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Peeing on toilet seats

  • 04-03-2008 5:00pm
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 427 ✭✭


    It seems to happen more and more recently but what is with all the people peeing on toilet seats? And I'm not talking about the guys here. These are in ladies only toilets such as in the cinema and work.

    Was in Cineworld recently and heard a girl in the next cublicle talking to her friend and saying "I'm hovering cos everyone pees on the seat"-talk about a self fulfilling prophecy!

    So is hovering really that common? Have women become afraid to sit down?

    Do you sit on public toilet seats? 70 votes

    Yes
    0% 0 votes
    Yes, once I've wiped it with some toilet paper
    18% 13 votes
    Yes but only after I've put plenty of toilet paper on the seat
    60% 42 votes
    No
    21% 15 votes


Comments

  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,183 ✭✭✭Puddleduck


    I only ever hover if theres no loo roll and then I can manage to get it into the big hole in the middle so I dont pee on the seat....


  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    Wow, this a problem for women now too?!! Thats disgusting


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,676 ✭✭✭✭smashey


    Wow, this a problem for women now too?!! Thats disgusting
    Aye.

    They'll be leaving the seat up next. :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 427 ✭✭eve


    There's always plenty of toilet paper in work and yet there seems to be at least one person who hovers and misses the hole. Only that this is in a single sex toilet, the guys would be getting the blame.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,475 ✭✭✭Lil' Smiler


    If it's somewhere where i know the toilets are cleaned regularly i will sit

    If it's somewhere where the toilets are manky, i just won't. I always check the toilet after I've used it to make sure everythings ok and the same before I use it.If it's in someones house or I've used the bathroom lets say after my brother, I won't use it until it's clean.. sorry to be crude but if there's skid marks, i just can't use it, i have to clean it!!

    I just don't get how women can leave toilets in such a state.. tampax wrappers everywhere etc... now i accept that those bins are very often not kept well but peeing on seats...come on!!!


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  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    smashey wrote: »
    Aye.

    They'll be leaving the seat up next. :D

    ROFL! :D:D

    Touché!!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,274 ✭✭✭Orlee


    Hovering is far too much work


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 296 ✭✭BeansMeansHynes


    I hate peeing in public toilets so much but when you have to go you have to go.

    I have noticed the toilets have gotten worse with pee all over most of the seats, I would normally keep trying cubicals until I found one half decent with no pee on the seat.

    I cant under stand either how girls can just walk out of toilets without washing their hands. EUGH!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 427 ✭✭eve


    Toilet etiquette and hygiene standards seem to be decreasing but I don't think these people would do the same at home. Maybe that it's a public place and knowing that they won't have to clean it up makes them not care?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 842 ✭✭✭Lauragoesmad


    I blame the really convincing trannies!


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 427 ✭✭eve


    /eve looks around office to determine which woman is really a guy...


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 21,191 ✭✭✭✭Latchy


    It's noting new, it's being going on for centurys even before they had toilets.The public toilets in most supermarkets i have being to are well kept and cleaned every half hr or so ,well the mens anyhow


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,096 ✭✭✭LadyMayBelle


    Hovering is such a Chore when youve had a few..nothing worse than when youre in the queue and the loo you get is the one that has been sprayed with pee by the lady ahead of you just cos she hovered but not very well..


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 90 ✭✭ThatGal


    all i'm gonna say about hovering is; toilets at ******..........i'll be shocked if anyone sat on them.....


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,506 ✭✭✭Jackz


    Worked in Bar, Lounge etc type place when I was younger. The ladies was always the worst.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,038 ✭✭✭✭Wishbone Ash


    Orlee wrote: »
    Hovering is far too much work
    Hovering is such a Chore
    Nearly as bad as Hoovering! ;)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,813 ✭✭✭themadchef


    My mother taught my niece how to do "the hover pee" While in a public toilet.

    My little niece came to me all excited and said "did you know granny pees like a horse?" standing up!!

    Personally from my experience in bars and restaurants in general. The ladies is a far nastier place than the gents. Why? god knows. People certainly would not treat thier own property with such disrespect. Ive seen it all from sh1t wiped on the wall to my all time classic....

