You’re better off without them. Anything splashed on the seat is just going to soak into the paper, and if you dont pull off the flap (usually ripping the whole cover in half) it’s going to wick up water and can be especially gross if you are a guy with external parts that will bump the soggy strip.
If you do place it on a dry seat, it is scratchy paper that is loud and crinkly and will slide every time you move. And at least for me, the cutout doesn’t feel large enough and I’m scared stuff is going to catch on the paper on the way down and be held against me.
The hard, smooth, nonporous surface is pretty germ resistant in itself. I’d rather hunt for a cleaner stall than use one of the paper covers.
Yea, if no one ever told you, you’re supposed to wipe the seat with TP before laying one of these down. It’s there because a dry wipe isn’t a very good cleaning.
Yes when the flush is violent. Toilets shouldn’t be made that way. Or perhaps they are plumbed or installed wrong somehow. I dunno. Seems like it should be fixable.
To add: my BIO101 class did an experiment to see how effective they are at stopping bacterial transmission. If you aren’t using two dozen layers you might as well use zero.
Huh, lookit that! Lemmy showing me what a society looks like.
You’re better off without them. Anything splashed on the seat is just going to soak into the paper, and if you dont pull off the flap (usually ripping the whole cover in half) it’s going to wick up water and can be especially gross if you are a guy with external parts that will bump the soggy strip.
If you do place it on a dry seat, it is scratchy paper that is loud and crinkly and will slide every time you move. And at least for me, the cutout doesn’t feel large enough and I’m scared stuff is going to catch on the paper on the way down and be held against me.
The hard, smooth, nonporous surface is pretty germ resistant in itself. I’d rather hunt for a cleaner stall than use one of the paper covers.
Yea, if no one ever told you, you’re supposed to wipe the seat with TP before laying one of these down. It’s there because a dry wipe isn’t a very good cleaning.
If nobody ever told you, it’s pretty much impossible to catch anything from a toilet seat anyway.
If nobody ever told you, smearing someone else’s piss on your skin is gross even if you don’t catch a disease.
I mean if it’s wet you obviously wipe it off. The covers are the part which is pointless.
But when you flush that TP, the water oversprays back up on the seat in an endless cycle of frustration! 🤪
Yes when the flush is violent. Toilets shouldn’t be made that way. Or perhaps they are plumbed or installed wrong somehow. I dunno. Seems like it should be fixable.
To add: my BIO101 class did an experiment to see how effective they are at stopping bacterial transmission. If you aren’t using two dozen layers you might as well use zero.
Oh…oh god. There are so many more horrors related to this.
I told you that you weren’t missing out! 😆
I mainly consider them ornamental and I get so surprised when I hear someone in another stall actually trying to use one.
The dangly parts aren’t that far back.
I have a hard time sitting still 😅