public loos - sit or crouch?

better idea is to swab seat with a wipe and sit down , not good for your tubes to be kinked when you wee

Blimey, I've never even thought about it and I doubt my knees would hold up enough for a 'crouch'!

What on earth do you think your bum's going to catch from a toilet seat...?

It's crouching over the seat that causes the dirty seats as the aim is problematical!

It's the hoverers that sprinkle on the seat. Plonk yer bum down.

x posts!

Another croucher here,

If I tried to crouch I'd wee all over the floor.

"It's no use standing on the seat
The crabs in here can jump ten feet!"

(often seen scrawled on school toilet walls! )

I don't hover, but I've always understood that it's better for your bowel function to be in a crouched position.

It's far more bovver with a hover. I simply cannot wee like that, it all just seizes up. Keep a pack of wet wipes in your handbag, that does the trick

But how can you crouch over a standard-sized toilet? Unless you're a giant?

I can pee standing up (accurately aimed) over a toilet bowl (but not if it is a high seated disabled one) I can still crouch down quite easily as I have I done that for years now as any bending twinges my back.

How weird! I've never known anyone who does that.

And no one has yet said what they think they might 'catch' from a public toilet seat...

DO NOT FLUSH WIPES DOWN THE LOO!!
They do not dissolve and have been a fundamental factor in the creation of fatbergs in our sewers. So as I cannot imagine anybody wiping a loo seat then putting the wipe back in their handbag or pocket, the suggestion of using a wipe on the seat is not recommended.
I go along with the "plonk yer bum down" school of lavatorial thought.

Did I say it flush the wipes? It happens that I am as well informs as you Soutra. They go in the sanibin.

I, not it. And happened, not happens. Stupid phone!

Time for bed I think - correcting the wrong word

This thread reminds me of the Frank Zappa lyrics ..."I got it from the toilet seat, it jumped right up and it grabbed my meat"

There is no way I could crouch on a toilet seat, it would be more like drunken swaying and clutching at the walls. And then my knees would lock and I wouldn't be able to get up.

I do check out each cubicle until I find one that I think passes the 'wrinkle your nose at it' test ...

So far, so good!

Well, my mum said that you can catch awful diseases off toilet seats! I also heard that you can even get pregnant!

Most public toilets are really clean now compared with the ones my mum was talking about so I sit - I never even think about not!

I have occasionally, having desperate need, had to use a really revolting loo and yes then I do go back to mum's instruction to hover. But I agree with Kitty most loos (in the UK) are much, much cleaner than in our youth.

(And not only can you get pregnant from a loo seat, you can also get piles. I know this to be true - my gran told me and she was always right)

I went into a public loo sometime ago. I was busy thinking about something else and suddenly realised I was sitting on someone else's wee - ghastly.

I'm now very careful and look all over the loo seat before sitting down.

Not just you MamaCaz.
So everyone happy to sit on someone elses' wee? No thanks. I dont do that in my own house. I am not going to do it somewhere else.

I do envy my dear 4 year old GS who finds an appropriate tree pulls down his shorts and aims as high as he can. His dad used to do the same.

A couple of years ago DH and I (or is it me !) were in a wood when the call of nature came. DH suggested I went behind a large tree. I had forgotten how tricky outdoor weeing was and somehow wet my knickers.

My auntie was adept at outdoor weeing. Unfortunately I can't do it now because I've got a bad back and can't crouch down without pulling a muscle. What to do? Just have to hold on until I find a loo. My mother could wee standing up in the days of dresses, I used to be impressed.