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OP discovers he's a germaphobe; next door occupant shits without wiping

Pro Tip: If the bathroom has paper towels [...] take the paper towel that you use to dry your hands with you into the stall [...] throw the paper towel into the water

Ah, so you're why these signs exist:

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Raptomex

Member
If there is no piss on the seat or visual dirt, I pop a squat. As far as toilet paper is concerned, he may have made a terrible mistake and committed before checking. I've done it and its embarrassing.
I'd be more annoyed because then there's a good chance my crack is going to itch all day.
 
We already know that some people don't wash themselves daily, regularly, or correctly from the threads we see around here.

Even if the paper isn't providing protection from any bacteria or diseases, I still prefer to keep my skin another degree of separation away from whoever did whatever before I got there to a public toilet, regardless.
 

prag16

Banned
Life's too short to worry about sitting on a public toilet. Unless there's visible piss/poop/semen on the seat, you're goddamned right I'm plopping down on it and plopping.

Yep. Without visible issues with the seat, I always sit directly on it. You people taking time out of your short stay on this planet layering relatively clean seats with toilet paper are the weird ones. Not us.

A potential lack of wiping in the OP is the far bigger story here.
 

C.Mongler

Member
I wouldn't use a toilet that (noticeably) had no TP for my bungus. However I sit on the seat, bare-ass all the time, I don't see what the deal is. It's not like putting a thin layer of paper between my cheeks and the seat is really going to clean anything; if you're paranoid about that bring some disinfectant into the stall with you folks.
 

Mendrox

Member
lol some of you should take a vacation to Thailand or some place similar. Have fun with no toilet paper at all experience. Which is superior.

I've never clogged a public toilet in my life with a paper towel. If such a toilet exists, then it should be replaced as it isn't worth a damn.
 

TAJ

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
lol some of you should take a vacation to Thailand or some place similar. Have fun with no toilet paper at all experience. Which is superior.

The three seashells?
 

Rell

Member
Ah, so you're why these signs exist:

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These are legit, the resin used for wet strength in paper towels is not readily water soluble and paper towels will take a long time to break down in a sewer or septic system.

wait a minute yall don't layer the toilet seat with a seat cover or toilet paper?

fucking nasty

Also I never understood this attitude. I'm not some prude, I just so my bare ass on a public toilet and go to town. I don't mind swapping ass germs...it's not like we're somehow touching anuses or have any kind of direct bodily fluid contact with all of the partners that particular toilet has ever had.
 

norm9

Member
If your butt is creating a seal around the toilet and then you fart, the suction action of your anus would swallow up all the fecal air, but the chances of that are slim.
 
Far as I can tell, there's no way for germs to get to my mouth or any other part of my body from my ass. And I'm dilligent about washing my hands. So being sanitary isn't really a reason to do this.

I don't care about covering the seat, seems an extra annoyance when I could just poop and get out of there.

There doesn't appear to be much reason to cover the toilet seat, other than personal comfort reasons.
 
I always put paper down. Germs have nothing to do with it, I just don't like the thought of sitting on someone else's piss - whether it's dried or not.
 

Azerare

Member
A piece of paper won't do much with fecal matter.

I'm surprised how some of you function if you over complicate pooping.
 

KHarvey16

Member
I've never clogged a public toilet in my life with a paper towel. If such a toilet exists, then it should be replaced as it isn't worth a damn.

Toilet paper breaks down in water to help with not just flushing but everything else, be it sewer or septic functions. Paper towels are meant to be thrown in the trash.
 

Deepwater

Member
You are the weirdo, not us.

These are legit, the resin used for wet strength in paper towels is not readily water soluble and paper towels will take a long time to break down in a sewer or septic system.



Also I never understood this attitude. I'm not some prude, I just so my bare ass on a public toilet and go to town. I don't mind swapping ass germs...it's not like we're somehow touching anuses or have any kind of direct bodily fluid contact with all of the partners that particular toilet has ever had.

Because that creates useless waste and pollution and isn't more hygienic

lern2science, bruh

All the more reason for me to do it since yall not
 
I've never clogged a public toilet in my life with a paper towel. If such a toilet exists, then it should be replaced as it isn't worth a damn.

How exactly do you think the water in this magical toilet that chews up paper towels is different from the not worth a damn toilet water?

Tissue paper breaks apart easy, paper towels don't, it's like their thing.
 
These are legit, the resin used for wet strength in paper towels is not readily water soluble and paper towels will take a long time to break down in a sewer or septic system.

Oh, I know. I was just confused by why someone would have hand towels with them in the toilet - until that poster explained that they take them in with them.
 

Anoregon

The flight plan I just filed with the agency list me, my men, Dr. Pavel here. But only one of you!
all the layering and seat-wiping in the world doesn't mean a damn thing when you finally drop the loaf and it it has the perfect velocity and density to cause some toilet water to splash up perfectly right into your open butthole.
 

Lord Error

Insane For Sony
You should have thrown some tp to the poor guy next to you OP :\ He's probably the type who doesn't check if there's paper first, and then deeply regrets.

all the layering and seat-wiping in the world doesn't mean a damn thing when you finally drop the loaf and it it has the perfect velocity and density to cause some toilet water to splash up perfectly right into your open butthole.
Just put a small line of toilet paper into the water before you go. Physics!
 
There's this one guy who I'm friends with on Facebook who would get mad that other people would put toilet paper down on the seat and then forget to flush it.

He also said there's no need for TP -- just sit and poop bare ass.

But then why did he get so mad by the toilet paper left on the seat if he'll just sit on anything to shit??

I think about this paradox literally every time I poop in a public place. I deeply regret not calling him out on it.
 

Hazmat

Member
It's either clean enough to sit on or it isn't. If it isn't a layer of single-ply public restroom TP isn't going to save me.
 
If your butt is creating a seal around the toilet and then you fart, the suction action of your anus would swallow up all the fecal air, but the chances of that are slim.

Lol, sort of related. In jail, people often fart on the toilet then flush it down, as a sort of courtesy i guess. Don't know if the science behind the technique works out but it always amused me.
 

KHarvey16

Member
There's this one guy who I'm friends with on Facebook who would get mad that other people would put toilet paper down on the seat and then forget to flush it.

He also said there's no need for TP -- just sit and poop bare ass.

But then why did he get so mad by the toilet paper left on the seat if he'll just sit on anything to shit??

I think about this paradox literally every time I poop in a public place. I deeply regret not calling him out on it.

Do you honestly see that as hypocrisy?
 
Do you honestly see that as hypocrisy?

Yes. When you're willing to go as far as to make a public Facebook post about how putting TP on a seat when you poop is not necessary and then complain about someone who left TP on the seat because that's gross, then that's hypocrisy of the highest degree and you should be shamed for it.
 

Salmonax

Member
I've literally never covered it, used TP, the wax paper, stuff. etc. If the seat looks dirty, I use a different one. I wash my hands thoroughly before leaving, and my backside daily. I'm doing okay.

Yep - the common sense approach.

Lol at that title edit. Too be fair, the other guy might not have known there was no paper until it was too late.

In which case OP should have offered once he was done with germ warfare.
 
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