The toilet seat poll!

In My Humble Opinion
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After a recent great debate with my SO, I have been interested in the whole toilet seat up vs toilet seat down controversy.

aka “Men are inconsiderate jerks” vs “Women are lazy imbeciles”

You will understand what I mean if you take a look at this thread by none other than Wildest Bill.

There are also a GD thread on the subject here, a IMHO thread here and I am sure there are pit threads coverning this as well.

I would like to do a poll of dopers and if they leave the seat up or down after their business is completed.

I really don’t want to make this too much of a TMI thread so I think the relevant bits to mention would be:

  1. Your sex.
  2. Do you leave the seat up or down after use.
  3. Don’t forget to flush, Opal.
  4. Do you live with others of the opposite sex.

For instance:

I am male and live alone. My toilet seat stays up between uses.

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  1. Male
  2. depends - i leave it in whatever state it was in while I was using it
  3. I always flush!
  4. yes

I would like to add a question - do you wash your hands afterwards? with soap?

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  1. I think I’m a guy.
  2. I leave it down, but I sit to pee so it would be kind of stupid to leave it up now wouldn’t it?
  3. Especially after her recent movement! :slight_smile:
  4. I live along but I was married and did live with another woman.
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In our house, we always leave both the seat and the cover down after use. Otherwise the cats can’t jump up and get from tthe top of the toilet to either the sink or the window.

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  1. Female
  2. Down
  3. No

I skew this a little though. I live alone, with no pets. Except when I clean the bathroom or when I have a male friend visiting, the seat is always down.

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Male. I’m married, but when my wife is elsewhere I still leave the seat down (odd, since she has the tendency to leave it up sometimes). I do this partially because I have a dog and partially because I just don’t like staring into toilets.

However, when at “The Guy’s’ Place” I leave it up, because it just makes more sense.

I always put the seat down after a #2.

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I’m male and live with my wife. Seat down. Always.

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1. Your sex.
Male.

2. Do you leave the seat up or down after use.
Down. It’s a battle I’ve given up on. As long as there would be some consistent pattern, I maintain there is no good reason to do one or the other, up or down.

3. Don’t forget to flush, Opal.
Flush.

4. Do you live with others of the opposite sex.
Yes. Wife and 18 year old daughter.

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  1. Female
  2. I leave it down…I also ALWAYS close the lid, regardless of whatever actual facts exist about the “toilet aeorsol”.
  3. I always flush
  4. I live with my SO, male, who always leaves the seat up, and flushes, and lives with me, female, who…Ok, I’ll stop now.

My SO is learning to close the lid, though, because the kitty-cat has started attempting to drink out of the toilet bowl, which we feel is a truly disgusting habit.

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  1. Male
  2. Leave it down and closed. One of my cats prefers toilet water to the fresh water in her bowl. She is an odd creature.
  3. I live with others, whom I am constantly reminding to close the lid.
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Sit to pee? :confused: Wha?

12
  1. Male
  2. Down. Always Down.
  3. :slight_smile:
  4. Yes.
13
  1. Male
  2. Closed, if others in the house. (Just looks better) Open if just me around.
    I sit to pee sometimes too, as I am usually naked and usually reading when in the house alone. :smiley:
  3. Always.
  4. Kind of. Not officially, but rarely spend a night alone (at mine or hers).
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  1. I’m a guy
  2. I always put the lid up after I use it (at least in the dorm). That way the slobs in the dorm don’t piss all over the seat because they’re too lazy to lift it up.
  3. Yes, but separate bathrooms for men and women.

Women should be happy when the seat is left up, that way it’s more likely that some idiot that thinks he’s a sharpshooter hasn’t moistened the seat for you.

15
  1. Male
  2. Sit to pee, so there. Winston: Get over it.
  3. Usually
  4. Mixed.
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  1. Not nearly enou- I mean, female.

  2. I never need put the seat up unless I’m cleaning the toilet. I close the lid, though, so nothing falls into the toilet in my cluttered bathroom.

  3. I always flush after each and every use.

  4. I live alone.

I could not care less what happens to the toilet seat after use, as long as the toilet gets flushed. It should go without saying that if there are small children or dogs in the house, the seat and lid get put down after use. It’s just that simple.

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  1. Male
  2. Closed: top and lid. Actually this is partly paranoia that has become habit. When my baby was a baby I read a letter in “Dear Abby” about some kid who climbed up to play in the toilet, fell in and got lodged head down, and drowned. The lid’s been down ever since.
  3. “If it’s yellow, let it mellow.”
  4. The women outnumber the men in my house.
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  1. Male

  2. Used to be up… then I read the column Winston linked to and from then on it’s been down, very definately down :slight_smile:

  3. Wotever

  4. Female and male, all of whom are now thoroughly fed-up with hearing the phrase ‘fecal aerosol’ each time the seat is left up :wink:

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I’m a male who lives alone. I usually close the lid before I flush, thanks to all the nasty things I’ve read about toilet splash and germs flying around the bathroom and landing on my toothbrush.

So, lid down I guess. You’d think the ladies would be all over me for that consideration. Oh well.

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Female, leave the seat up. Due to Ivylad’s back, he can’t bend over to lift it himself.

Of course, always.

Two other males and one female (Hubby, son, daughter.)

I do close the lid when I flush so I don’t get the “spume,” but then I lift it again for Ivylad.