Putting the toilet seat down – a critical evaluation

[mxzombie]

take it away

[noyen]

the feminist movement lost a lot today.

[redbreegull]

Originally Posted by mxzombie

next redbreegull will discuss the antiquated and superfluous practice of wiping with toilet paper.

well I don't usually need to wipe with your mom licking my asshole

[ilikeplanets]

Originally Posted by redbreegull

lol

I know this isn't a really good analogy ILP, but that's kind of like walking into a closed door and whining that you expected a man to hold it open for you

I guess it always surprises me how uptight people are about decorum when it comes to hygiene or anything to do with a bathroom, even when it doesn't really make so much sense. I'm getting a lot of "it's polite." "but why?" "it's just polite why can't you do it"

It doesn't have to be a man that puts it back down. If I lift it up for any reason, like to clean it, I put it back down. Wtf why do you want it up?

[noyen]

the toilet seat chakra doesnt care if it is up or down. it just is. hinged both directions, it sways either way as piss, shit and vomit pass through without prejudice. ooooooohhhhhhhmmmm.

[Shallowed]

Originally Posted by ilikeplanets

Wtf why do you want it up?

[Eulogy]

Originally Posted by pavementtune

It's not only because of germs. A bathroom with a closed toilet looks better. Simple as that.

x a billion

i hate looking in open toilets. shut the motherfucking lid good god.

[butthurt]

http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mb...2hoso1_500.jpg

[redbreegull]

this thread is full of crazy people. I will leave the fucking lid up even more now. you neurotic fucksticks

[Starla]

Originally Posted by vixnix

You also said that you didn't know why toilets had lids and acted like I only lowered it and encouraged my kids to lower it because I'm not a critical thinker and I'm a germphobe.

As for lowering the seat, it's a seat. It has no business being in a position where people can't sir on it. If you put it there so that you can pee standing up...because you're not good enough at peeing standing up to stop yourself from peeing on the seat, it's a courtesy to others who use the seat as a seat, to return said seat to a position where it may be used...as a seat. Why don't guys just stop with this ridiculous messy peeing standing up ridiculousness and sit down like normal people.

I don't know if your kids have ever had rotavirus, but mine did when she was a year old. After a three week stay in a pediatric hospital trying to stop her from vomiting and diarrhea at the same time, I became a total germaphobe about hand washing and keeping the kitchen and bathroom totally clean.

From what I understand, shopping cart handles are worse than the public bathrooms. With kids and adults wiping snot on them, fecal matter from lack of handwashing, etc.

[Starla]

Researchers have discovered that closing the toilet lid before you flush could prevent the norovirus, also known as the winter vomiting bug, from spreading.

Scientists from the Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust found that leaving the lavatory lid up when you flush the toilet causes a cloud of bacteria to explode into the air and settle on nearby surfaces.

This increases the risk of viruses such as the winter vomiting bug and hospital superbugs transmitting from one person to another.

The researchers tested a range of hospital toilets to see whether leaving the toilet seat up or down has any impact on the stomach bug spreading.

They used a sterilised toilet and created a 'diarrhoea effect' in it using stool samples deliberately infected with the superbug C. difficile.

Researchers found when the toilet lid was left open, the superbug was transported 10 inches above and on the toilet seat, plus a smaller amount was detected in the air up to 90 minutes later.

When the lid was put down while flushing, the bug could reach through the gap of the lid but there was a significantly lower level of it in the air. There was also no C. difficile recovered on nearby surfaces.

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2012...n_1182966.html

I caught norovirus last year at work, and let me just say I thought I was on death's door. It was the worst flu I have ever had in my life. :[

[reprise85]

this thread will change my toilet seat habits

considering in my studio apartment my bathroom is right next to my kitchen and i usually dont close the door... yeah

[reprise85]

Originally Posted by noyen

the toilet seat chakra doesnt care if it is up or down. it just is. hinged both directions, it sways either way as piss, shit and vomit pass through without prejudice. ooooooohhhhhhhmmmm.

this is great

[Starla]

Originally Posted by reprise85

this thread will change my toilet seat habits

considering in my studio apartment my bathroom is right next to my kitchen and i usually dont close the door... yeah

Well, I walked into the bathroom earlier and still didn't put the lid down

[Cool As Ice Cream]

i usually put the seat up (if it wasn't already up), flush, and then put the seat and the lid down.
if the seat is up while flushing, it can't get wet.
no idea why i put the lid down afterwards though.

[sppunk]

Why not just pee outside? At home I usually always run out back and pee in the woods. Saves water that isn't necessary and avoids this entire stupid fucking "debate".

[yo soy el mejor]

don't you think i'd pee in the woods if i could. i hate sitting on toilets. if i'm thinking about it, i will place my hands on my thighs and just squat over the commode. i have a terrible habit of leaving my pants unzipped, though.

[sppunk]

Yah that was directed at redbreegull and not the women. I'd hate not being able to easily pee.

[Trotskilicious]

rbg is sensitives because he is filthy and he's trying to justify it using his liberal arts degree

[Trotskilicious]

Originally Posted by vixnix

I don't think it does any harm either

it will make their immune systems pathetic and they will get sick from the slightest wind change

[Order 66]

when i lived at my parents i'd pee in the backyard.. something must be terribly wrong inside me because if you go back to that pee spot not a blade of grass grows there to this day

[Trotskilicious]

when i have a cigarette outside i often have to shit, i do it in my pants and then walk around all day it's perfectly natural monkeys don't have toilet paper lol

[Order 66]

i knew a guy who shit in the shower. he was like 'what, you never do that??' .. he was seriously baffled

[Trotskilicious]

i shower with shit it's perfectly natural

[redbreegull]

Originally Posted by sppunk

Yah that was directed at redbreegull and not the women. I'd hate not being able to easily pee.

I do love peeing outside but I live in an apartment so I can't just run out the back door to do it.

Originally Posted by Trotskilicious

rbg is sensitives because he is filthy and he's trying to justify it using his liberal arts degree

all this thread is really about is why should I put the seat down for some hypothetical female who might occupy the bowl in the future. Despite the fact that you crazies have pulled out every justification for this practice that you can muster with your orangutan craniums, you all know that the real reason people put the seat down is because it's a nonsensical chivalric ritual meant to display gentlemanliness to the puny weaker sex

Originally Posted by Trotskilicious

when i have a cigarette outside i often have to shit, i do it in my pants and then walk around all day it's perfectly natural monkeys don't have toilet paper lol

your analogies are so good man someone should nominate you for an award

[redbreegull]

an analogical award

[Eulogy]

i live alone and no one ever comes here and i put the lid down every time because toilets are gross. you haven't addressed that point.

[noyen]

opinions about toilets dont make them facts.

i love, alone, on the toilet too. sometimes i discharge love into it. or even on top of the seat. lid closed. i use a contact mic on it and run it through various effects and amp simulations and have a spastic recite poetry about rape on a tape loop. they come out as limited editon cassettes.

[redbreegull]

if you want your lid down that's fine I don't have any issue with someone's preference being the lid down, although I think vivnix is a little over the top thinking she is going to get sick from flushing with the lid up.

but most people do not put the lid down, or else I have lived my entire life interacting with an amazingly inaccurate sample population of toilet users. most people put the seat down though, because it's like rude to women if you don't

[Eulogy]

goddamn it

this is happening more and more