Read somewhere that those bathroom paper seat covers are less sterile or hygienic than the seat itself. :o

You must have read about the automatic toilet seat cover machine. Paper ones that you remove yourself and put down are fine.

"Have you been in a restroom where the toilets have an automatic plastic cover that whirls itself around the seat to provide a hygienic surface for the next user? If you’ve passed through O’Hare International Airport and used the facilities, chances are you have at least seen them.

Such seat covers are now the center of a controversy in the airport for a couple reasons.

First of all, they have been found to be have a flaw that can refute some of their hygienic purpose. It turns out that if toilet water is spit up during a flush or if urine makes its way onto the bowl, the liquid then gets dragged onto the plastic cover where the next person is supposed to sit.

The Chicago Sun-Times investigated the issue in person at the airport after receiving a tip from a reader."

Story in detail:

http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headline...t-so-hygienic/

Well we can go back and forth all day.

I will just leave this here and leave it at that.

http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/0...a-toilet-seat/

Not sure if anyone posted this.....

This Piece of Gym Equipment Has 362 Times More Bacteria Than a Toilet Seat

I carry my own disposable wipes in my gym bag

I used a public restroom today and heard all of your voices in my head giving me advice on the best way to proceed. :|

This is so funny!

Carry on.

I also thought of all of you in three different public restrooms today. It made me a little gleefull to know how grossed out you'd be!

It really was funny.

Chewing gum

[QUOTE=legally_b10nde;1085004]Not sure if anyone posted this.....

This Piece of Gym Equipment Has 362 Times More Bacteria Than a Toilet Seat

OMG another reason I can use at my upcoming doctor's appointment when she asks why I haven't joined a gym YET !!!

There's all kinds of feces /shit out there and it's loaded with bacteria but nothing grosses me out more than shameless bullshit.

lol

That's why I'm in here now. I thought about the germ debating when I was at the theatre today.

Unless you didn't wash your hands good, I am good.

I went to the theatre today and went to the restroom 3 times. Each time, I went to the same restroom and used the same stall (2nd from the front). I chose this stall because I don't like to use the first stall and I look for stalls with lights directly above so I can see what kinds of nastiness other people leave for me (I'm speaking directly to those that hover above and piss all over the seat.....you all are gross.). Obviously, any stalls with the remnants from previous users would not be used. Thankfully, this theatre is usually pretty clean so I feel comfortable with most of the stalls most of the time.

Nothing but the bottom of my shoes ever touches the floor, so I don't have to worry about that. Sometimes I'll wipe the seat off with some TP if anything looks remotely questionable but (ha!), I usually bare butt it. I don't touch the flush handle or the tp dispenser at all.

It takes forever with the timed faucets that they have but I make sure to wash my hands good and this theatre doesn't have doors in and out of the bathrooms so I don't have to worry about to handle or not to handle and if to handle with a paper towel or elbow. The timed faucets turn off on their own so I don't have to worry about turning them off.

All in all, I think I passed!

Whew.

:tea:

I washed my hands very well each time. But touched the door handle on the way out! Lol

We good. I am not a hoverer.

It would be terrible if we couldn't be friends because of our bathroom habits.

Look, the bathroom for dome reason doesn't gross me out if it looks clean and kept up. The bathroom is not where my gross out factor lies. Mine is more around food. Dont even get me started on chewing and different food textures etc.

Yessss. People smacking their food or chewing with their mouth open makes me want to punch them. The blowing of the nose at the table, if it's done discreetly it doesn't really bother me. I guess maybe I am not easily grossed out it seems.

All them are gross.

BUT..... Blowing of nose at dinner table grosses me the fuck out!


Ok just wanted to say where I stand with that.


As you were......

The thought of men going pee pee and NOT washing their hands!

"It's when what comes out of their nose and travels to places it shouldn't be that really gets me. "




Oh for fucks sake! That's gross!

I can't stomach to read anymore of this. Lol!

OMG finding a hair in food! The WORSE:|

This.

.................

I don't want to stereotype, but I will bet a great many bio men DO NOT wash after 'tinkling'

WOW and I've had just the opposite experience! I've never seen a lady not wash her hands, very interesting!

RIGHT!? And I don't care if it's even one of my own, still gross!

Ya, sorry I've never lived south or east but it seems we were a clean lot in the midwest too!

Going to use a sink and finding long strands of hair! This I usually find mainly in public restrooms!

Lifting the lid on cartoons of "past their prime" take out in the refrigerator, and finding the top lined with green or black mold!

There's an old lady who lives two doors down from me. Pretty sure she has been smoking for about 80 years. Every morning she wakes up and goes out back and starts coughing and coughing, noisy full of sound effects coughing. When she's not out there I'm usually out on my back porch with my coffee. But when she's out there it makes my stomach turn and I have to go in all grossed out.

Non-hand washers gross me out. Even watching people like... play with their phone and then pick up their food. Unless they sanitized their phones a minute before- gross!

I'm with Gemme. Want to lysol people. Might carry around a pocket size spray. Except I hate the smell of lysol so that's a problem.

When a customer comes in and had just smoked a cigarette, but not just one....but a hundred! It's saturated in their pores. I can get a wiff of them from across the store!

I try to contain my facial expression, when , omg, they have a return, and I open the bag.


The same holds for cheap perfume sprayed on to cover the scent.....gag!

Now that's something that has never happened to my post expiration date stuff. I keep my fridge cold enough that sometimes stuff in the way back freezes a little bit so maybe that's why.

Thankfully, Lysol makes different flavors/scents but you're right; there's always that 'Lysol' disinfectant smell.

I agree with you about a smoker's cough. When it's extra hacky and plegmy, that is my signal to remove myself from the situation. I think it's because I spent so much time with my mom and she smoked for almost 50 years before she passed away from it.

Thankfully, Lysol makes different flavors/scents but you're right; there's always that 'Lysol' disinfectant smell..[/QUOTE]

Exactly. My brother was a barfer when he was a kid and my mom was always spraying lysol wherever it landed. So the smell just makes me think of my barfy brother.