ers who hover to avoid the wee splashes that are caused by people hovering.

If everyone just sat on the seat like they were supposed to then there wouldn't be wee splashes everywhere. The likelihood of catching something from a toilet seat is so low that it's not even worth considering.

Irony: hover-ers who hover to avoid the wee splashes that are caused by people hovering

But seriously, just sit the fuck down people.

My hovering does NOT cause splashes! I'm a crack shot with my piss thank you very much!

I'm not bothered by the germs, I just wondered if there was some sort of etiquette thing about not sitting down because there is no seat. The first time I went in I thought maybe I was in the mens by mistake. But I guess they just don't see the need for a more comfortable seat.

Hover, I'd never sit down on a public toilet.

Hover, I'm a great aim.
Worse are squat toilets, I always worry I'll slip and fall into the tray.

Hoverers are the cause of the splashes on the seat.

Hoverers are revolting and should be fined.

If everybody got over themselves and sat down as toilet seats were designed for, nobody would ever have to either sit in or mop up someone else’s piss.

HennyPenny - "crack shot"

To the people who won't sit on a public toilet; why ffs?! Do you eat your dinner off your arse?

I’m just in Nice, and nearly everywhere is toilet seatless. It’s like they’ve all sold out of toilet seats 🤷🏼‍♀️ —or they can’t be bothered to replace them—

You be grateful there's a bowl (remember going into a loo in a park in Italy and being confronted with a hole). Thankfully I do lots of festivals where toilets are rank so even my short, fat legs can hover for a wee

Why don't people sit on the seats? The handle is the place with the most germs

Science says sit don't hover.

Hoverers are simply wrong.

This is my least favourite thing about Italy (and we spend quite a bit of time there)!

I have no idea what you’re supposed to do... never had it confirmed. Weirdly it’s more of a city thing than a rural Italian thing. I try to hold it until I get home or sit lightly on the rim!

It's so annoying, we're going to Sicily in the summer and I'll be six months pregnant, I might take a load of disposable seat covers with me! Why do they have no seats though, DP is Italian and even he doesn't know 🤷‍♂️

"wee splashes" in the Scottish sense?

Hovering is really bad for you. It results in not fully emptying your bladder and this can cause infections

Just bloody sit!

worse still are those french hole-in-the-ground toilets that flush by flooding the whole cubicle the second you raise your bottom to re-balance your position...