• theywilleatthestars@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    If you take the toilet seat up or down debate seriously I can only assume you’re a tulpa conjured from the brain of a hack boomer comedian

  • radix@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    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.

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      2 months ago

      I’ve had my neighbor get their sewer line worked on that somehow resulted in making my toilets explode with sewer gas and shit particles.

      The lid stays down.

  • DeepThought42@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    That’s precisely how the debate between myself any my SO was finally ended. The seat stays down now unless in use.

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    2 months ago

    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.

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    2 months ago

    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.

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      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.

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        The poo particles fly out of the bowl, into the hallway, curve into the bathroom, and then land on your toothbrush?

        There’s eiher some crazy wind paths in your home, or some idiot put your toilet in the bathroom.

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        There are such things in this world as particles.
        Particles so small that you cannot possibly detect it with your naked eyes.
        And I put it to you that there are particles of human shit lingering in the fibers of your underpants.

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    2 months ago

    I think it is solved by having a urinal be standard in a home bathroom. People like having a shower and a separate tub. Same.

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    2 months ago

    Do your business on the floor next to the toilet, problem solved. No more flipping seats.

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    2 months ago

    Yeah, I don’t want splash water getting anywhere else than the bowl. Also, what if I accidentally fumble something and drop it in the water. Even if there weren’t a lid, I’d put the seat down in case of a level 10 emergency