• jaybone@lemmy.zip
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    13 days ago

    Oh wait. Right. Those were a different thing though. Those were like removable covers. I think they had like an elastic on the bottom, kind of like a fitted sheet. So you could remove and wash them.

    The ones I’m thinking of were more like OP or the parent comment. It was like a vinyl, with some padding inside. So not machine washable, but you could wipe it down.

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      13 days ago

      Still, one crack or tear in the vinyl and who knows what starts growing inside one of those padded seats? Maybe I’m being unreasonable, but even as a child of the 80s those seats always gave me the ick. (Of course, that’s not how I would have said it then.)

      The master bath in my childhood home is carpeted, and when I was a child we also had those carpet-like removable lid covers with the elastic underneath.

      • Herbal Gamer@sh.itjust.works
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        12 days ago

        just imagine the squish of accumulated liquids being forced out through tiny cracks every time you sit down on a covered sponge.