to the loo seat hoverers. why?

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just why?

and why not wipe your own piss off the seat?

have my suspicion who it is in the office but am not quite sure

What do you mean 'why'?

And I am very accurate.

I don't hover.

I just plonk my arse down.

Mind you, I do get completely OCD about tocuhing toilet doors with my bar hands, and use the hem of my tshirt if I can.

I understand this makes no sense.

people think they can catch things from toilet seats god knows why
they're more likely to catch something from the door handle and tap

why do you hover? and why do you leave the toilet seat splattered with piss?

I agree totally........the idea that by hovering over a loo seat you are avoiding catching some horrendous crotch-disease is mental. The skin of your buttocks coming into contact with a piece of smooth plastic which has recently had the skin of another person's buttocks on it, is a VERY inefficient way to transfer bacteria.

You can't catch STDs from loo seats.

You can however transfer all manner of colds, infections, and viruses from the door handle, the taps, your computer keyboard, shaking hands handling money, kssing strangers in clubs.....and you know what? We're all FINE most of the time. Despite what panic-merchant articles would have us believe, being surrounded by bacteria all the time isn't much of a probelm, unless you have a compromised immune system.

It does make sense LordAlconleighs; your hands will transfer bacteria to other things that you touch. Your backside, presumably, will not.

I always sit down as well - I sometimes give the seat a wipe beforehand if it looks wet.

I'm sure I've read somewhere that hovering can cause urinary problems as you can't empty your bladder fully when peeing like that.

I've yet to hear of anyone dying or contracting something serious from a toilet seat.

BTW our work toilet seats are always wet - I've noticed that after flushing some water spurts up onto the toilet seat - so the wetness isn't necessarily pee.

Don't get me started on the 'logs' left in the toilet...

I never sit on public loo seats.

The skin of your buttocks coming into contact with a piece of smooth plastic which has recently had the skin of another person's buttocks on it

This ^ makes my whole being shudder.

I have an excellent aim though, years of riding and now martial arts means I have thighs of steel

I also am one who slams their bare arse down on the bog seat regardless. but I have learnt my lesson when visiting the the toilets of a particular place I go to as the amount of times I have stood up to have the sensation of dampness on the backs of my legs and to dicover that I have been sat in someone elses piss! I now usually remember just in time and wipe the seat.

This ^ makes my whole being shudder.

Hmmm...maybe I didnt put it very elegantly

But (at the risk of making you feel even more shuddery) there's nothing especially dirty about buttocks. I don't know about anyone else, but my buttocks arent routinely smeared with anything disgusting, they're just an expanse of skin. Granted, between them is an area which you might want to avoid in a stranger, but the buttocks, the bit that contacts the loo seat, are just as clean as any other bit of you.

Would you shudder if I'd said 'stranger's shoulder blade' instead of 'stranger's buttocks'?

I think the ones who carefully cover the loo seat with bits of paper before they deign to sit (and then don't pick up the bits that fall onto the floor) are worse.

It wasn't until I discovered that this hygiene habit existed that I twigged why public toilets are always covered in bits of loo roll.

But yes, if you must hover then be sweet and wipe the seat.

I have perfected the use of a public loo without actually touching anything.

I hover because other people hover. They leave piss on the seat, that I don't want to sit in.

And I am good with my aim.

If I'm out and desperate for a poo, I wipe the seat with hand sanitiser and loo roll first. I can't hover-poo.

at the sensation of wet thighs that signifies having sat in someone else's pee

Train loos are a whole world of apart from the nice big Virgin ones with the slidey doors - although I get scared they'll come sliding open mid-flow.

And and and having sanitary bins right next to the loo so your bum touches them, WTF is that about?

Public loos were designed by men IMO.

oh, yes, those sanitary bins you half sit on...often with a bloody towel half stuck to them...

my mil hovers.... she then wipes up precisely half the piss, leaving the rest for me to do. it makes me want to kill her.

Your MIL hovers in your house? OMG. Am I alone in thinking that's a bit rude?

I've never understood it.
If people are worried about germs they should worry more about the door handles and flush handles/buttons on public toilets.

Honestly, unless you are using one of those "she-wees" I don't see how your aim can be that good.

I can't believe anyone would want to sit on a PUBLIC TOILET. Shall I repeat that a PUBLIC TOILET ie a place where millions of people come to peee !!! urggghhhh ! OBviously I'm another hoverer.

What's worse, sitting on a public toilet or holding onto the handle on a shopping trolley which could be covered with all manner of toilet germs/snot/other from the last user's hands?

The only problem I have with public toilets is when they are covered in piss from people hovering.

I think it's a spiral. One person leaves a drip on the seat, do the next person hovers to avoid sitting in the drip, or having to wipe it up, they leave extra piss on the seat and before you know it your trying to hover and hold up the legs of your trousers to keep them from touching the piss splashed floor. Jesus it's hideous
I go to great lengths to avoid public loos. Except the knees here you pay 20p and they're nicecand clean. I'd pay big money for a nice wee while out

The absolute worst pub loos I've ever known are in Cheltenham. Odd. You'd think they'd do naice wees in a poshe town. But no, they all stink

I've said too much haven't I [obsessed]

aargh, drives me mad YANBU OP! And you accurate hoverers, are you sure? Cos my SiL reckons she's the queen of accuracy but I have used a loo after her and there's still little dribbles...

Hovering begets hovering. It's a terrible vicious cycle of dribbly wee.

I know there are germs on door handles and the flush, but I can wash my hands afterwards. I can't really wash my thighs after sitting in someone's manky piss.

But even if you wash your hands you sometimes still have to touch a door handle to exit the toilet-what if the last person didnt wash their hands?