close the lid.
now everybody has to adjust the toilet before using it.
No, close the lid because that’s how you avoid coating everything in the room with a film of urine and feces. Open toilets are disgusting.
i mean, that too. that’s the excuse i give when people demand to know why I always “fucking” close the “goddamn” lid :3
Closing the lid so the toilet pipe ghost doesn’t come out
Is that a Zelda reference?
No I made it up but yeah why not. Zelda 64 super secret. Secret wall Young Link.
Leave it up so spiders cant hide under it.
the stinkiest ghosts.
Lawful evil
Lawful Good IMO
Also, then stuff can’t accidentally fall into the toilet
TIL I’m a moron always being careful around the toilet so I don’t drop something in…when I could’ve just closed the lid.
Me, an alpha male sitting down to pee and closing the lid afterwards: what are you talking about you degenerates
More efficient. Healthier for some.
https://www.menshealth.com/uk/health/a44048316/sitting-down-to-pee-health-benefits/
It’s probably an American problem.
My partner and I have separate bathrooms. It saves bottlenecks and conflicts, and is worth it to us, even in our small house. We keep our own rooms clean, enforcing the “I am an adult” rule, you make a mess, you clean it up. Piss splash is gross to clean up. I don’t make an extra mess if I do not need to.
Lower the lid before you flush. Aerosolized poop and pee is a thing.
That’s what I do
Fuck that I pee through the lid
My wife does this, no lie. Took me awhile to figure out why the lid was always up after she moved in.
You made a good choice
My wife does this, no lie. Took me awhile to figure out why the lid was always up after she moved in.
Everyone needs to put the toilet seat down. Flushing with the lid up is committing biological warfare on yourself and everything else in the bathroom.
This is my opinion too. Everyone needs to put the whole lid down. Then everyone has to lift something when they go to do their thing.
Edit: Also wanted to say that, unfortunately, it doesn’t make a difference for sanitary reasons. It’s just the polite thing to do.
Thanks for the link!
It did say that it reduces particle spread by 30-60% though, yet with qualifiers too.
My natural intuitive thought is that the lid down surely limits the spreading, i.e. the left side of this picture, especially as compared with the right side:
Also, I want to (half jokingly) complain that they treat the MS2 bacteriophage like one of the bad guys there, as if killing the E. coili wouldn’t make it one of our allies in that fight:-). (I say jokingly bc most people reading such an article would know that, but also what they really used it for was a detection vector, probably bc the protein wrapping eases sample collection by reducing degradation.)
Besides, not all seats are the same. The lid on my toilet wraps around the top of the bowl, which seems like it would reduce spread.
It would be neat if someone developed a product where like you could spray a mist into the air, or I guess pour a liquid into the bowl, turn off the lights, flush the toilet and then watch as it glows where all the “stuff” spreads:-). But for now, at least these studies are better than nothing.:-D
I mean you could kinda do that yourself with UV ink and an appropriate flashlight. Put some in the bowl and some in the tank, maybe even different colors to see which portion contributes more.
There is no product on the market I could find (with a normal price that isn’t some $15,000 super toilet) that will open and close the lid and then flush for you. There are automatic seats, but they are timed such that it’s completely unreasonable to stand and wait for them to close before flushing.
Crazy to think they’re are no hands free options available.
But watching with great satisfaction as your turd circles down the toilet is one of life’s great joys.
I always flush, then put the seat down. I picked it up as a habit when we had a dog that would drink the toilet water
Not only that, peeing sitting down is easier and more relaxing for men.
unless the toilet is too small
I hate when my piece swabs the underside of the toilet seat 🤮
We both put the lid down after we’re done
- Men, women, and everyone in between and between all sit at some point when using the toilet.
- It’s unsanitary to flush with the lid up.
Yep, mathematically people sit more often than stand when using a toilet.
Men, women, and everyone in between and between all sit at some point when using the toilet.
The most efficient thing to do is leave the toilet seat the way it is when you’re done. Minimal effort.
