To put paper on the seat when using the loo in public?

[BrownEyedGirlv2point0]

I've had people argue that it is ridiculous to do this. I, personally, feel more comfortable. I know it wastes more paper but it's better than squatting to avoid actually touching the seat. Plus, if someone has left a mess there before me, I'll know. They say you can't catch anything from touching a seat but it still creeps me out. What do most people do?

Just sit on the fucking seat and stop faffing while everyone waits for you to nest rather than just pee and go.

If you must "protect yourself" then take a pack of wet wipes with you and give the seat a quick wipe down before you sit on it.

I am 28, have lived in half a dozen countries and always sit ... So far I have never caught anything but I have had to wipe the seat because selfish, hovering people have managed to leave the seat covered in pee

Just sit on the seat ffs!

😂 😂 I don't think I will every understand the wierdos who won't sit on a toilet seat.

What do you do at family and friends houses? What if their FIL/aunt/granny has been before you?

No one has ever died from sitting on a toilet seat. As for the HPV from a toilet seat, your friend is chatting grade A shit.

even if some germs could survive on a toilet seat, they could not enter your body unless you have open wounds. so just wash your hands and you are fine. Stop wasting toilet paper.

I hover and just let a tiny bit out at a time so as to ensure I don't make a mess.
I remember as a tiny child my grandmother always telling me to hover, so it's pretty much ingrained in me!

Never ever sit on the seat personally. Always squat. Each to their own though.

It must be the hoverers who cause the queues for the ladies toilets. If every other person in a queue needs to nest, it will take hours.

Especially if the next person has to wash the toilet seat and clean up after the near misses...

While you’re prissying about with sheets of paper to cover the seat, the queue is growing. I always wonder why some women spend so long in a cubical. Now I know.

So glad I'm not bothered by this kind of thing. Saves me so much time and anxiety.

I don't mind if others feel the need to hover or paper the seat but I do feel a bit sorry for them, all that wasted time and energy.

You know when you go into a toilet cubicle and there is unused paper on the floor? I bet that's from the people who put it on the seat.

When they get up it falls on the floor and they leave it there. Maybe not all of them but I bet that's what it is.

I'm intrigued.

Pray tell toilet seat coverers.....

Is this any toilet which is not your own? Does it apply to friends and family toilet if you don't know who used it last?
What is the time frame between knowing someone well enough and being able to sit on their toilet seat?
Is this also the reason why there are often strays pieces of loo roll on the floor that have been unused and invariably stick to my shoe?

Trufflethewuffle cross post and same thoughts precisely. I think we found the answer!

no one will ever convince me to seat on a public toilet or touch the door handles after washing my hands I couldn't care less what people think.

I normally try to leave the area look as good or better than before I entered. I know not everyone does the same.

When it comes to using the toilet at a friends or family's house it depends. If it looks questionable I will build my nest.

I hover, no way am I sitting on it, and I only go if the alternative is wetting myself.
I hate public toilets, they are always gross.

If people are this paranoid about seats, they clearly have no idea how filthy the doorhandles are.

At least people don't handle food with their bums...

My grandmother used to carefully cover the seat when taking us into a public lavatory (as they used to be called!). I do it to this day. She also told me egg white gives you warts if you get it on your skin. That woman has a lot to answer for...

Another non hoverer here. It’s bad for your bladder, weakens it over time.

I don't know what people think is going to happen if the back of their thighs touch the same surface that someone else's has.

Everything else in a public setting is just as germy

Toilet seats are cleaner because they get cleaned, unlike things like supermarket trolleys and cash machines. Oh and money, I hope none of the germ phobics ever touch money, because that is filthy.

You just never know. It only takes the one dirty person
One dirty person to what? What is it you are afraid of? I really don’t get this.

And stair handrails. But I always hold them while walking down steps because I’d rather risk a stomach upset than a broken neck.

I had no idea loo roll had magic germ killing properties!

What do you do with the paper once you've finished? Does it magically make it's way into the toilet or do you have to put it in manually?

Blubber 😂 Very good explanation about bums. (Not to mention that if some bigger bum sits a bit higer on the seat, stuff gets on it.)

no one will ever convince me to seat on a public toilet or touch the door handles after washing my handsI couldn't care less what people think.

how do you get out then? do you have to wait for someone to come in?

I'm sure I remember our biology teacher at school saying bacteria can pass through a sheet of toilet paper, think he said you would need to use over 7 layers to stop them.