• HipsterTenZero@dormi.zone
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    10 months ago

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

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        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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          Besides, not all seats are the same. The lid on my toilet wraps around the top of the bowl, which seems like it would reduce spread.

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            It would be neat if someone developed a product where like you could spray a mist into the air, or I guess pour a liquid into the bowl, turn off the lights, flush the toilet and then watch as it glows where all the “stuff” spreads:-). But for now, at least these studies are better than nothing.:-D

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              I mean you could kinda do that yourself with UV ink and an appropriate flashlight. Put some in the bowl and some in the tank, maybe even different colors to see which portion contributes more.

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      10 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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        10 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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      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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    10 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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    10 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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      It doesn’t make any difference if you flush with the lid up. Poop particles will still go everywhere, even if the lid is down. There was a study on it that came out earlier this year.

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      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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        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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    10 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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    10 months ago

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

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      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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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      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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      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”

      your baby is crying and your wife is awake. You’re not going back to sleep

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          I hate soft close lids because they close too slow. The flush is over before it’s half down, which defeats the whole point of a lid. Sure, I could wait an extra 30 seconds, but at that point why not just do the soft close with my own hand?

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            I’m not sure about soft close toilet hinges, but, most soft close cabinet hinges have small adjusters that allow to you basically set the speed of the close.

            Might be something to look into.