I close it so there is less poop water spraying all over the bathroom.
I don’t even piss standing up anymore, but I’m still a firm believer in the concept of “it really isn’t that hard to just look before you sit”.
I don’t even piss standing up anymore
the correct solution.
True power comes from not using the power.
I can stand and piss… but for many reasons I prefer to sit.
For me the algorithm is “if(wearing_glasses == True and is_brightly_lit == True): stand; else: sit”.
Your variables are already booleans, so you can just write:
if wearing_glasses and is_brightly_litAre they though? Maybe they are inputs that haven’t been sanitised but the language has two kinds of equals and is you use the double equals then it tries to coerce it for you. Lol that with would be silly!
lol what a funny lamguage design horror story. I’m sure glad it’s not real
yes but it makes it clearer to do
isWearingGlasses == trueThe compiler/interpreter/etc will convert it to the most efficient implementation regardless of what you the human type. If you’re used to the
if [boolean]convention use that, if you’re used toif [boolean] == trueuse that, it does not matter except to style commissars.
Tbh, it’s just easier and less messy. I don’t gotta focus on aiming, and I don’t have to worry about getting griped at for forgetting to put the seat down. Standing is really only a better option if you’re in public and in a rush.
Certain toilets are on the small size for my… equipment. And I periodically find my dongle touching porcelain. This also results in some backspray which is annoying to clean up.
I’ve found it easier and less messy to piss standing. But I also got a fancy bidet for my wife’s Christmas present years ago. It automates the whole task of opening and closing, does a bit of self-cleaning, and saves us a few bucks on toilet paper month-to-month. So its less of an issue.
Yet another problem solved by being a grower
nsfw
Sometimes I piss too hard or at the wrong angle or something while I’m having a big one while I’m also having a shit and it somehow escapes under the rim and I end up with piss all over the floor. The amount of piss from that Vs micro spray is incomparable.
This is the exact problem I have with sitting to take a piss and, while I find it more comfortable, I’d prefer not to have to wash myself in the sink after every piss to feel clean again. Standing just cuts out the chance of getting that icy spicy porcelain all up on my wing wang.
Are you washing your pingas in the sink
Please tell me you only do this at home
The real problem is that those toilets are just too small. It’s the same as those sinks that have the faucet 1 micrometer from the sink edge. I truly don’t get it
I can get piss on the floor when sitting on the toilet too.
Yeah, for men, standing up is just going to get piss everywhere. Men also need to wipe themselves afterwards, not just shake. Some men consider both of these practices to be overly-feminizing or whatever, but not having piss all over yourself and the bathroom is unequivocally a good thing.
I wear shorts for most of the year. Using a urinal while wearing shorts, you realise how much piss splashes everywhere. Really not hygienic.
This is exactly why I stopped bothering with toilets
The pigeon technique, just do it while in motion. Brave
Not sitting in your own piss and shit is for women and gay people obviously
Couldn’t agree more
All you want
You can shake and dance
But the last two drops
Are in your pants
I started doing this over 30 years ago, when I shared a restroom at work with a few women. I kept doing it.
Where I grew up and live, there are two types of toilets, those designed to be sat upon, and those designed to be stood in front of. Use them as they were designed to be used, and they work better.
I’ve only ever seen photos of squat toilets. I imagine that men stand in front of them and piss all over them?
It’s a lesson you learn once.
Apparently not, considering the bitchy comments I’ve gotten from women in my life lol.I learned it after the first time, but hey.
I literally don’t give a shit about the seat up or down, but close the lid ffs. Stop spray germs all over my toothbrush.
Also, I don’t care what direction the toilet paper goes. I don’t even look at it when I put a new roll in. I’m a free spirit.
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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.
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.
Flushing with the lid up is gross. I do not want to have poo particles flying around and landing on my toothbrush. But maybe that is just me… ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
This is exactly where I sit on this debate. Flush with the lid down and it’s a non-issue!
sorry to ruin your life but mythbusters tested this and no matter how much protection your toothbrush has there will still be poo particles on it
The obvious solution is to move to a country where toilets aren’t put in the bathroom.
The only problem with this is that if you get an incomplete flush, you’re leaving a big, beefy lurker for the next person to come along. But it’s an acceptable risk.
I genuinely cannot understand why someone wouldn’t want their seat and lid down at all times when not in use.
I switched out to the slow close seats so there’s really no effort or slamming. Just push, wait 2 seconds, then flush.
I would agree, but just yesterday I was visiting my mom and she asked that we leave the lid up in the rarely used guest bathroom because with it closed, it encourages mold growth. So I guess there’s that.
