I sat down on a public toilet seat today

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Uhhhhh I don't know what happened. I didn't line the seat with paper and I didn't hover. Will I be ok? I'd it likely I'll catch something terrible? I just really needed the loo and just rushed in and then my bum was on the seat 😬

Btw MN I was just having a wee, so no not a poo troll ❌💩🧌

Lol. Is this for real?

Anyway I’m sure sitting on loo roll that has poo particles on it is just as bad.

Have a shower and get a grip.

Seriously? What do you think you’re going to catch through the skin on your buttocks???

Oh ffs I always sit down and have never caught anything. I have never lined the seat with toilet paper. What a waste of bog roll

You will likely be ok. And I'm sure someone will be along to tell you that people who hover at most likely to get a UTI or something terrible. But I reckon you'll be fine. I'd rather stab my eyeballs with needles before I ever sat on a public toilet seat but from what you say you just didn't have the time to process.

Lol good for u. I hovered for years then after ending up under urology I learned that hovering is so bad for you. Ur not properly emptying ur bladder and it’s also pointless so in future just check seats for anything untoward n sit ur bum right down

Alas the 'get a grip' people are here already. OP yanbu. Hell would have to freeze twice over before I willingly sat on a public toilet seat.

A&E NOW!

I feel your pain 😞 shower and anti bac soap should be fine - just remember that your tender bits don't actually touch 😉

You've got bum nits now. For sure.

Hi mum 👋

Probably bum worms too.

And cooties.

What would you catch? Not being sarcastic, I genuinely want to know because it would never occur to me to hover unless the seat was obviously dirty (and then I'd probably just hold it unless I was bursting).

Oh no. Oh OP.

I think I may have to sit in neat bleach (please don't) or even Jeyes fluid if it were me.

Seriously you'll be fine. Besides who has time for shoving bog roll around the seat before they sit on it. I'd have pissed myself in the process of pulling the sheets of paper out the holder.

I'd bleach your bum, but you'll probably still die from sitting on the loo seat anyway.... HTH.

These types of threads are so depressing. What do you think other people are like? Most likely just as clean, disease-free and fresh-bummed as you. You're perpetuating paranoia and suspicion with your "Eurgh, other people!" attitude.

Well you won’t catch anything but you probably do have bits of other peoples wee/dead skin cells/poo particles on you which I don’t really fancy

Sorry OP but you're almost certainly pregnant now.

What do you think you're going to catch through the skin on your buttocks and thighs?

... Genuinely not sure if this is a joke or not.

Not being funny but my mate Sharon got pregnant that way and she didn't even know she was pregnant until she went into labour and she gave birth in the lift in asda and the security guard had to deliver the baby and the bany ended up being twins and she gave one to the security guard as a thank you. Same asda that she sat on the toilet seat in as well.

Your arse will shrivel up and fall off in about 7 - 10 days. Get some paracetamol

The only way to catch anything from a loo seat is to give it a good lick.

The old public toilets in the town I grew up in had tiny VD ‘warning’ signs on the wall next to them when I was a child.
They were embossed metal. I remember wondering what VD was.

Of course we now know that catching a VD from a toilet seat is impossible but back then people obviously thought you could. Yes, I know, I’m old!