Putting the toilet seat down – a critical evaluation
 

Can anyone actually defend this practice? It seems completely illogical and chivalrously sexist. It doesn't make any more sense than running around not allowing women to open doors for themselves.

If there is a single male and a single female living under one roof, it makes sense for both individuals to alternate the toilet seat after they use it, because the chances are the the other person will use it next. If there are a greater number of females than males, maybe it makes sense to put the seat down because statistically it is most likely a female will use it next... but then the opposite should apply as well. A single female living in a house of males should always put the toilet seat in the upright position because she is very unlikely to be the next person to use it.

In India people squat over holes in the ground, at least according to travel reportage series Idiot Abroad. That must surely be A: the most hygenic option and B: the most asthetically pleasing.

If alcohol is involved all bets are off

When I was in Africa most of the more developed areas had indoor plumbing and toilets, but plenty of rural/poorer areas still have holes in the ground you shit into. It was pretty hard to get used to, especially since the food there often gave me weird shits. Also, you bathe with a bucket right over the same hole.

I also stayed in this extremely sketchy hotel where the toilet and shower where located in such a confined space that you really couldn't take a shower without sitting on the john.

This is a thread because Redbreegull

this is a serious issue. don't just accept things uncritically, use your fucking head you stupid morans

I don't get piss porn... how you can stand around all these attractive nude women and stay flaccid enough to urinate?

real men pee sitting down.

http://ca.jezebel.com/5954529/this-w...s-sitting-down

those pictures are gross. why is that man's pee so brown

the thing with leaving the seat up is it's no big deal unless i go to pee in the middle of the night and dont think to make sure the toilet seat is down before sitting. other than that, idgaf.

Who is leaving the lid up anyway.

one that can never be known
either all drunk with the world at her feet
or sober with no place to go
all flowers in time bend towards the sun
I know you say that there's no one for you but here is one

who the hell puts the lid down

why do toilets even HAVE lids

95% of toilets I use in private homes. The other 5% belong to all male college flats.

HOW IS THAT RELEVANT

I just carry around a bottle at all times and pee in that like a hobo.

Bottle peeing - that takes some serious training.

For you perhaps.

Toilets have lids because if you flush without putting the lid down the force of the water makes toilet germs spray up in a fine vapour all over the toilet and surrounding area. Always put the lid down to contain toilet germs. I teach my kids to do that.

The toilet seat remains down. If you don't want to touch it, to put it up or down, either sit down, or install a urinal.

Are you microbiology?

just watched the first four episodes of this again; love this show so much

put a NSFW tag on that post next time

some real counter cultural thinking at work here

what the fuck

no, I didn't even like regular biology. I'm just a germphobe.

your kids will all have terrible allergies

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if you get upset about the toilet seat being left up how bent out of shape do you get about cigarette butts being thrown in the john? this coming from the same delicate creature that clogged up my shitter with her used tampons one heavy month.

tampons should never be flushed, what a turd

oh my god just put it down please

give me a reason

A toilet has a lid. Guess why.

no they won't, they play outside in the dirt all the time and swim in the sea and everything else. But afterwards we come home and I wash them and I clean the bathroom and toilet. You don't have to live in an unhygienic way avoid developing allergies. I don't think it does any harm either I'm just neurotic and a germ phobe and I feel better about everything if my house has a clean lavender-y smell and I know my kids can use the toilet or sit on the kitchen floor without picking up some gastro bug.

Naturally, if you haven't seen the South Park on this topic, check it out - Season 16, Episode 1 - "Reverse Cowgirl" over at www.SouthParkStudios.com - hilarious.

Back to actual input now: I really don't mind the lifting of the seat. It's the putting it back down that irks me for some reason. Which is why those slow-lowering seats are one of the greatest inventions of the 21st century so far. You seen these things? You just give it a little tap with a pinky and it lowers on it's own without the crashing of the seat into the bowl.

I'm into bidets

I've solved the problem with men leaving toilet seats up by not allowing men in my home. They have to go out and pee by the bushes.

you're my kinda woman, Starla