# A poll, of a somewhat TMI nature. **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [November 8, 2008, 6:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-poll-of-a-somewhat-tmi-nature/471779 "2008-11-08T06:04:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![picunurse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7bcc69/32.png) [@picunurse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/picunurse)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2008, 6:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-poll-of-a-somewhat-tmi-nature/471779/1 "2008-11-08T06:04:03Z")
Yesterday my husband invited some friends over. One of them (male) used the bathroom and peed on the seat! I went a bit nuclear. All the guys thought I over reacted. Even my husband asked what I was so excited about, after all, it was just urine… Urine is sterile. Yes, most urine is sterile… while it’s inside the body! He thinks it’s just a girly ick thing. I think almost anyone would find it gross. So, what do you think? Please, include your gender. ---
**Author:** ![Hazle\_Weatherfield](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Hazle\_Weatherfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hazle_Weatherfield)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2008, 6:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-poll-of-a-somewhat-tmi-nature/471779/2 "2008-11-08T06:06:18Z")
Female…gross. I cannot understand why a guy would do this and not wipe it off. I would do so to avoid embarassment, if nothing else! ---
**Author:** ![Captain\_Carrot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f0a364/32.png) [@Captain\_Carrot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Carrot)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2008, 6:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-poll-of-a-somewhat-tmi-nature/471779/3 "2008-11-08T06:07:38Z")
I’m a guy, and I think it’s gross. It could be a lot worse, but peeing on the seat is gross. ---
**Author:** ![atomicbadgerrace](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8e7dd6/32.png) [@atomicbadgerrace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/atomicbadgerrace)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2008, 6:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-poll-of-a-somewhat-tmi-nature/471779/4 "2008-11-08T06:10:23Z")
Male… it would irk me, but I’d clean it up and move on. Certainly nothing to cause a scene over, let alone go “nuclear.” It’s right up there with people who finish the roll of toilet paper and leave a new one SITTING ON TOP OF THE EMPTY ONE. Pisses me off, but I move on in about 10 seconds. ---
**Author:** ![Autolycus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/22d042/32.png) [@Autolycus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Autolycus)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2008, 6:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-poll-of-a-somewhat-tmi-nature/471779/5 "2008-11-08T06:27:18Z")
> [@atomicbadgerrace](#): > > Male… it would irk me, but I’d clean it up and move on. Certainly nothing to cause a scene over, let alone go “nuclear.” It’s right up there with people who finish the roll of toilet paper and leave a new one SITTING ON TOP OF THE EMPTY ONE. Pisses me off, but I move on in about 10 seconds. This. Yeah, it’s gross and I would be annoyed, but I would not flip out over it. ---
**Author:** ![Silver\_Tyger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/fbc32d/32.png) [@Silver\_Tyger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silver_Tyger)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2008, 6:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-poll-of-a-somewhat-tmi-nature/471779/6 "2008-11-08T06:33:44Z")
Yes, urine is sterile (usually), but that’s no reason to leave it. My dad yelled at one of my sister’s boyfriends for peeing on the seat. Nobody wants to sit on a wet spot. ---
**Author:** ![sunstone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunstone/32/3372_2.png) [@sunstone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sunstone)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2008, 6:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-poll-of-a-somewhat-tmi-nature/471779/7 "2008-11-08T06:39:09Z")
Male. It is gross, and I don’t understand why my own gender can’t clean up a bit…much less be more careful about their aim. If you pee like a fire hose with nobody holding on to the nozzle, maybe you should sit down. ---
**Author:** ![levdrakon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@levdrakon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/levdrakon)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2008, 6:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-poll-of-a-somewhat-tmi-nature/471779/8 "2008-11-08T06:40:13Z")
Guy. It’s gross and rude. I wouldn’t go nuclear. That’s rude, too. Go for embarrassment. “Hey, who just peed on the seat? It wasn’t you was it Carl? Daddy didn’t teach you to aim? Lift the seat maybe?” ---
**Author:** ![Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eyebrows_0f_doom/32/3119_2.png) [@Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eyebrows_0f_Doom)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2008, 6:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-poll-of-a-somewhat-tmi-nature/471779/9 "2008-11-08T06:47:18Z")
> [@picunurse](#): > > Yesterday my husband invited some friends over. One of them (male) used the bathroom and peed on the seat! > I went a bit nuclear. > All the guys thought I over reacted. Even my husband asked what I was so excited about, after all, it was just urine… Urine is sterile. > Yes, most urine is sterile.. while it’s inside the body! He thinks it’s just a girly ick thing. I think almost anyone would find it gross. > So, what do you think? Please, include your gender. Do you mean he peed on the seat and then left it, or peed on the seat and then cleaned up after? If he just left it, then he’s a dick plain and simple. So what if urine is sterile? Your husband’s friend obvious does not have much respect for you if he thinks nothing of making you clean up his piss. ---
**Author:** ![madrabbitwoman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c37758/32.png) [@madrabbitwoman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madrabbitwoman)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2008, 7:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-poll-of-a-somewhat-tmi-nature/471779/10 "2008-11-08T07:06:36Z")
Female - You pee on the seat and don’t clean it up (honestly who raises people like that) you get yelled at. And I WILL remember and bing it up regularly. ---
