Board 8 > Good people of B8, I would like to come out to you regarding a certain matter...

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I've never really understood the 'women put the toilet seat down and guys put them back up' thing that is quite prolific around the internet.

Why don't you just keep them always down? It's easy enough (most days) to control the pee stream to hit inside the toilet bowl even with the handicap and it's less hassle when you need to take a dump, rather than putting the seat up before you pee.

Please, enlighten and invigorate me with your pearls of knowledge.
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I always keep it down
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Raka_Putra posted...

It's easy enough (most days) to control the pee stream to hit inside the toilet bowl

Tell that to 80% of the population
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Peeing with the seat down is more rude than leaving the seat up.
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Tbh i close the entire lid
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Even if you have good aim, many people will experience a phenomenon called splashback. And it would be considered impolite to leave the flecks of urine from splashback on the seat.
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Peace___Frog posted...

Tbh i close the entire lid

I just pee in the sink
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scarletspeed7 posted...

Even if you have good aim, many people will experience a phenomenon called splashback. And it would be considered impolite to leave the flecks of urine from splashback on the seat.

Not only that
You also need to shake it...and yeah
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the fuck

thought this would be about how we should just also pee sitting down (which rules)

but peeing with the seat down is bad and people who do it should hate themselves.

Let me tell you- the pee splash thing, it's a fucking problem for women too. I've seen pee all over the seats everywhere in women's bathrooms because they won't sit on the fucking toilet seat to pee like it's going to help shield them from germs. It's disgusting.

In terms of seat up or down it's just not the hill I'm going to die on with the men in my life. I put them down if they're up when I gotta go and it isn't a hardship.
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scarletspeed7 posted...

Even if you have good aim, many people will experience a phenomenon called splashback. And it would be considered impolite to leave the flecks of urine from splashback on the seat.

Even so, the splashback would hit the underside of the seat. And typically the splashback doesn't reach that height.
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You know, even if urine gets on the seat, there's this wonderful roll of paper next to most toilets that you can use to wipe the seat clean, and best of all, it's designed to be disposed of in the toilet itself.
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when my brother is around, I have to make sure the toilet seat is up every time I leave the bathroom because he will pee on it.

he is literally 25 years old and gets mad when I say something to him about it.
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A better question is why would it matter?


Do people seriously not clean up after themselves if they misfire? How hard is it to wipe your own pee off the seat if you miss?
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TexasZea posted...

when my brother is around, I have to make sure the toilet seat is up every time I leave the bathroom because he will pee on it.

he is literally 25 years old and gets mad when I say something to him about it.

Maybe he just wants to mark his territory.

BowserCuffs posted...

You know, even if urine gets on the seat, there's this wonderful roll of paper next to most toilets that you can use to wipe the seat clean, and best of all, it's designed to be disposed of in the toilet itself.

Ah, I see you're a man of culture as well.
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My company moved from a rented office space with public male/female bathrooms to a place that's all our own with 5 unisex bathrooms, and holy shit this topic got way more attention than it should have in the early going.

Once a week a female would send an email or tag the office in an IM about something to do with the toilets or the bathroom in general.

I always understood where they were coming from, but it was amusing to me that they thought a whiny email was going to change the restroom habits of 30 year old men.

All that said, I put the seat up before I pee and down after I pee. It's an easy enough habit. And heck I even wipe off the rim of the toilet underneath the seat when pee splashes on there.
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why pee in the toilet when you can do it in the tub/sink/toilet tank?
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Is it really that hard to lift the seat to pee and then put it back down? Like, is that the amount of effort that's finally going to put you over your limit for the day, and you're just going to collapse after?
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StealThisSheen posted...

Is it really that hard to lift the seat to pee and then put it back down? Like, is that the amount of effort that's finally going to put you over your limit for the day, and you're just going to collapse after?

It's no harder for any one person to do it than it is for any other person to do it.
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GranzonEx posted...

why pee in the toilet when you can do it in the tub/sink/toilet tank?

Oftentimes they're overflowing already so there's no other choice.

StealThisSheen posted...

