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    Warning: RANTY.

    I think this is the most asinine practice in the history of human hygiene.

    My current roommate does this and it drives me INSANE. (For anyone who doesn't know what I'm getting at, this is the practice of leaving your piss in the toilet, toilet paper and all, until you have 'solid' waste along with it. In other words, the rhyme finishes: "If it's brown, flush it down.") I mean, I think it's just disgusting and smelly and uncivilized. I cannot bring myself to pee (much less anything else) in a toilet that has someone else's hours-old piss in it. I can't. So I make it all moot anyway by flushing BEFORE I use it myself.

    Now I know there's something to be said for conserving water. But doesn't putting a brick in the tank save just as much??? Why not do that, or get one of those low-water flush handles? And be careful about not leaving water running for no reason, i.e. when brushing your teeth? That kind of thing? We can be responsible and still maintain BASIC SANITARY PRACTICES, dammit.

    I have two friends who are the most environmentally respectable people I know. They compost. They dry their clothes on a clothesline in the summer. They recycle above & beyond the call of duty. They worked on building a solar panel for their house for years. They even grow most of their own produce when their garden is going. And THEY still flush their @#&*!% TOILET!

    Why, why, why must some people persist in this? It's like the worst of all possible legacies of the hippies. Makes me feel like Cartman.

    Bleah. I feel better now.
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    My mom does the same thing. Not in an effort to conserve water, either. She just doesn't flush ever because she is either 1) too lazy at the moment or 2) doesn't want whoever she's on the phone with at the time to know she was just on the toilet.

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    Is it unhygienic to leave the toilet unflushed? Like as opposed to visually unappealing?
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    Because it's not necessary to flush every time. And wasteful I mean, I get that you're annoyed by other people's pee. But when it's just me, well, that's what I do. It's not unsanitary. Pee is sterile. But if you're that bothered by it, she should adapt. I think your problem is more being upset that she won't do something you're asking her to do.

    and by the way, I did not learn this phrase from hippies but from my redneck grandfather out on the ranch where water was to be conserved with zeal.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jenny View Post
    Is it unhygienic to leave the toilet unflushed? Like as opposed to visually unappealing?
    When you feel a "splash" on your own innocent flesh? I'd say it's unhygenic. I'm aware that there's no bacteria in urine, and I fully support peeing in the shower. That gets washed away right down the drain with hot soapy water.

    And besides the visual unappeal, there's the SCENT. of course, I'm hyper-mammal scent-wise right now, so I may be overly sensitive.

    In a drought situation, where EVERYONE is doing this & making an impact together? Sure. I just think there are far less disgusting ways to save Mother Earth.
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    Susan, I think when you're living on your own, it's more than kosher. And on the ranch is understandable too. Folks who have to deal with wells and septic tanks and such I can definitely grok.

    Ehh. Maybe I'm just being ranty. I'm really easygoing about so many things, I swear - this just makes me batty. COMBINE it with the fact that she NEVER WASHES HER HANDS AFTERWARDS EITHER, and it all just adds up to sheer disgust from me. My bedroom is right next to the bathroom, and I can hear everything. I know when she shits, since there's a flush. When she pees, there's nothing. No flush, no wash. She just strolls on out. Gack.

    It's making me feel positively obsessive-compulsive.
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    I hate thatttttttt. I hope you can get your roommate to start flushing!!! lol Yikes

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    Quote Originally Posted by Susan Wayward View Post
    Because it's not necessary to flush every time. And wasteful I mean, I get that you're annoyed by other people's pee. But when it's just me, well, that's what I do. It's not unsanitary. Pee is sterile. But if you're that bothered by it, she should adapt. I think your problem is more being upset that she won't do something you're asking her to do.

    and by the way, I did not learn this phrase from hippies but from my redneck grandfather out on the ranch where water was to be conserved with zeal.
    Teehee I do this too sometimes...

    The bf hates it!

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    Ok...I'm with you RoseWhite. I don't think you should have to adapt to someone not flushing the toilet if you're grossed out by it. Maybe SHE'S the one who needs to adapt to the fact that people might be sickened by her piss staying in the toilet that other people have to use. Ya'll don't have your own bathrooms?
    I'd have to call her ass out...but that's why I am very picky about roomates. I'd rather have one that I know lives similar to me or just live alone.