**Author:** ![picunurse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7bcc69/32.png) [@picunurse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/picunurse)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2008, 7:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-poll-of-a-somewhat-tmi-nature/471779/11 "2008-11-08T07:13:18Z")
> [@Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](#): > > Do you mean he peed on the seat and then left it, or peed on the seat and then cleaned up after? If he just left it, then he’s a dick plain and simple. So what if urine is sterile? Your husband’s friend obvious does not have much respect for you if he thinks nothing of making you clean up his piss. Yes, he left it. To clarify, my “nuclear” was basicly making fun of him. I told him he can _never_ pee in my house again, so he’d better go before he gets here; if he chooses to pee in my yard, don’t let the neighbors see. We all parted happily, no permanent damage to friendship. ---
**Author:** ![ToeJam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/dfb087/32.png) [@ToeJam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ToeJam)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2008, 7:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-poll-of-a-somewhat-tmi-nature/471779/12 "2008-11-08T07:25:12Z")
Male. It’d bother me, but If it’s not oddly discolored or anything, I’d just wipe it off and go. But I’d be irked about it, but not enough to confront him- everybody makes mistakes, maybe he’d just had too much to drink or something this time around… Now if the pee was a different color than normal clear yellow- I’d bring it up. And I wouldn’t go just yet. That’s more fascinating to me first. (If i’m a public bathroom it’s the same policy- if its yellow, i clean it and move on (unless there’s a clean stall that I can use and this one’s got a ton of pee on it), but a little bit, i’d just clean it and go- unless it’s that diff. color, then I’d pick another spot. But nothing to go an embarrass a guy over- that’s kinda rude. Accidents happen. ---
**Author:** ![Sleeps\_With\_Butterflies](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@Sleeps\_With\_Butterflies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sleeps_With_Butterflies)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2008, 7:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-poll-of-a-somewhat-tmi-nature/471779/13 "2008-11-08T07:34:37Z")
Female. Gross and it would irk me a bit, but I’d just clean it and go on. I doubt I’d say anything about it, unless it was the same guy and he was over a lot. Then I think it’d be in a joking manner. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2008, 7:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-poll-of-a-somewhat-tmi-nature/471779/14 "2008-11-08T07:46:01Z")
Male. Pee on the seat (or more often, the rim, assuming you’re civilized enough to lift the seat) is one of those things which happens occasionally, and isn’t a big deal in and of itself. But when it happens, you clean it up yourself. I can’t fathom why anyone would just leave the seat wet for the next person to discover-- It takes all of about five seconds to grab some toilet paper. ---
**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2008, 7:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-poll-of-a-somewhat-tmi-nature/471779/15 "2008-11-08T07:53:38Z")
> [@picunurse](#): > > To clarify, my “nuclear” was basicly making fun of him. I told him he can _never_ pee in my house again, so he’d better go before he gets here; if he chooses to pee in my yard, don’t let the neighbors see. That’s pretty funny. Next time he visits have some wipes and disinfectant in a bag ready to give him if he heads for the toilet. ---
**Author:** ![chocolatefrog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/41988e/32.png) [@chocolatefrog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chocolatefrog)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2008, 8:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-poll-of-a-somewhat-tmi-nature/471779/16 "2008-11-08T08:06:28Z")
Female, and I think it’s gross. Housemate has a friend who does this when drunk. Pees all over the seat and floor. Ugh. ---
**Author:** ![FlyingRamenMonster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ce7236/32.png) [@FlyingRamenMonster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FlyingRamenMonster)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2008, 8:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-poll-of-a-somewhat-tmi-nature/471779/17 "2008-11-08T08:29:57Z")
Totally gross. Besides, urine is only sterile in your bladder. ---
**Author:** ![Cicero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cicero/32/3594_2.png) [@Cicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cicero)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2008, 8:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-poll-of-a-somewhat-tmi-nature/471779/18 "2008-11-08T08:43:52Z")
Male- He’s a pig. There is no need for it. ---
**Author:** ![pseudotriton\_ruber\_ruber](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a9a28c/32.png) [@pseudotriton\_ruber\_ruber](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pseudotriton_ruber_ruber)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2008, 8:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-poll-of-a-somewhat-tmi-nature/471779/19 "2008-11-08T08:48:43Z")
> [@FlyingRamenMonster](#): > > Totally gross. Besides, urine is only sterile in your bladder. What’s so special about **Picunurse** ’s bladder? Hey, “close” only scores points in horseshoes and hand grenades, right? (Though a toilet seat is sorta shaped like a horseshoe…) ---
**Author:** ![picunurse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7bcc69/32.png) [@picunurse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/picunurse)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2008, 9:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-poll-of-a-somewhat-tmi-nature/471779/20 "2008-11-08T09:31:11Z")
**pseudotriton ruber ruber** , I’m sure my bladder is special, but I believe **FlyingRamenMonster** was using the “royal” you. 😃 [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-poll-of-a-somewhat-tmi-nature/471779.md?page=2)