Ladies... You Know What I've Never, Not Once, Done In My Entire Life?

[Scorched_Cascade]

Slight off topic: Bathroom savages are a pet peeve of mine, 7 housemates for 3 years with housemates changing every year drove me a bit crazy with their bathroom habits (or lack thereof).

On Topic: I'm not entirely sure where the whole "leaving the seat up" comes from anyway, in my household growing up when someone is done with the toilet they put the lid back down on it. It's kind of what the toilet lid is for....

Is your life really so hectic that lifting the toilet seat and lid is such an effort?

If the answer is yes then we can't live together, sorry, I want as few germs as possible on my toothbrush.

 

[kommando367]

Most of the time, I look first incase someone pissed on the seat or something, but if I REALLY REALLY gotta shit right then, then I squat without looking and damn the consequences.

 

[lechat]

weird dynamic with guys and sitting down. i remember a friend of mine telling me it was girly or gay (funny he turned out to be gay) to pee sitting down and yet there is no reason to pee standing up except laziness and "i'm a man rawr!!"
regardless sitting down wont solve the problem of morning wood unless you want to keep your mouth open and spit it back into the bowl.

also i think that chart left out the "just had sex" version of peeing which can sometimes look like a lawn sprinkler best illustrated in me myself and irene

 

[Angie7F]

I agree. I am a girl, but I always check the toilet seat before sitting down.
I mean, it is not just the possibility that the toilet seat could be up. There can be many other things wrong and I dont understand why you wouldnt check before sitting.

 

[MeChaNiZ3D]

I don't...what is the question?

I'll give some vague comments: I can sit on my toilet at home fairly comfortably without looking, but any other toilet I don't trust even if it's visibly clean. By toilet seat, people appear to be variously referring to the one with the hole and the one without. At my house, the top seat almost never goes down and it's a strange sight when it does. The lower one almost never goes up, and doesn't stay up when it does. I like to think it's because with all seats up, females can't go to the toilet in a hurry, but with one down anyone can, but it really just comes down to more females than males in the house.

Captcha: Squirrel Army. My answer then, naturally, was Poisoned Acorns, but it didn't want to accept that. Captcha I am disappoint.

 

[Sacman]

My problem isn't that I don't notice if the lid is open or not. It's that I don't feel I should be the one responsible for touching that nasty toilet seat that dudes routinely splash their pee all over (and subsequently fail to clean off). It's just a matter of common courtesy.

Fun fact: Urine is cleaner than saliva, and in most cases cleaner than the surface of a normal human beings face... infact in a lot of cultures urine was used as a cleaning agent due to the large amount of urea present in it which can be easily distilled to ammonia... so there's a good chance that toilet seat is cleaner with the pee all over it... especially if the pee in question was disposed by someone with a healthy diet... xP

OT: because I honestly don;t give a fuck... unless their is easily noticeable crap or something I just don;t really care...<.<

 

[CrazyCapnMorgan]

One time, I super-glued the toilet seat down.

I don't recommend that.

Other than that, ya clean the damned thing every once in awhile. Proper maintainence, hygiene and all.

 

[Trippy Turtle]

I don't close it but it normally falls down anyway. On the discussion though putting it down is not common courtesy. If you really get technical its easier to put down then up so leaving it up just in case the next user is a guy is probably more efficient.
Lets assume you poop once a day and take a pee three times.

In this scenario, if there is one boy and one girl, the seat will need to be down five times and up three. Now, a small tap with a finger to put it down is significantly easier then lifting the seat up. I don't have time to bring the lifting of toilet seat exercise benefits into my calculations but I can assure you it will be easier to tap down 5 toilet seats then lift 3 up.
If I had more time I might have brought up the average male and female heights and the height of the toilet seat, how air pressure and altitude effect this experiment and the possible benefits of having a heat regulating toilet seat in relation to this experiment.

[sub] Please nobody take this seriously[/sub]

 

[CAPTCHA]

if it is mine, then no need to look. Other places I may check it based on location.

