The Toilet Seat Dilemma

[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)?