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[–] [email protected] 42 points 6 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 months ago

A sticky one

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

I always wipe it down if it's a public restroom

[–] [email protected] 30 points 6 months ago (1 children)

As a person who had spent 30+ years thinking that "a warm seat = someone had been sitting long enough to make it warm" and thought it was therefore gross, now that I have a heated toilet seat/bidet combo, now I think a cold seat is worse.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago

To be fair, the warm from a heated seat is a different sensation than β€œsomeone’s bare butt cheeks were just planted here.”

But I’m in the same situation as you. I cringe every time I have to sit on a normal toilet seat now.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 6 months ago

I live alone, so a warm toilet seat would be terrifying.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I can honestly say I'm pretty sure I've never once paid attention to the temperature of a toilet seat.

If it's dry I don't care.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

That’s the thing, it makes you pay attention, at least for me. I never want to tell the temperature, but a warm seat makes me question the decision I made to sit down.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Self-heated toilet seats are awesome, so I'll go for cold being worse.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago

Warm. 🀒

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago

Cold is worse.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago

Warm.
Still has the soul of previous person.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago (2 children)

My mum's told me about putting newspaper on the seat of the outdoor toilet in the middle of winter if you absolutely had to go in the night, to make it bearable (1950s northern England). The warmth of someone else's arsecheeks is much more preferable to that, thanks.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago

I would have to agree with that - I'd rather have someone else's butt take the full brunt of an outdoor, nighttime, northern England, cold toilet seat. Lol - those types of cold seats are what taught me to "hover" when necessary. (Well, not specifically the same as northern England outdoor toilets, but similar)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Composting outhouse with styrofoam seat is actually really nice :D especially if it's used enough to keep the composting going, then when it's really cold outside one may experience the joy of steamy composting shit warming up your butt while going on your business. Not too bad even in the Finnish winter. Cold plastic seat in the outhouse is the worst.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago

Depends if it's summer or winter.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago

A warm one.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago
[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I'm more bothered by the reflex to sniff the air after sitting on a warm seat and getting a nose full of the previous person's shit. :(

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I'm thankful I don't have that reflex.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Yeah, but next time you sit on a warm toilet seat, you'll think about this thread and be hit with the overwhelming urge to take a whiff.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

It took me a while to get used to the seat warming feature on my bidet, but now I target that bathroom on cold mornings.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

The worst is when it gets hot underneath because the barbed wire has somehow escaped from the resin ...

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

A warm seat, juck.

Same as washing your hands with warm water, no warm seats for me.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I hope you mean you only wash your hands in hot water and that's why warm is yuck.

Washing your hands in cold water is less effective than in hot at actually cleaning them.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

yeah, but soap is more important than water temp.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Sure, friction is also important. It's not a pick and choose thingβ€”do it all, anything less isn't washing your hands properly

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago