Frazz by Jef Mallett for October 20, 2014

A fluffy terry cloth cover on the seat? That would be a nightmare to keep clean.

More room for careless people to wipe without making a mess on the back of the seat.

I always thought it was so the ladies could wipe without touching seat, and the guys won’t dribble so much if they refrain from lifting. They’re o-shaped in homes because they sell better in home improvement stores, as everybody is oddly more comfortable picking up an oval than a U.

Or, when there is ONE (fairly obvious) answer which the teacher is unwilling to reveal.

Noooo!

And speaking of scary bathroom accessories….Yikes!!

RE: Frazz/ comment: “When you don’t know where you’re goingAny road will take you there.” — George Harrison

On last week’s episode of NCIS they had a “secret” meeting in a men’s room at The Pentagon. The FEMALE Secretary of the Navy was looking at the urinals and said, (I don’t know how you guys do it). Gibbs replied that at least it wasn’t a trough. That made me giggle because I after 26 years of marriage still need the door closed & the water running! My husband was in the army for 20 years, so he’s been where your legs are TOUCHING the guys next to you . Needless to say I was never cut out for the military. When we were stationed in Germany there was a local bar that in order to get to the lady’s room one had to pass though the men’s room. They did indeed have a trough that ran the length of one wall. I was mortified when I had to go past men doing there business in order to do mine. They of course ignored me completely. Again .

Remember, the average kitchen counter has more germs than the average toilet seat. Or so they (whoever “they” are) say…

I was told the answer to that years ago, by the safety director of the hospital in which I worked. U shaped seats were designed for safety; if a member of the public were to lift the seat and stick his/her head down in the bowl to vomit, and the seat fell, it wouldn’t break his/her neck. (Now you can walk around all day with that image in your head, as I have for thirty years.)

Actually, they are designed for men and (women squat over the seats to avoid sitting on them) who are sloppy aimers.

I’m just impressed that she appears to have come up with the answer very quickly.

Who needs reddit after this?

Yes!

Why would anyone put terrycloth on a toilet seat to begin with? I never understood it.

I think Eric the Circle would take umbrage being compared to a toilet. Domestic toilets are not O-shaped — they are Oval-shaped.

Actually, the covers would go on the seat lids ,not the seats themselves. We did once see a perfectly round toilet seat in Europe when we were on a choir tour. When you rose from the seat, it would spin around as a solid cake of disinfectant pressed on it.