Paper toilet seat covers

wazza

Any idea which high street retailers stock disposable paper toilet seat covers?

The only source is through amazon website.

Thanks

cattie

My local (independent) pharmacy stocks them as I get them for friends. Pack of 10 costs £1.

A.Penny.Saved

Can anyone explain what they are for?

cattie

To stop your bum touching a seat other people might have p**d on!

A.Penny.Saved

lmao. Do males in some homes not put up the toilet seat when they urinate?

Thanks for clearing that point up, even though I don't really understand why.:eek:

grizzly1911

Some loo flushes actually spottle the seat in the process too due to the wash pattern.

Hover or wipe with a wad of loo roll?

dacouch

Reminds me of dragons den.


Last Updated: Thursday, 26 July 2007, 05:10 GMT 06:10 UK

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Dragons' Den: Where are they now?
By Dominic Bird
Dragon's Den

There have been some extraordinary successes in the den - and of course some crushing disasters.

Levi Root is running a big operation
But what happens after the handshakes when a deal is struck? And for those less successful, where next after the final Dragon has uttered those dreaded words: "I'm Out"?

The reality is that what happens next reflects the real business world surprisingly accurately. In business, roughly a third of proposed deals fall through before completion.

The Dragons' hit-rate compares favourably - and over the previous two series more deals have come to fruition than ever before.

But signing up to the deal is of course just the beginning.

Making money from the venture - even when you own 40% of a business - is every bit as tough for the Dragons as it is for the rest of the business community.

A venture capitalist will tell you that if they get one big money-making investment to cover nine other deals that never hit the big time, they would be happy.

Saucy sales

Peter Jones and Richard Farleigh have reason to be pleased with their investment in Levi Roots, the Rastafarian singer behind Reggae Reggae Sauce.


This one will be a winner
Peter Ashley, Easyxchair
He came into the den with a guitar, a couple of bottles of jerk sauce he had made in his kitchen - and absolutely nothing else, at least not of any apparent business value.

But the Dragons sensed an opportunity in the charismatic Levi, and only months after they shook hands in the den the sauce hit the shelves of one of Britain's biggest supermarket chains.

They now claim to have sold more than half a million bottles and Levi has gone from making sauce in his kitchen to running an impressive and profitable company.

It is an extraordinary tale, and the kind of story that surely inspires a thousand other hopeful entrepreneurs.

No more work

Of course, some deals fall by the wayside.

All five Dragons pledged investment in the Standby Saver, a seemingly unique plug-like device for cutting the power wasted by appliances when left in standby mode.

But the original deal was based upon a patent that the inventors Peter Ensinger and David Baker needed to protect their product.

In the end the situation could not be resolved and their deal fell through.

But that is not the end of the story.

Peter and David subsequently found another investor to buy into the product, and while Peter will not reveal exactly how much he made from the deal he does tell us he never needs to work again, which sounds like a pretty satisfying outcome - from his perspective at least.

No sweat

And what of those plucky entrepreneurs who were sent from the den scorched by the fearsome words of the Dragons?


Jacquie Edwards does not accept her idea was a flash in the pan
There is surely no better evidence of the stamina of a genuine entrepreneur than this series of Where Are They Now?.

Remember Peter Ashley and his Easyxchair, a multi gym hidden in a lounge chair, which reduced the usually stoic Duncan Bannatyne to tears?

Unabashed, he is now refining his new office chair multigym - complete with hydraulics.

"This one," he says earnestly, "will be a winner".

We shall see.

Determined entrepreneurs

You may wonder what became of Jacquie Edwards and the disposable toilet seat covers that Deborah Meaden disliked so much.

As Peter Jones would put it, her bid for investment in the den went swiftly down the pan.

But did the experience dampen her own enthusiasm for the product?

Well, the fact that she has just ordered a container-load of thousands of new improved toilet seat covers, convinced she will find someone willing to buy them from her, suggests not.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/6913848.stm

A.Penny.Saved

grizzly1911 wrote: »

Some loo flushes actually spottle the seat in the process too due to the wash pattern.

Hover or wipe with a wad of loo roll?

In which case any women who say "put the toilet seat down when your finished!" get a surprise left for them. lol

You see ladies, men do think about you and you never realised it. lmao

wazza

A.Penny.Saved wrote: »

Can anyone explain what they are for?

They are mainly used in public toilets. The user is scared of catching something from the seat. Some will lay strips of toilet paper on the seat. The paper toilet seat covers is as descibed. You place one on the seat and do your business. Then you either bin it or flush it down the loo.

Asking for a female friend of mine who has to keep it in while at work lol. Don't know how she does it but am tempted to make her laugh when she comes in.

Gloomendoom

We have a recurring problem at work with Chinese people squatting on the loo seats and breaking them.

Last year one slipped off and did himself a nasty injury. He made a hell of a mess in the process too.