Porta-Potty Etiquette

Rev_Sysyphus · Post by **Rev_Sysyphus** » Sat Sep 13, 2008 12:26 pm

somekind wrote:What's wrong with a little bit of pee on the toilet seat? Doesn't it act as a disinfectant? I don't feel bad for asking my Gf to let me pee on her (in the shower).

Well urine is supposed to be sterile, but..and I am no doctor...if someone is ill with something is there any possibility of it being in the urine? Maybe not, but one thing pee on a seat does is dry and get sticky. This in turn collects icky bugs like crazy.

Besides, are you really ok with the thought of sitting in remnants of some stranger's pee? Maybe you are. Maybe not. You say you like to pee on your GF but not that she gets to pee on you in return. That's ok I suppose. But other may not be ok with this concept.

brcprincess · Post by **brcprincess** » Sat Sep 13, 2008 5:56 pm

Crouching over the toilet seat: prevalence among British gynaecological outpatients and its effect upon micturition

K. H. MOORE Lecturer 1 , D. H. RICHMOND Senior Lecturer 1 , J. R. SUTHERST Honorary Director 1 , A. H. IMRIE Consultant 2 , J. L. HUTTON Lecturer 3

1 Gynaecological Urodynamic Unit, Royal Liverpool Hospital, University of Liverpool L7 8XP 2 Department of Gynaecology, Princess Royal Hospital, Hull 3 Department of Statistics and Computational Mathematics, University of Liverpool

Correspondence: Dr Kate Moore.

ABSTRACT
Summary. This study investigated whether British women prefer to crouch over public toilet seats, and measured the effect of such a voiding position on urine flow rate and residual urine volume. Of 528 consecutive women who attended a general gynaecological clinic and completed an anonymous questionnaire, 85% usually crouched over the toilet when using a public convenience, 12% applied paper to the seat and 2% sat directly on public toilet seats. When using a friend's bathroom 38% of the women voided by crouching.

Results were similar for 155 patients attending a urodynamic clinic, 80 of whom were studied while voiding in both positions.

There was a 21% reduction in average urine flow rate and a 149% increase in residual urine volume in the crouching position. Women undergoing urodynamic tests should be asked which voiding position they used before abnormal results are interpreted. Patients with a reduced functional bladder capacity may benefit from being encouraged to sit comfortably on the toilet whenever possible.

Only 2% of British women have direct contact with public toilet seats!

But apparently there are health benefits to sitting for those with reduced functional bladder capacity?

Intubater69 · Post by **Intubater69** » Sat Sep 13, 2008 7:31 pm

Rev_Sysyphus wrote:
somekind wrote:What's wrong with a little bit of pee on the toilet seat? Doesn't it act as a disinfectant? I don't feel bad for asking my Gf to let me pee on her (in the shower).
Well urine is supposed to be sterile, but..and I am no doctor...if someone is ill with something is there any possibility of it being in the urine? Maybe not, but one thing pee on a seat does is dry and get sticky. This in turn collects icky bugs like crazy.

Besides, are you really ok with the thought of sitting in remnants of some stranger's pee? Maybe you are. Maybe not. You say you like to pee on your GF but not that she gets to pee on you in return. That's ok I suppose. But other may not be ok with this concept.

viruses etc can be transferred via bodily fluid. Pee Pee, of course is liquid, (if its not, best to see a urologist) There generally needs to be blood in the urine and an open sore or laceration at the splash zone.

At least thats my general interpretation

DoriumLux · Post by **DoriumLux** » Sat Sep 13, 2008 8:43 pm

From a doctors web page...

Many people consider toilet seats to be public enemy No. 1 -- the playground for organisms responsible for STDs like chlamydia or gonorrhea. But before you panic, the toilet seat is not a common vehicle for transmitting infections to humans. Many disease-causing organisms can survive for only a short time on the surface of the seat, and for an infection to occur, the germs would have to be transferred from the toilet seat to your urethral or genital tract, or through a cut or sore on the buttocks or thighs, which is possible but very unlikely.

Soo... I think you are OK unless you have a gaping wound around your nether regions or you are a contortionist that insists on peeing in some bizarre and unworldly position. I'm not supporting urinating on the seat. A seat that is dry and clean is OK to sit on.

If you are that worried about it lift the lid then do your hover thing or just spray some darn Lysol.

theCryptofishist · Post by **theCryptofishist** » Sun Sep 14, 2008 10:07 pm

If you have a uti (urinary tract infection) then your pee is not sterile. Otherwise, you're okay.

But I don't trust someone's random pee.

And I (and some other citizens of black rock) have to do all sorts of odd manuvers on the toilet seat, including taking off and putting on my pants. So I don't want to sit in your wet pee. Or anyone else's. So treat those big potties on the end of the bank with respect. Don't use them unless all others are filled and be really fucking clean. Leave no trace applies here too.

DoriumLux · Post by **DoriumLux** » Sun Sep 14, 2008 10:41 pm

Leave no trace applies here too.

Why, yes. Yes, it does!

My favorite poster in a porta: "Your names not Rover so stop pissing all over!!"

ygmir · Post by **ygmir** » Mon Sep 15, 2008 9:48 pm

I still like my Lysol method for seats......and those after me probably do, too.......
Just think if many, not even all, people did that, how nice it'd be........

theCryptofishist · Post by **theCryptofishist** » Tue Sep 16, 2008 9:58 am

Colonel Monk wrote:Germphobia is a corporate ad agency disease, don't forget that.

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Well, yes and no. Does anyone want to climb in my time machine and go to London during the 1840s? Or give birth in a hospital where doctors scold midwived for washing hands between deliveries?

I sometimes think that we emphacize the cleanliness thing so much because it's not a natural instinct; early man didn't live in such crowded conditions so didn't really have a direct responce to possibly germy artifacts in the environment.

But germicidal plastic toys--that's nonsense.

gyre · Post by **gyre** » Thu Sep 18, 2008 4:20 pm

A friend thinks his health problems as a child was due to his early childhood being in a sterile environment and stunting his immune system.

From a story about a courthouse and jail being closed due to the new building having faulty plumbing, a judge was talking about dismissing cases.

"I can't ask 200 people to use porta-potties."

gyre · Post by **gyre** » Sat Sep 20, 2008 3:50 am

I can't find a link to it, because I keep pulling up this thread instead, but in Tampa a thief was being chased and hid in a porta-pottie.
They flipped it over on him to trap him in the thing.
Pretty moopy, it turns out.
He was unable to escape after that.
And somewhat dispirited, I think.

Hot Sauce

Intubater69 · Post by **Intubater69** » Sat Sep 20, 2008 8:24 am

DoriumLux writes:

Soo... I think you are OK unless you have a gaping wound around your nether regions or you are a contortionist that insists on peeing in some bizarre and unworldly position.

LMFAO

Porta-Potty Etiquette

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