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Put the Seat & Lid Down WTF ????
Wife tells me to put the seat and lid down on the toilet quite often.
Whats the point in this ether sex has got to open it back up. I see some logic in the seat for the women folk but what's with the lid? I am not real cultured so please explain. I am the only male in a house of ladies. I fail to grasp the concept.
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04-20-2009, 07:42 PM
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you should put the lid down before you flush.
that way urine and fecal materials don't get spread through the air when you flush. |
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04-20-2009, 07:44 PM
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A well-managed toilet seat is quite simply the difference between a civilized society and utter chaos.
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Just do it, you'll lose the argument. Yeah, I'm pussy whipped.
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Yea I am not going to argue ! Just wandering! Where do you get a pussy whip?
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04-20-2009, 08:16 PM
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same aisle as the cratch slappers
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04-20-2009, 08:18 PM
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I thought mythbusters did a study of that and found that the amount of e.coli released into the air aerosol fashion as a result of a normal toilet flush was close to zero. At least I think it was mythbusters. I believe the whole idea is urban legend in any case.
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04-20-2009, 08:20 PM
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Do you have toddlers or have them visit occasionally? Not a bad habit to close the lid. Children have been known to drown in less water than a toilet holds.
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04-20-2009, 08:36 PM
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I always put the seat and the lid down...that way my Wife isn't expecting it when I leave them up
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04-20-2009, 08:45 PM
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It's a simple question of hygiene.
You either have a bathroom with urine splashed everywhere, or you just sit down. No brainer, if you ask me.
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04-20-2009, 08:50 PM
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ya can always clean the bathroom occasionally too ya know...
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04-20-2009, 08:52 PM
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strange how women can notice the lid down and won't sit before raising but won't notice the seat is up and sit anyway. same female genetic quirk as sitting on cd's, sunglasses or anything else left in the passenger seat before you can move them out her way.
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It's all about aesthetics. With the seat down it doesn't conjure up the same image as seeing the empty bowl full of water (assuming that it gets flushed).
It's kind of like having a garbage can with a lid. You don't want to see the garbage so there's a lid. Even though it gets flushed, it's still where the garbage goes. My other peeve is making the bed (unnecessary, really only for looks) and 1 step further, all of those stupid fracking only-for-looks little pillows all over the damn bed. My favorite scene from "Along Came Polly" is the pillows on the bed scene. Just makes me want to slap my wife every time I see it.
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04-20-2009, 09:06 PM
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04-20-2009, 09:10 PM
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Yeah, I would prefer the lid down but I gave that up long ago. I'll settle for the seat down, and I get that about 75% of the time.
I always check. AND WEAR SHOES. Don't get me started!  Folks who want the lid down have that preference for different reasons - have you asked? If she's into feng shui, it's bad to have the lid open. All your chi goes down the toilet. For real. If you are into that, I mean. Others have dogs who drink out of the bowl and it squicks them out so they want the lid down. For others, it's kids. And as the above replies illustrate, there are some folks who just prefer it that way for hygiene or aesthetic or other miscellaneous reasons.
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04-20-2009, 10:13 PM
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Silly Victorian tradition and gender discrimination. I bet some of you whipped American boys are forced to sit down and pee too.
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I keep em up just to piss em off
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