That’s a fair case. We don’t use one of our tubs and every once in a while we have to flush it with water because we get sewer smell. Unused bathroom facilities apparently cause problems.
Make sure you work the valves on toilets, showers, tubs, and faucets as well. They will dry out if you don’t and then you’ll get leaks.
Isn’t the smell just because the airlock dries out?
I think so; that’s why we run the water.
This might be true if there is existing live mold somewhere in the toilet (for that, monthly tank bleach tablet) but otherwise a lid prevents spores from settling in the first place.
Humidity reduction by ventilation can slow/delay mold but only eradication stops it.
Well they’re on a well with a septic tank which means no chlorine in the water and they wouldn’t want put a bleach tab in because of the septic. But I agree it would be good to eradicate it if possible.
Even with the lid down, there are thousands of spores down there. It doesn’t need constant airflow to have spores, all air is filled with spores.
All air is filled with spores.
Uh huh
It’s late, I’m drunk, I barely remembered to get the seat up before doing my business, and I’m used to living on my own.
Even when I lived alone and was drunk, I closed the lid. Doesn’t make sense to me.
Lots of things don’t make sense when you’re drunk
Also keeps the fecal aerosol to a minimum.
Lid down is a win for everyone.
Lid down gang. Stop leaving your toilet seats up.
Just sit down to pee, losers.
“These invisible particles go on to coat and spread onto surfaces like floors and counters; or objects like hand towels, bathmats or even toothbrushes.
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Toilets are scientifically proven to continue to produce contaminated toilet plumes over multiple successive flushes as indicated in the above video.
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Toilet aerosols are known to contain Norovirus, SARS Coronavirus, Salmonella and many other Diseases.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toilet_plumeTLDR: always put the lid down before flushing.
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
Always keep the lid down to minimize poop spray!
You don’t want to microdose poop to boost your immune system? Lame.
Flushing with the lid up is 🤢
But then you dont get to watch it go down
How long do you wait before lifting the lid back up to check for streaks?
Until the flush is done
But how do you check if you need to brush the bowl? Do you just wait for the flush to end and then raise the lid again to check under?
Gonna be honest, I’m just peeing that off the next time I go.
The brush is for routine cleans or times of true digestive discord.
If I lived alone I might resort to this laziness. But I have only lived alone for 8 months in 52 years.
Put toilet paper into the bowl before pooping and you never have a need to brush the bowl.
if your shits are thick enough, every flush is a brush flush.
I always close the lid when I’m not using my toilet. So do my wife and kid. It’s weird that people leave theirs open.
It is also the best option as it reduces bacterial spreading whipe flushing.
Toilets are gross. Put the lid down. There is some study I read that said flushing the toilet throws lots of bacteria into the room. Shut the lid before you flush.
Mythusters found fecal particles everywhere even when the lid was down. There’s no escape from gross, just finding an acceptable level.
If I’m remembering right Mythbusters found that there were fecal particles everywhere, but in wildly different concentrations depending on the conditions (like the control being in the kitchen)
I’d have to re-watch those segments. The part that remains stuck in my mind is that they found fecal particles on a toothbrush that was in a closed drawer.
I don’t believe closing the lid helps that much, and I grew up with (and still have to deal with) a toilet that sometimes but not always needs a second (or third) press of the handle, so I keep the lid open so I can be sure the water really got flushed. (It drains the tank into the bowl, but sometimes it just slowly, but steadily, flows through roughly maintaining water level instead of crossing a pressure (?) threshold and flushing out the bowl and then refilling.)
But, I’m all for closing the seat and the lid when you are done. It keeps pets and dropped items out of the bowl, if nothing else. If we have to leave the lid up, I still say seat down; that’s the “ready to use” configuration for all female and some male uses.
Those fucking air blower hand dryers especially.
Video is unavailable in my region, but thanks anyway.
Yes. Close your biological waste disposal units, ya crude yokels!
Unless you’re immunocompromised it doesn’t make a difference. “Unhealthy” bacteria is literally everywhere. You have an immune system for a reason.
Then all the bacteria are flung onto the lid, and when I sit down I might touch the lid with my back.
There’s plenty of bacteria in the air already, a million more aren’t going to hurt. Unless you have a norovirus, then you need to disinfect with bleach after you’re done.
You touch your back to the lid??
You don’t think there are plenty of bacteria on your back already? Not to mention it would likely be on the back of your shirt. What’s in the air goes straight into your lungs.
