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- Toilet seat covers protect you from gross germs, right? Here's the truth.
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Microbiological Hazards of Household Toilets: Droplet Production and the Fate of Residual Organisms
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"Large numbers of bacteria and viruses when seeded into household toilets were shown to remain in the bowl after flushing, and even continual flushing could not remove a persistent fraction."
Why Using Toilet Seat Liners Is Basically Pointless
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"Are you one of those people who always grabs a paper liner before sitting down on the loo? Surely, you do so to prevent catching a disease from someone else's, er, splashes that may be left on the toilet seat."
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I actually don't really care about the bacteria, I'm more arsed about getting another persons shit or piss on me
adamlax27 I personally care about bacteria, but I've always been aware toilets don't have much. But yeah, I don't want someone else's shit, piss, sweat, [pubic] hair, blood, or anything else from their body touching me, toilet or not. I'll also cover a toilet if its cold.
adamlax27 I just started shitting standing up, I miss the old days where I could have a long 2 hour think about the universe to myself while nobody was home. But standing is pretty efficient.
Agreed. Hovering is the way to go. Its just tricky to avoid the back splash.
***** Yeah it's rather annoying, usually a bit of bog roll down first does the trick though
adamlax27 Likewise dude. Likewise.
My public toilet ritual is:
1. Wipe the toilet seat with toilet paper
2. Create a layer of toilet paper on the seat.
3. Put a layer of paper on the surface of the water to prevent splash back.
4. While doing a #2 I take about 5 pieces and fold them instead of crunching.
5. Once done I use my shoe/feet to put ends of toilet paper into the water (when flush, paper is pulled down to water) .
6. Unlock the door
7. Use my feet to press the flusher.
8. Quickly walk out of the stall and use my finger to make a gun and make shooting sound.
9. Marvel as how clean I left it for the next person.
10. Wash hands with soap while saying the alphabet.
11. Dry hands with paper towel (No air drier)
12. Use paper towel to turn off sink faucet.
13. Throw faucet paper towel into garbage.
14. Update (forgot to mention). To open the door handle I use a paper towel. If that is not an option, put your hand on the inside of your shirt to open the door so contact between the handle and shirt is made with the outside of the shirt.
15. I put my foot between the door and the exit to keep it propped.
16. Dispose of paper towel while door is propped up. Usually the garbage is right beside the door. (optional, you can try to throw the paper towel into the bin like a basketball. But if you do that, please be sure not to throw it at other people by accident)
seal3081 Then touch the door pull on the way out and welcome to germ city.
seal3081 And then touch the the door handle that is infested with germs/bacteria from people who don't wash their hands.
TheNerdWizard oh I forgot to mention. I don't touch the door handle. I use a paper towel to open the door. The garbage is usually eight beside so I put my foot between and the dump the paper towel into the garbage
seal3081 You forgot to mention :
-14. grab paper towel and open the door with it.
-15. use your foot to hold the door open and aim for the bin.
-16. sink da fking towel in
-repeat 8.
Get your butler to do all the dirty work.
I would also propose that no public restroom should have a door, the worst part of using a public restroom is washing your hands properly then opening the door to leave, touching the handle after "non-washers" touched.
madman3891 Ever notice that there's always a worn-out spot on the door next to the handle? I guess everyone thinks that everyone else is touching the handle, so they avoid it. The handle is probably the cleanest part.
Turtle Philosopher "just running their hands under water for a second" - and then using a wet hand on the door handle? That's my "favorite" restroom behavior. What goes on inside their heads when they're doing that?
madman3891 that's why some restrooms have a little hook near the bottom of the door that you stick your foot under and use your foot to open the door. I have one at my work and the brand to it I think is called "Clean Escape".
madman3891 Grab paper from dispenser. Cover and operate knobs and levers.
Here’s the simple truth. Before I changed professions. I was an adjunct professor of biology. One laboratory exercise all of us did in intro microbiology was first to teach students how to culture bacteria. Then. We moved on to how to collect. Then a lab where they would test what they swabbed that day and allow he cultures to grow into colonies. EVERY student went for public bathroom toilet seat covers. We mandated 5 different locations for each student. All the students were shocked at the results. Public toilet seats always, class after class, registered next to zero viable bacteria. All were expecting to find fecal bacteria. But guess what. None were ever found on seats. But every student that ever tested the door handle inside the bathroom....fecal bacteria on all. This comes from those folks who don’t wash hands. And frankly, probably from those who do as well as the micelles produced my soap aren’t perfect. So when those washing their hands are putting what was on them when they “wiped” onto the door handle on the way out. Cell phones. Door handles and many other common things we touch and think nothing about were the mass source of bacteria. Toilet seats were literally no where near statistically significant in terms of how much bacteria they had, if any. So if you want to avoid fecal Bourne bacteria in a public restroom. Don’t even consider the toilet seat. On your way out, grab some paper towels and use them as a barrier before touching the door handle. Because if you just washed your hands and touched the handle on the way out. You need to wash them again. And very well. Best thing to do is carry a very high alcohol content hand sanitizer. Then if you did touch a door handle. Use it generously. And wait for it to dry and then wait at least ten min. But we also tested the efficiency of all the major hand sanitizers. And guess what. For a number of reason. Not so effective. Just better than nothing. Ecoli grew very well in the presence of many of them. And this is because time plays a role. Bacteria aren’t killed instantly when the product is used. It takes time for the product to work. And you need a high concentration of alcohol that many don’t have. The ones that work well smell like vodka. But even those we found take around ten minutes before your hands are germ “free”.
