Public toilets - sit or hover?

[moutonfou]

Do you sit, hover or play it by ear?

No one has said that there aren't any germs.
Just that you have nothing to fear from germs touching your thighs or looking at your bum hole.

I'm astounded that so many of you seem quite proud that you sit on public loos

Not proud, just thankful I'm not some hind of hysterical idiot who thinks you catch wee cooties from your bottom touching a dry toilet seat.

I don't think that though Hipster. I just don't like sitting on public toilets.

You lot can't seem to comprehend that for some reason.

Can't comprehend it because it doesn't make any sense. There's no benefit to hovering but there are drawbacks (it isn't good for your bladder, whether you personally experience problems now or not it might very well catch up to you later in life). The worst thing though is those that teach their children to hover - it isn't fair to saddle them with ridiculous fears of germs.

Hover. But I always clean the seat afterwards if I leave any evidence of having been there.

It makes sense to me though.

'It makes sense to me though.'
And that's fine if people have weird hang ups associated with going to the loo. As long as they understand it is a weird hang up and there's no need to hover in fear of the bog seat .

^^ And they don't pass on those weird hang-ups to their children. Plus clean up any wee they might leave on the seats from hovering.

It isn't a weird hang up though and it's quite mean spirited to keep insinuating it is.

It's just different to what you do. Not weird just different.

It isn't a weird hang up though

Ultimately I really don't care but I would love you to justify it with actual facts not playground gossip.

If it's just because 'I don't like it and it's nasty' then that's fine but accept that it is a hang up.

It's no more insulting than being told that to sit on a toilet seat is akin to eating vomit or sharing needles with a drug addict.

'If it's just because 'I don't like it and it's nasty' then that's fine but accept that it is a hang up. It's no more insulting than being told that to sit on a toilet seat is akin to eating vomit or sharing needles with a drug addict.'

This ^ with bells on!!

I haven't insulted anyone by their choice to sit on the toilet. I accept that some people do that which is fine.

Why do I hover? I don't know if I'm honest but I always have done since I was little. It just feels more natural to me. In fact thinking about it I hover at home when I'm just having a quick wee. Just habit I guess.

But there's really no need for this superior attitude just because you sit down on the toilet. Honestly it's rather baffling to be so smug about such a thing.

Its not smugness, its just bafflement that someone, in the face of the facts, would continue to do something which isn't helpful and might be harmful (back to the bladder again).

Well it's done me no harm yet and I'm quite old so worry not.

Nowt wrong with my bladder and I'm
a proud ( and very hygienic ) hoverer.

Never had a bladder, kidney, Uti infection in my life and my pelvic floors are in fabulous working order

It's the thought that repulses me. I just do not wish to park my arse down on a public toilet. Fuck knows what's on those seats...traces of Norovirus, E. coli etc

It literally turns my stomach.

So I will do as I please ( and continue to hover for the rest of my days when at a public toilet) and for those of you that sit, and for those that have a particularly invested interest in this thread ( looking at you sitters) then you do as you please.

Ciao

Hover in Every toilet bar my own. I realise I am odd

I reiterate my long term hovering was perfect. Did it all the time when urinating. It was a habit. Everything clean until I was fifty and then it all literally went haywire. All the result of my hovering I have been told.

In what way did it go haywire?

Good ole Mumsnet!

Hovering - the ticking timebomb!