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?

Bloody strikethrough fail!

Well I recon you all have bum disease and it's now upsetting your brains and making you sit on dirty loos... I for one do not want to sit in someone else's piss or blood... worst ever was when someone shat around the side of the loo and my bloody trousers got covered in it...

I must have bum disease cause I have always sat on toilet seats! That's why they're called seats, dontchaknow...

Well I recon you all have bum disease and it's now upsetting your brains and making you sit on dirty loos... I for one do not want to sit in someone else's piss or blood... worst ever was when someone shat around the side of the loo and my bloody trousers got covered in it...

Well, I will admit that I look at the loo before sitting down. No shit on my trousers or bum disease. Win!

I personally need to wear extra tight knickers at all times now to keep my arse from prolapsing because of all the bum disease I've picked up over the years.

Check this out; in NYC loo

Unless you are later planning to eat your dinner off your arse yabu. Just sit down FFS.

I never sit on them. I squat over them. You just never know. It only takes the one dirty person.

That would be you! The bloody hoverers are the ones pissing and dripping all over the seats. Just be a bloody grown up and sit down. You must have people you aren’t related to use your toilet at home all the time and I’m fairly sure you don’t hover over your own loo.

See, you wash your hands but you don’t wash your arse after s ouvkic toilet visit!
Of course you can catch things, bugs love for hours on surfaces.

Friends and families houses inoaper the seat, and don’t use the guest toilet here until after they’ve left and it’s been antibacterial wiped.

I am completely fine with my obsessiveness

Not to mention that if some bigger bum sits a bit higer on the seat, stuff gets on it.)

Bum size may vary but arseholes are generally generic in size and position.

of the loo and my bloody trousers got covered in it...

Oh dear...

I’m glad I’m a grown up now and not a 14 year old.

How absolutely fucking wasteful and ridiculous. Just sit on the fucking thing and get out so the normal women (who may be in far greater need than you are to start fucking decorating the cubicle) can use it.

I never knew until I started coming on MN that so many people can't just go in and pee properly. You know, sitting down, on the SEAT!

Im surprised so many do actually sit on the seat, how gross.

I think you all do have bum disease and just dont know it as your used to being dirty. Hey, whats a few extra bum germs. Nasty.

If you must, why not sit on your hands and then wash them

How would that even work?!? Massive hands?? Tiny bum?? I have neither.

I don't understand what germs are meant to live on the backs of peoples thighs and the outer regions of their butt cheeks.

The angst about sitting would make more sense if it involved touching the seat with one's actual, er, how could I put this delicately, arsehole. Or genital area. But those bits don't go near the seat, they hover over the huge gap that is the actual toilet.

Well, I know there are bacteria on everyone's skin but what I mean is that the backs of the legs isn't an inherently dangerous part of the body.

Italian - me neither.

Explains why so many public loos have piss on the front bit of the sweat or toilet roll on the floor. I've learnt from another thread that tons of loo roll blocking the loo comes from people who put tons in so we can't hear a poo!

What an utter waste of paper.

Its such a gross habit really. We need to teach people /kids it's fine to sit on the loo seat and not give them the same hang ups. Those with the hang ups need to work extra hard not to pass them on (I have to do this with spider/slug phobia!)

I have been told using toilet roll is just as dirty as it just absorbs whatever's on the toilet then onto you. I hover if it's that bad.

I'm sure I read somewhere possibly mn that germs can travel through up to 10 layers of 2 ply toilet roll.
So presuming that's true unless you spend fourty minutes carefully wrapping the entire seat In loo roll. (And starting again everytime a piece that shouldn't touch the seat touches it) then you're no better off and may as well just sit on it.
Save yourself the worry and carry a bottle of bleach around instead.
Sorry but if you're going to be a germaphobe at least do it in a way that makes sense.

I just sit on the seat. Have not succumbed to arse disease yet.

I’m also not sure how a layer of toilet paper is going to do anything tbh

Nope, disease free.
It's never occurred to me to hover or build a nest. If a toilet seat looks grim, I find another toilet.

I am completely fine with my obsessiveness

Poor bloody planet though.

I’m equal parts amused and horrified by those who honestly think a bit of two-ply tissue has such magical properties to stop microscopic organisms.