Ha, ha, I knew a girl in college who carried a small bottle of anti bacterial spray and some extra wipes when she went out to clean and sanitize the seat. She was terrified of catching someone's butt germs.
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most girls admit to "hovering" .
MarsGundam Maybe she would have liked to use those Asian squat toilets. Your ass doesn't touch the toilet with those.
*****
lol
MarsGundam That's part of why women's bathrooms are dirty so often, you go in there after a girl "hovers" a little too high and it looks like the sprinkler system went off. I had a coworker that did that rather routinely, used to have to use the customer restroom when we worked together & sometimes that was worse. You don't wanna know what people do in dollar store restrooms.
MarsGundam There is a little device girls can buy so they can pee standing up
she's totally not reading it....
E SC so what if they use a teleprompter
ashley beaumont yeah... but she makes it really obvious and is terrible
It might be cause she is standing too close to the teleprompter.
Happy Poo I think you are correct, poop.
***** how the fuck does that "distract" your OCD. Lmao.
When you go to a public bathroom you don't think "eww, there's a bunch of microbes and bacteria on that!" You think "eww, someone's dirty hairy ass was on that five minutes ago, and they took a big dump."
I only use it not because it has germs on it , but it is kinda gross when there is fecal's and some people leave their dropping on the seat and not in the bowl
KamiltheCamel Yes, They are not getting it, not about disease prevention. It's about not coming into direct contact with somebody's piss that's totally still there BC toilet paper ain't no Lysol !!!
I live in a college dorm, and I've noticed that toilet seat covers prevent splashback to outside the bowl because the toilet seat/rim shape is more oblong than the more rounded shape of the home toilet model.
tldr: in certain shaped toilet seats, paper toilet seat covers lead to less outside-bowl cleaning.
Fun Fact: your cellphone (you've been using for months) has more bacteria than an average public toilet
People don't care about the reality, they prefer the illusion because it's more comforting.
I absolutely avoid using any toilet outside my home. When I do I use newspaper and wrap the seat up in it.
I freaking hate public restrooms, I either hold it or just poop my pants. This is WHY we need astronaut diapers.
BoboBlastB00m study says that if you poop in a specific time, you will most likely always poop at the same time, so its best to just poop when you are at home so whenever u need to poop again, u will be at home
Ashley Johansson make sense how I never need to go to the bathroom during school and only at home
Nobody addressing the split front terlit seats, especially the guys...? Seat covers do shield women to some extent but not guys due to physical anatomy. In 1983 I caught an STD that was nearly antibiotic resistant and had to have two 14-day courses of antibiotics. Somehow the STD wetted enough of the seat cover that was accidentally and unknowingly touched by my privates. Most guys have experienced this contact with terlits. Despite wiping the front rim and seat covers, the STD rendered me sterile. Better to stand and pee, always! Life long lesson for the learnin'.
At one time I was at a public toilet at a petrolstation. It had automatic doors, automatic flushing and automatic faucets. The only thing I still had to touch was the door of the stall and the paper towels.
necessary! have you ever waited in line in a public bathroom and got to the toilet and could visibly see the dirt and grime on that thing? I don't know about STD's being my concern so much as the bacteria and dirt. There are some funky people coming out of those places. I will forever use a cover. I even wipe the toilet seat down first, then I do a long hand wash. gross gross gross
One thing I can't wrap my head around is the fact that we have a incredible immune system, the immune system is a weapon in itself so one of the things I like to contribute is washing my dishes with a sponge, I keep that sponge dry after I get done washing my dishes but I also give my body a great ability to fight off diseases, allergens and other irritants so in turn I give my body plenty of practice. I wash my hands, I consistently bath and I understand though the concept of cleanliness but the fact that we live in the place that's so germophobic we're actually giving those germs a chance to become super germs if we don't relax and just stick to the basics...just another way the human body is a amazing step in God's evolution plan for us. Lol peace sister.
