I always shut the lid, and I’ve just about got my husband used to doing it too. My daughter never seems to remember, so her toilet was the dog’s auxiliary water dish.
Yes, we flush.
Female.
My lids are always down. Always. We have cats, plus it looks better. Drives me bonkers when someone comes over and uses the bathroom and leaves the seat up.
This need for lids down is practical too. Having lived in apartments where the sink is close to the toilet, I have dropped things into the toilet when the lids were left open. Accidentally, not on purpose.
I live with a male, he leaves the seat down too.
We always flush after each use.
And I like the soft, padded toilet seats, which is what I thought this poll was going to be about.
I want to add - after I read that article from Cecil, I have kept my toothbrush in the medicine cabinet - not out in the open. 
I’m a male. I live with my wife. I usually flush, even when I’m drunk. The “ass seat” usually stays down–I have pretty good aim. I close the lid when I flush lest the bathroom get contaminated by the invisible geyser of nastiness.
Female.
The seat and the lid goes down after each use.
And I live with my Hubster.
The both of us leave the lid down after each use. However 7 year old Little Disturbance has a problem with the lid issue and flushing.
I thank the Gods that Hubster grew up with women and I didn’t have to train him that falling into the toilet at 3 in the morning was not a good thing.
And I do wash my hands and use soap, and AFAIK I seem to be the only one in the house to do so. I tend to lysol the bathroom a lot.
My sister on the other hand, leaves the toilet seat up unflushed, but washes her hands after each use… still puzzles me.
I’m not buying the “flush aerosol” effect just yet. Cecil points out that many other household items are far more disgusting than the toilet itself.
- female
- down (with the lid as well…it’s just nice manners)
- Wish I could get the hubby to flush after number one…geez.
- Yes, I live with one male.
- Male
- I usually leave the cover up, but the seat down
- I flush every time
- not at the moment
- Your sex.
Female
- Do you leave the seat up or down after use.
Seat down
Lid up
(We used to leave the lid down. Then, last year, there was quite a bit of news about pets who were able to survive by drinking toilet water when their owners weren’t able to return to the apartment for some time. So now we keep it up, despite the grotty factor, in the event we are ever abducted by aliens, or otherwise prevented from returning home when planned.)
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Flush always!
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Do you live with others of the opposite sex.
Yes.
Just a question for the men who pee sitting down…
Why?
- male
- seat down, lid up
- always
- yes
As far as sitting to pee, it became habit after a car accident several years ago (plus the doctor told me…).
unclviny
I thank the Gods that Hubster grew up with women and I didn’t have to train him that falling into the toilet at 3 in the morning was not a good thing.
Hmm. I grew up in a house with 4 women and 3 men. The men were responsible for putting the seat up before whizzing while standing–no one wants to sit on a wet seat. Everyone was responsible for not sitting before making sure the seat was down, even at 3 a.m. Made sense to me–I always thought it was silly to assume the seat would be down in any commode, anywhere.
Now I normally leave the seat down and the lid up, because that’s what my wife prefers.
*Just a question for the men who pee sitting down…
Why?*
Lets you rest briefly, eliminates aim problems, makes passing gas easier.
Male
Depends on last use
Yes
Female.
When I’m at home, down. When I’m at my boyfriend’s house, however I found it–which mens putting it back up sometimes, NBD. In the dorms, it’s always down.
Yes. At home, there are 3 females and 1 male, so the seat stays down. At my SOs, there are 2 guys and 1 female (though, since the female is me, she’s hardly ever there).
- Male
- Down (the seat only, not the lid)
- Once I had a parakeet that tried to land on the whirling water as it descended into the depths, but his name was Irvin. My next parakeet will be named Opal…don’t wory, I will give you a hand.
- One female
1-4 = irrelevent
One day my mom dropped her favourite, very expensive lipstick. It bounced off the counter and ker-splash! The rule became “seat down, lid closed.”
Moved into my own place, went to use to toidy. As I was droppin’ my pants, ker-splash – my keys.
Seat down, lid closed.
Note: Both males and females are thus equally incovenienced.
I’m male, I always leave the toilet seat down, and I live alone. Ladies, I’m single.
- Female
- Seat and lid down, to keep the cats out
- If it’s yellow let it mellow (see 2)
- Just me
- I am male.
- After I use the toilet I close it completely. Ie, Both of the movable seaty parts.
- I always flush; however, when I lived in the desert climate under water restrictions, I only flushed solid waste.
- I live alone currently.
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I am male. (grunts)
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At my house, seat stays however it was when I finished. I had friends (female) in college that would get really annoyed when I left the seat up, something about sitting on the rim in the middle of the night. WTF? Years later I still don’t understand why you wouldn’t check. For those people, I would make them leave my toilet seat up when they were over, in an attempt to be funny/make a point. Oh well.
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Growing up in Africa, we sometimes didn’t have running water. You can actually manually flush a toilet with a bucket of water (takes some finesse). In those case, “If it’s yellow, yet it mellow, if it’s brown, flush it down.” Nobody here understands that, so I always flush, even though I think it’s a waste of water.
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Live alone, but my girlfriend is over a lot. She likes the seat down too, but only insists when we’re at her place. Will never understand females.
This was really long.