I think we should just keep the front door closed, so people don’t come in and pour all our milk in the toilet. Then we couldn’t have cereal in the morning. (Or we could, but at what a cost!)
lucie, your analogy presumes that the seat belongs down. I suppose I’m supposed to menstrate too. sheeeesh, the things we men do for you women.
My husband will tell you that events of this nature are indeed his fault, because nothing at all is ever my fault. 
Leave the seat down for us and we’ll quit using your razor. Deal?
Stompy
Um, why would I discuss my excretory habits with my friends? wonders if there’s a “slightly weirded out by the question” smiley
Oh, and what song is that? I like the Blood Hound Gang.
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um. Isn’t that what you did * here*?
Blacknight,
Now don’t get offended but the song is called “why does everyone always pick’n on me.” This is how it goes…“why does everybody pick’n on me” then another voice sings “because you run like a girl and you sit down to pee.” Too funny.
And as far as your friends go you did bring it up here. And don’t they(your friends) think that you “poop” alot?
I would prefer not to have to touch the toilet lid, and then sit down and take care of any hygenic needs I might have. That would require me to wash my hands twice, once after putting the toilet lid down, and once after I am finished. While I suppose this could also apply to men, they do not seem to have as many and varied hygenic toilet needs as do women (and, trying not to get too graphic, their needs are somewhat more external).
Women seem to have more frequent urination needs than men, as a rule, and men usually have some sitting they also do on the toilet, so the toilet is probably most often used with the lid down.
And I consider it to be common courtesy for gentlemen to leave the lid down. If I asked a man to do this out of courtesy to me, and he did not, I would wonder about how much he actually valued me as a friend and companion.
Wildest Bill, I’m beginning to think that this may be a sort of “macho” thing with you, that it would make a difference what BlackKnight’s friends thought about this. Would you be being too much of a cream puff to do this small courtesy for your wife?
I’m gonna tell you the way our real estate agent told it to me, K??
“Please keep the toilet seat down, you’re NOT selling the toilet, you’re selling the house and the bathroom, it looks more aesthetically pleasing with the lid ** down.” **
She could’ve saved her advice, because our lids DO stay down, until they need to be used.
We’ve kept it down at my home since my oldest son was a baby. We knew someone in Augusta whose child had died because he fell in head first while his mom answered the phone (she’d been cleaning the bathroom at the time). By the time she got back Aaron had drowned. Toddlers are ‘top heavy’ and they don’t have the strength to pull themselves back out by their own arms.
Lesson learned, lid STILL stays down, even though my oldest is 20, youngest, 16, and both are boys who close the seat too! 
Spider Woman, do you actually do this in your home, or just in public bathrooms? It seems (to me) a little bit obsessive to wash your hands after touching the toilet lid, just to be able to use the bathroom. Now, if I touched the toilet lid before heading out to cook dinner, I’d of course wash my hands. But the only places I might conceivably touch with my germ-infested hands while peeing, um, already have pee on them…
*Originally posted by Spider Woman *
I don’t think so where do you this from?
Not at my house I pee alot.
And what he the man asked you to lift the lid after your done would you? Are you any less of a friend or campanion?
Yea I guess so. It seems pretty sissyish to sit down to pee after this is one our advantages of being a man(but not since that new invention)
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Tell you what I will compromise if she picks it up when she is done then I will put it down when I am done. Fair is fair. This also would work in your household even with your overwashing fetish.
You lift the lid up. You put the lid down.
Pretty simple concept.
Personally, I always want it down.
What a lame argument. Ok how is this…
You put the lid down. You put the lid up.
Your’re that is a very simple concept.
And personally, I want it up. 
Giraffe, at my house there have been frequent visits by little boys whose aim is not the best, so I got into the habit of doing the hand washing thing then. I was not always so anal (snicker) about this until my pediatrician told me how important this hand washing thing is to help stop the spread of disease. In my family of origin, a child died of influenza, and all of us are a little obsessive in this respect.
Wildest Bill, I had heard women need to urinate more frequently because of having shorter urethras than men. Correct me, anyone, if you have heard something different.
I happen to own the home I live in, and when I was married, my husband, who was the only male in the house, tried to remember to leave the lid down as a courtesty to me and my three daughters.
(Wildest Bill, out of curiosity, who cleans the toilet in your house?)
Nope. Lids belong down. That’s why they are lids. Seats are for sitting on, therefore they should remain in the sitting position.
Assuming women require the seat down for all uses, and men require the seat down approximately 30% of the time, that works out to needing the seat down 65% of the time. 65% is a majority, and majority rules in a democracy. Therefore, the seat should be kept in the down position.
Hah!
[Hank Hill]
Dammit, I thought we weren’t going to talk about my narrow urethra! You know how embarrassed I am! Oh, dammit, no one was talking about it…
[/Hank Hill]
Maybe not, Lucie
I tried that logic on the SDMB in this this thread back in Feb.
I said:
To which The Ryan replied:
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*Originally posted by Spider Woman *
Why that was mighty nice of him.
Spider woman you too funny. And smart. Good one.
One puts the seat down for the same reason they open a car door—to be a gentleman.
Oh come on give me a break. What are you trying to do pick up girls on the message board?
Ok do you still do this for your wife{if you are married if you not married you are trying to pick up girls with those shivery statements.)
Fine, I’ll just piss on it then, since it belongs down.
First a clarification.
Lid: Up or down, thats fine. If you want it down, I think you’re anal, but I won’t fight you on it.
Seat: If this is expected to be down all the time, just to solve your cranial-rectal inversion, then theres no way I’m going to put up with getting yelled at for it.
Sure, it is a nice thing to do to put it down, I’m doing you a favor that I don’t mind doing…until I get bitched at for not doing it once on accident. Understand that I’m doing a curteousy, that I don’t expect to be thanked for, and if it happens to get overlooked once isn’t it a bit bitchy to start acting pissy cause you think you’re entitled to it?