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Re: I have a serious men vs. women question.
Ok, so my house is only 4.5 years old and I have the same toilet issue. Everything was built SO energy efficient that the toilet barely flushes, gets clogged, and then tries to overflow.
I love the preemptive denial! Poop threads are the best.
In my house, I think H should put it down. I don't put it up, plus I wear contacts and am the only one that has to go to the bathroom at night. So if I'm groggy and sit in his pee drops b/c he didn't put the seat down, I'm going to be annoyed.
OMG. THIS. Which leads to a s/o...
In my house, yes. We have parrots, two of whom are small enough to drown if they fly or fall into the toilet. Also, before I was pregnant, my butt was small enough/our toilet big enough that if I sat down without looking and the seat was up, my butt would go into the bowl and touch the nasty inside part. We also have a problem with my H accidentally knocking things off the sink counter and into the toilet if the lid is left open, and it was almost his iPhone once (luckily it bounced off the rim and landed on the rug).
It seems like it's just easier for him to close the thing than to endanger our pets, require me to be vigilant when I wake up in the night to pee lest I dunk my tush, and lose small household objects in the crapper. He's usually pretty good about it, though.
DH and I don't use the toilet even close to the same amount. I've seen him get out of bed, get dressed, clean the litter box, and leave the house. I don't know if this is indicative of an enormous bladder or kidney failure.
Liar.
For the record, I think guys should put the seat down, and I don't turn on the light in the middle of the night to pee, and I used to have bad eyesight before I had vision correction surgery, but falling in has still never been an issue for me. ::shrugs::
Yeah, we also have the tall guy problem, so the seat is usually down. I know this is strange, but I wash my hands before leaving the bathroom, so putting the seat down does not bother me.
This is one of those things that I don't even have to think about. My husband always puts the seat and the lid down. In fact, he's the one who has gotten me in the habit of putting the lid down every time.
OMG, I'm completely neurotic about the flushing with the lid down. Flying poop, people!
DH doesn't lift the seat - how hard is it to aim, honestly?
If even pregnancy poop didn't clog the toilet, then I don't want to hear it.
<a href="http://www.thenest.com/?utm_source=ticker&utm_medium=HTML&utm_campaign=tickers" title="Home DYeah, we do this too. I have a friend who NEVER does it. A friend who is a girl who will go into my bathroom, find the lid down, and leave it up when she leaves. Hell if I know why. She lived with us for a few months, too.
Anyway, we actually started not because of the germs, but because we were thinking about getting a kitten, and we wanted to kitten-proof the bathroom. I wouldn't want a kitten to fall into my toilet. Weird fear, but that's how I got in the habit. Then we adopted 2 adult cats and the point was moot.
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Are flying poop germs really that bad? How much can they really be? And can they even affect you?
Yeah...it seems like they said the toothbrushes got poo particles even when stored in a cabinet in the kitchen.
ETA here's a link.
The seat and lid should go down prior to flushing for sanitary reasons.
We (I) bought hydraulic automatic closing lids for those occasions when someone wouldn't close it.