When I look at the state of some of the people wandering around...there is absolutely no way I want to put my bare bum where theirs has been. I don't care two figs whether it's bizarre, precious etc. I feel the same way about sitting/laying in a bath in a hotel. Yes I do use a toilet seat cover...if there is none available...I use toilet paper to cover the seat. I also avoid touching toilet door handles. I could throw up when I see women putting their bags on the toilet floor...worse still a drinks container or food. I have seen a wrapped burger on the floor of the cubicle next to me.

How do people get veruccas if it isn't from transitory contact with a wart virus on a damp poolside or changing room floor?
How do you know the last person on the throne didn't have "weeping boils or broken skin uncovered"?

Well the gaskets are in dispensers so are about as hygienic as anything can be in a toilet. Don't take the gasket nearest the dispenser slot, pull out one further in. I never take the sheet of face and hand tissue hanging from the dispenser machine. Pull out a couple before tearing one loose

I think I may be hovering on the edges of OCD

You probably aren't old enough to remember the big wide cloth towels on rollers. God they were horrible

I remember seeing those, though I don't remember where, but I am a lot younger than you, and I think I may be younger than Moneypenny.

One of the overhead power line foremen where I worked used to sit bare assed naked on the toilet at the finish of work, door wide open eating the leftovers from his lunch. He wasn't doing a number 2 just using the toilet as a handy place to sit before going into the shower.

They were using them at Heathrow airport as late as 1983. I remember having to use one after taking a whizz after getting off the plane

That's very sweet, thank you.

Oh! Shhhhhhh you!

I had forgotten about those, remember seeing them in pubs. Similar to this, but white and metal from memory.



They still make them here in the US

http://www.darmanco.com/
http://www.mspconverting.com/brands/...industrial.htm

I've seen those towel things a few times, mostly in Mexico and some bars when I lived in Milwaukee back in 2002/2003. Never used one though, grossed me out.

Back in 2002/2003 when I worked at O'hare the toilets there had automatic seat covers, no idea if they still have them or not.

Looks like they may still exist.

I've only seen these in the New Orleans airport. They are a convenience.

One of the Aussie soldiers in our brigade claimed he could do a number 2 standing straight up over the squatter. He never offered to give a demonstration however and we never asked him

It's the idea of bottom-to-bottom transfer of the flu virus that tickled me

Not saying it can't happen, but viruses tend to die pretty quickly when outside of the host for extended periods, and public bathrooms (at least ones that aren't of the calibre of that bog in Trainspotting anyway) tend to be cleaned on a pretty regular schedule, multiple times a day, so the risk, while there, is certainly low enough for most people not to worry about, IMO.

Well, then.

Those things aren't that old. I am pretty sure I saw them in use up into the '00s, but I definitely used them and I'm still just hovering outside of the realm of middle age.

I recently did some IT consulting at an elementary school and had the pleasure to read about Pinworms / Threadworms. Scared the crap out of me and caused me to take precautionary measures anywhere near public loos. Read this - Pinworms (Threadworms): Causes, Symptoms and Treatments - Medical News Today .

According to this Wikipedia article, "It is most common worm infection in the developed world. School aged children are the most commonly infected. In the United States about 20% of people at one point in time develop pinworm. Infection rates among high risk groups may be as high as 50%" Apparently one worm lays 14,000 eggs (on your bum) and these eggs are easily spread through poor hygiene.

According to this page, "pinworm infects about 40 million people in the US" and "pinworm cases are 3 times more common than head lice cases."

They look a lot better than the ones I had to use.

You'd never use a roller towel in a pub. The last person using it could have been pissed out of his mind and after depositing his evening's cheer in the toilet half washed it off his face and left the other half on the towel.

It took a quick mind and a very strong stomach for the ale to survive the hazards of using pub toilets

Did Izal come first or kitchen greaseproof paper ( can't think what they call it this side of the pond)?
I want to know why it is that reasonably robust toilet paper come apart on the stubble on my upper lip when I blow my nose and leaves me looking like I've got a bad coke habit 😤

Here's an Izal challenge... 💩 🤔