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Just close it entirely before you flush, people. The fact that there’s a debate between fully open and half-open when both are inferior is baffling.
Counter point: close the lid to prevent things from accidentally falling in.
That also stops the spread of aerosolized fecal matter.
How strong is your toilet’s flush? Most toilets don’t use high pressure water.
Doesn’t need to be high pressure to send up particles. Mythbusters did an experiment to see if toothbrushes kept in open air actually collect any fecal matter from the air and they found the toothbrush collecting fecal contamination even far outside of the bathroom. I’m not sure if they did tests with the lid closed.
Every time you flush a toilet, it releases an aerosol spray of tiny tainted water droplets. So if, like many people, you leave your toothbrush in the vicinity of a toilet, does that mean it’s regularly bathed in bits of fecal matter? MythBusters Jamie Hyneman and Adam Savage uncovered the dirty truth to this myth by covering a bathroom with 24 toothbrushes, two of which they brushed with each morning — the others they simply rinsed every day for a month.
As experimental controls, the MythBusters kept two untainted toothbrushes in an office far away from the lavatory. At the end of the month-long trial, they sent their toothbrush collection to a microbiologist for bacterial testing.
Astonishingly, all the toothbrushes were speckled with microscopic fecal matter, including the ones that had never seen the inside of a bathroom. The confirmed myth unfortunately proved that there’s indeed fecal matter on toothbrushes — and also everywhere else.
It makese sense… for example there’s those ultrasonic diffusers out there which send a constant stream of aerosolized water droplets. All it takes to do that is a small pad at the bottom that vibrates at the right frequency (above hearing range in this case, hence ultrasonic). It doesn’t take that much and the extent it happens in the average toilet just isn’t perceptible.
Close the lid bc flushing causes little particles to go into the air and I dont want to breathe that
Sorry to inform you but that doesn’t help. Myth busters busted that in 2013.
There’s a recent study that also confirms this:
https://www.ajicjournal.org/article/S0196-6553(23)00820-9/fulltext
Oh man, you uncovered a memory. The first reddit downvote I received way back when was on a comment where I mentioned that closing the toilet lid makes mold/mildrew growth in the bowl more likely, particularly in humid environments.
Luckily, there’s a simple way to avoid this. It’s called “clean your toilet”.
#ScariestMomentOf2016
Oh sweet summer child
this is what it feels like reading a post from a mastodon.social user except they have a character limit of like 2 so instead of separating the #hashtags they will #PutThemInline #LikeThis so you get an #aneurysm reading a post
I don’t know for sure, but it looks like Facebook.
What the hell happened?
They sat on a toilet with the lid up and just put their ass in the toilet instead of not doing that.
… And then they relearned the habit of looking down.
When a female friend of mine used to come over she would often leave the bathroom door open and the toilet seat down with the lid up. I didn’t like that because my cat used to drink toilet water. Also, when you flush, particles of what you’re flushing go everywhere. The lid minimises this. They proved it on Mythbusters https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uFzgNSO6t6c
So I understand the feeling of someone not leaving the toilet how they found it when they use it in your home after being asked to stop it.
But mine was for reasons I’ve just explained.
You’re facing the toilet when you walk up to it. Surely you can see what state the seat is and change it accordingly? Can someone please explain to me why the toilet seat being up or the lid being down is stereotypically such a problem for women?
The post mentions it is at 2 am so our toilet tumbler may have entered the bathroom without any lights and just went through the motions.
Seems like a dumb thing to do
The first motion is to reach down and lift the lid. If you don’t feel the lid, you curse yourself for having kids, lower the seat, and sit normally. Then you close the lid when you’re done.
I hate to tell you but closing the lid doesn’t help. In fact your entire house is covered in a layer of fecal matter due to inside toilets.
The problem is women tend to sit without looking. So having the seat up results in this post haha
Are these women just… How to say this delicately… Dumb? Like you walk into the bathroom facing the toilet. You can’t help but see it. Are you telling me they drop their pants and just do a trust fall onto the rim? I’m guessing no. I think it’s a meme and women just don’t want to have to put the lid up before going.
As an older woman myself, I often have to pee in the middle of the night. I don’t want to wake my husband by turning on the bathroom light, which leaks around and under the door. Honestly, I don’t want to shock my own brain that much awake either, I just want to pee, wipe, flush, wash hands and go back to sleep. I can do all that in the dark. So yeah, pitch black in there.
Fortunately my husband never leaves the seat up. Our new toilets have the “quiet close” lids, so we can flick it closed, and see that the flush worked while the lid goes slowly down. Not in the dark of course but it’s just pee.
This is 1000% a thing and I would be shocked if the majority of women who have lived with men haven’t experienced this at least once in their lives. It happens just like in this post: in the middle of the night, you don’t turn on the lights and you just go through the motions without thinking because you’re half asleep. Not a fun way to wake up. Super jarring, kinda hurts, gets your ass wet, and that lip of the toilet is just generally a little grosser than the seat.
I mean, I’m a guy, I generally just leave the seat down 99% of the time and pee without lifting it. If there’s any drips or splashes I’ll just wipe it up. But every time I go in to poo or pee sitting down at night I always just check to make sure the toilet is how I want it. There’s no reason not to just give it a quick check.
Literally yeah haha
I am the proud owner of a 90’s era cock.
To keep it running efficiently I pee sitting down.
Why would I stand up when I could chill out for a moment?
Like, manufactured in the 90’s or being put to use in the 90’s?
I typically try to distract my poop as I’m going. “Time to go jump on a trampoline!” or “I get to greet the Pope next” that way it doesn’t get scared and run back up when it sees the toilet water.
I paid for the seat I’m gonna use the seat
