Ridiculous. If you want to dissipate the smell, just carry a book of matches with you. Light, blow out, toss into the pot, flush - no evidence whatsoever.
In fact we keep a matchbook at each lavvy for this purpose at home.
I was not introduced to this concept until well into my 20s. I still hold the same opinion of it now as I did that: an idiotic waste of water.
In a toilet with low flow, I may do a flush mid-way to clear the way during a particularly prodigious poop, but that’s not the same as a “courtesy flush.” A courtesy flush, as the name states, is done as a courtesy to other bathroom users. Its purpose is purportedly to help eliminate some of the odor associated with said plop. I am very skeptical of its efficacy. I have never noticed any difference. A mid-poop flush to avoid backing up the toilet, on the other hand, is perfectly reasonable.
Waste of water. I might flush before wiping though, if I feel the toilet will clog from the added load of the poop and paper.
My low flow toilets from the mid-1990’s in my house practically require me to courtesy flush for myself if I have a particularly dirty bum after a squishy poo, unless I want to be plunging or overflowing the toilet.
If you’re worried about the smell of air, use an air freshener.
“Mmmmmm, it smells like somebody took a dump in a field of lavender!”
I don’t get people that like the stink and like to leave it for others. In Walmart they put in electronic eye toilets that flush automatically and there is one type that over rides them on purpose?
I don’t get it? Why not flush? Is this a mental disorder of the pooper ego?
I’ve never heard of it and it’s a weird idea.
I’ve also never heard of anyone pooing so much that they could clog the toilet! Blimey - that must be horrible!
By the use of “blimey”, I assume you are a Brit (ok, I admit I cheated and looked at your profile). Most posters are from America. American toilets clog very easily. I would say that we suffer from this about once a month, which is approximately fifty times more frequent than when I lived in England.
We may be shit at football, but English crappers are best for shit-disposal. Can we have a World Cup for that? It might be the only way we can get one.
I do it, to cover the sounds of the pre-poo fart. I embarrass easily, what can I say?
Honest, never heard of this little courtesy before. I’ll be using it in the future!
I stayed with a former classmate and his wife for a few days. He, ever the perfect host, explained to me how I should use the toilet - one flush halfway thru, one when done, and one to handle the “paperwork.” :rolleyes: I don’t know what he and his lovely wife eliminated, but I found that my usual single flush worked just fine.
No, I don’t waste water. Altho there are several commodes at work that have low flow or an oddly-shaped bowl - it may take 3 flushes just to clear the paper!
Nope. Going to the toilet is often a smelly and noisy phenomenon - no excuses needed.
I always thought it was weird that some people flushed while sitting on the toilet, but to find that most of them want me to as well is even weirder.
Oh thank goodness, I’m not the only one. That tiny, thin, waxy, useless piece of paper seat cover is pointless and those hoverers make a mess for everyone. Unless there’s some solid matter caked on the seat, just siddown already. (Undelicate flower. At last I have a name for myself!)
We are number one at disposing of number twos. 
Yeesh. What a waste (hah!) of water and effort!
Now, if I’m having an extended session due to “distress”, I might flush midway through the visit simply because I’m worried the system might get overwhelmed…
No. If I have to sit in the stench, so do you.
I’ve never felt the need to courtesy flush. After the article about the “toilet mist” the occurs during the flush, I even feel less need to atomize my ass.
My goodness! I joined this site just in time (yesterday)! I can’t believe we’re on page 2 and no one has mentioned the Sound Princess.
Toilets in Japan have their very own Wikipedia page. Scroll about halfway down for info on man’s greatest invention, the Sound Princess, a button you push to produced canned flushing noise. Volume is adjustable.
Because EVERYONE HERE courtesy flushes. yup. Even while doing numero uno.