It is hard being a guy.

Spoiler

I would argue that there are more than 9 ways as I also have the burst fire. So I guess you are correct in checking as not all guys(and probably girls) are as nice as me and clean up if the laser targeting systems fail.

Don't forget the "Hard On Acrobatics".

 

[The Artificially Prolonged]

I'm afraid OP it is an argument you can never win no matter how logically you make your point, just let it go its not worth the hassle.

 

[Daverson]

Since this is just going to derail into stereotypes and such nonsense...

I once got asked by a (somewhat overweight) lesbian friend if her jeans made her look fat, how do you even respond to that? I mean, if being asked by your girlfriend is complicated (well, it's not, what's complicated is why you should you say "on any other girl they would, but you look great, as always", or something like that, I can't be expected to be suave at this hour, it's barely gone morning). I doubt it was just fishing for compliments, and she must be aware the truthful answer (ie, "well, the jeans don't make you look fat...") isn't what she wants to hear... so where do you go with that? I just kinda bluescreened and changed the subject...

I think in retrospect she was just trolling me =\

 

[lechat]

think the correct answer is "how can they not!!"

 

[Brutal Peanut]

As a female I don't think even I'll ever truly understand the rage that some woman feel over a simple toilet seat.

I've always looked before sitting because of one instance where the seat was left up some years ago. I was half-asleep and slipped in.Instead of raging and blaming anything with a penis near me, I set the seat the way I wanted it, finished and washed up and went back to sleep, and everyday since I've checked the position of the toilet seat. Instead of being angry, I was actually just embarrassed with myself,....and felt gross for a few days. (([small] I also always take a few seconds to inspect the lid because my older sister terrorized me as a child about snakes and spiders in the toilet.......[/small]))

Seems to me that everyone, male and female, should check the position of the toilet seat, if just for the sake of checking the lid...for poo or spiders.... [small]or poo-spiders.[/small]

 

[spartan231490]

My problem isn't that I don't notice if the lid is open or not. It's that I don't feel I should be the one responsible for touching that nasty toilet seat that dudes routinely splash their pee all over (and subsequently fail to clean off). It's just a matter of common courtesy.

No, it's not common courtesy, it's sexism. Why does a man have to put it down just so a woman doesn't have to put it up?

 

[Daveman]

I leave it clean, it's nice to get it clean.

Anyway, a bit of pee pales in comparison to the multiple times I have found period on the toilet seat... I mean it's RED on WHITE, how could you not spot that?!

 

[somonels]

I like how women say men piss all over the seat but the only pee I've seen on the seat is the residual piss that gets dislodged as the woman begins to stand. Sure, it's the water from flushing that always splashes to the area always between your legs.

I've actually sat before checking, only reinforced my preference to have the full lid down, always. Everybody bends.

I am so fucking paranoid about toilet seats... My toilet is clean because I clean it every few days and have some 'rituals' to keep it clean (basically the only thing in my house that is clean, even my bed is more messed up).

Strange, as it's the seat is naturally much more sanitary than your kitchen counter even if you don't clean it much. Unless somebody pees on it there isn't much food for the bacteria, granted, some do transmit themselves to other asses but frankly asses are cleaner than hands anyway.

 

[someonehairy-ish]

I think this little rhyme should be taught in schools:

If you sprinkle when you tinkle
Be a sweet, wipe the seat.

All these problems would magically disappear.

 

[Rascarin]

I find the toilet just looks... nicer... with the seat down. More inviting. Not to mention that boys and girls can both use it sitting down, but only boys can use it standing up, so it seems fairer to keep it down.

That's my thoughts anyway. Thankfully, I don't live with any men, so it's a non-issue.

On the subject of looking - who doesn't look? Always look! There could be anything there. In my bathroom, the toilet is kinda between the sink and the handtowel, so when you wash you hands its common for drops to fall off en route to the towel and land on the loo. Nobody wants to sit on drips.