View Full Version : Put the effing toilet seat down!!!
Bridgette
02-17-2008, 11:05 PM
because it is. i bet you wouldnt find any toilet seats left up in most homes of people with the proper upbringing and manners. at least in the south.Well I was raised in the south and I simply disagree. Like I disagree with a whole lot of other malarky they teach there ;D ;D
northy
02-18-2008, 03:08 AM
who wants to handle a toilet seat? If he has to touch it to put it up, he may as well touch it to put it down, instead of making someone else do it.
I dont touch the toilet seat with me hands... I always use my foot. 8)
anyways... keep the seat up and it dont get pissed on
jaizaine
02-18-2008, 05:38 AM
Someone mentioned that women have a sense of entitlement that the seat should be left down. For me it's about the fact that I do not want to touch the lid of a toilet seat with my hands. I find that revolting.
I also don't want to have to look at the rim of the toilet with the piss and pubic hair that tends to stick there under the lid.
The men have to touch it to lift it up so they should do the same to put it back down.
Why can't they sit down to piss anyway?
Snappa
02-18-2008, 06:11 AM
Why can't they sit down to piss anyway?
I do when I'm drunk or tired. But the main reason men pee standing up: we can.
kitty69
02-18-2008, 06:37 AM
I am so confused....
My bf sits to pee and poo, yet I often find the seat up.
My daughters are dreadful for dripping on the seat when they kinda stand to wipe, and if I could get just one of them to remember to flush in the first place it would make my day. (Me thinks it is the youngest person in the house with a fear of flushing.)
To be honest I don't really mind either way about the toilet seat, it is the inability of anyone else in my house to take the empty loo roll off and put a new one on. Or when they leave two squares draped over the cardboard tube and you don't realize it is empty until you are half way through your business.>:( hahahaha.
doc-catfish
02-18-2008, 10:33 AM
Someone mentioned that women have a sense of entitlement that the seat should be left down. For me it's about the fact that I do not want to touch the lid of a toilet seat with my hands. I find that revolting.
I am curious about how you'd go about cleaning it then? Even with the seat and lid down you're going to have some poo splash. At some point, you're going to have to get in there and wipe that grime off.
I'm all for proper sanitary behavior in the bathroom folks, but some of you might as well suggest:
1. The males in your house go do their number one a tree or a fire hydrant outside, and risk and indecent exposure charge in the process.
2. Anyone with diarrhea, incontinence, bad aim or lack of potty training be forced to go use the toilet somewhere else.
If I were dating a gal, and she was as parochial over this seemingly small issue as some of you are, I honestly think I would break up with her.
thickienikkie
02-18-2008, 11:07 AM
^^^ Obviously, they don't understand subtlety. I'd just tape the toilet seat down and tell them it's broken so they have to use the gas station down the street! }:D
lmao I totally agree
I hate falling through open tiolets, with all this ass I still manage to slip through
GRRRRR.....
RoseLeigh
02-18-2008, 01:35 PM
DAMNIT! I just almost fell into the toilet. And all women live here. WTF? It's just gross to leave it all up. Just close the lid people!
LoveSexMoney
02-18-2008, 01:41 PM
I still can't believe how many people flush with the lid open. :ill:
NinaDaisy
02-18-2008, 03:00 PM
I have learned to pay attention and put the seat down before I sit. They have to pay attention and put it up before they pee, so simply looking before I sit and taking a whopping 1 second to put the seat down doesn't seem so unreasonable to me.
That's always worked for me. I don't think I've ever sat in water before. It's such a habit for me to look before I go that it's never even happened when I've been drunk. Go me.
^^^ Yes, but it's really nasty to have the toilet wide open and yawning germs when no one's using it.
This just seems more a matter of keeping the toilet clean and having other people flush, which is a whole 'nother matter altogether!
I liked the idea with the sign. Put it above the toilet so they look at it while they piss. If your household is more relaxed and cheeky, use a pic of a hot naked girl to get the guys attention.
You can caption it with something like:
"Made ya look! Now please be a sweetheart and put the seat down."
Sophia_Starina
02-18-2008, 05:22 PM
The proper position for the seat to be is down.
Someone needs to be tazed into proper behavior....
*zap* :shocking:
That is all.
xdamage
02-18-2008, 05:30 PM
I have another problem. My boyfriend doesn't lift the seat to pee, he leaves it down and ends up peeing on the seat,
Yes, well, this is due to a major Engineering flaw in the design of the toilet seat. Any half way reasonable Engineer could point it out immediately. Want to guess?
