Which makes it a completely different ball park than ‘Put the seat down so I don’t get my dainty ass wet.’
It’s a rule regarding the toilet lid that applies to everyone and is in place for a practical purpose.
I would not be so sure about that. Certainly you can catch diseases like the flu by touching a surface that the prior infectee has touched. However, the canard about catching gonorrhea or syphilis from atoilet seat is false.e
But yes, the piss on the seat is caused mainly by “hoverers” who are pathologically afraid of germs to the point where their behavior becomes self-fulfilling. If one pees on the toilet seat in order to avoid touching urine, there will be urine on the seat.
Urine is mostly sterile. One should wipe if off, of course, and if one is germaphobic, using the “ass gasket” is OK.
Oddly- in the nicer places, the Ladie’s is often filthy and the Men’s not so bad. It seems that women who keep their home bathroom sterile “let it out” when using a public facility.
Of course there are also moronic men who have to pee in the toilet rather than using the urinal. Some do it because the urinals are all busy (OK) some because they are too shy to pee- and if you are the latter, you should talk to someone.
But even if you must use th etoilet as a urinal- ferkristessake, lift the fucking seat, willya? :mad:
Why? I don’t want to pee in front of somebody else. It’s not that I can’t go-- it’s that I prefer to complete my eliminatory functions in privacy. If women had “urinals” I wouldn’t use them-- I’d go into a stall. I don’t see why that should be considered abnormal to the point of needing professional help.
When I was in grade school, the girls bathroom had no doors on the stalls. (I never got a clear explanation as to why they had been removed.) Some girls would team up with a partner who would stand with her back to the pisser and try to shield them from view as much as possible.
I credit that bathroom with giving me my industrial strength bladder. I never used the bathroom at school unless it was a real emergency and even then, I tried to save it for a time when everyone else was in class and I had a good chance of being the only person in there.
Exactly. Why is it that, when I have to use the bathroom while on a “nice” outing, I get treated conditions that are disgusting, while I can go into the local gas station/McDonald’s/etc. and it’ll be comparatively spotless? Not that I want the “lower” places to be dirty too, but why on earth is it that people think they can, and have every right to trash a public bathroom?
See, now this would give me hives. I’m not shy about peeing, but I don’t have the facilities to whip it out quickly like boys. I need a door goddamnit. I would have whined to my mother, and her being as prudish as she was, would have complained to the authorities.
Well, I agree with you that it’s not necessarily a professional-help matter, but DrDeth is right that peeing in the presence of others is fairly standard procedure for guys, and they’re socialized to accept it at least from adolescence on up. A guy refusing to pee except in the privacy of a locked stall is probably a lot more unusual than a woman refusing to do so, although that doesn’t necessarily make him mentally abnormal.
It’s not so much a preference to pee in private, it’s an *inability *to use a public urinal. And, that’s not mentally abnormal, but getting some counseling wouldn’t hurt.
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My high school started the “no doors on stalls” thing while I was there. They were afraid we’d do drugs or smoke cigarettes in stalls with doors. Grade school is a bit extreme though!
Oddly enough, the middle school (4th-6th grade) was right next door and the girls’ restroom in there had stall doors. So did the high school.
The place where I attended Sunday School had a preschool through high school associated with it. The preschool and kindergarten bathrooms had no doors on the stalls, as children under the age of five tended to lock themselves into the stalls and forget how to unlock them.
My school was the same. But in the boys’ bathroom there was no such helpful "buddy system"as you describe, but rather a kind of pack mentality, so any kid unlucky enough to (literally) be caught with his pants down could be assured of an audience of his peers, pointing and hooting and laughing hysterically.
Only a true sadist would put doorless stalls in an elementary school bathroom. I didn’t take a daytime dump for five years.
and yet, it’s ladies like this who have no qualms about letting their husbands/boyfriends commit unspeakable atrocities on, and put unmentionable horrors into, their bottoms. 
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That would make a lot more sense if there were some context and properly used tags applied. Want to try again?
Excellent rant. Bathroom behavior is something I never understood. I learned to crap at home and hold it in public. As I’ve gotten older, I’ve learned to use the public facilities. My biggest rant is for airport lavvies. They are truly disgusting, because people feel that a five-hour flight entitles them to shitting on the walls and not flushing. Fortunately I almost always just need a urinal…
I will also contribute my $.02 and add that women’s bathrooms are infinitely more disgusting than men’s. I was a wage slave at K-mart as a youth, charged with the responsibility of cleaning the lavvies every evening. Men - occasionally peed on seats and the floor, and every now and then I’d find a floating loaf. That was it, really. Women - let’s see, tampons and pads in various stages of saturation, shit on the seat and floor, piss everywhere, clogged toilets… the list goes on. It’s interesting to hear that the germophobes are the ones who are likely propagating this phenomenon.
Women clearly have more things to make a mess with compared to gents. If guys menstruated and peed sitting down, I would fear for the state of humanity.
Oh, and scottkris? WTF? 
I’ve only once volunteered to do bathroom maintenance while working at a movie theater. This particular one had a large elderly population, so there wasn’t nearly as much mess as I’d seen in bathrooms that catered to a more age-diverse population, but there was still little issues with toilet paper and such on the floor, and it was easier to clean. However, despite the fact that a larger portion of the customers required assistance with their bathroom duties than other locations, the place was pretty clean. No feces drawings, no urine or menstrual spills, and it was pretty darned rare to have a toilet that wasn’t flushed or had leftovers dripped on the seat. I really have to wonder what happened between the current elderly generation and the generations of women that followed who do disgusting things in the bathroom.
As for scottkris, none of the posts they’ve made lately make any sense whatsoever. (Out of curiosity, I checked the last 10 posts or so that he made, and none of them are nearly as eloquent or well coded as this one.) :dubious: :rolleyes:
Agreed. And I’d happily go for putting the lid down anyway. It looks tidier.
When I get up for a wee-small-hours pee, I often sit down anyway, to save the disturbance caused by putting the light on. I find I can perch quite safely, if less comfortably, on the bare rim, just as well as if the seat were down, and I’ve never been in danger of falling in. Really, anyone who can’t look before they leap doesn’t get my sympathy.
At work I have ranted before about people who leave cuds of chewing gum in the men’s urinals. That’s just jam-packed full of tasty WTFitude. :rolleyes:
Yrs ago, just after the last glaciers receded into the north, and our tribe feasted on Mammoth, I had a girlfriend I had been dating for a few weeks…
the big night came when she invited me over to her place, and in the course of the evening, I used the toilet.
Written, in a feminine hand, on the underside of the toilet seat, was the message “It’s so nice to have a man around the place!”.
I complimented her on that appropriately placed wittisism, and she replied “Oh, that… I wroite that YRS ago, but Thanks! for lifting the lid, sweetie!”
Regards
FML
When I was teaching high school, we had a phenomenon we called The Phantom Shitter. Some kid would smear feces all over the walls of boys bathroom. Apparently, it was lots and lots of shit and it was everywhere. The school was concerned because this is a sign of serious mental disturbance, took great pains to find out who it was, but kept it all confidential. I always wondered who it was and what the hell was up with him. I have to say, when I hear all these tales of people crapping all over the place, I wonder if all the people who do that are having some psychiatric problem. It’s a bit scary.
Not only that, but I can’t believe that people who are squeamish about toilet seats (which hands never need to come into contact with) wouldn’t be sure their lids are shut at home to avoid toilet aerosol - one of my earliest memories of reading any Cecilisms, BTW.