Snork!!! Brilliant.
Because it’s a minor thing to put the lid up… or to put it down. Yes, I said a minor thing. Why then, you might ask, does it bother you to put the lid down after you pee?
The answer being, while it is no sweat off of my brow to do such, but why should it be me who always caters to the female? There is no reason why she cannot put the seat down herself and saying that it causes you to fall in is telling me that you are not smart enough to open your eyes and to turn the light on.
Because it’s the gentlemanly thing to do. If this is even an issue then I’m with the wrong guy.
Plus, I agree with the person who said that the proper seat position is down. I sure put the lid down when I’m done, and it is expected that he will do the same. Plus, it’s my house. I make the rules.
Hmmm. This is just one of those questions that I’ve never bothered to consider. I normally leave the seat down, but I don’t go out of my way to do it. So far, none of my womenfolk friends have been anal enough to rant and bitch about it. (And I’ve spent a good chunk of my life since college living with women, either as roommates or romantically.)
At night, I always leave it down, as I pee sitting down in the dark. I just came to the conclusion around high school that it was too much a PITA to hunt for the lightswitch, then get blinded as your pupils adjust to the sudden light, then piss all over the place anyway because you’re half-asleep. I’ve since gotten to peeing while sitting in the dark, and that works out much better for all parties concerned.
I put it down because I’m considerably less disgusted with touching a toilet seat than my wife is.
She kind of has a thing about toilets. . .even though she’s quite the farter/burper and will do both functions in front of me. She’s still a little skeeved about touching the toi-toi.
I grew up in a household where I where supposed to put everything down, seat and cover and always do that, but now the girl I live with complains if I put the cover down. Apparently the toilet must always be in a ready position for the girl to use.
I’m just about ready to start peeing in the sink.
You don’t have cats, do you? Have you ever heard of the aerosol effect?
Seriously, leaving a toilet seat up just looks tacky. Close the lid.
Exactly. I actually dated a guy once who liked to whiz sitting down as well (for some reason I found it a little disturbing, but maybe that’s a tale for my therapist ;)). And even if we add co-ed puking to your chart, the odds still favor seat-down.
Yeah. Still trying to wrap my head around the concept of not making damn sure that I know what my bare ass is about to touch.
Wow.
I’d heard of this phenomenon before but some of the attitudes in here are surprising, to say the least.
I’m smart enough to lift the seat so I don’t pee on it, and my wife is smart enough to put the seat down so she doesn’t fall in.
BTW, this page links to a mathmatical proof (PDF) that the “last used” position is the most efficient.
Don’t any of the men here pee sitting down? I had a male roommate who did. Never had a seat up issue.
No, I don’t have cats. I assume by the aerosol effect, you mean the evaporation of toilet water and condensation of that water on toothbrushes and stuff. I really couldn’t care less about that because only the water evaporates, not bacteria or other components of feces or urine or whatever is in the toilet. Worrying about that is just anal.
Aside from that, I clearly stated (I believe twice) that I wasn’t worried about people who want to put down the lid as well since that’s not usually a gender thing.
From the sound of things, she’s a very intelligent and fair woman.
The worst part is getting up in the middle of the night, stumbling to the bathroom, and sitting down on the ice cold bowl because the seat is up. :eek:
I’m kind of curious about why our culture apparently teaches girls that they should never check to see what they’re parking their bare asses on.
Seems simple to me. If women don’t want to have to think about their functionality during the middle of the night, and demand to have the seat down, then don’t expect to find a perfectly clean seat. 
If the seat is ALWAYS up, and only put down for those things that require sitting, then the seat stays clean.
I’d likely be willing to put the seat down, but I’m not going to start until the wife learns to flush after every use. Yes, I have a septic system, I grew up on a septic system, but can’t stand peeing into dirty water. There is nothing worse than the smell that comes up from stirring up substances that have sat around too long.
-Butler
<Runs away from the wrath of the clean freaks, and the militant seat down folks. >
I will agree that scouting before you sit is key. I learned my lesson the hard way as a teenager, on an unforgettable dark and gloomy midnight run to the loo; not because I fell into the bowl after someone’s failure to lower the seat.
Oh, no.
Instead, I sat my bare ass on my mother’s bare lap. :eek:
Scared the shit out of both of us.
Um, no pun intended.
auntie em, that story and the resulting visual just spontaneously turned me into a facial contortionist, but it was all I could do to keep myself from making a number of odd noises (non-toilet related) that would have brought perplexed coworkers running my way.
Thank you, I think.
My husband and I are responsible for our own toilet seat maneuvers. I hope he puts it down at other people’s homes, as is the standard when you’re a guest. If not, it will be obvious which one of us socially blundered. There are much bigger things to feud about.
Like which way to hang the toilet paper.
I was going to say who takes out the trash.