Is it really that hard to lift the seat to pee and then put it back down? Like, is that the amount of effort that's finally going to put you over your limit for the day, and you're just going to collapse after?

It's hard to make it a habit and that's two extra steps to peeing.
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The bigger issue with me is that no matter how clean the toilet seat may be, I don't like touching it with my hand.

Which is why my habit ever since I was a kid was to lift the seat with my foot, and then put it back down again each time.
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easy solution for people that don't want to touch the seat is to install one of those squat toilets
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It's super easy to pee with the seat down so this is never an issue, and also I sit to pee pretty often

The meme about seats up and down is probably from some 50s comedy bit that blew up in pop culture and is self-perpetuated due to male/female tribalism, just like 50-80% of the rest of our social norms
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I lift the seat and put it back down. It's hard enough to get it in the bowl when it goes shotgun or does the splits, I don't need to get that over the seat, too. As for putting it down, there was something somewhere about keeping potty germs in the potty when you flush with the lid down.

I pee from standing on top of the bathroom sink. No need to put the seat up tho.
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StealThisSheen posted...

Is it really that hard to lift the seat to pee and then put it back down? Like, is that the amount of effort that's finally going to put you over your limit for the day, and you're just going to collapse after?

I'm not going to lift the seat to piss in my own home because I live alone and I don't want company ever, and the public restrooms at work have urinals.

This leaves everywhere else that isn't home or work, which accounts for less than 1% of the leaks I take. In those cases, this "splashback" is extremely rare and on those rare occasions when it happens, I take care of it. Lifting the seat up every time I piss would be only marginally more logical (from a statistical standpoint alone) than wearing a kevlar vest every time I am in a public place (in case I get shot in the torso randomly)

also fuck sitting down. I don't want to get all of that horrible, dreaded, detestable splashback on various parts of my ass cheeks, inner/back thighs and scrotum...
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foolm0r0n posted...

The meme about seats up and down is probably from some 50s comedy bit that blew up in pop culture and is self-perpetuated due to male/female tribalism, just like 50-80% of the rest of our social norms

This is almost definitely true and also almost definitely responsible for a lot of my hatred of the human race
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Raka_Putra posted...

It's easy enough (most days) to control the pee stream to hit inside the toilet bowl even with the handicap

Strong disagree.
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GranzonEx posted...

easy solution for people that don't want to touch the seat is to install one of those squat toilets

God I hate those things

****ing everywhere in Indonesia
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ImTheMacheteGuy posted...

StealThisSheen posted...

Is it really that hard to lift the seat to pee and then put it back down? Like, is that the amount of effort that's finally going to put you over your limit for the day, and you're just going to collapse after?

I'm not going to lift the seat to piss in my own home because I live alone and I don't want company ever, and the public restrooms at work have urinals.

This leaves everywhere else that isn't home or work, which accounts for less than 1% of the leaks I take. In those cases, this "splashback" is extremely rare and on those rare occasions when it happens, I take care of it. Lifting the seat up every time I piss would be only marginally more logical (from a statistical standpoint alone) than wearing a kevlar vest every time I am in a public place (in case I get shot in the torso randomly)

also fuck sitting down. I don't want to get all of that horrible, dreaded, detestable splashback on various parts of my ass cheeks, inner/back thighs and scrotum...

Ah, this is also more or less the case with me. I still live with my parents, but my mom uses another bathroom.

Pram_the_Oracle posted...

GranzonEx posted...

easy solution for people that don't want to touch the seat is to install one of those squat toilets

God I hate those things

****ing everywhere in Indonesia

Same.

Please don't install squat toilets.
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Pram_the_Oracle posted...

GranzonEx posted...

easy solution for people that don't want to touch the seat is to install one of those squat toilets

God I hate those things

****ing everywhere in Indonesia

they were all over the place in italy too! nothing like being wasted at a bar and your only option to drunkenly pee being a squat toilet
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I never got this. If you're cleaning your toilet/bathroom area regularly it's not like touching the seat is going to give you Death AIDS or something. If you do get some urine somewhere, you can just wipe it off with a paper towel. You're going to be washing your hands anyway.
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Wait I thought you already came out to B8.
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