Aibu to not line a public loo seat with tissue before using it?

[Jenniferturkington]

So, after 15 years of marriage I’ve just discovered that DH puts tissues on the loo seat before using it. Now, if it’s a bit grim, I hover. However I have never done the lining thing.
His argument is he can’t hover to do a poo. And he’s worried about other people’s ‘sweaty arses’.
So who is being unreasonable? Am I minging? I’ve never caught any diseases from sweaty bum germs to the best of my knowledge.

This is one of the reasons why public toilets are covered in bits of toilet roll making them grim for everyone. If he is so keen on clean he needs to carry a small packet of antiseptic wipes so he can clean the loo.

I was taught to hover as a child but that was in the days of massive posters in public loos telling you you could catch VD from seats 😳 fun as a 5 year old asking your mum what VD is 😂 I don’t bother unless it’s really grim

I have often wondered why you find strips of loo paper on the floor in some public loos. Having been brought up to leave a place as I would like to find it, I usually pick them up and flush them away (after I have used the loo) and then go and wash my hands.
Is lining the loo a Mumsnet foible?

I lined the seat when I was much younger, then my Ex BIL (well informed in this area) informed me that it takes 27 layers of tissue to form a barrier between your skin and any ‘germs’ so it seemed bloody pointless!!

Then given I lived in shorts & by the beach I figured the back of my legs were pretty well exposed to a ton of ‘germs’/dirt daily and they weren’t really any more likely to pick something up resting on a toilet seat for a minute than in a beach bench.

It’s only the back of my legs, not the inner workings of my foof touching the seat!

I don't poo in public toilets either.
I don't line the seat but check seat and bowl for unexpected surprises first. If dirty, I go in another stall.

I wipe the seat and crack on. If it looks really grim, so hover. So far haven’t developed a horrible arse fungus.

I quite like the idea of these though

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Waste of bloody paper.

I found out recently that my DP if 15 years, does this in our own home, his reasoning is that the seats cold and he’s going to use the same bits to wipe with so no waste,

Apparently it's the toilet bowls you should worry about, not the seats.
I always flush first, put some poopourrie in (just for a wee) and squirt handgel on seat and wipe round.
I hate any other loos than mine.

Hospitals are not full of people suffering from sweaty arse loo seat disease.

Just sit on the loo. Or give it a wipe first if it looks grim. Or find another loo.

It's the hoverers and layerers that make it grim for everyone else.

I've never lined the seat with paper and I don't hover. Paper is porous anyway so what good does it even do?

How do you use the paper you’re sitting on to wipe @60sbird

I hate it when people hover. That’s usually the cause of shitty / pissy seats

OK checked with DH - he says in a gents loo, sweat is the least of his worries and the paper comes out when he realises a full clean up job is on the cards.

But a clean public loo - no.

I just sit down on toilets and I have no bum cheek diseases that I am aware of

I feel I should clarify- I only hover if there is no seat or if there is some extreme issue e.g. it’s broken. I am happy to give a bit of wee a quick wipe and then sit as normal.

Also, I didn’t think this would require a ‘light-hearted’ warning.

DH is genuinely shocked that the consensus isn’t in his favour. He’s now muttering about ‘stray pubes’ .

What does he think the 'stray pubes' are going to do, burrow into his bum and make it extra hairy but a different colour?

'Bum disease'..................what a hoot🤣

I wipe but that's it. A friend always hovers, as does her mother, but that's too much hassle imo. My bum hasn't fallen off so far!

Public loos would be less manky without the scraps of toilet paper from the layerers or the piss on the seat from the hoverers.

YABU to "hover." You're the reason there's piss on the seat in the first place.

Stray pubes 😂 what - are they feral ? Will they viciously attack him if he sits on one 🐱

I give the seat a cursory wipe and get on with it

but that was in the days of massive posters in public loos telling you you could catch VD from seats When was this? I knew in 1974 that you couldn't catch VD from toilet seats! And I've never seen a poster saying you could.

I always flush first, put some poopourrie in (just for a wee) and squirt handgel on seat and wipe round. I hope you never get cystitis! You wouldn't have a chance of holding on while you did all that.

I just wipe the seat if it looks wet and then sit on the seat. Never had any problems!

We had a big problem with MIL when my eldest DD was about 3. DD was sitting on the toilet, but with her hands on the seat, to stop her legs touching the seat. I asked her why she was doing that, and MIL had told her she should always do that, both at home and in public toilets. I told her not to put her hands on toilet seats (I find that really disgusting) and DH had a word with his mother.

A few weeks later, I found DD doing it again, and MIL had told her that she still had to do it, but not to tell me! Strong words were had with MIL after that.

I would rather a three year old had a few germs on her legs than on her hands. They’re not always very efficient at hand washing at that age.