Here's the question.
Do you
a) Hover
b) Build a papernest
c) Wipe it with an OCD wipe and then sit
d) Just sit on it whatever
Ps am adding a 5th option after reading some of the comments
e) Only in emergencies 
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la_spice
- 2009-02-13 @ 21:10:00
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QueeneMab
- 2009-02-13 @ 21:19:03
Yes, but your preferred method?
I have noticed in a lot of the more civilised countries like Norway, Sweden, Belgium and Holland, they actually have either a toilet seat cover on a roller or they have some ocd wipe stuff you can squirt onto loo paper to wipe the seat with first.
The worst loos I have encountered in my life were in Egypt, Turkey, Italy (Mount Vesuvius) and England in that order, the most "interesting" award goes jointly to the the pedestal style you have to climb up onto and squat on (very precarious) in Lantau Island, Hong Kong and the mirror maze toilet, compelete with skeletons, in Embarquadero Acapulco, Mexico, not too good after a few glasses of Mezcal.
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la_spice
- 2009-02-13 @ 21:37:19
My worst experiences were China then Kenya. French "stand and deliver" ones are dreadful (especially if you're wearing trousers!) I can't tell you about my daughter's experience in one of those automated tardid type loos!
I can't believe I'm discussing this!
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QueeneMab
- 2009-02-13 @ 21:39:39
Eeek is right. I can't use those tardis things at all.
Got stuck in an automatic doors (up and down like a sluice gate, not side to side - the doors I mean) one once it was awful (not a tardis type). That was bad enough but the next day my friend used it and the doors kept opening and closing every 5 seconds.
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la_spice
- 2009-02-13 @ 21:55:04
Oh no!
My recurring dream theme involves toilets and lack of privacy!
You do realise I'll have a nightmare tonight!!!
On that note I'll say night night!
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QueeneMab
- 2009-02-13 @ 21:59:56
Night.
Pleasant dreams, think brilliant sunshine, white sandy beaches, turquoise sky and a nice cocktail.
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la_spice
- 2009-02-14 @ 08:54:18
I knew I'd wake up thinking about loos
http://myplace2.blog.co.uk/2009/02/14/best-kept-loo-award-5570989/
Now you've started something!
You'll have to write a paper on the subject and call it "Toilet Paper"!!!!
Or start a new blog called "The Bog Blog"
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QueeneMab
- 2009-02-14 @ 18:25:52
BOL
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Juzzzy
- http://juzzzy.blog.co.uk
- 2009-02-13 @ 21:13:53
"Sit down" occasions can not even be considered in public.
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QueeneMab
- 2009-02-13 @ 21:27:07
I can 100% relate to what you are saying.
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Jenniebaby
- 2009-02-13 @ 21:13:56
I'm more of the d mentality, I'm afraid - am certain lots of people will be utterly horrified
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QueeneMab
- 2009-02-13 @ 21:27:49
Depends on the establishment though, sometimes it is not too bad if you don't think about it too much.
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Jenniebaby
- 2009-02-13 @ 21:34:46
Oh yes - I agree - it definitely depends
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QueeneMab
- 2009-02-13 @ 21:36:08
You could eat your dinner off the toilet seat in the Lebanese restaurant we were in the other week it is so beautiful and clean. Same for the loo in the Secret Garden bit of the witchery. They are lovely.
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sweetymon
- 2009-02-13 @ 21:20:16
B, big papernests... D when very drunk, eugh
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QueeneMab
- 2009-02-13 @ 21:21:52
Trouble with them is the paper can get stuck to you (if you are with drink), I have seen this happen to others.
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subville
- http://subville.blog.co.uk/
- 2009-02-13 @ 21:24:10
D or B if it's manky looking x
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QueeneMab
- 2009-02-13 @ 21:28:30
So far papernests are in front with 2 votes.
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brokendownangel
Pro - 2009-02-13 @ 21:31:23
definitely a
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QueeneMab
- 2009-02-13 @ 21:37:08
I am with you on that one. Especially when lots of people have been there first employed that very method and missed.
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brokendownangel
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- 2009-02-13 @ 21:39:31
oooh gross! but i do have vague recollections of taking my shoes off in nightclubs (when i was much younger) and using the mens cos the queue in the ladies was always really long! So, my arse was dry but my feet - well you can imagine
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QueeneMab
- 2009-02-13 @ 21:40:01
I can relate to that.
