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 😬

Well I thought I was a cautious person but I've been recklessly sitting on public toilet seats for decades......... never caught anything.

That’s a terrible run of bad luck!
Poor Sharon!

Those that sit on the toilet seat aren’t the ones that get pee on it in the first place …just saying 😎

Good! it's the damn hovering idiots that end up pissing on the seat/floor anyway, because women cannot precisely aim. Never in my life has my wee ever gone anywhere but neatly down the big ol' hole in the seat when i'm sitting. If everyone sat down, public loos would be much cleaner and more pleasant for everyone.

If everyone just sat down then toilet seats wouldn't be so gross.

Did the Asda not give Sharon free shopping for life for giving birth there? Surely that would make up for giving a baby anyway...

Why the feck would you or anyone else not just sit down.. on the seat…that’s for sitting down on…?

I always sit down on public toilets. You will not catch anything, get a grip.

The taps/flush/trolly handles in Tesco are probably dirtier than the bog seat.
Not sure I could be arsed with lining with paper either. I take my chances and sit, but you do you.

In fact, I’ve got to ask, has it occurred to all you hoverers that you might have a psychological illness? Given that you can’t catch anything from sitting, and no other rationale has been proposed?

Call 111

Really? I'm usually a line with tissue type.

Or just go straight to A+E for a vaccine.

Just sit down unless it's actually dirty or wet. Life is too short for all this neurosis.

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oh my goodness 😱 I’ve just realised who it is weeing on the toilet seats…I never got how this happened!!!!

Coconut oil

Goodness, so many people with public toilet disorders.

There was that other one a week or so ago about the woman who was mortified at the thought of anybody hearing her doing a poo in a cubicle in a public facility that's specifically designed for (among other things) people to have a poo - and lots of other people confirmed that they have this disorder too.

I have tried the paper on the loo seat option.. but I find the downdraft from lowering oneself towards said seat results in all the paper fluttering away anyway and therefore totally ineffectual 😁

If MN were an independent nation, and they introduced Toilet Cossack Dancing as a sport at the Olympics, the Russians would never get a look in ever again.

Mind boggles. Never caight anything by sitting on the seats and I say this and go to festivals and sit down in the porta loos. But now I know why the porta loo floors are swimming in pee cos of people hoovering like ffs. Obviously if they are clearly dirty I would just go find a clean one.

And if your really paranoid why not carry hand sanitiser and use that to quickly wipe the seat instead.

Uff now I really know why toilets are so digusting in the womens - I never got how people missed the hole.

but I find the downdraft from lowering oneself towards said seat results in all the paper fluttering away anyway

Are we talking basic natural kinetic downdraft or temporarily enhanced?

Fgs op, grow up

What's with toilet threads, someone else has just blocked the hotel toilet.

Yes it's icky but assuming it's just your bum cheeks on the seat, I don't think you'll catch anything.
They are disgusting though, sometimes I'll walk back out and hold it.

Honestly, what on earth would 'lining with toilet roll' do, other than being a terrible waste of bog roll?

There's probably not an evil microbe known that a) is going to leap on your bottom & cause mayhem but b) will be utterly thwarted by a thin layer of tissue.

Hover if you must, & clean up afterwards if you end up peeing on the seat.

(Also, a quick blast from a shetaf & using toilet roll to dry your nethers is much more hygienic anyway).

I wonder if that's how Chubby Checker first started out.