Toilet seat covers

[eekee 182]

Several members have mentioned that their spouses would rather "hold it" than deign to use a toilet without a seat cover. I have never seen a toilet seat cover in Russia, in a store or on a toilet. So I am wondering if perhaps it is regional, like the farther east you go, the greater importance a toilet seat cover takes. So I would like to conduct an important anthropological study: please briefly describe a.) where your spouse/fiancee is from and b.) where or not he/she considers a toilet seat cover is a necessity.

st. petersburg, never heard of it.

Edited May 30, 2008 by eekee

[CarlosAndSveta 808]

Several members have mentioned that their spouses would rather "hold it" than deign to use a toilet without a seat cover. I have never seen a toilet seat cover in Russia, in a store or on a toilet. So I am wondering if perhaps it is regional, like the farther east you go, the greater importance a toilet seat cover takes. So I would like to conduct an important anthropological study: please briefly describe a.) where your spouse/fiancee is from and b.) where or not he/she considers a toilet seat cover is a necessity.

st. petersburg, never heard of it.

My spouse and daughter are from Volgograd and they said that they did not use toilet seat covers on the toilet in their flat.

[Kazan' Tiger 1]

From my future wife in Kazan', "Seat cover? What is it? Never I see it."

[akdiver 3]

My wife is from Kazan. I've spent a fair amount of time there. Total time in Russia, in various locations, is maybe 75 days. To be honest, I never noticed if the toilet seats have covers or not. I guess when I am in that little room, my mind is on something more biological.

[MarkandLada 0]

Fiancee and her daughter also from Volgograd...never heard of it....

[eekee 182]

I am wondering if it is a Far East thing... perhaps a Korean import?

[MarkandLada 0]

I will add one more thing... we spent a few days out in remote village near Rostov, and I wished to God that they DID have toilet seat covers!!

[Don E 0]

Don't know that it's a Far East thing, as I never saw any during my time in Vladivostok. Ditto in Vladimir.

[slim 1,530]

It is a Far East thing.

More Chinese (and Japanese) than Korean. Most high-end Korean and Japanese toilets have now been upgraded to the "powerflush" which has warm water and a nice misty spray, plays music, etc. No seat cover needed because it's nice and warm already.

I spent two years in Korea and I never sat on a fabric toilet ring cover. (My wife spent a lot of time there too, and to my knowledge she never had one there.)

However, it seems all the girls in the Far East (Khabarovsk, Vladivostok, etc.) buy them when they take the train (or bus) to China to go shopping. Something about "it is necessary because *private parts* get sick from so cold ring. You want that my *$*% be frozen off?"

[shikarnov 7]

I will add one more thing... we spent a few days out in remote village near Rostov, and I wished to God that they DID have toilet seat covers!!

On the long taxi/bus trip from Moscow to Ivanovo, I frequently wished to God that the toilets had seats at all (for the few places along the way that didn't have gaping holes in the ground in place of toilets).

During my years in Ivanovo, I never saw seat covers in flats. And never saw seats in public places (including bathrooms in polyclinics - which you do NOT want me to describe) except for one little hole-in-the-wall restaurant that had a pristine, clean, white bathroom with a beautiful, water-filled, American style, "whoosh" toilet. Some days I'd go to get lunch at that restaurant just to spend time in that bathroom - arguably the best bathroom in the whole damned region.

On the bright side - now that Ira's here, she understands what I was complaining about for so long. In spite of having seen movies, she can't get over the general cleanliness here (hardly the cleanest place on Earth - which says a lot) - including our bathrooms, private and public.

Z

Edited May 31, 2008 by shikarnov

[Satellite 1]

Never saw a seat cover. Someone should post an image.

Cities I visited with no seat covers - Moscow, Sochi, Tomsk, Kharkov (Ukraine), and Novosibirsk.

[Kazan' Tiger 1]

I agree with Satellite. Let's see some images of this mysterious toilet seat cover. I can also say I have never seen one in use in all of these places... Kazan', Volzhsk, Yoshkar-Ola, Al'met'evsk, Moscow, and Tallinn, Estonia.

Never saw a seat cover. Someone should post an image.

Cities I visited with no seat covers - Moscow, Sochi, Tomsk, Kharkov (Ukraine), and Novosibirsk.

[akdiver 3]

I just asked my wife. She says in private houses, almost always - in public places, generally not. She also thinks this is a dumb conversation (:

[Okiebollweevil 0]

I just asked my wife. She says in private houses, almost always - in public places, generally not. She also thinks this is a dumb conversation (:

Dumb conversation or not first thing my wife did on coming to the toilet in the apartment we lived in and shared a bathroom was to take a hand towel and precisely wrap the existing toilet seat. She is from Ekaterinburg. I am too scared of her to inquire why. Mysteriously, my toilet in our house doesn't have one. OK for the man to freeze it off but not my tender one. And who came from the cold? I did notice the toilet in my wife's apartment was quite different to the one we have here in the states, water in front. She bemoans the fact we can't get a Russian type toilet here. Well, the privations of life in the States rear their ugly head again.

[slim 1,530]

Here's a link - http://www.amazon.com/Comfy-Covers-Resista...r/dp/B000E73MZO

Ours is way more "Asian" than that. (Even has a picture of a little "snow bear" on it.)

Edited June 1, 2008 by slim