(spoiler)
See it is simple. There is just no way to pick up the seat without putting one's fingers under the damn seat. And we all know that gross green and yellow crud grows under there between the bottom of the seat and the toilet bowel. Who wants to touch that? Ick. The only way to pick it up is to wear gloves, or use a thingy not to touch that part. If only it had a handle of some sort. But nope... So we guys figure why risk getting cooties on our fingers? Too much work, and risk for no obvious benefit.
jaizaine
02-18-2008, 06:11 PM
I am curious about how you'd go about cleaning it then? Even with the seat and lid down you're going to have some poo splash. At some point, you're going to have to get in there and wipe that grime off.
I have never cleaned a toilet before ;D
Can u tell I still live at home LOL
doc-catfish
02-18-2008, 06:12 PM
The proper position for the seat to be is down.
No, the proper position for the toilet seat is the one that works best for the current user of the toilet. If the position they find the toilet in is not suitable for this purpose, they should move it accordingly.
Since in the OP's instance, it was a houseguest using HER toilet, I think its a personally reasonable request to ask said guest leave the toilet seat in the position that it was found.
But when multiple people of both sexes share the same domicile and hence the same bathroom, it should be the equal duty of those people to move the toilet seat accordingly. Someone actually went and did some statistical research and found that this actually led to the least toilet seat movement, and therefore was the most fair, albeit perhaps not the most chivalrous.
http://www.speech.sri.com/people/anand/toiletseat/index.html
You know, this probably explains why most single family homes have two toilets. The regular toilet which everyone uses, and the more secluded master bedroom toilet, which for whatever reason in my home was always "dads" toilet. That one had the seat up the most often anyways.
Sophia_Starina
02-18-2008, 06:28 PM
I dunno... I just lifted my toilet seat up to investigate the matter.
On the underside of the seat, there are ugly knobs... like in this photograph...
http://www.ultimatehandyman.co.uk/TOILETSEAT5.jpg
If it were meant to remain up, wouldn't engineers make it more aesthetically appealing??? More smooth more streamlined (like we all know a lowered toilet seat to be).
>>>> http://3quarksdaily.blogs.com/3quarksdaily/images/2007/06/02/seat_open.jpg
This leads me to believe that the intended position of the seat is DOWN. Also, for maximum awesome, the lid should be closed as well.
xdamage
02-18-2008, 06:29 PM
On the underside of the seat, there are ugly knobs... like in this photograph...
Look closer...
Cooties live there.
To pick up the seat, your fingers must come in contact with the cooties. See the problem?
Sophia_Starina
02-18-2008, 06:31 PM
Look closer...
Cooties live there.
Nahhh.... there are no cooties in my booty. Also, my pee smells like fresh cupcakes. :P
xdamage
02-18-2008, 06:34 PM
Nahhh.... there are no cooties in my booty. Also, my pee smells like fresh cupcakes. :P
;D;D;D
p.s., I am at a loss for a comeback ;)
doc-catfish
02-18-2008, 06:54 PM
If it were meant to remain up, wouldn't engineers make it more aesthetically appealing???.
Yes they would. But its a toilet, not a lawn ornament. Its purpose in a home is a utilitarian one, not an aesthetic one. Precisely the reason that much like socks, 90% of the toilets that I've ever seen are plain ol' white.
Although mine is avocado. :-\
jaizaine
02-18-2008, 07:00 PM
^^^
I think they are white so that you can really see if they are clean or not. Might be a bit harder with other colours. It's like hospital and hotel bed sheets.
RoseLeigh
02-18-2008, 08:33 PM
Look closer...
Cooties live there.
To pick up the seat, your fingers must come in contact with the cooties. See the problem?
A problem solved by sitting down if you cannot aim properly!
Bridgette
02-18-2008, 09:16 PM
Would that not suggest the inclusion of a lid was a utilitarian choice, not an aesthetic one? The only utility the lid has is when it is closed.I believe it's a throwback to more primitive toilet models which would've had lids to help contain the smell.
Or one could say the lid is meant to put an aesthetic touch to an otherwise utilitarian (and unsightly) item. ha
Personally, I like the appearance of a completely closed toilet best of all. BOTH seat and lid. And I think that is the only state in which to leave a toilet that could even remotely be construed as a sign of good manners. In this case, EVERYONE has to open/close the thing before/after use ;D
Glamazon
02-18-2008, 09:28 PM
Look closer...
Cooties live there.
To pick up the seat, your fingers must come in contact with the cooties. See the problem?
That is why boys (and men) should sit to do their business everytime!!
Whatever happened to putting thing sback how they were when you found them? Especially other peoples things? Didn't they teach thi sto everyone in elementary school, or was that just mine?
Lysondra
02-19-2008, 03:22 PM
M made a point about my anal retentiveness about having the lid closed as well - "At least it's fair - we BOTH have to lift something. MWAHAHAHA!"
It freaks me out to flush with the lid up. I always close it and get freaked out when someone else doesn't. When in public stalls, I flush and run away. Heh.