question for ladies who insist the toilet seat be down

[truthspeaker]

Are you seriously incapable of looking before you sit, or is it a power play to assert control over your partner?

[AngryAmish]

1. Toilet seat haiku

Toilet seat in air
Social tension at its worst
Why do you do that?

[JVS]

7. Toilet seat solution

Toilet seat was down
What concern was that to me
gold dew kissed the seat

[Maddy McCall]

2. It doesn't bother me one way or the other...

Maybe it goes back to mandatory gentlemanly courtesy--equivalent to opening doors for women, etc.

I am perfectly capable of dropping the seat if it is up. No gripe from me.

[Worst Username Ever]

3. I put the seat down

but then after washing my hands usually flick some water on it.

[BigMcLargehuge]

8. BWAHAHAHAHAAH!!!!

[BlueJazz]

4. The best seats I've seen are the ones....

that have a spring in the hinge that raises the seat up when someone isn't siting down.

[proud patriot]

5. for my 3 am pee, yes

it's dark and I'm pretty much asleep .
I don't turn on any lights .

Let me tell it just takes one time
of not looking and sitting without
the seat down , for a woman to go
ballistic.

I have very few things around the house
that I have to have a certain way .
The toilet seat is just common courtesy IMO

[truthspeaker]

what if your partner wants to take a 3AM pee?

He has to be awake enough to lift the seat. Is your peeing comfort more important than his?

[JVS]

9. See the Haiku number 7

[Magrittes Pipe]

6. Just leave it down...

...and pee all over it. :evilgrin:

[JVS]

10. yup, see my haiku above

[Mizmoon]

11. Women need to sit all the time, men half the time

so if most of the time it needs to be down, leave it down.

Also, if you have ugly stains inside the toilet having the seat down makes it less obvious.

[truthspeaker]

12. more like 1/4 of the time for me. I do more #1 than #2

[JVS]

13. I need to stand 100% of the time.

I always start a good bowel movement with a rousing piss

[zbird]

14. Why not just close the lid 100% of the time? Problem solved! nt

[JVS]

16. That's the worst

Then in the middle of the night, I'd piss all over the lid in the dark

[SiouxJ]

18. That's the best way

if you've ever seen one of those experiments where they put dye in the toilet and flush, you'd probably close the lid every time. The spray goes everywhere. All over your towels, counters, toothbrushes etc. It's gross. The lid goes down before the flush at my house. Keeps pets out of it too.

[JVS]

21. What kind of Moran leaves toothbrushes in the shitatorium?

[SiouxJ]

22. Not all johns are separate from the sink area

When I was growing up, the john was right next to the sink. Many people don't have the luxury of having a separate room for the toilet (especially in older houses) so the toothbrushes are sitting right there on the counter next to it.

[JVS]

23. I don't have that luxury either.

So I keep anything that goes into my mouth in another room and rarely use the sink in there.

[SiouxJ]

25. I would think it would be easier to just put the lid down

but to each their own ;-) .

Actually, I saw an episode of Mythbusters, where they took on this very issue. Though it's true that the spray goes everywhere, not enough of the harmful bacteria gets on the toothbrushes to cause any harm. But it's still gross. :puke:

[redqueen]

26. Well that's good to know

But still, as you said... GROSS!

[SiouxJ]

27. I just found this

The book "The Secret Life of Germs: Observations and Lessons from a Microbe Hunter" by Dr. Philip M. Tierno Jr. (Pocket Books, 2001) recommends closing the toilet seat before flushing, noting that, "flushing the toilet can send small drops of aerosolized fecal matter as far as 20 feet into the air, potentially hitting every surface of even a large bathroom."

more:

http://www.courierjournal.com/features/health/2004/02/hf-front-brush0212-5683.html

Yeah, gross!

[tandot]

15. I usually have to get up in the middle of the night to pee

I leave the lights out so I don't wake up too much. Now imagine the following scenario:

My dear cat loves to play with the water in the toilet bowl, splashing it all over. I sit down, hitting the cold and wet porcelain instead of the cushioned seat. Now I am really awake and pissed, go to bed, and make sure to share this wonderful experience with my boyfriend.

Its your choice :evilgrin:

Besides that, I think there are plenty of things we do for you guys, why can't you do us the favor?

[yankeeinlouisiana]

17. Power Play!

No, not really. It just looks better with the seat down. I have my 3 boys trained to also put the lid down. Toilets are ugly to begin with; no reason to make it look worse.

;-)

[zbird]

19. The toilet seat in my parent's house was a killer (if you're a male).

For some reason, when they had a new bathroom put in, the toilet seat would never stay in the up position. It would invariably fall. As there were 4 females and only one male in the household, they never bothered figuring out how to fix the problem.

It was always fun when the boyfriends came over to the house. If we forgot to tell them about the seat and Dad didn't particularly care for them, he wouldn't bother telling. We heard a few "ouches" in those days!

[indigobusiness]

20. If men insisted women raise the seat...

women would realize how ridiculous this controversy really is.

Oh, the hypocrisy.

This is another instance of equality, except when it is inconvenient.

Men have no problem in lowering the seat when they sit.

WTF?

[redqueen]

24. The lid goes down in my house

The reason's been explained already.

If you don't want sewage spewed all over the room, then close the durn lid and stop bitching already. ;)

[Shananigans]

28. It belongs down. End of story.

[chaska]

29. A personal story.

When men go to the bathroom, once the act is commenced we are a million miles away. Peeing doesn't require thinking. Our minds are on other things. Sometimes we simply forget to put it down. It's not a matter of discourtesy.

What IS rude, however, is when someone angrily confronts another (as has happened to me recently) about their occasional toilet seat forgetfulness (hey, I grew up in a household of 5 males and one female and have lived alone ever since that time).

Yes, the sister-in-law is definitely power trippin'.