# Fuck you, public toilet lid down-putter! **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [August 17, 2011, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-public-toilet-lid-down-putter/593062 "2011-08-17T18:47:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![GrandWino](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grandwino/32/67_2.png) [@GrandWino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrandWino)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2011, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-public-toilet-lid-down-putter/593062/61 "2011-08-18T15:51:08Z")
Has the OP considered wearing a diaper while out and about? Problem solved! Also, if you’re typing on a keyboard, I have some alarming news for you… ---
**Author:** ![Vorpal\_Blade](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/9de0a6/32.png) [@Vorpal\_Blade](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Vorpal_Blade)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2011, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-public-toilet-lid-down-putter/593062/62 "2011-08-18T18:02:43Z")
> [@Morgenstern](#): > > Well that’s it. I’m using the sink from now on. Move the dishes first. ---
**Author:** ![Max\_Torque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Max\_Torque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Torque)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2011, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-public-toilet-lid-down-putter/593062/63 "2011-08-18T18:58:33Z")
> [@Snow\_Pea](#): > > What I don’t understand is why people insist on making more work for others by putting the fucking lid down, forcing the next person to put it back up. Just leave it the fuck alone. AHA!!! Gentlemen! At last we have it! A woman admitting that having to lift something to use the toilet is “work”! Now at last there’s proof: the whole “men should put the seat down after they pee” thing is pure and simple work avoidance! Go forth, men, and let women know that we will be their slaves no longer! Seriously, though, at my house, I always close the lid after. As far as I’m concerned, _everyone_ should have to lift something before they go and put it down after. It’s only fair. ---
**Author:** ![OneMissedPost](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8e7dd6/32.png) [@OneMissedPost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OneMissedPost)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2011, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-public-toilet-lid-down-putter/593062/64 "2011-08-18T21:05:18Z")
> [@Max\_Torque](#): > > AHA!!! > Gentlemen! At last we have it! A woman admitting that having to lift something to use the toilet is “work”! Now at last there’s proof: the whole “men should put the seat down after they pee” thing is pure and simple work avoidance! Go forth, men, and let women know that we will be their slaves no longer! > > Seriously, though, at my house, I always close the lid after. As far as I’m concerned, _everyone_ should have to lift something before they go and put it down after. It’s only fair. Ha, nice conclusion. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![markm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9de053/32.png) [@markm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/markm)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2011, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-public-toilet-lid-down-putter/593062/65 "2011-08-18T21:17:39Z")
> [@Max\_Torque](#): > > AHA!!! > Seriously, though, at my house, I always close the lid after. As far as I’m concerned, _everyone_ should have to lift something before they go and put it down after. It’s only fair. I always close the lid, too, but it’s purely for selfish reasons. When I was a kid, I dropped entirely too many Star Wars and GI Joe weapons in the toilet while taking them out of the bathtub and going back to my room. No way I was fishing them out, so they’d get flushed. Eventually, I just started making sure the lid was shut so it wouldn’t happen. Habit has stuck with me ever since, and I’ll be damned if on the rare occasion I don’t make sure it’s down while I’m not actively using the toilet, I haven’t dropped something in nearly every time. ---
**Author:** ![Jaledin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Jaledin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jaledin)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2011, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-public-toilet-lid-down-putter/593062/66 "2011-08-18T21:51:08Z")
No, all about the OP here. Some cretins use my head at my place and always put the seat/cover down. Don’t want to touch that shit – it must be something they picked up from “polite,” overbearing mothers-in-law. Thankfully, most of my friends IRL are pigs and just TCB without all this affectation. ---
**Author:** ![Canadjun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/76d3ee/32.png) [@Canadjun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Canadjun)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2011, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-public-toilet-lid-down-putter/593062/67 "2011-08-19T00:51:18Z")
> [@Jaledin](#): > > No, all about the OP here. Some cretins use my head at my place and always put the seat/cover down. Don’t want to touch that shit – it must be something they picked up from “polite,” overbearing mothers-in-law. Thankfully, most of my friends IRL are pigs and just TCB without all this affectation. They use your head?! For what?:eek: ---
**Author:** ![Jaledin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Jaledin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jaledin)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2011, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-public-toilet-lid-down-putter/593062/68 "2011-08-19T19:17:51Z")
> [@Canadjun](#): > > They use your head?! For what?:eek: What’s the combination of a (gentle) skull-fucking and a blimpie? That’s what they do. And I let them in my house! ---
**Author:** ![Bosstrain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Bosstrain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosstrain)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2011, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-public-toilet-lid-down-putter/593062/69 "2011-08-19T20:09:35Z")
> [@Snow\_Pea](#): > > Nice, but I"m not talking about the _seat_, I’m referring to the stupid, useless LID. Which serves no purpose whatsoever in a public toilet. You’ll be happy to know that most public bathrooms don’t have lids on the toilets in my area, unfortunately for you, you must not live in Louisville, KY. A tip though, the lid _can_ be raised with a piece of TP, just sayin’ :). ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2011, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-public-toilet-lid-down-putter/593062/70 "2011-08-19T21:50:43Z")
> [@saje](#): > > Wait, so now it’s NOT the possibility of touching someone else’s butt germs that bothers you, now it’s too much work? Seriously? > > Okay, you’re not a Germaphobe, you’re a Princess… Good grief. As I’ve been telling myself lately,\*\*\* “There are people in this world with REAL problems…”\*\*\* Puts my petty annoyances (and toilet-seat-challenges) in perspective. ---
**Author:** ![shijinn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cc9497/32.png) [@shijinn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shijinn)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2011, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-public-toilet-lid-down-putter/593062/71 "2011-08-20T01:12:03Z")
> [@KinkiNipponTourist](#): > > (bolding mine) if you’re sitting down, you’re touching your own clothes, the clean toilet paper, and YOUR ASS is touching the grossest part of the bathroom, a (god help us, maybe even still warm) disgusting toilet seat just after some random stranger sat their ass upon it. > > To me, that toilet seat trumps the lid, fecal-matter-spray-laden outermost sheets of toilet paper and the petri dish of disease-bearing flush handle–all of which you’re also touching while you’re in there. > > 😃 > [@tenacious\_j](#): > > as a longtime girl and less-longtime germaphobe let me point out a few things. > > 1. Spring loaded toilet seats are the fucking devil’s handiwork. Almost requires hand-touching or at least hand-on-TP-touching when a lady needs to pee. Which I do. > 2. flush with your knee or your foot. (I know, not sanitary for the next guy but works for me for right now) AND lift and drop the seat with your knee or side of your leg. sounds complicated but a good shove will do it. that’s the germophobe speaking. … as evidenced by their nonchalance towards having their other body parts in contact with germs, it would appear that this has more to do with having to use their hands to touch the icky squishies than anything else. perhaps akin to being unwilling to share food with their partner despite sharing mouth juices. or perhaps the assumption that they actually do sit down while they’re in there is mistaken. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-public-toilet-lid-down-putter/593062.md?page=3)