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    We won't be living together for much longer, thanks to the bun in my oven, thank goodness (I moved into her place about a week before I found out, as timing would have it). I have mentioned it, but also don't want to part on bad terms, so I'm not going to make a huge stink (ha) about it with only a bit more time left to go, I just flush it myself before I use, and thought I'd just vent about it here. She can certainly do whatever when she lives alone, for sure!
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    Yeah, that's gross. I couldn't live with that.

    Although I understand in areas where there is drought or other factors that call for extreme water conservation. My mom was driving through the desert once and stopped to use the bathroom, and there was a big sign above the toilet that said, "In this land of drought and sun, we don't flush for number one."

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    I grew up in 1980's drought-stricken California. Piss in the toilet is nothing compared to letting the lawn die in the summer so you can afford to pay the water bill.

    I guess you'll never want to come to my house in the future- I'm buying waterless (read: compost-making) toilets.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Yekhefah View Post
    Although I understand in areas where there is drought or other factors that call for extreme water conservation.
    Again, most definitely in agreement there.
    My mom was driving through the desert once and stopped to use the bathroom, and there was a big sign above the toilet that said, "In this land of drought and sun, we don't flush for number one."
    Ha! All the more pointed, and even the rhyme is better.
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    Weird. I think it is a very sensible thing to do. Everyone should always keep in mind that water is not a renewable resource; even when there is not an "extreme drought" being water savvy is a good decision. And maybe it's just that I don't stare into the toilet for long periods before using it.

    Although I sympathize with pregnancy-nose.
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    my bf and i let it mellow if it's yellow... unless it's one of my rank early morning pees.

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    Ewwwwww that is disgusting!

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    My grandparents where all about the "If it's yeller let it meller" The whole house smelt like piss.

    The little it does to for the environment adds up, there is no doubt of that. However this is a back breaking straw on a very strong camel. One of which is, her bedroom is literally 4 steps from the bathroom. If her roommate is the last to use the toilet, you'll never guess what the smell is you wake up to.

    Of course typically this scent is also accompanied with dog food, and the faintest smell of feces.

    Trust me on this, she negates her own effects.
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    I get up to pee 2 or 3 times a night. Somewhere along the lines I lived with someone who dodn't flush overnight or else just to not wake someone up. So the habit stuck. But if it bothered someone I'd change it.

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    I've never heard this before. Haha.

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    You think THAT'S bad...

    How about a friend/roommate that pisses in the large sized cups from Subway and wipes with her dirty clothes pants legs or dirty panties.

    This is an every day thing. We are not on a forever long camping trip.

    She is staying here for free and I have talked to her about this before!!!

    Maybe I am just ghetto but I save the big plastic cups cuz they come in handy for drinking, cups of ice, watering plants, washing the dogs, pre-soaking stained clothes, etc.

    So imagine my reaction when there was a 32oz cup of dark first piss of the day smelling PISS sitting on the coffee table in the den.

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    I'm cool with the letting it "mellow" thing, as long as it doesn't smell bad.

    BUT, I'm really sick of people talking about how pee is sterile. Healthy people have sterile urine, but but not everyone is healthy. Just as an example, UTI's (urinary tract infections) are not uncommon. People with this relatively common problem do not have sterile urine.

    Aside from that little rant, I agree that if you aren't offending anyone, let your pee build up with abandon. But if you happen to live with a pregnant chick (or otherwise olfactorily sensitive person) please flush it down!

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    Just to add - I frequently do this myself just because I'm lazy, but I live alone and wouldn't do it if I didn't.

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    Oh God. My Boyfriend subscribes to the mellow yellow philosophy. i am forever harping about how foul I think it is. And yes. It smells!!! Plus I am always a lil embarassed when a guest in our house uses the bathroom because of the 50 percent chance of what they might find. Yeah, I'm wound pretty tight on this one!

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    i have heard that flushing the toilet (for lack of a better term) sprays pee particles into the air. so maybe it's more hygienic to flush less

    I found this "article" amusing
    http://www.southernangel.com/ggertie/toilet.html

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    In China, they have dual settings on flush. A weak one for #1, and a stronger one for #2. It's really economical. I wish that the USA would catch on to them. I also wish that the US would catch on to bidets.
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