I close the toilet seat when I flush at home, but if I go #2 in a public place, I usually use soap and water on paper towels to wipe down the seat then dry it (and throw away the paper towels) before I sit down.
The reason why they have these covers is for people who are so paranoid would put strips of toilet paper around the seat and that can cause plumbing problems
I use the toilet seat cover because it soaks up the piss that is always hiding on the seat
StarvedWatcher It's better to just wipe it off with toilet paper.
Lol i pee on the toilet seat like a mo fo.
StarvedWatcher Whenever I take a shit, I accidentally miss and it ends up all over the seat, wall, ceiling, door, etc. Funny how these accidents don't happen at home though.
I always assumed that toilet seat covers were to help with balance and keep your butt from touching the water, because depending on how big/small your butt is without a seat most toilet's have too wide a rim diameter to just sit on the porcelain directly, plus even with a big butt the toilet's rim's width is too thin and would be hard to keep your balance on.
It's better to use them just in case. Sometimes the seat is wet, and there is nothing worse than sitting on it...
I don't think it's the diseases that bother people about toilet seats as much as it is the general lack of cleanliness.
it is far better to rub butts with each other than it is to shake hands.
It doesn't matter, the bubble I live in doesn't fit through the doors of public restrooms anyway.
It would be great if you guys could put the link to the video you recommend in the description box so that people on mobile can go and watch it.
Yes human pigs do use public bathrooms. Paper seat covers do stick to your backside and some don't wash their hands.
Her eyes make her look so stoned, maybe she just actually is? 😂
I hate those people who just pour water on their hands for 2 seconds and think they "washed" their hands. It's as bad or almost as bad as not washing your hands.
You mean I can't watch my kids go down the water slide anymore? Oh, well, I guess I am a bit of a helicopter parent. Oh, well, you live, you learn.
Crystal use to the "it" girl until Julia straightened her hair. #FACTS! Tell me I'm lying, lol
You are TOTALLY wrong saying to sit bare bummed on a public toilet seat.! There could be old dried urine-feces, infectional bacteria, skin irritating cleaning chemicals, sabotage dangerous chemicals, and/or sabotage super glue on it. Whenever I can I do take paper hand towels from the sink area and cover the toilet seat 'or' use long strands of toilet paper to cover the seat. (There is a good point to preliminary discard 4 wraps of toilet paper to get rid of any airborne bacteria from over spray from the flush. Then after that it would be safe to use, to cover the seat.) Bring your own paper towels 'or' THE very best thing to do is to bring your own "disposable toilet seat covers"
I really like this new background now compared to the boring dull one before
Once again I find myself pondering upon grandpa Ted's words of wisdom: "Don't pee against the wind, don't eat the yellow snow and don't lick the toilet bowl"
I honestly don't use them unless the bathroom looks a bit scummy.
So I'm screwed when the school's to lazy to refill the soap dispensers and paper towels...
Psyducklets
Which is like always.
Some toilet seats are literally disgusting, even to the naked eye.
I only cover the toilet seat if it's cold.
I take Wet Toilet Paper and Wipe off the seat, then Dry it off with New Toilet Paper before I sit down. Then I use my Foot to Flush it.
ravenlorans I hate people who use their foot to flush the toilet, especially if their shoes are muddy. Just use some tp to flush with instead of making the handle dirty for everyone else.
This lady has clearly not been in a high school public restroom.
You mentioned kitchen sponge at 0:59, may you speak more on that? Like make a video or give me a link. Thanks.
Fun fact: Australia doesn't have paper seat covers.
What I do in a public bathroom:
1) Go to the bathroom.
2) Wash hands.
3) Leave.
It's crapping people, not nuclear fusion.
I love when I go into those fresh, clean bathrooms that I just have to take a shit in.
That's why latest trend is wear dippers instead using those toilets. European Union agrees with this.
That's why i put more than one cover on the toilet.
Well then now I know when I use public bathrooms and my friends tell me how nasty it is that I just sit and go I can say nope it is perfectly fine as long as I wash my hands
I have never seen a toilet seat cover in real life.
I didn't even know there were toilet seat covers. I just use a bunch of toilet paper to cover the toilet seat
Now do a video on how dirty a public gym is, please.
What about people that leave the paper in place and walk away? Double gross.
Right they are so paranoid about catching germs from the seat they can't even clean up their own mess and leave it for other people to clean up after.
SQUAT TOILETS ATE BETTER THAN SEAT COVERS
Give that I don't eat with nor off my butt....I don't really care how dirty the seat is.
