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Submitted ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨psy32nd@lemmy.world⁩ to ⁨[deleted]⁩

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  • HipsterTenZero@dormi.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Everyone needs to put the toilet seat down. Flushing with the lid up is declaring biological warfare on yourself and everything else in the bathroom.

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    • runswithjedi@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
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      • OpenStars@startrek.website ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Thanks for the link!

        It did say that it reduces particle spread by 30-60% though, yet with qualifiers too.

        My natural intuitive thought is that the lid down surely limits the spreading, i.e. the left side of this picture, especially as compared with the right side:

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        Also, I want to (half jokingly) complain that they treat the MS2 bacteriophage like one of the bad guys there, as if killing the E. coili wouldn’t make it one of our allies in that fight:-). (I say jokingly bc most people reading such an article would know that, but also what they really used it for was a detection vector, probably bc the protein wrapping eases sample collection by reducing degradation.)

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      • Poem_for_your_sprog@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Why don’t they make sealing lids?

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    • Crackhappy@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Not only that, peeing sitting down is easier and more relaxing for men.

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      • tubaruco@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        unless the toilet is too small

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    • JoMiran@lemmy.ml ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      But watching with great satisfaction as your turd circles down the toilet is one of life’s great joys.

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      • Scubus@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I always flush, then put the seat down. I picked it up as a habit when we had a dog that would drink the toilet water

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    • Lemming6969@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      There is no product on the market I could find (with a normal price that isn’t some $15,000 super toilet) that will open and close the lid and then flush for you. There are automatic seats, but they are timed such that it’s completely unreasonable to stand and wait for them to close before flushing.

      Crazy to think they’re are no hands free options available.

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  • Draegur@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    close the lid.

    now everybody has to adjust the toilet before using it.

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    • Eranziel@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      No, close the lid because that’s how you avoid coating everything in the room with a film of urine and feces. Open toilets are disgusting.

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      • Draegur@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        i mean, that too. that’s the excuse i give when people demand to know why I always “fucking” close the “goddamn” lid :3

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    • usualsuspect191@lemmy.ca ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Also, then stuff can’t accidentally fall into the toilet

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      • Poem_for_your_sprog@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        TIL I’m a moron always being careful around the toilet so I don’t drop something in…when I could’ve just closed the lid.

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    • Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Closing the lid so the toilet pipe ghost doesn’t come out

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      • Draegur@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        the stinkiest ghosts.

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      • HaywardT@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Leave it up so spiders can hide under it.

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      • Leate_Wonceslace@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Is that a Zelda reference?

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    • Guajojo@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Lawful evil

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      • absentbird@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Lawful Neutral IMO

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  • Noodle07@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Me, an alpha male sitting down to pee and closing the lid afterwards: what are you talking about you degenerates

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    • JoMiran@lemmy.ml ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Lower the lid before you flush. Aerosolized poop and pee is a thing.

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      • Noodle07@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        That’s what I do

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    • fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      More efficient. Healthier for some.

      menshealth.com/…/sitting-down-to-pee-health-benef…

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    • FiniteBanjo@lemmy.today ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It’s probably an American problem.

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    • n0m4n@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      My partner and I have separate bathrooms. It saves bottlenecks and conflicts, and is worth it to us, even in our small house. We keep our own rooms clean, enforcing the “I am an adult” rule, you make a mess, you clean it up. Piss splash is gross to clean up. I don’t make an extra mess if I do not need to.

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  • SubjectivelyGood@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    1. Men, women, and everyone in between and between all sit at some point when using the toilet.
    2. It’s unsanitary to flush with the lid up.
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    • Fish@midwest.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It doesn’t make any difference if you flush with the lid up. Poop particles will still go everywhere

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      • AA5B@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Thanks for the link

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      • Poem_for_your_sprog@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Why don’t we keep the toilet in a room separate from the shower and sink? I’ve never fucking understood it.

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    • dylanmorgan@slrpnk.net ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yep, mathematically people sit more often than stand when using a toilet.

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    • Revan343@lemmy.ca ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Men, women, and everyone in between and between all sit at some point when using the toilet.

      The most efficient thing to do is leave the toilet seat the way it is when you’re done. Minimal effort.

      The most fair thing to do, oddly, is to leave the seat in the opposite position it was when you got there; everybody flips it once, it may be before or after you use it. Fair.

      It’s unsanitary to flush with the lid up.

      I’m in this camp though, so it’s always left down.

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      • faintbeep@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        The most fair thing to do, oddly, is to leave the seat in the opposite position it was when you got there; everybody flips it once, it may be before or after you use it. Fair.

        I’ll remember this one, I love it when people are actually logical about things.

        Reminds me of canal locks. The etiquette is to always close the doors after you leave, and people get angry when you don’t. But it’s infuriating because it actually creates more work for everyone. If you leave the doors closed then the next person always has to stop their boat to open them, but if you leave them open there’s a 50% chance the correct set of doors is open for the next person to sail right in. If you’re in the unlucky 50% it makes no difference, because you had to stop to empty the lock anyway and afterwards you get to sail off without closing them.

        People also think closing them saves water, which is another can of people-not-understanding-physics worms.

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  • jaschen@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    i sit down because I’m an adult and clean my own toilet. Standing is gross.

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    • PilferJynx@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yeah it’s way more work to have to clean up unless you don’t mind your bathroom smelling of piss.

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  • Vespair@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    If you aren’t putting not just the seat but also the lid down, you’re just spraying your house with piss and shit particles.

