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Post by Texans136 (Luann) on Dec 27, 2016 22:17:42 GMT
Yeah, I agree about pee being sprinkled on the seat. In the olden days, my mom told me to never sit on the seat and those seats were usually very nasty and you could see muddy shoe prints on the seat at times as some people stood on the seat and squatted. (shh, I sometimes disobeyed her when I was young and sat on the toilet if it looked clean enough as I didn't want to squat with my short stature and get pee on the seat but mainly because I didn't want pee back splash on myself!) But now days I often wonder if it is the toilet spraying after flushing. Some of those strong flushers can really spray and then I begin to feel self-conscious that the next person who immediately goes in after me "thinks" that I have peed on the seat. Sometimes I will swipe the seat if I see it happening but generally I'm in a hurry to get out of there but go "oh crap", and then I will tell the next person that it is the toilet not me!
I had a conversation of sorts with one of my friends the other day and I was horrified that she never uses her hands to touch the flush handle. She always uses her shoes. Eek! Oh my, I never thought of that happening each and every time. I have now begun to use toilet paper to touch the handle to flush when I think about it, but it certainly isn't very often. Now that's another story.
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Post by pbnj on Dec 27, 2016 22:49:23 GMT
I travel a lot on long haul flights, like 9-16 hour flights...you can imagine what the toilets look like after a few hours, right? I have mastered the airplane toilet squat, the smaller the toilet, the easier it is to brace yourself against the wall with one hand. but that's not what I wanted to tell you about. I wanted to say that I have seen, on more than one occasion, people walk into an airplane toilet, after many hours in flight, bare foot. There was a barefoot dude on our recent flight to Portugal...I wanted to gag! I surely hate any public bathroom but planes are awful!!
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Post by finreporter on Dec 27, 2016 23:12:43 GMT
luann, i never touch the toilet flush handles either! i use my shoe. the best ones are those that flush automatically but they aren't in as many public bathrooms as i wish they'd be in!
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Post by Texans136 (Luann) on Dec 27, 2016 23:28:38 GMT
Ok, so speaking of squatting over toilet seats, anyone ever do the The Firm fitness system and remember all those loathsome mighty squats you did with with Jen Carmen, Susan Harris or Tracie Long and 8 lb dumb bells? On the old ww threads someone had posted one day that they were proud of themselves that they could actually squat over the port-a-potty and not have to hang on to something to do so. I giggled about that. And lo and behold I was quite proud of myself and indeed I could do that feat as well! Ahh, the good old days of ww threads and The Firm videos.
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Post by newheavensearth2 on Dec 28, 2016 0:21:46 GMT
Ok, so speaking of squatting over toilet seats, anyone ever do the The Firm fitness system and remember all those loathsome mighty squats you did with with Jen Carmen, Susan Harris or Tracie Long and 8 lb dumb bells? On the old ww threads someone had posted one day that they were proud of themselves that they could actually squat over the port-a-potty and not have to hang on to something to do so. I giggled about that. And lo and behold I was quite proud of myself and indeed I could do that feat as well! Ahh, the good old days of ww threads and The Firm videos. I remember those! Like Cathe Friedrich and her 15 count low end pulse squats! TMI, but I'm pretty good at holding a squat and a purse when there's no hook available now.
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Post by riverkat79 on Dec 29, 2016 14:24:09 GMT
I'm a shoe-flusher. And I loathe auto-flush toilets because my kid has auditory sensory issues and the times I have no choice but to take him into auto-flush bathrooms, it's a very stressful experience for both of us.
After my son came out of diapers, I started to wonder whether pee-splattered toilets in the ladies' room were due to young children, but I don't know. Maybe that's being too hard on moms with kids, because I know I at least wipe off the toilet seat if my kid's aim is off. I'd like to think other moms do the same.
Family-style restrooms might actually be due to kids, though, since older kids tend to use those restrooms without parental supervision.
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Post by amy on Dec 29, 2016 20:28:03 GMT
I never thought about it being little kid splatter. It would make sense, but I'd still hope the parent would clean up after him. If it was a kidlet, then he's much too short to be standing.
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Post by riverkat79 on Dec 30, 2016 13:27:38 GMT
Well, little boys can make a mess even if they're sitting. Hahaha. But yeah, I can't understand a parent not cleaning up after their kid, but I'm sure it happens.
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Post by fullmahina on Jan 1, 2017 20:29:17 GMT
I think the crime-scene-esque urine splatters are due more to straddlers than squatters. Footprints--squatters, of course. Being the proud owner of two beefy thighs, I can neither straddle nor squat without experiencing dire consequences. Straddling would have me spraying my own legs, pants, and shoes. Squatting would have the owner of the toilet stall breaking down the door to have me removed by emergency services after toppling and wedging myself between the toilet and the wall of the stall. So I duly apply the Paper Ring of Ultimate Safety, sit and attend to my business, make sure said Ring has been deposited in the toidy, flush, and go on my merry way. I don't give a crap about the gender of anyone in the bathroom. I've been in public restrooms numerous times with visibly obvious trans-folks. I'm sure I've been in the Ladies' Room with some that were not-quite-anatomically-correct Ladies and I never even knew. Who cares. Never an issue, even years ago before anyone "cared" enough to introduce legislation addressing the subject. The main thing I worry about is being trapped in a stall with no toilet paper.
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Post by finreporter on Jan 1, 2017 20:56:36 GMT
agreed, fullmahina. bigger fish to fry than someone calmly doing their business in the stall next to me.
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Post by 100gone on Jan 2, 2017 2:22:23 GMT
I never knew there were squatters and straddlers! I assumed squatters meant people who hovered over the seat with their feet on the floor. Huh, learn something new every day!
As for kids being guilty of peeing on the seats, I work in a college with no kids around and there's often pee on the seats.
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Post by riverkat79 on Jan 2, 2017 13:07:12 GMT
I think the crime-scene-esque urine splatters are due more to straddlers than squatters. Footprints--squatters, of course. Being the proud owner of two beefy thighs, I can neither straddle nor squat without experiencing dire consequences. Straddling would have me spraying my own legs, pants, and shoes. Squatting would have the owner of the toilet stall breaking down the door to have me removed by emergency services after toppling and wedging myself between the toilet and the wall of the stall. So I duly apply the Paper Ring of Ultimate Safety, sit and attend to my business, make sure said Ring has been deposited in the toidy, flush, and go on my merry way. I don't give a crap about the gender of anyone in the bathroom. I've been in public restrooms numerous times with visibly obvious trans-folks. I'm sure I've been in the Ladies' Room with some that were not-quite-anatomically-correct Ladies and I never even knew. Who cares. Never an issue, even years ago before anyone "cared" enough to introduce legislation addressing the subject. The main thing I worry about is being trapped in a stall with no toilet paper. Hear, hear.
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