Blah, blah, blah... Disease is only one reason to use a toilet seat cover. I like them as it is at least something between me and the dirty seat that others have sat on before me. Washing your hands should be done anyway. But that really has nothing to do with whether you use a seat cover or not.
I always wipe the seat down with alcohol before use and never let my back touch lid...too much?
Pro tip: use the napkin you rinsed your hands with to open bathroom door when you leave...
Please put the link to videos in the description. I'm on mobile and I can't click on the video.
How i shit on public toilets
1. I dont actually sit, my butt is floating above the toilet
"or a necessary precaution" you...just explained with evidence that its worthless, why would anyone argue that
My mom always taught me to close the toilet seat otherwise you would hear her screaming throughout the house.
Don't tell me I'm the only one who put toilet paper in the toilet, still on the roll, and flushes so it goes down.
Why do humans have different eye colours ?
The only thing the toilet doesn't protect me from is the cold in winter.
If I have to shit in a public restroom I don't sit don't I gently hover my ass over the seat.
America has disposable toilet seat covers? What the fuck.
It's there so you don't fall in the toilet. Either than that, it's a little pain in the ass.
i think its fine. I just think they should take out the words: "provided for your protection" Its misleading people and making them more germophobic.
I just wipe the seat down before I sit, don't really care about the cover.
Disposable toilet seats? First time I hear of this.
Lmao the ending tho.
DNews Wait, wait, wait...what was that about the sponge?! I used one last night several times for food prep that REALLY does not need to have contaminants! Crystal!! Explain, please! XD
What if my Pepe were to touch the lid by accident, idk shit happens. (excuse the pun)
Hear that ladies? Toilet seats are safe, but you're all still gonna keep doing the "hover technique" anyway huh? LOL, at least it's good for developing core strength.
commandZee and for leaving puddles on the toilet for the next person. At least pick up the damn toilet seat if you're going to try to piss like a guy.
How can you start a news story about how toilet seat covers are unnecessary, with the line:
"Didn't use a toilet seat cover in that public restroom? You may regret it."?
I just don't understand this channel sometimes.
Wait... WHAT ABOUT SPONGES?!
looking off camera to read a teleprompter is really distracting..
I think I will soak my dishwashing sponge in a water bleach solution every once in a while.
Or just replace your sponge?
how/why do we cry
I use them cause there's sometimes tiny droplets of pee on the seat. Those droplets my not hurt me even after wiping them off but still.
Can you guys do a video explaining the "Charlie Charlie challenge" . I still believe in ghosts but you guys explained ouija boards.
whats the smallest things in the universe
***** It wouldn't be a penis if that were true. It would be a string from the string theory.
Trollerman Sixtysevan If only you weren't a little "2" short, we could do a 69'er and find out.
Jack Beyer Planck 1.61619926 × 10-35 meters
What the hell is a toilet seat cover?
what is wrong with her neck? is it just me or its just an optical illusion? Its like left of her neck is missing. did anyone notice it?
I never use so those "toilet cover", as long as that toilet is clean, I'd like to shit there.
But what is the answer to the question in the title? DO seat covers protect us? She didn't even answer......
Am I the only one watching this to talk like a professional scientist really fast?
I could of sworn they were only for my butt wouldn't be cold when taking a shiet..
This why Jebus invented lebitaishon. OOOOMMM PLOP! OOOOOOOOOMMMMM PLOP!
Hey I know we've got a ways to go until we reach interstellar travel. So instead of finding a new planet to colonize, could we make a new planet similar to ours using the resources we have in our own solar system. Granted that the project can be finished before the death of our sun.
Wait pee that smells like pancakes? My pee sometimes smells like sugar smacks. That's my favourite cereal. YOU MEAN TO TELL ME THAT MEANS IM DISEASED BECAUSE MY PEE SMELLS LIKE MY FAVOURITE CEREAL?!?!?!
#worthit
I use the covers so I wont be sitting on piss.
They obviously protect nothing, but you try sitting on the thin edges of the toilet when taking a shit.
when i found this vid at first i just foudn you talked about the toilet seat...... WTF IS A COVER?
I always use a cover when I use a public bathroom with is VERY rare. Fuck I will drive home from work instead of doing it there. I always wash my hands in a public bathroom at home... well.... But at home I keep a thing of lysol wipes next to the toilet so if someone elses uses it I wipe the fucker down. I mostly just don't want someones piss on me.
best way to protect yourself : squat.
Best way is to wash your hands after using the bathroom you can't catch anything from a toilet seat. What you have to worry about is the door knobs and washing your hands before leaving the restroom.
That is why i always take a shit in the woods
Her neck looks twisted...
i always squat. never sit, thass nassty
I can see your eyes moving to look at the script!!!!
Whats the connection to sponge? -_-