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 😬

This answers the question I always have when queuing for the loo about what the hell people are doing in there.

Really? In other countries they have paper toilet seat covers eg the USA. I've also used a toilet where the seat is covered in plastic and it automatically is whisked away into the wall after you have used it. I was raised by my mother to never sit .

What a terrible waste of plastic for a non issue.

I can understand why you’d want to cover the seat with paper before you sat on it (I don’t bother but I do like the little flushable covers they have in other countries) but I genuinely don’t understand why you think you need to. What on earth do you think you’re going to catch and why would you not be ‘OK’?

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What a terrible waste of plastic for a non issue.

Agreed. They'd be better having some handles hanging down from the ceiling or the back of the door, so you could assume a water-skiing position.

They could even go for the whole experience and automatically play the sound of a noisy motor boat whenever the door is closed - like the opposite of a fridge light - that might help the people who refuse to poo in public toilets, in case others hear the evidence of them using a toilet as a toilet, to gain the confidence to start laying their burden down once again instead of holding it in for hours until they get home.

Mind, then you'd just get new phobias of how disgusting the handles must be and how gross anybody would be to grip on to them without first swaddling each hand in half a roll of bog paper.

Real hover-pros stand on the seat

I thought it must be a joke... and then realised that this is apparently entirely normal?

I've been sitting on toilet seats without a second's thought my whole life and never realised I was in mortal peril! However, as others have said, it does explain the icky splashes which one has to wipe away.

In some countries people do stand on the seat as they are used to pit toilets at home.

I have never ever sat on a public loo seat ithe thought is just gross to me

Whatever happens to you for the rest of the week is directly because of sitting on the toilet seat

Well I always hover with the seat up, and I get the wee into the bowl every time. Never a splash.

you will be fine. I don’t sit on the seats either. I always think of all the dozens of arses that have been on them and that makes me ill. And after reading on prime about so many people that only shower a few times a week, it makes me even more I’ll to think about it 😂

The first time I heard of washing chicken (and I understand it is a cultural thing) was in a public health warning telling you not to do it because it causes raw chicken bacteria to spray over your kitchen surfaces. So possibly considerably more hazardous than sitting on public toilet seats.

Nobody is splitting their bumcheeks and rubbing their anus along the toilet seat. It’s literally just skin. You’ll pick up considerably more germs from touching things like the card reader in shops and door handles.

Toilet seats are made from materials which don't harbour bacteria so unless someone has pissed or shat on the seat you will not die of some terrible disease and nor will your arse fall off