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?

I always wipe the seat before using it. There is nothing worse than sitting down and finding it's wet, it's just disgusting. I know it isn't always someone else's wee and often water that has splashed from flushing but still the thought is horrible.

ever heard of towels GeorgieTheGorgeousGoat?

Of course, but I’m not the paranoid one refusing to sit anywhere a stranger has sat before. Generally interested to know whet you think you’d catch?

Here's my tip from someone with germ phobia
Buy some flushable toilet wipes from b+m bargains or similar, (The'yre small packets about 60p a pack) and keep them in your handbag.
Enter public loo
Wipe handle and toilet seat with wipe then toss in bowl
If its really bad and theres wee on the floor, use a wipe on the floor too.
Yes its more time consuming but makes you feel a 'bit' better about the cleanliness
Wash hands thoroughly afterwards

You can’t flush those wipes (for the eleventy billionth time).

You can. They are described as 'flushable'. I'm not talking about general anti bac wipes.
For the second time.

No you really can’t.

THEY'RE NOT FLUSHABLE.

No matter what it says on the packaging, most of our personal healthcare and beauty products must never be disposed of down the toilet. Many of these products don't break down like toilet paper does. Instead they collect in our sewers to form blockages

Please educate yourself on this wonder.

There's various 'P' campaigns going round, as in the only things that should go down the toilet begin with the letter P, ie piss, poo, puke, paper (period) blood. If it's not one of these, don't flush it (and not pads or tampons either - it used to say you can flush these too, they were wrong.

You can. They are described as 'flushable'. I'm not talking about general anti bac wipes.

Well yes, they are technically able to be flushed. But they shouldn't be flushed, they cause huge damage.

However if you’re committed to the wipes, take advantage of one of the benefits of women’s loos - the sanitary bin.

Hoverer here.

Just to add fear to the germ phOnes
I heard a random discussion on the radio once about public loos. They were saying the toilet seat is the least of your worries. Someone pointed out that the toilet roll holders (large enclosed plastic kind) often have gross things In there, and put this down to people taking a sheet of paper, wiping there bums, deciding they need a second sheet and putting dirty hands back in the dispenser. Same goes for when the loo roll is visible hanging there.. they may take a sheet and go back for seconds holding the roll with wipey bum hands to tear the paper. Next person uses the germy piece 😂
I did look up into a holder once and wished I didn’t
Also you see the spare giant rolls of paper stored randomly stacked at the back of loos etc before being used. Bleurgh

not wonderwoman try this simple experiment.

Put a couple of sheets of toilet paper (clean) in a jug. Add water.Stir. see what happens to the paper.

Put a sheet of your 'flushable' wipe in a jug, add water,Stir . see what happens.

Now imagine a hundred thousand of your 'flushable' wipes, mixed with all the other "flushable" stuff people put down their loo, like condoms, tampons, plastic wrappers, cotton wool buds........ Plus all the fat people pour down their drains, imagine this mix coming up against grates in the sewers, the machinery in the sewage works, the sewage outfall onto the beach...

Put poo,piss, puke and paper down the toilet. Nothing else.

Exactly. The manufacturers are allowed to call them 'flushable' because they WILL flush away. But they don't break down as easily as tissue, and contain chemicals. PLEASE DON'T FLUSH ANYTHING APART FROM WEE, POO AND TISSUE.

Ok, i'll bin them from now on. They shouldn't be calling them flushable FFS!
Worst toilets are on trains IMO, which I use frequently, theres always urine all over the floor.

Buy some flushable toilet wipes from b+m bargains or similar, they’re small packets about 60p a pack) and keep them in your handbag.
Enter public loo
Wipe handle and toilet seat with wipe then toss in bowl
If its really bad and theres wee on the floor, use a wipe on the floor too

When I read things like this that’s make me want to slam my head down on a desk I really wish that the people who write such things are forced into a sewer tour to educate them.

I take my own toilet roll/tissues, carry around disposable loo covers and if no soap use antibacterial gel plus water to wash hands with plus won't touch anything directly after and use one of my tissues I bin after exiting loo

I'm extreme. But it's possible

any fatberg article is enough to put anyone off flushing "flushable" wipes

Regarding "flushable" wipes - wipe the seat and throw it in the bin.

Oh for goodness sake, just use the toilet like a grown up.

It's the bloody hoverers and their wee going everywhere that makes the seats dirty in the first place!

I’m curious to the idea hoverers pee everywhere?! You don’t hover 3ft above the loo?! The bowl hole is big enough to not miss..? Can’t say I pee on the seat when I hover slightly above the seat...

Well it’s not possible for those who sit on the seat to pee all over it is it?

It couild also be those that stand to wipe, dripping.... (a whole other debate...)

But yes if you sit on the loo properly and sit to wipe you can't be the one dripping everywhere.... It's hoverers and standing to wipers.

And all that paper on the floor :(

I have no idea. Depends on their build and anatomy perhaps 😂 but when you see crap or blood down the outside front of public loo bowls it makes you wonder what the sitters get up to

I just sit down
Despite having fuck all immune system, I still haven't caught any bizarre disease

SaskaTchewan when I pee Al fresco I squat right down, like you would over a French toilet (hole in the ground.) That way you only need to put your trousers and knickers down to your knees.

I always sit. I wouldn't teach children to use paper, you are passing your (irrational) anxiety or to them. I realise some people have genuine mh issues, but otherwise "not liking sitting on a public toilet" is irrational and anti-logic. Like people who deny climate change and anti vaxxers. Because there is no evidence to support your feeling, and plenty of evidence to the contrary.

I regularly use the toilet at work in just. You sock. My colleague thought it was gross, but I pointed out I don't use my feet to eat, and I can't reach to get them in my mouth. And I wash my socks every day.