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No more useful than the paper covers for toilet seats.
Wait...that's a thing?
#4 is wrong and fucking gross. It looks like they've picked up the paper and folded it up, but you can see from #3 that the middle part is down in the water where it's supposed to be wet.
So according to that instruction, I'm either secretly tearing off that part without being instructed to, or I am pulling that pissy shitty part out of the water and folding it up while it drips all over the place. Disgusting!
What you're supposed to do is just flush and that part that's in the water yanks the paper off the seat without you having to touch anything. Admittedly, if the toilet seat has any "moisture" on it, then the paper can get stuck and might not go down.
I've honestly never seen anyone recommend doing number 4 before. I grabbed this picture to show the original person how they look in the holder and out, but yeah, like you said, the flush is supposed to do step 4 for you.
Huh, lookit that! Lemmy showing me what a society looks like.
You're better off without them. Anything splashed on the seat is just going to soak into the paper, and if you dont pull off the flap (usually ripping the whole cover in half) it's going to wick up water and can be especially gross if you are a guy with external parts that will bump the soggy strip.
If you do place it on a dry seat, it is scratchy paper that is loud and crinkly and will slide every time you move. And at least for me, the cutout doesn't feel large enough and I'm scared stuff is going to catch on the paper on the way down and be held against me.
The hard, smooth, nonporous surface is pretty germ resistant in itself. I'd rather hunt for a cleaner stall than use one of the paper covers.
Yea, if no one ever told you, you’re supposed to wipe the seat with TP before laying one of these down. It’s there because a dry wipe isn’t a very good cleaning.
If nobody ever told you, it's pretty much impossible to catch anything from a toilet seat anyway.
If nobody ever told you, smearing someone else’s piss on your skin is gross even if you don’t catch a disease.
I mean if it's wet you obviously wipe it off. The covers are the part which is pointless.
But when you flush that TP, the water oversprays back up on the seat in an endless cycle of frustration! 🤪
Yes when the flush is violent. Toilets shouldn’t be made that way. Or perhaps they are plumbed or installed wrong somehow. I dunno. Seems like it should be fixable.
To add: my BIO101 class did an experiment to see how effective they are at stopping bacterial transmission. If you aren't using two dozen layers you might as well use zero.
The dangly parts aren't that far back.
I have a hard time sitting still 😅
Oh...oh god. There are so many more horrors related to this.
I told you that you weren't missing out! 😆
I mainly consider them ornamental and I get so surprised when I hear someone in another stall actually trying to use one.
I've been in a toilet that just had a desinfectant dispenser so you could wipe the seat down with some tp. Honestly the best one yet
That's the best. I love those places. It should be the standard.
Before you decide what the standard should be in public toilets, visit Japan.
I didn’t see a toilet in Tokyo that wasn’t spotless, and every single one of them also had a warm water bidet built in. Really, the entire city is spotless, not just the toilets. If a weed sprouts from a seam in the asphalt, a work crew will be there next day to scrape it out. The place is ridiculous.
Seattle has a sort of dust-free, spotless quality to it because it rains 4 times a day. But Tokyo was the same and it hadn’t rained in weeks.
I thought at first you were going to say with the squat toilets you don't need to worry about putting your butt on a gross seat.
Stick to major cities or you'll occasionally get the fun of squatting. I'm sure squat toilets are great for those used to them, but it was not a fun experience to try to maintain balance and aim with a vulva
That sounds like a much better plan than the paper. Or even if you just splurt a bit of hand sanitizer on there.