    A lady came into the bar (before we were open about 11am) and asked to use the toilets. Told her it was ok and not to slip on just washed floor. A customer complained about 1pm that the toilets were "a disgrace" and i was brought the cleaner in to check what was wrong. The 11am lady obvioulsy had some sort of "bug" diohrea and vomit from cubicle floor, walls, main sink ....you name it. Can anyone imagine leaving that mess and walking out saying thank you very much? What a job cleaning that was.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 11,613 ✭✭✭✭Clare Bear


    Ah this is another reason why I never leave home without my trusty baby wipes! :D

    As for girls not washing their hands, I've seen that a lot too. A lot of girls don't so they won't wash off their fake tan. Puke.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 21,191 ✭✭✭✭Latchy


    The male dog has it sussed ,just cock a leg and hit the spot :D


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,818 ✭✭✭Gauge


    Yeah, I know lots of girls who hover because they truly believe it's possible to catch diseases (herpes is one that comes to mind!) from toilet seats.

    Give me a break! What about the person who has to deal with the pee covered seat afterwards?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 249 ✭✭mydarkstar


    many girls I know hover, it's not difficult, and none have ever confessed to having a bad aim. And if you did then common decency should oblige you to mop up after yourself!!

    You think pee on the seat is bad? Unfortunately there's at least one user of our ladies loo in work who hovers with exceptionally bad aim... and specifically a bad aim when it comes to no.2's. You can only imagine how gross it is to find **** staring back at you from the bathroom floor.:(
    They dont make polite "please wash your hands etc" signs for these occasions.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,220 ✭✭✭✭Loopy


    I absolutely always hover in public places.. And clean up after if theirs any splashes.

    I let a traveller woman use the toilets in our job a while ago, cos she looked like she was gonna go on the floor. When I say she destroyed the place I mean it was actually disgusting. It was a no. 2 and it was on the walls and floor. Couldn't believe it. Our poor cleaner vomited whilst cleaning it up. I felt so bad:(


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 582 ✭✭✭Lola123


    Gauge wrote: »
    Yeah, I know lots of girls who hover because they truly believe it's possible to catch diseases (herpes is one that comes to mind!) from toilet seats.

    Give me a break! What about the person who has to deal with the pee covered seat afterwards?

    :o It's not that I TRULY believe u can catch diseases.... but i ain't taking the chance! I've perfected the art of hovering though and I'd never leave pee on a seat!

    I don't understand how people can walk out of a toilet and leave it in a mess. There's no excuse. I'm embarassed for them. Have they no shame? Esp on a night out when there's a queue and you know people will be going in after you!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 14,575 ✭✭✭✭FlutterinBantam


    Ladies, if you can pardon my interference,the trick with hovering is to face inwards.

    That way you have a bigger target,nothing cold hoppin off your arse,and a less difficult "spread" due to the contours of the commode.
    Gives a better "angle of attack" so to speak.

    Try it next time.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,788 ✭✭✭ztoical


    Ladies, if you can pardon my interference,the trick with hovering is to face inwards.

    That way you have a bigger target,nothing cold hoppin off your arse,and a less difficult "spread" due to the contours of the commode.
    Gives a better "angle of attack" so to speak.

    Try it next time.

    there is the issue of knickers and pants getting caught when facing inwards


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 14,575 ✭✭✭✭FlutterinBantam


    :o

    Of course!!.. The knickers and pants inhibit the leg spread like fetters or leg irons, and as the "overhang" is to the back would not work.

    Forget that theory, well and truly shot down, Sorry gals.


  • Hosted Moderators Posts: 10,661 ✭✭✭✭John Mason


    this is a question for the hovering bridgage

    How in gods name do you manage to pee all over the seat, not just the front part but the 360 degrees. i have to say i am impressed with this


    but worse then pee on the seat is the period pee - that bloody pee. was in the porterhouse a few weeks ago and got greeted by this. :eek:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,060 ✭✭✭Niamho!


