That's what's so insulting about American healthcare. If you're going to charge such criminally high prices, at least don't cheap out on the small stuff. Don't stock your bathrooms with ghostly thin sandpaper toilet paper. Have decently thick barrier paper. We're talking pennies here.
Usually the toilet paper is more about preventing clogs than anything else. You can use more of the thin stuff to compensate, but some people still use that amount of the thick stuff too and cause issues. Then not tell anyone about it out of embarrassment. Etc.
Then he does an ultrasound and your entire front is dripping gel all over the place, and afterwards, he hands you one (1) small piece of tissue to clean yourself.
You're better off without them. Anything splashed on the seat is just going to soak into the paper, and if you dont pull off the flap (usually ripping the whole cover in half) it's going to wick up water and can be especially gross if you are a guy with external parts that will bump the soggy strip.
If you do place it on a dry seat, it is scratchy paper that is loud and crinkly and will slide every time you move. And at least for me, the cutout doesn't feel large enough and I'm scared stuff is going to catch on the paper on the way down and be held against me.
The hard, smooth, nonporous surface is pretty germ resistant in itself. I'd rather hunt for a cleaner stall than use one of the paper covers.
Yea, if no one ever told you, you’re supposed to wipe the seat with TP before laying one of these down. It’s there because a dry wipe isn’t a very good cleaning.
Yes when the flush is violent. Toilets shouldn’t be made that way. Or perhaps they are plumbed or installed wrong somehow. I dunno. Seems like it should be fixable.
To add: my BIO101 class did an experiment to see how effective they are at stopping bacterial transmission. If you aren't using two dozen layers you might as well use zero.
Before you decide what the standard should be in public toilets, visit Japan.
I didn’t see a toilet in Tokyo that wasn’t spotless, and every single one of them also had a warm water bidet built in. Really, the entire city is spotless, not just the toilets. If a weed sprouts from a seam in the asphalt, a work crew will be there next day to scrape it out. The place is ridiculous.
Seattle has a sort of dust-free, spotless quality to it because it rains 4 times a day. But Tokyo was the same and it hadn’t rained in weeks.
#4 is wrong and fucking gross. It looks like they've picked up the paper and folded it up, but you can see from #3 that the middle part is down in the water where it's supposed to be wet.
So according to that instruction, I'm either secretly tearing off that part without being instructed to, or I am pulling that pissy shitty part out of the water and folding it up while it drips all over the place. Disgusting!
What you're supposed to do is just flush and that part that's in the water yanks the paper off the seat without you having to touch anything. Admittedly, if the toilet seat has any "moisture" on it, then the paper can get stuck and might not go down.
I've honestly never seen anyone recommend doing number 4 before. I grabbed this picture to show the original person how they look in the holder and out, but yeah, like you said, the flush is supposed to do step 4 for you.
Somehow, despite it being in hospitals, I never considered that the paper was for hygienic purposes. I always thought it was for comfort -- even though the paper really isn't comfortable at all, it's literally just paper.
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If my elbow touches a surface that was touched by another elbow I swear to god I'm going to kill myself.
That's if you have time before the previous elbow's super-AIDS gets you
I believe the 5 second rule still applies with elbow viruses
Any respectable doctor will have emergency cootie shots on hand.
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Thanks! I was due for a booster
Honestly they clean those seats after every patient anyway so I think the paper is just there because of lobbying from Big Paper.
more like Medium Paper
Lil Paper is my hamster's rapper name.
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I think this is basically true. Though it's an interesting topic Here is an interesting bit of research
Lol I hate being accidentally right when I'm trying to make a dumb joke
Is it there to make the cleaning easier?
If you pooped yourself on it, it’d catch the heavy bits
So yeah it probably makes cleaning large physical remnants (eg poop, skin flakes) easier
If that were the case it would be wider
I hope, but I doubt.
Idk for my kids appts they have used it for marking and measuring height. I'm sure there are other upsides.
It's the moist cracks that get you.
And I never sit comfortable in fear of ripping it all to shreds
To shreds you say
And his wife?
I also choose this man's ex wife
To shreds?
He did say
Damn.
