Always keep the lid down to minimize poop spray!
Flushing with the lid up is 🤢
Any couple that fights over the toilet seat (or toothpaste or whatever other stupid thing) is doomed - get out now before it gets worse.
My wife of almost 30 years can have whatever she wants and I’m happy to provide it - especially if it’s something as stupid as the toilet seat. I spoil her, she spoils me. We’re happy.
Seat up - ready and clean 99% of the time
Seat down - pissed on 99% of the time
You pick… no kink shaming.
E: in public… At home we’re civilized*
The toilet is more tidy when everything is down.
the washlet on our main toilet looks aesthetically better with the lid down, so it’s always down even though we’re a house of two cis men
tho heated seat incentivizes sitting to pee anyways
I grew up with a dog. The toilet seat was always kept down to keep him away from drinking it, because we had toilet cleaning pucks in the tank that would have potentially poisoned him. Nothing to do with gender at all.
Also the mythbusters episode on toilet water splashing out onto bathroom surfaces scarred me as a child. We have a soft-close lid and I wait a few seconds for it to get to a low angle before I even flush.
The mythbusters episode convinced me. That water flush makes everything spiral upwards, and it lands in your toothbrush.
People who don’t put the toilet seat down are unaware they’re brushing with shit particles.
It could also be solved by everyone putting the seat where they want it to be.
Or you could make sure it always goes up.
Lid should go down unless you want all the poopy microparticles coming from your toilet when flushed.
Amazing that people think shit aerosolizes when flushed.
Not literally the shit but the shitwater does splash more when the lid is up
Should be easy to test, but I have to acknowledge the only evidence on the subject I use comes exclusively from the show “Mythbusters” lol
A quick internet search shows that having the lid up or down doesn’t matter for bathroom surface contamination
That’s what we do in our house, I decided it was the easiest way to be sure my son actually lifts the seat. If he has to lift the lid, he’ll just lift the seat at the same time.
The better option is a fancy japanese toilet that opens and closes itself as you enter and leave the room.
I’ve always been a lid fully closed person because of animals. The water here is bad enough that the toilet tank needs water treatment pucks, and those chemicals shouldn’t be consumed by pets.
It has been such a fucking struggle with the men who visit or live with me. And it makes absolutely no sense other than just being lazy and inconsiderate.
Whenever I go to someone else’s place, I leave the lid the same way I found it, or if I can’t remember how I found it, fully closed is safest (hardly anyone gets upset by that). That’s the polite thing to do. But that’s apparently just too much for lots of dudes. They come into the home of a woman who lives alone and leave the bathroom the way they want it with zero regard for who actually lives there.
They get one talking to about it, then I start slamming the lid down behind them every time they use it, very passive aggressively. These are all adults, they shouldn’t need more than one request to put the seat back how they found it. It doesn’t take them super long to figure it out, but WAY LONGER THAN IT SHOULD! If they can’t figure it out within a couple days/visits, they don’t get to be there anymore. I can’t afford emergency vet appointments for something that shouldn’t even be a problem.
I had one ex, in his 30s, mind, who was so inconsiderate about it for such a long time that I drew Reddit up and downvotes on the tank and lid (he was always on Reddit, so downvote on the lid, upvote on the tank), to indicate displeasure with the lid being left up. That worked, believe it or not… in a really disgustingly childish sort of way. Depressing to have to resort to such nonsense just for a safe environment for everyone who actually lives there (he did not, just extended visits)… that dude is also why I have no patience for this shit anymore, and simply disallow people who can’t respect my home. I shouldn’t have to do that.
I’m from a lid down family too but for different animals. If you left the lid up, you might come back to a family of motorbike frogs nesting in the bowl.
Haha I’ve always kinda wanted to live somewhere that random animals in the bowl is a thing that happens. Not because it sounds fun, it doesn’t, but because it sounds interesting and unique. I’m sure that would wear off quick the first time I was desperate to use the toilet and found something that didn’t belong, but still :p
not if you live with a guy who piss standing and all over the seat
If you sprinkle when you tinkle, please be neat and wipe the seat.
The lid always goes down when not in use at my house.
“It’s a shit receptacle, not a water feature” has been repeated to anyone who doesn’t know the rule.
It could also be solved in any other way.
Everybody puting the toilet upside down. Everybody going outside and not having a debate anymore. Everybody outing the seat up. Everybody getting a seatles toilet.
The “everybody agreeing one one solution” is the thing that ends the debate and not what the solution is.
