Ah, my apologies- I never considered something like that. Yeah, I probably wouldn’t want my cat chomping on a urinal cake either (he’d do it to!)
I’m male, I pee any damn way I please and I always leave the seat down. Not just to promote domestic peace, but because we have two cats, one of which could be the poster girl for the adage “Look before you leap” Once, just once, my SO left the seat up (late night call of nature, groggy, cold tile floors, must get back to warm bed) Shortly thereafter the impulsive feline leaped up, landed straight in the bowl, then came into the bedroom to dry herself on our duvet.
Well, guys, the toidy would stay a hell of a lot cleaner if you’d just sit to piss, thus eliminating the whole up/down controversy and making the home more sanitary.
I mean, c’mon, even guys with good aim manage to make a hell of a mess. Little drops of urine splash up all over the seat bottom, the tank, the outside of the bowl, and the surrounding floors and walls. It is, quite frankly, disgusting to scrub piss off your wallpaper and tiling every few weeks. We won’t even discuss what the toilet itself gets like if uncleaned for a while. shudder
The way I look at it, if I can humor a man’s stupid need to stand when he pisses by cleaning up after him without complaint and not nag about him never replacing the toilet paper on the spindle, he can fucking well humor my need to not check the seat when I go to piss. It seems only fair.
I dated & lived with a sitting pee-er for a while… it was bliss.
Here are a few things to think about:
Women complain that they don’t want to touch the seat to put it down. What makes you think we want to touch the seat to put it up ?
If a woman visits a household that is predominantly male, why is it not expected that she put the seat up. After all, it’s not your house, and you are making more work for the occupants.
If an egalitarian society is the goal, someone with higher math skills than me needs to do a calculation to find out what percentage of the time a man finds the seat in the position that he needs it, then the same for a woman.
Here is what I got (some or all may be wrong)
Given 6 trips to the bathroom per day, with 1 #2.
A single woman has a 100% (6/6) chance of finding the seat in the required position, and a single man 83.4% (5/6)
If the two move in together, the odds change as follows:
Man 5/12 = 42%
Woman 7/12 =58%
That means that the woman has to put the seat down 42% of the time, while the man has to put the seat up 58% of the time.
To equalize the equation, the woman would have to put the seat UP one out of every six times, which would bring them both to 50%
If these calculations are correct, women should be glad that they are entitled to the extra 8% free of charge, instead of yelling about how we’re lazy for not putting the seat down.
Of course for those of you who believe in leaving the seat and lid down, you stand a big fat 0% chance of having the toilet in the right position, so you can ignore this.
Finally, I completely agree with those that say it doesn’t make a difference how the seat is, and you should look. I have sat on the bowl a few times, usually when I’m thinking about something else. I have never once thought to blame the person who used the seat before me for this, it was my own fault, and I got over it.
Society will never be equal as long as some people think that because of sex they are excused from things they think are icky or require the opposite sex to do something because it makes them more comfortable.
And if a little urine bothers you that much, grab some paper and wipe it off before you sit down. You wash your hands anyway.
Goulash
my wife complains, but i say she can put it down just as easy as i can lift it…as has been said, at 3am, look before you sit, that should be common practice…it is just lazy to try and make someone put the toliet seat down, dont be so picky…