    I'd wipe the seat before if i had the intention of sitting down.

    and if i do hover (coz some toilets are just too Gacky to contemplate sitting!!) i wipe the seat after me regardless of whether my aim went a little off or not. :)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 582 ✭✭✭Lola123


    irishbird wrote: »
    this is a question for the hovering bridgage

    How in gods name do you manage to pee all over the seat, not just the front part but the 360 degrees. i have to say i am impressed with this


    but worse then pee on the seat is the period pee - that bloody pee. was in the porterhouse a few weeks ago and got greeted by this. :eek:

    OMG thats totally disgusting!! :eek:

    I don't know how ppl get pee all over the seat unless maybe they're drunk and staggering?!:confused:


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,648 ✭✭✭jezza


    You know what bugs me with toilet seats?
    Use the toilet, flush the toilet.
    Water splashes up onto toilet seat.
    Looks like you've pi55ed it.
    Wipe it.
    Toilet roll in the toilet makes it look like you haven't flushed it.
    So you flush it again. And pray to god the same thing doesnt keep effin happening.

    It bothers me a lot.
    And no, if I can avoid public toilets, I will. Esp pubs, cause i've seen what happens in them on saturday nights!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 752 ✭✭✭JimmyCrackCorn!


    I know an interior designer who as part of the requirements for a Dublin city pub/ late pub was to design the sinks in the ladies toilets in such a way that it was not possible to wee in them.

    So therefore toilet sees are not the only thing you need to worry about.

    Also do you touch the door handle on leaving the toilet?

    just to top it off
    http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16033465


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,648 ✭✭✭jezza


    I know an interior designer who as part of the requirements for a Dublin city pub/ late pub was to design the sinks in the ladies toilets in such a way that it was not possible to wee in them.

    So therefore toilet sees are not the only thing you need to worry about.

    Also do you touch the door handle on leaving the toilet?

    just to top it off
    http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16033465
    :eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek:

    oh. my. god.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 441 ✭✭dewsbury


    In some cases it is young children that leave toilets untidy.

    Not all cases but some cases!


  • Users Awaiting Email Confirmation Posts: 206 ✭✭Creachadóir


    I know an interior designer who as part of the requirements for a Dublin city pub/ late pub was to design the sinks in the ladies toilets in such a way that it was not possible to wee in them.

    I witnessed the above taking place in a bar in America. There were two cubicles in the bar, one had a girl passed out in it, and the other was for general use....hence a long queue. In fairness to the sinkuser, she asked was it ok first. I was gobsmacked and didn't know what to say. I think I just had my mouth open in shock.

    I always wipe then sit then flush. Then I wipe the seat that probably has some splashback from the flush, then I pop that toilet roll into the sanitary bin. Then I scrub my hands. Yuck, hate thinking about it.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 48 mikeindublin


    bunch of mingin' bitches.


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  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 93,581 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    I've heard that in the college of surgeons a generation ago they had awful problems with the toilets. Turned out to be foreign students used to squat toilets and using water instead of toilet paper. They just got in some squat toilets , problem sorted.


  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 4,754 Mod ✭✭✭✭Tree


    tbh, wipe the seat and sit on it. hovering is far too much effort and makes too much of a mess. if you do insist on hovering, the seat lifts up, and you wont be spraying on it


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 14,575 ✭✭✭✭FlutterinBantam


    :eek:

    Spraying!!!

    Can you gals not....erm... adjust the nozzle.

    Like those dial things on hoses??


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,134 ✭✭✭Lux23


    Why do people hover over public toilet seats? Has anyone ever caught something from sitting on a toliet seat? Some people are way too delicate for their own good. The piss is all over them because of the dirtbirds who won't sit on the seat.


  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 93,581 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    My understanding is that you can't catch AIDS from a toiled, but that you can catch hepatitis.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12 dantheman23


    how do women manage to pee on toilet seats thought that was a bloke thing, it is horrible tho.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,485 ✭✭✭Thrill


    I'm shocked. I always thought the ladies, no matter where it was, to be spotless. Never would I have imagined the type of goings on I've read about in this thread.

