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What? How's using the lid a controversial thing at all?
by adlpz 4y ago
What?
How's using the lid a controversial thing at all?
- sidlls 4y agoThe commenter is likely snarking about living with a female (or females). Some can be, er, particular about the toilet lid. (Yes, the solution here is to put the lid back up when done, but then that ruins a bit of the GP's (I think) intended humor.)
- nsxwolf 4y agoYou're thinking of the seat, not the lid. Although women are wrong about this. The standard should be a single seat manipulation per urinary event. That's the only fair way to do it. Why should the men manipulate the seat twice and women never?
- grahamplace 4y agoIf your goal is to minimize pathogens transferred from seat to hand, you can think of the man's second seat manipulation as "zero cost" in the sense that their hand is already contaminated and they'll need to wash thoroughly Man 2x, Woman 0x = 1 "contamination" cost incurred Man 1x, Woman 1x = 2 "contamination" cost incurred
- nsxwolf 4y agoThis is an interesting view. Like anything else it's important to establish what the goals actually are.
- itronitron 4y agoAgreed, lid goes down prior to each flush. Guys raise the seat if they are standing up, otherwise anyone else using the toilet just needs to raise and lower the lid.
- yamtaddle 4y agoYeah, this has long been my response to the stupid seat-up/seat-down controversy. Fine, lid's going down too. That way stuff can't get knocked or dropped in, and it reduces flush-spray, so it's better anyway.
- sidlls 4y agoNo, two of the relationships I’ve been in have involved women who absolutely loathed if the lid was down, or if the seat was up. It had to be lid-up, seat-down at all times.
- eru 4y agoI had to teach my (female) partner to close the lid, too. She got it after a while.
- eru 4y agoHuh? You open the thing, sit down to do your business, then close it. It's two simple manipulations for everyone, and for civility.
- SapporoChris 4y agoSome men are learning to urinate sitting down. Think about it, if that toilet is sending aerosols into the air, what is your stream of urine doing as you stand distantly from the toilet? Also, if you've ever cleaned toilets then you know about the accuracy of anyone who insists on standing. https://www.theunconventionalroute.com/men-pee-sitting-down/ https://www.theunconventionalroute.com/men-pee-sitting-down/ or just search using terms like: men are learning to pee sitting down
- yamtaddle 4y agoI piss sitting down plenty and always have (sometimes I just want to sit and relax a bit, you know? Or sometimes you feel like you've got a fart in the mix but aren't entirely sure it won't be a shart, so you sit just to be safe) but I do find it doesn't quite empty me out as well. Standing's better, like, anatomically, for some reason.
- mike_d 4y agoStudies have shown that there is no difference for healthy adult males, but sitting is actually better for evacuation as you start to get an enlarged prostate (Roughly half of men over 50). https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4106761/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4106761/
- yamtaddle 4y agoLovely, maybe I'm getting one of those way younger than I'm "supposed" to, LOL. I think the first time I noticed a (small, but non-zero) difference between the two was in my late 20s.
- scythe 4y agoYou still splash when sitting. You'd need to measure it to know what results in less aerosol exposure (particularly considering the distance-to-face factor), even though it probably doesn't matter anyway. And anyone who has ever cleaned toilets knows that the women's room is not a paradise of cleanliness.