Dirty public toilets are disgusting

It's something I really detest and there is absolutely no need for it. Everyone on the planet must have used a public toilet at some point in their life. Why is it some people though, feel the need to urinate (have a pee) all over the toilet seat? I guess I'm very specifically talking about men here because I would imagine that women would find it quite difficult to make that mess since they don't pee standing up. Correct me if I'm wrong though, it's just I don't spend time in the ladies toilet these days.

Another disgusting toilet, please learn to pee IN the toilet, not on it!

I've been to all manner of different public toilets from motorway service stations and train stations to pubs and nightclubs. You can be pretty certain that half of them will have a cubicle containing a yellow stained dripping bum seat at some point. Absolutely disgusting, and from experience I'd say the pubs and clubs have the worst, especially the closer you get to closing time. Some men (ok, some women too!) after a few beers just plain loose the ability to pee straight. The floor usually gets this treatment as well so you end up standing in a stinking puddle too scared to move or touch anything.

Some public conveniences have sanitary wipes or tissue seat covers. Very good idea in my opinion, although sometimes it's so bad it might be a lost cause. How many of you have carefully placed a neat ring of tissue around the seat before lowering your derriere? It's no wonder that people hover above the seat or place lot's of loo roll around it so they don't have to touch it.

Bottom line, peeing on a public toilet seat should be made a criminal offence and a fitting punishment for these chaps would be to send them back to potty training school!

Other web sites on this subject:

Toilet Seats Get a Bum Rap, Experts Say
This is an entertaining read. The toilet seat gets a bad rap and aren't quite as germ infested we though and you're more likely to catch something from the door handle. Sound familiar?

Public Toilets Are Many Mothers' Worst Nightmare
59 percent of all parents look for a cleaner cubicle if they find a dirty toilet seat. 24 percent of all parents will do the best under the circumstances and put their toddler on the dirty toilet seat. Well I feel sorry for the 24 percent and no wonder women wish they could pee standing up!

The Footpull
Curved and Padded underneath so it is comfortable on open toe sandals and is safe for all shoes. The footpull is the perfect solution for opening a toilet door! Installed in Hospitals, Schools and Universities, Office Buildings, Restaurants and Establishments across the United States, Canada and Puerto Rico

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public toilets are the worst but i agree that the toilet seat is the last of your worries - its definitely the toilet door handle that you should fear! I spend ages trying to devise a way to get out without touching it. I either A) wait for someone to come though the door; B) open it with a paper towel; C) open it with one finger or D) open it with my sleeve! For years I kept thinking someone should invent something to solve this problem and then last week a friend told me that the miracle has happened - there's now a toilet door handle that cleans your hands (www.hygienehandle.co.uk) - yes you have read this correctly - its from a company called pure hold (lovin the name) and it looks like it might actually work. If not then I'm going to invent it myself!

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harry potter - 3-Dec-11 23:49

It appalls me when I have spent a fortune on beer in a pub, and have to visit the loo there's pee all over the floor. Disgusting. Pub loos I nUK are NOT up to standard.

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Bah Pissoire - 27-Jun-11 06:41

It appalls me when I have spent a fortune on beer in a pub, and have to visit the loo there's pee all over the floor. Disgusting. Pub loos I nUK are NOT up to standard.

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Bah Pissoire - 26-Jun-11 16:22

Ive just been in one of the toilets at Glastonbury festival it was disgusting it smelt like someone had died in there.

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Moonface and Silky - 26-Jun-11 13:58

I completely agree. This includes university stalls where there is a large muslim population. I saw one woman come into the washroom while I was in the stall beside her, there was pee coming into my stall from her stall. I said “you are peeing all over the floor.” Which received the response: “don’t talk to me”. I reiterated “excuse me, but you are peeing all over the floor!” and I exited my stall and went to wash my hands. She did not come out for the longest time, and after she left, (drying her hands on paper from the stall) I looked in her stall to see pee ALL OVER THE SEAT! I was disgusted. This bathroom frequently looks like this, as they refuse to use toilet paper (instead use water) and squat over the seat.

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anonymous - 4-Feb-11 00:02

So martha; if you splatter your own toilet seat someone else has to clean it up? Nice for them!

I think you really need to see that you have a big problem.

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grumpyoldwoman - 10-Jan-11 08:41

Toliets are gross. I would never sit on a public one. I do sit on my own at home, since no one else does. If I accidently splatter the seat, I'm not wiping it up... I may accidently touch the toliet. Also do not touch the lock on a bathroom stall or the door knob to open bathroom door. I use paper towels to get soap out of the container.