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soyunperdedor
Pro - http://soyunperdedor.blog.co.uk
- 2009-02-13 @ 21:36:00
Have a peer round, toilet-tissue-wipe any thing visible on the actual seat, then:
d) sit down, but only:
e) in emergencies only. I would rather wait for hours until I get home!-
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QueeneMab
- 2009-02-13 @ 21:37:44
I am for E) and then a)
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soyunperdedor
Pro
- http://soyunperdedor.blog.co.uk
- 2009-02-13 @ 21:38:41
Hover?! Far too much like hard work!
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QueeneMab
- 2009-02-13 @ 21:40:22
Good for the thigh muscles though.
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miramaze
- 2009-02-13 @ 21:42:30
Don't like to think about it.
I avoid public loos.
The worst loos were in the camping site in Fez in the early 70s and Santorini harbour during a 12 hour wait for the ferry
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QueeneMab
- 2009-02-13 @ 22:01:14
Santorini harbour back in 1983 did not have the best loos in the world I confess. However, santorini revisited 2008 was not so bad.
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miramaze
- 2009-02-13 @ 22:35:44
Glad to hear that . The 12 hour wait was in 1995
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QueeneMab
- 2009-02-13 @ 22:41:12
eeep so late.
But when we went there last year a lot of stuff had been recently modernised. Think it is since they held the Olympics in Greece in 2004 (although the prices have gone through the roof since then too 4 -6 euros for an ouzo and lemonade in a bar). Hey maybe we will get clean modern toilets in the UK too after the Olympics and a transport system that works, but then again maybe that is a bit too much to expect.
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miramaze
- 2009-02-14 @ 08:37:39
2004 was the last time I was in Greece and everything was a lot more expensive than I remember it.
Let's hope, (and expect) the Olympics brings clean modern loos.
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Time for the male perspective here, methinks.
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QueeneMab
- 2009-02-13 @ 22:33:09
Thanks Not Bob.
BTW, we have already had some male perspective though earlier from Juzzzy.
Equal opps and all that.
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QueeneMab
- 2009-02-13 @ 22:42:02
Shame this is a very educational post.
Qualifies as reasearch and all that.
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Certainly the main conclusion I've drawn is that more women than men are worried about the issue.
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Lisaakyb
- 2009-02-13 @ 22:35:49
I would hover every time. Even the nicest public loos always leave me feeling a bit grubby though. Used a really clean one in a coffee shop a couple of weeks ago but it had an ordinary hand towel which was damp and looked very distressed - not half as distressed as I was though. Yuk xx
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QueeneMab
- 2009-02-13 @ 22:38:18
That is a good point, but sometimes I can convince myself that they are ok. You know when you are the first customers of the day in a really nice restaurant, but how often does that happen in reality?
I don't do shared towels at all. No, no, no way. I don't like bar soap either, I like soap dispensers.
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EllieGant
- 2009-02-13 @ 22:43:43
E for eeeeeeeek
A if desperate.
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QueeneMab
- 2009-02-13 @ 22:46:52
Uh huh, a lot of people have the paper lock/door handle thing.
Do you also do the turning off the tap ritual, either paper to turn off the tap OR keep some water in your left hand and turn the tap off with your right hand and then a quick wash of both hands using the water in your left hand.
This is reading like OCD's annonymous.
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In emergencies..I hover
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QueeneMab
- 2009-02-13 @ 23:13:14
So 1st choice e) and then a) ? I am conducting this survey very scientifically.
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Yes... That's the one's... As Im on I Pod,..It's proper slow and could'nt be arsed to go back up and look at numbers as I knew it would have taken forever!!
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freeasthewind
- 2009-02-13 @ 23:15:49
Well, I hover if I just cant wait. Use to be over here there was always toilet covers to use but for some reason over the years establishments quit providing them of course they stopped cleaning the restrooms too. My father who owned a service station said the womens was always the dirtiest to clean. Doesnt say much for women but again that is why I hover or try and wait. Yuck
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QueeneMab
- 2009-02-13 @ 23:20:14
Women's toilets are usually pretty grim.
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freeasthewind
- 2009-02-13 @ 23:24:36
Yes, unfornately. You should see ours at work. I always wonder if that how they do thier homes.
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QueeneMab
- 2009-02-13 @ 23:27:46
I have often wondered the same..........
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MissyMouse
- 2009-02-14 @ 10:55:29
I'm a hoverer! Sadly this is not a good position when you have had a few falling down waters.
I have been guilty of using the mens when the needs must. The old Wembley stadium was classic for me using the mens...there were hardly any ladies loos there.
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QueeneMab
- 2009-02-14 @ 18:25:05
Hovering is probably the best method I reckon.
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Public ones!
yuk! 