    Close the lid before flushing, you uncouth animals

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    • PatFussy@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      And what if I want poop particles around my house huh? When was the last time you asked me

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      • Vespair@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Fair point. Hey !PatFussy, do you want disgusting shit particles flying all over your house?

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    • nifty@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      But wait tho, does that mean some people never flush while they’re on the toilet? Like they keep sitting there in the poo smell? Unless you’re passing deer pellets and their presence underneath doesn’t begin to haunt your soul, you need to flush while you’re sitting there and not quite done.

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      • ArmoredThirteen@lemmy.ml ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        How much time are you spending on the toilet that it becomes a problem?

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      • Vespair@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Well yes but presumably your own ass is doing the job of blocking shit-spray in those scenarios

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  • PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    We both put the lid down after we’re done

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  • Fuctangle@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    For anyone that thinks about shit plumes: Iirc last time I heard it mentioned and looked at the study, it was based on public restrooms with high pressure flushing mechanisms, not the slow flush tank dump I think most people have at home. If it sounds loud and splashy, maybe a shit plume, if it’s a sploosh swirl blub blub, prolly not a shit plume. Pouring water on shit doesn’t really aerosolize it, power washing it does.

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    • iAvicenna@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I mean easy to check, put a sheet of film on the toilet when flushing and look at the splash pattern

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      • benderbeerman@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        ‘Splattern’

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    • HaywardT@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      That " study" more dubious than that. It was really just an uncontrolled experiment.

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  • TheFrirish@jlai.lu ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I pee with the toilet down for extra difficulty

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    • lledrtx@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I sit on the toilet to pee at home. Why do all guys just not do that? It’s better in every way.

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      • octopus_ink@lemmy.ml ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Never got an unwanted dunk?

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    • 15liam20@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I also use my penis on hard mode.

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    • ohlaph@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I pee with the lid down too, expert difficulty.

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  • shalafi@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    My wife does this, no lie. Took me awhile to figure out why the lid was always up after she moved in.

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    • assassinatedbyCIA@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      You made a good choice

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  • Lizardking27@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Close the fucking toilet you heathens. All of you.

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  • KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    i’ve never understood this tbh.

    Just check it before you use it, and adjust it if needed, unless you’re hyper conscious of the particulates that tend to result from flushing, in which case fuck it, close it everytime.

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    • helpImTrappedOnline@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      close it everytime.

      I belive that is what your supposed to do, and the main reason why there is a lid.

      Only other potential reason I can think of is oder, but if your toilet smells that bad you ain’t flushing and cleaning it enough.

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    • ohlaph@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      That’s what we do at my house, close all lids.

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  • whome@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I think women should start pissing standing so my fellow fragile penis owner, who think standing while pissing is the only option, learn how filthy a toilet gets if you don’t put your parts in the bowl.

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    • A_Chilean_Cyborg@feddit.cl ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      If i piss while sitting is way worse, pee fall trough the space between the seat and the WC body.

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  • captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Close the lid so the cat doesn’t drink/fall in?

    If it’s a problem from there, it’s not a battle of “who needs the seat in what configuration,” it’s a battle of “who deserves to touch the icky parts and who deserves the icky parts touched for them” at which point we’re through.

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  • chetradley@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’ve started reflexively putting the seat and lid down because otherwise my toddler will put whatever he can in the toilet.

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  • Pinecone@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    #1 step is to get a slow closing lid and seat. That will solve all arguments

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    • RGB3x3@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      it’s the middle of the night and the house is silent. You finish your business and in your sleepiness know that you have to put the seat and lid down because you don’t want all that bacteria on your toothbrush, your towel, your clothes. So you turn around grab the lid and SLAM

      you whisper fuck

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      • bier@feddit.nl ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        This is why most modern lids use a soft close system.

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  • Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The difference is that if I forget to put the toilet seat down, she can fall in.

    Vs if she forgets to put the seat up, I just pee all over the toilet seat.

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    • esc27@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I’ve never understood this… are people just blindly launching their butts at toilets? Are the lights off? Is alcohol involved?

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      • Dasnap@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Muscle memory mostly. I’ve done it a couple of times.

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  • Rhaedas@fedia.io ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It's best to have an agreed default in a household, so there's no surprises during a half awake trip or an emergency. Lid down is the best hygienically, but seat down is better than all up as it's a shared need for everyone sometimes.

    Women who do lid up for the men have done that out of a history of men in their lives thinking their aim is perfect.

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  • Aggravationstation@lemmy.ml ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I used to have to tell my female friend to put the lid down when she stayed over. My cat loves drinking from the toilet so if the lids up when I open the door and I don’t catch him in time he’ll just dunk his head in it.

    You should really put it down when you flush too which minimises the amount of fecal or urine particles that get into the air.

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  • MP3Martin@programming.dev ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Image

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  • PunnyName@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    If you raise or lowerthe seat to how you need it, before you use the toilet, then you don’t have to worry about this issue at all.

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  • shalafi@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    My wife does this, no lie. Took me awhile to figure out why the lid was always up after she moved in.

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  • BlastboomStrice@mander.xyz ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I remember reading some years ago on reddit that leaving the lid open (flushing or not) probably contaminates the air.

    So now I open the lid and the seat and when Im done I close both of them, ~no matter with who else I’m in the house.

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  • IllNess@infosec.pub ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yeah but we also use the toilet seat. So for me, that’s enough to leave it down.

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