That's what's so insulting about American healthcare. If you're going to charge such criminally high prices, at least don't cheap out on the small stuff. Don't stock your bathrooms with ghostly thin sandpaper toilet paper. Have decently thick barrier paper. We're talking pennies here.
Usually the toilet paper is more about preventing clogs than anything else. You can use more of the thin stuff to compensate, but some people still use that amount of the thick stuff too and cause issues. Then not tell anyone about it out of embarrassment. Etc.
Then he does an ultrasound and your entire front is dripping gel all over the place, and afterwards, he hands you one (1) small piece of tissue to clean yourself.
Those tissues can run upwards of several hundred dollars. Gotta be stingy to keep medical costs down.
No more useful than the paper covers for toilet seats.
Wait...that's a thing?
Huh, lookit that! Lemmy showing me what a society looks like.
You're better off without them. Anything splashed on the seat is just going to soak into the paper, and if you dont pull off the flap (usually ripping the whole cover in half) it's going to wick up water and can be especially gross if you are a guy with external parts that will bump the soggy strip.
If you do place it on a dry seat, it is scratchy paper that is loud and crinkly and will slide every time you move. And at least for me, the cutout doesn't feel large enough and I'm scared stuff is going to catch on the paper on the way down and be held against me.
The hard, smooth, nonporous surface is pretty germ resistant in itself. I'd rather hunt for a cleaner stall than use one of the paper covers.
Yea, if no one ever told you, you’re supposed to wipe the seat with TP before laying one of these down. It’s there because a dry wipe isn’t a very good cleaning.
If nobody ever told you, it's pretty much impossible to catch anything from a toilet seat anyway.
If nobody ever told you, smearing someone else’s piss on your skin is gross even if you don’t catch a disease.
But when you flush that TP, the water oversprays back up on the seat in an endless cycle of frustration! 🤪
Yes when the flush is violent. Toilets shouldn’t be made that way. Or perhaps they are plumbed or installed wrong somehow. I dunno. Seems like it should be fixable.
To add: my BIO101 class did an experiment to see how effective they are at stopping bacterial transmission. If you aren't using two dozen layers you might as well use zero.
I've been in a toilet that just had a desinfectant dispenser so you could wipe the seat down with some tp. Honestly the best one yet
That's the best. I love those places. It should be the standard.
Before you decide what the standard should be in public toilets, visit Japan.
I didn’t see a toilet in Tokyo that wasn’t spotless, and every single one of them also had a warm water bidet built in. Really, the entire city is spotless, not just the toilets. If a weed sprouts from a seam in the asphalt, a work crew will be there next day to scrape it out. The place is ridiculous.
Seattle has a sort of dust-free, spotless quality to it because it rains 4 times a day. But Tokyo was the same and it hadn’t rained in weeks.
That sounds like a much better plan than the paper. Or even if you just splurt a bit of hand sanitizer on there.
Oh...oh god. There are so many more horrors related to this.
I told you that you weren't missing out! 😆
I mainly consider them ornamental and I get so surprised when I hear someone in another stall actually trying to use one.
The dangly parts aren't that far back.
I have a hard time sitting still 😅
#4 is wrong and fucking gross. It looks like they've picked up the paper and folded it up, but you can see from #3 that the middle part is down in the water where it's supposed to be wet.
So according to that instruction, I'm either secretly tearing off that part without being instructed to, or I am pulling that pissy shitty part out of the water and folding it up while it drips all over the place. Disgusting!
What you're supposed to do is just flush and that part that's in the water yanks the paper off the seat without you having to touch anything. Admittedly, if the toilet seat has any "moisture" on it, then the paper can get stuck and might not go down.
I've honestly never seen anyone recommend doing number 4 before. I grabbed this picture to show the original person how they look in the holder and out, but yeah, like you said, the flush is supposed to do step 4 for you.
Maybe these were standardized when people were smaller and less fat.
My daughter is 6 and is wider than the strip because people have shoulders
Big, if true.
I never saw a strip of paper like that that was narrower than me so it could depend on size of the person.
The paper we have here is the size of a normal human.
Somehow, despite it being in hospitals, I never considered that the paper was for hygienic purposes. I always thought it was for comfort -- even though the paper really isn't comfortable at all, it's literally just paper.
I thought the strip was used for the pooping