The most fair thing to do, oddly, is to leave the seat in the opposite position it was when you got there; everybody flips it once, it may be before or after you use it. Fair.
It’s unsanitary to flush with the lid up.
I’m in this camp though, so it’s always left down.
The most fair thing to do, oddly, is to leave the seat in the opposite position it was when you got there; everybody flips it once, it may be before or after you use it. Fair.
I’ll remember this one, I love it when people are actually logical about things.
Reminds me of canal locks. The etiquette is to always close the doors after you leave, and people get angry when you don’t. But it’s infuriating because it actually creates more work for everyone. If you leave the doors closed then the next person always has to stop their boat to open them, but if you leave them open there’s a 50% chance the correct set of doors is open for the next person to sail right in. If you’re in the unlucky 50% it makes no difference, because you had to stop to empty the lock anyway and afterwards you get to sail off without closing them.
People also think closing them saves water, which is another can of people-not-understanding-physics worms.
It doesn’t make any difference if you flush with the lid up. Poop particles will still go everywhere, even if the lid is down. There was a study on it that came out earlier this year.
Why don’t we keep the toilet in a room separate from the shower and sink? I’ve never fucking understood it.
U mean an outthouse?
Thanks for the link
If you raise or lower the seat to how you need it, before you use the toilet, then you don’t have to worry about this issue at all.
I pee with the toilet seat down for extra difficulty
I sit on the toilet to pee at home. Why do all guys just not do that? It’s better in every way.
Never got an unwanted dunk?
Nah. Short penis privilege 😎
I also use my penis on hard mode.
I pee with the lid down too, expert difficulty.
i sit down because I’m an adult and clean my own toilet. Standing is gross.
Yeah it’s way more work to have to clean up unless you don’t mind your bathroom smelling of piss.
For anyone that thinks about shit plumes: Iirc last time I heard it mentioned and looked at the study, it was based on public restrooms with high pressure flushing mechanisms, not the slow flush tank dump I think most people have at home. If it sounds loud and splashy, maybe a shit plume, if it’s a sploosh swirl blub blub, prolly not a shit plume. Pouring water on shit doesn’t really aerosolize it, power washing it does.
That " study" more dubious than that. It was really just an uncontrolled experiment.
I mean easy to check, put a sheet of film on the toilet when flushing and look at the splash pattern
‘Splattern’
I think women should start pissing standing so my fellow fragile penis owner, who think standing while pissing is the only option, learn how filthy a toilet gets if you don’t put your parts in the bowl.
If i piss while sitting is way worse, pee fall trough the space between the seat and the WC body.
Close the fucking toilet you heathens. All of you.
The difference is that if I forget to put the toilet seat down, she can fall in.
Vs if she forgets to put the seat up, I just pee all over the toilet seat.
I mean, considerate of you and all but maybe this is just my chaos sitzpinkler enby opinion but if you get into the habit of checking the toilet for a second beforehand because you don’t expect it to be reset for your specific needs this doesn’t happen.
I never expect people to put the seat down for me nor do I expect to put the seat up for them as both require the same amount of effort to rejig the toilet seat and it cannot be counted on who will be using the bathroom next. This feels a little bit “holding the door open for the lady” courtesy. A weird holdover gendered etiquette expectation for folks who stand and pee that just hasn’t been re-examined.
I’ve never understood this… are people just blindly launching their butts at toilets? Are the lights off? Is alcohol involved?
Muscle memory mostly. I’ve done it a couple of times.
I don’t know about you but I look at what I’m about to sit on.
I’m talking maybe 3 times in 30 years here, and it’s nothing dramatic, just an ‘ah this is colder than a toilet seat should be’ before standing up again.
That makes sense. I guess I’m the opposite. I have a habit of scrutinizing every toilet I sit on because I don’t trust placing the delicate bits over random holes…
The vast majority of the time it’s fine. It’s seemingly only happened in the past when there’s been a guest over who doesn’t put the seat down themselves. When you have a white seat on a white toilet then it can be easy to make bad calls from subconscious glances.
Yeah but we also use the toilet seat. So for me, that’s enough to leave it down.