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martha - 10-Jan-11 08:04

There was a time I was using the restroom and I put more than one seat cover just to be safe. Two to be specific or three, I don't remember. So im over here eurining and I still feel my pee and im thinking why hasn't it gone through the paper thing into the toilet?I thought that no matter what the liquid is, it's always gonna go through paper...?

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Bank-Bank - 28-Dec-10 02:45

I don't think I've ever been in a public toilet that wasn't stinking.

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angry guy - 29-Nov-10 20:58

I think the toilets in most public houses are disgusting: they make one puke. Filthy, pee all over the floor, hand-dryers that don't work, grime everything. Yukk!

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Hell's Sewers - 15-Oct-10 19:06

Most of the time, from a man's point of view, it's other men who seem to have difficulty with the comparatively simple art of actually peeing in a straight line. I can only assume it's like a Tom cat spraying it's pee all over the place in an attempt to mark it's territory. As it's not decent to do it all over your own front door or car bumper (at least not in my home) many males seem to default to the toilet seat or anywhere within the confines of a public toilet.
LADIES, this is NOT a beer thing, and it's not about people losing the ability to pee in a straight line after a few, it's about my fellow males who think it's somehow not 'manly' to put the wee where it's supposed to go.
Unfortunately for my masculinity (or lack thereof) I was born without this macho gene and can only pee where it is actually supposed to go.

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soapdispenser - 15-Oct-10 16:47

I`m finding 50% of the time recently when using public toilets that women are peeing on the seats or leaving slight drops and it is totally nauseating having to clean it before you sit on it or simply have to lift the lid or seek another toilet! Can`t ladies look and see all looks clean before they depart? I would certainly never do it, it`s just happening more and more.

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MerseysideAlice - 16-Jul-10 20:50

Why is it that we have been living in built environments for thousands of years yet we still haven't devised a method of delivering urine from the bladder to the drain without all the drips? Every time I go to a busy pub I face the prospect of standing in the pee already on the floor or backing up and standing in a dry area and then inevitably adding to the problem. I should add that in most decent pubs the backing up approach ends at the toilet door. Surely some enterprising young inventor out there could come up with a more hygienic urinal.

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le pissoire - 18-Jun-10 14:47

Some public toilets are horrible I think, most of the toilets in supermarkets etc are normally ok but some I have been in car parks etc aren't that good. Some of the toilets had toilet paper all over the floor and urine on the seats, and one even had poo in the corner where some dirty person was to lazy to use the toilet properly discusting it was. Another place there were used sanitary pads thrown behind the toilet seat. Some womwn's toilets are really bad, nowadays I try not to use them if I can help it. People who do this type of thing to public toilets are just slobs they haven't a care for others who need to use the toilet after them. I often wonder what their own toilet in their house is like.

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Carole Heath - 26-Mar-10 21:16

You`d be wrong in thinking that women don`t p** on toilet seats, they do, & much worse. Many times Iv`e had to take a wet wipe & clean up before I use it. I wonder what kind of person would leave a mess like that, & would they do that at home? I think not.

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anne - 26-Mar-10 12:22

I think I have found out why there's sometimes a large puddle of water on the floor in the gents where your trousers go when you are doing a number two,

I caught one of our colonial friends wet handed doing his feet washing ritual, I mean, they don't use toilet paper but consider pork unclean,

(All stalls were full and he was doing it on the floor leaving a good puddle) I am not racist by the way, just commenting.

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Gainsborough lad. - 19-Feb-10 09:59

nowadays the public toilets are not very clean though.I had a experience in the girls toilet after my shopping,i was urgent and need to go to the toilet,I shut the door of the toilet and wanted to sit down and pee,but there were bloodstains and some urine on the toilet seat and I had no choice but to pull my skirt up and pee squating.Another time was I was in the toilet and the toilet seat is dirty but I used the toilet paper to cover it and seat on it to pee

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rachel - 19-Feb-10 09:01

Sorry can't stop laughing , well at least they have technology over there , in this country they would be banned because of health and safety .

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G - 14-Dec-09 17:43

Revolving loo seat you say, I nearly sh@t myself again in Erfurt zoo toilets this year when the seat started revolving and spraying water whilst I was pulling up my shorts,

Wasn't expecting that at all, all pre-warnings were probably in German.

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Gainsborough lad. - 19-Nov-09 19:12

I cannot understand why they have toilet seats in public toilets as I rarely see one put down it would be better to design something that was sanitised in between uses say like a revolving loo that went into the wall say and came out clean or a lid that steam cleaned in between customers then if no one had bothered to put the seat down it would only take a few seconds to do it yourself! oh I forgot the morons who have nothing better to do would damage them ,oh well back to the drawing board;

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G - 19-Nov-09 13:39

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