The Toilet Seat Dilemma

[Kayenneh]

Germs esplode out of the toilet if you don't shut the seat lid when flushing. Jus sayin

Basically there's a Mythbusters episode that covers what happens when you flush after a crap - a fine mist of water is given off - containing e-coli and a plethora of other gut bacteria.

I'd like to point out that there are plenty of E. coli everywhere anyways. Max, you should know this, since you've watched the MB episode, so does it really matter? Have you become unreasonably sick the time someone flushed without putting the lid down? No? Yeah, it's poo and it's slightly disgusting and hygienic bathroom manners are good to have, but in that case I say the more important debate is about washing one's hands.
And which way you put the toilet roll.

[Optimistic Mysanthrope]

I had this 'discussion' with a girlfriend once. It went something like this:

GF: [insert typical argument about toilet seat here]
Me: Sorry babe, I guess you're right. I mean, it's not hard to put the seat down, is it?
GF: No it fucking isn't!
Me: So why can't you do it?

Sorry, but I'm a man of '90's. I believe in equal division of labour.

[LastPoet]

The toilet seat is the place where I feel truly human. As to the 'dillemma', I'm married, I have to leave the toilet seat down, else shit will happen!

[Walking Void]

Learn to stand up and pee/poo like the rest of society. Sheesh.

[Zazzy]

I'm that dreaded woman who complains about this. And here's why:
Our bathroom is right off our bedroom. If I need to pee in the night, I don't want to turn on the light (and my guy would bitch if I did). So I can't see the toilet seat, and I have fallen in 2-3 times over the many years we've been together because he got up to pee and left the seat up.

During the day, I don't think it's ever been an issue. But at night, if you're sharing a potty with me, you better put the fucking seat down. Nothing will ruin EVERYONE'S sleep like me yelling and turning on the light and the shower.

[max-greece]

Germs esplode out of the toilet if you don't shut the seat lid when flushing. Jus sayin

Basically there's a Mythbusters episode that covers what happens when you flush after a crap - a fine mist of water is given off - containing e-coli and a plethora of other gut bacteria.

I'd like to point out that there are plenty of E. coli everywhere anyways. Max, you should know this, since you've watched the MB episode, so does it really matter? Have you become unreasonably sick the time someone flushed without putting the lid down? No? Yeah, it's poo and it's slightly disgusting and hygienic bathroom manners are good to have, but in that case I say the more important debate is about washing one's hands.
And which way you put the toilet roll.

Depends on how close to the loo you keep your toothbrushes.

I have been ill on many occasions throughout my life - I have no idea what the cause was in the vast majority of those cases.

The thing is that installing the toilet in the bathroom is actually a relatively new idea. At first they were all outside (in England) - then they moved into houses but in a separate room, isolated from the bathroom. Now they have moved into the bathroom.

I suppose the question is - how bothered would you be to have one installed in the kitchen - where you prepare food (presumably)?

[pocaracas]

Well... at my place the seat is always down.
Before getting together with the missus, I was already sitting down to pee.... Something's wrong with my foreskin and the jet has a 1/2 chance of going diagonal and I can only tell *after* the damage is done...
So I sit always and the seat is always down.

And it's good policy to train the kids to do the same, because... when the pee standing.... they're boys! pee-sword-fight!!

[Mystical]

I put the seat down out of habit every time, but just thinking about this line of logic, it actually makes no sense: can you name a single other situation, forum goers, where if you sit down without looking and something bad happens to your butt, you would blame someone else? Assuming it's not the result of someone intentionally trying to make bad stuff happen to your butt, like a prank or something.

Because, removing the decades of media reinforcement of this toilet seat thing, this is what you're actually doing, wet-assed ladies: you're sitting down where there is no chair, falling on your ass, and then blaming the nearest available male, for not placing a chair where you tried to sit.

Put your own chair down!

oh I wouldn't go so far as to blame the other person when it happened, no. But when you wake up in the middle of the night to screams and disgust, well, that's what happens when someones butt falls in the toilet. Just don't get mad if I sing in the shower then blowdry my hair

[Kayenneh]

Depends on how close to the loo you keep your toothbrushes.

Not correct.

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.

http://dsc.discovery.com/tv-shows/mythbu...nimyth.htm

suppose the question is - how bothered would you be to have one installed in the kitchen - where you prepare food (presumably)?

I would just be upset because I need complete privacy in order to do my business

[Walking Void]

I have been ill on many occasions throughout my life - I have no idea what the cause was in the vast majority of those cases.

Standard symptoms? If they were, You can turn your attention to the common cold and influenza viruses.

Both are airborne during coughing/sneezing, and they have a fairly high lifespan on surfaces, with the cold living for approximately 2-3 times longer than the flu.

It is quite possible that a strain of dormant virus was in your midst but the only person not immune to it at that time was You. It is quite possible that it spontaneously mutated through imperfect cell division and thus was not identifiable by your antibodies.

Or maybe You just tend to be Bad Luck Brian. The possibilities are not endless but vast.