Public toilets - sit or hover?

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Do you sit, hover or play it by ear?

I can't pee fully if I hover. I hate people who leave drips, have a quick look behire you flush and clean up your mess!

Wipe and plonk my fucking arse down.

A colleague of mine was taught by her Mum to sit on her hands.....you can wash your hands in the sink of a public toilet with more elegance than trying to wash the back of your thighs .

I sit. Quick wipe if there is existing pee (left by hoverers). Use a different loo if there is poo on the seat (left by hoverers). I've seen some sights in festival loos, but the most spectacular 'dirty protest' I've ever seen evidence of was on Barcelonetta beach. I think the person leant right forward, hands on the ground, and let rip a torrent of liquid excrement. All over the toilet lid. Was quite astounding to behold.

This is my first post BTW.....probably indicative of my tone lowering abilities.

Hi!

I hover at home mostly cos i cant be bothered to sit down not particularly for hygeine reasons . However as i have several family members who are happy to pee standing up ( little clue to gender there) and dont bother to lift the seat i have sat down in a puddle of cold pee several times ( esp in the middle of the night when it is dark ) so i have just got into the habit of hovering instead to reduce the chances !
Anyway before loos were invented wouldnt people have squated anyway! Dont see the issue.
And i always sit down and make myself comfy for a poo complete with something to read so i do appreciate my loo properly then !

People will put other people's genitals in their mouth and clean their kids faeces covered body, but having part of their thighs touch a toilet seat is a step too far 😄

Well to be fair i am also quite fussy whose genitals i put in my mouth !!

Yeah but squatting is different to hovering. When you hover you're spending most of your energy keeping your legs still rather than focusing all the energy on voiding the bladder. Whereas with squatting because you get so low to the ground you're not focused on keeping your upper legs taut therefore you can have a proper big wee.

Ex-nurse here. You cannot catch anything from a toilet seat! If it is covered in pee, by all means give it a wipe, but there is no need to hover. It's hard to completely empty your bladder when hovering as the muscles that need to relax to pee are tensed when you are hovering. Persistent hoverers are leaving themselves wide open to incontinence issues in later life.

I'm laughing at "Bum AIDS"

Exactly! Nothing untoward is going to happen to me by sitting on a toilet seat that other arses have sat on. I can't wee if I hover anyway.

Us Brits can be so uptight about public loos. I once sat in horror as a friend told me about how no woman will poo in the work toilets (they either hold it or go home at lunchtime) and if someone goes to the ladies and smells any evidence, they spend the rest of the day gossiping and trying to figure out the culprit. I mean FFS

Ha ha! I always hover! And in all my working years I have only done a poo in one work toilet. Years ago and that was because I had a dodgy stomach! I am conscious of my stink! And yeah I know everyone's shit stinks but I'd be really embarrassed if someone used the cubicle after me. Also I don't mind the splash back in my own loo but in a public loo?

Don't use public loos as I can't wee in them. I hold on until I'm home.

And in all my working years I have only done a poo in one work toilet.

I wonder if they'll engrave that on a carriage clock when you retire

Hover, always have. There's nothing wrong with it. I never pee on the seat!

You wipe the wee off with the paper, you don't drape it over it. Takes two seconds, doesn't hold anyone up to quickly wipe the seat.

Some people make themselves a little nest of toilet paper and sit on that. Which creates a barrier that no germ can cross. That's why toilet paper is used in all operation and shit.

I hover at home mostly cos i cant be bothered to sit down

What? How is hovering saving you one second of time or effort?

I hover. Have done it for as long as I can remember and have very good aim.

I know I'm not going to catch anything. I am just very, very (to the point of real weirdness) squeamish. It's an OCD thing. I just can't bear feeling unclean. There's nothing scientific about it!

Well I hovered until I went to university and had to share a toilet in halls of residence for two years. Having survived the entire time without picking up any nasty thigh diseases, I realised that unless there was visible excrement (or if I couldn't see as flapjack describes) there is little benefit to hovering.

Pubs or similar, quick wipe and sit.

Trains or similar, hover and tilt (minimises the splashing) and then wipe any splashes after. Takes thighs of steel though.

Sit

I sit and curse the wankers who hover. I know, I know, you're all going to tell me it isn't you who pisses on the seat but some of you do and it's gross.

Cover the seat with toilet paper if the facilities are a bit grim, then sit.

I only hover if the toilets are really, really bad...only happened once. I didn't even wash my hands because I thought I'd have more germs from touching their filth encrusted taps [boak].

I try to use the first cubicle in the row as I read somewhere that everyone else avoids it and so it will be the cleanest. I sit or hover depending on how clean the toilet is but I try not to touch the door handle on the way out of the whole toilet area as I'm not convinced that everyone washes their hands and I don't want to pick up any germs - maybe I'm being irrational.

Hovering is indeed what causes toilet seats to get dirty in the first place, as others have said. It's also not good for you as it doesn't completely empty the bladder, leaving you prone to bladder infections.

I use disposable toilet seat covers when I need to use a public loo. I can get them on Eba; they're cheap and don't take up much room in my handbag.

That should have read Ebay .

Wipe with some tissue first, then sit. I also have my foot against the door as I don't trust the locks on these things.

Although if it's the metal ones I try to avoid using them at all.

I've never heard of anyone catching anything off a toilet seat! Isn't that just an urban myth?

I can believe ANYONE would ever consider sitting on a public toilet. For those that wipe the seat then sit, please tell me you put paper down THEN sit Why would you sit on a seat that has had hundreds of different bums on it