    I laughed at the word hover btw. I've never heard it used in that sense before. :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,590 ✭✭✭Pigwidgeon


    where i work we check the toilets at least once an hour, usually every half an hour. its a kids place so usually theyre quite messy, the girls usually are worse, toiletpaper all over the floor. the boys is bad too, worst had to be one day a dad went in to the toilet with his son, i was cleaning the other 2, i came back out pi$$ all over the floor even though his dad was helping him! you would be surprised the amount of people who just dont bother flushing the toilet, disgusting!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,107 ✭✭✭flanum


    kateos2 wrote: »
    where i work we check the toilets at least once an hour, usually every half an hour.

    if your that bored at work, try crosswords or soduko:D


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 157 ✭✭Babette08


    I dunno - it's second nature to me to hover - don't really spend much time thinking about it. Just don't like the idea of sitting on something god knows how many people have been sitting on before. Lift seat and hover - no big deal..good for the calf muscles ;). How can there be any drops left behind? if so...wipe.

    Worst case scenario - have been standing all night in stilletos - wipe seat really well or line with toilet roll if still sober :D


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 157 ✭✭Babette08


    Emailed today...
    Which one of yee toilet sitting girls was this??? :D


    Woman sat on toilet for two years
    US authorities are considering charges in the case of a woman who sat on her boyfriend's toilet for two years and was stuck to the seat when the boyfriend finally called police.
    Sheriff Bryan Whipple, in Ness City, Texas, said it appeared the 35-year-old woman's skin had grown around the seat.
    She initially refused emergency medical services but was finally convinced by police, medical officers and her boyfriend that she needed to be checked out at a hospital.
    "We pried the toilet seat off (the toilet) with a pry bar and the seat went with her to the hospital," Sheriff Whipple said. "The hospital removed it."
    Whipple said investigators planned to present their report to the county attorney in Ness City, Texas, who will determine whether any charges should be filed against the woman's 36-year-old boyfriend.
    "She was not glued. She was not tied. She was just physically stuck by her body," Sheriff Whipple said.
    "It is hard to imagine. ... I still have a hard time imagining it myself."
    The boyfriend told investigators he brought his girlfriend food and water, and asked her every day to come out of the bathroom.
    "And her reply would be, 'Maybe tomorrow'," Sheriff Whipple said. "According to him, she did not want to leave the bathroom."
    The boyfriend called police on February 27 to report that "there was something wrong with his girlfriend", Sheriff Whipple said, adding that he never explained why it took him two years to call.
    Police found the clothed woman sitting on the toilet, her sweat pants down to her mid-thigh. She was "somewhat disoriented," and her legs looked like they had atrophied, Sheriff Whipple said.
    "She said that she didn't need any help, that she was OK and did not want to leave," he said.
    She was reported to be in fair condition at a hospital in Wichita, about 240 kilometres south-east of Ness City.
    Sheriff Whipple said she refused to co-operate with medical providers or law enforcement investigators.
    Authorities said they did not know if she was mentally or physically disabled.
    Police declined to release the couple's names, but the house where authorities say the incident happened is listed in public records as the residence of Kory McFarren. No one answered his home phone number.
    The case has been the buzz of Ness City, said James Ellis, a neighbour.
    "I don't think anybody can make any sense out of it," he said.
    Mr Ellis said he had known the woman since she was a child but that he had not seen her for at least six years.
    He said she had a tough childhood after her mother died at a young age and apparently was usually kept inside the house as she grew up.
    At one time the woman worked for a long-term care facility, he said, but he did not know what kind of work she did there.
    "It really doesn't surprise me," Mr Ellis said.
    "What surprises me is somebody wasn't called in a bit earlier."


  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    I always hover and clean up afterwards if needs be.

    I don't know about hepatitis but I do know of a woman who picked up MRSA sitting on a hospital loo.

    What gets me more are the manky types who don't wash their hands, or do the three-second rinse afterwards. And people wonder why the vomiting bug spreads like wildfire....


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