Toilet Seat Covers and You

Sounds like an engineered solution.

I won't always agree on studies. What if you sit on it and the guy before you has gotten, warts, herpes, siphilis and other nasty fungal disease on the butt? There must be some sort of product that is hygienic, removable and consumable developed to cater the needs.

Squatting on the toilet might no be safe.

Lines from one of our medical student revues:

"It's no good standing on the seat;

the spirochete can jump six feet."

I admit a bit of ICD behavior. I hate using public toilets. Whenever I absolutely need to use a public toilet I always thoroughly wipe the seat with toilet paper and then flush it, before I sit down.

There is always the possibility that the previous user had a pimple on his butt, or perhaps left a spec of blood or some other unknown body fluid on the seat; and maybe the previous waste never got fully flushed away.

I prefer to avoid other people's germs. I assume it's all gross and minimize my exposure as much as possible.

I believe that, like all bodily functions, our immune system must be regularly exercised, and occasionally challenged in order to remain strong. Some of the sickest people that I have known are the germophobes, raised in a sterile environment and avoiding any contact with germs. They always seem to succumb to whatever "bug" is going around. In my seventy years living with "dirt" and regular contact with germs, I have rarely been ill, and when I have suffered an occasional cold, I always recovered quickly.

When I first went to Mexico with a team of New England engineers, they were all terrified by the local food. They limited their diet to the hotel we stayed in and a few tourist restaurants. I, to their horror, did not hesitate to enjoy the local "street" food. Every one of them, except for me, regularly came down with stomach ailments.

That's how my Ex was with her daughter.

First sing of a cough or sickness or largely imagined one and it was off to the walk in clinic to get her on antibiotics.

After about 20 visits in less than two years I think they had a pretty good idea what sort of parent they were dealing with and she rarely came home with any sort of real antibiotics if any after that.

Poor kid from age 4 to age 7 had in more visits to the doctor than I have had in 42 years total.

I miss the kid a lot but I don't miss her mother's hyper protective drama one bit.

I was exposed to lord knows what all, when I was a kid. I didn't even get any vaccinations till I was 6 yrs old. (These days most kids in the US are started on their vaccinations well before their 1st birthday.)

But now that I am 60+ yrs old, and in excellent health, I prefer to avoids germs when I can. Maybe all that early exposure is what helped get to this age in good health.

"In fact, according to public health experts,"

Yes, there is a Peter Principle for public health experts, too.

"In fact, placing something between your buttocks and the toilet seat may even hasten the spread of germs"

What a load of ............. the proverbial!

Actually, toilets can spread germs to (some) males, at least; in some toilets the pan design, or even the water level is high enough to wet the end of the penis when sitting; therefore whatever germs are in the water could be transferred to the urethra.

Your post reminds me of something that happened about a month ago. I went fishing with a friend of mine. We were on a bridge and the idiot had to take a leak - there goes the fishing! Well, after hearing the piss hitting the water, it gave me the urge to go, so there I went. After I finished, he turns and says to me "boy, that water sure is cold". I think I made him feel bad when I told him it sure is deep too!

Thats crappy news!

As an after thought why not just make a SS cover on the seat ring?

I always wanted a solid copper or brass toilet seat!

I guess you don't have an outhouse in the 'Great White North'!

Or silver plated!

Just hold it and suffer a bit!!!

So wrong on so many levels ...

this a no good for a caucasian male. Their wammy might protrude the front edge by 4". James would be obliged to bring empty bottles of beer for that.

It think it would look great on you. GutPoncho Villa.

I see a few problems with this article:

1. It reads: "Using a toilet seat cover may make matters worse by offering up more surface area for germs to multiply." Then it says "Toilet seats are designed in such a way as to prevent the clinging of germs." So, if the toilet seats don't allow germs to cling, then where are the germs on the paper coming from?

2. Here's another one: "In fact, placing something between your buttocks and the toilet seat may even hasten the spread of germs." Again, where are the germs coming from?

3. Wait, I thought the toilet seat is designed to prevent germs from clinging to it, so if this is the case, can someone explain the following: "Also, the microscopic bacteria can travel through holes in the absorbent paper."?

4. I'll cook in my kitchen vs on a toilet seat. I found this line pretty funny: "one study suggests that a toilet seat might be cleaner than a kitchen sink."

The ass gasket also has a thin plastic layer on one side. So it will be porous on one side and smooth on the other. I've seen some that didn't have the thin plastic layer on one side, probably a cheaper brand but the ones that do, provide a seal that nothing can soak through.

I reckon the bacteria from "Fecal plumes," apparently. Airborne bacteria. Especially those public/commercial toilets that flush with all the noise and gusto of a Saturn V lifting off. The plume they create settles on everything.

There are inconsistencies in this piece. Those pores in the cover for instance: Unlikely bacteria will have time to migrate through those from the presumably-cleaner-than-a-kitchen-sink-seat-that-germs-don't-cling-to, to your arse plopped there on the other side. Conclusion? Sit on the seat in direct contact with them instead. I mean, we don't want to make the poor buggers work for their living, right?

but considering that one of the better treatments for irritable bowel syndrome, e.g., is to 'eat shxt', isn't this all a moot point?

You don't know about the three shells?

"Toilet seats are designed in such a way as to prevent the clinging of germs. So much so that one study suggests that a toilet seat might be cleaner than a kitchen sink. Germs, however, will cling to toilet paper and toilet seat covers."

Bollocks.

Envision this: some sweaty-arsed bloke parks his behind on the seat, does his dastardly deed, stands up, pulls up his drawers, flushes the contents down the chute, creating a fecal plume which then alights on the sweaty, wet seat and everything else within ten light years.

Now, did the 'study' cover this rather common, hot-summer's-day-in-a-public-dunny scenario? As they can't cling to the seat, what do those germs do? Scamper off? Hover above? Take a bus? No, they're lying there by the billions in a film of sweat and fecal particles waiting for the next arse. Those seats might designed to be easily cleaned, but I have yet to see a custodian standing around waiting to sanitise a public bog between uses. Any 'study' concluding a toilet seat is cleaner than anything else in a restroom is a fairy tale from the get-go.

This piece makes absolutely no sense.

You say those are toilet set covers? I thought they were disposable cowboy hats!

I turn the ass gasket the opposite direction from that pictured, with the flap attachment toward the front. As the flap drops toward the water I crease the paper along the hinge point (flap attachment) and it stays put*. Having the flap at the front prevents "Russell the Love Muscle" from bumping the porcelain.

*assuming that damn auto flush sensor doesn't undo all my work when I'm positioning to sit!

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