Why do women float over the toilet?

Question

My mom taught me to do this when I was little. But I remember there was this report on 20/20 saying that he women's toilet seat is the cleanest place in public restrooms.

Answer 1

Float?

You mean you women can LEVITATE!???

Did it ever occur to all you "floating" women, that if you just SAT on the seat, there wouldn't be urine all over it? But no, you have to "float" - which means you just pee all over everything. I mean, think about it... how did that urine get on the seat in the first place? Wasn't from some guy standing off at 10 feet and blasting away, and it wasn't from some honey planting her butt on the bowl and using it as designed.

No. The spray of urine was left by some bimbo who "floated" over the bowl - and hosed it down with piss!

How about this? If you're going to "float" why not be as considerate as the guys are and LIFT THE SEAT FIRST? That way, you don't hose it down. (Or is that too hard to remember?)

Thanks for the laugh. This is the first I'd ever heard of this goofiness!

Answer 2

Women who "float" over the toilet seat are smart!
20/20 may have reported that it is the cleanest place in the restroom and that is an opinion!
The fact is one does not know who floated before them!

Answer 3

If that were the case, how come when you get up from the commode after using it, the back of your thighs and buttocks are disgustingly wet? That's why they have those paper cover dispensers inside each stall. Those are available to those who remember to use them. When there aren't any, women "float" or squat so they don't have to come in contact with the toilet seats. Very few public restrooms are as clean as they could be, but it would take 24-hour surveillance to go in after each user and scrub down the seats, clean the sinks and floors, and keep the paper debris to a minimum. People can be pigs when it comes to respecting public property, particularly comfort stations. After all, they don't have to clean or maintain them.

Answer 4

The toilet seat is usually clean in comparison to things like door handles, etc. If you are worried you can always lay strips of toilet paper to make a little seat cover.

Answer 5

Even if it's true that toilet seats are not dirty (and I also heard that), the problem is that most people squat when they pee, so that there's usually pee on the seat. I don't want to sit on pee, therefore squat!

By the way: most places outside of America DO have toilet seats! I don't know where the other guy got his information...!

Answer 6

They tested that on Myth Busters, too. It makes sense, though. People's butts are what touch the toilet seat, and, generally speakin, your butt is covered by clothing most of the time, and therefore, wouldn't encounter nearly as many germs or as much bacteria as, say, your hands would. While its true that alot of bacteria is secreted out the anus, if you wipe properly, it is not going to be smeared all over your cheeks. Not trying to be crude here. Just pointing that out.

Answer 7

....it may technically be the cleanest place in the restroom, but there are still some-times pee-splatters on the seat (you may not see them until you put the sanitary ring on the toilet and the paper gets wet)

Answer 8

Go ahead sit
Do you really trust your motherly 20/20?
I also heard it on the Myth Busters.
I still use the paper gasket.
As a guy I get to stand.
Just think the public toilets outside the USA have no toilets to sit on and if they do the folks squat standing on the porcelain.

Answer 9

And where will 20/20 be when someones crabs from the toilet seat crawl on you? Then you will listen to your mother.

Answer 10

Guys don,t seem to have a hang up on this sort of thing as women do. I suppose that we don,t worry about cleanliness as much as women do. maybe we should, still we have to sit down on the toilet to take a dump though.

Maybe that,s why a lot of girls don,t like camping all that much. But that,s just me.