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Dear Wizard of 'OZ',

I am wondering why public toilet seats are horseshoe shaped yet home ones are round. What's the reason for the difference?


Signed,

Wondering

Dear Wondering,

I scoured the best of the internet on this one*:

There are several reasons that the U-Shaped Toilet Seat is preferable to the original ‘flavoured’ Oval-Shaped Toilet Seat including the following:

1.There is a gap in the front of the seat, giving it a nice exotic U-Shape instead of the old vanilla Oval-Shape you might see at home.

2.This gap, while not only aesthetically interesting, also serves more than one purpose!

3.The gap is an area left out of the seat so that genitals will hopefully not touch the seat of the (public) toilet which prevents the spread of disease and other nasties.

4.The gap in the seat allows for the laziness of some (most) males using the toilet. Rather than being forced to touch and lift the seat (which is both annoying and…kind of disgusting), many male toilet-goers will simply urinate anyway. In the case of the Oval-Shaped Toilet Seat this can have disastrous consequences including the deposit of urine on the toilet seat. The U-Shaped Toilet Seat defeats this problem by removing the area that would be soiled by urine (unless said male was a particularly bad aim) thus providing a cleaner and happier toilet experience for all future users.



There is however one unfortunate disadvantage with the U-Shaped Toilet Seat; it is a commercial product and usually only found in a public bathroom unless some U-Shaped Toilet Seat enthusiast (and lucky sod) has purchased and installed a U-Shaped Toilet Seat in the bathroom of his or her own home.

Hope this helps.

Yrs,

The Wizard

*Timmy and Johnno