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I never made an issue out of it with the guys in my life, but I like the seat and lid down. Its mostly an aesthetic thing, like have closet doors and dresser drawers closed. I suppose that the seat up look calls attention to the toilet in some Victorian, yucky way.
Anyway, get a cat and youll have to keep a lid on it regardless whether its a female cat or not.
Anyway, get a cat and youll have to keep a lid on it regardless whether its a female cat or not.
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I agree--I am a male who prefers the seat and lid down (obviously only applies when there is a lid). For one thing, my toothbrush is in my bathroom so I don't want the mist of the toilet traveling out when flushing, and I think it's just more pleasant not to have an open bowl of water that is used for such base functions. I just think it's more...pleasant..I guess is the best word I can think of.
So maybe the solution is that offices should install lids????
When I lived on an all-male floor in the dorms, we had "standing room only" and "sitting room only" toilets to help alleviate the problem of piss on the seats. Worked quite well
I would threaten to do an upper decker if she keeps whining about the seat
I believe that would constitute sexual harassment in Canada and the USA. Attempts to belittle and humiliate coworkers should not be tolerated, because it creates a hostile work environment.
Since you're in a co-ed washroom, you're actually doing her a favour when you don't lower the seat. I find that most men have quite poor hygiene. You're lucky if they lift the seat at all. And they tend to piss all over whichever surface, and don't clean it up afterwards. So, by raising the seat, you're saving that seat from being despoiled by other less concientious men.
Also, no one has some mysterious right to being pandered to. When we choose to do things for women, like lower ( or raise
A voice of reason.
My last cat would only drink out of the toilet. We tried to force him to use his bowl, but he would have none of it. And I like my furniture intact, thanks. Cats are willful creatures.
This is madness. What kind of person does it take to demand someone else configure a toilet seat to their liking? It's up to each individual to put it where they need it. This woman is childish and asinine. If anybody ever demanded that I set the toilet up for their use, I'd tell them no and walk away. That's your job, just as it is mine before I use it. Unless of course you have a legitimate excuse. For example, if you had no arms, I would gladly leave it wherever you needed it to be.
With that said, I always put the seat up before pissing, clean up if necessary (because that's just gross to leave it soaked), and put the cover down. If it's a toilet without a cover, I'll just leave the seat up.
With that said, I always put the seat up before pissing, clean up if necessary (because that's just gross to leave it soaked), and put the cover down. If it's a toilet without a cover, I'll just leave the seat up.
They shouldn't. I spend WAY more time with the toilet than females do.
It's not automatic for me. After I'm finished, I leave the seat exactly the way I used it. I was never taught to do otherwise, and if you're talking about the world as a whole, I think the way I do it is the norm. This entire "seat down" issue is just an issue in "Western" society, where we have it so good that we need to create problems to fight about.
That, or American women are really whiney and just love to complain and have that women vs. men power struggle. I swear, I have never heard of this problem except on American television, and now here at MacRumours.
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Tell her that a simple reminder would have sufficed and you would have been happy to oblige, but will not do it because you're not her servant and she whined too damn much.
Tell her that a simple reminder would have sufficed and you would have been happy to oblige, but will not do it because you're not her servant and she whined too damn much.
Walk up to her desk and piss all over her seat. If she's sitting in the chair at the time, then so be it.
well, you flush that toilet, the water splashes and swirls around and a certain amount of it atomizes out into the air.....next thing you know some of your urine is floating around in the air, getting on the walls, etc......and the same for everyone who uses the toiloet.
the most sanitary thing is to put the lid down before you flush the thing so the rest of the world doesn't have to deal with your urine.
tell that to the girls when they start to complain and maybe they'll demand a lid on the toilet in addition to the nice comfy seat you didn't whizz on
It basically comes down to women's attitudes towards toilets in the first place. A large percentage of them go to great lengths to avoid having any part of their bodies touching the toilet, even covering the seats with strips of toilet paper before sitting down (yeah, that's why they use so much of it ). Others would rather keep their own bodily waste in for hours so they only have to use their own toilet at home. So the thought of them actually having to use their hands to touch a shared seat is simply too much for a lot of them.
What I imagine they have to do is get toilet paper, wrap it many, many times round their hand then put the seat down. Then of course just in case a germ got through the several layers of paper they need to wash their hands before they cover the seat in more paper and finally sit.
So it's a huge hassle for them when that seat gets left up, enough to make a big deal about. But what they don't take into account is that men simply couldn't care less about any of that nonsense. We go in, relieve ourselves, shake, do up our pants, and wash hands (with some that's optional, yuck!!). That's it. Over in seconds rather than minutes. To men, the sort of behaviour that women enact is just mentalness
). Others would rather keep their own bodily waste in for hours so they only have to use their own toilet at home. So the thought of them actually having to use their hands to touch a shared seat is simply too much for a lot of them. What I imagine they have to do is get toilet paper, wrap it many, many times round their hand then put the seat down. Then of course just in case a germ got through the several layers of paper they need to wash their hands before they cover the seat in more paper and finally sit.
So it's a huge hassle for them when that seat gets left up, enough to make a big deal about. But what they don't take into account is that men simply couldn't care less about any of that nonsense. We go in, relieve ourselves, shake, do up our pants, and wash hands (with some that's optional, yuck!!). That's it. Over in seconds rather than minutes. To men, the sort of behaviour that women enact is just mentalness
I can't believe I closed that tab before posting.
Cliffs Notes: German toilets are weird. There might be legislation to force men to pee sitting down (Sitzpinkler). An American ex-pat's take on it.
Edit: You could always recommend that a squat toilet be installed. No seats, no problem!
Cliffs Notes: German toilets are weird. There might be legislation to force men to pee sitting down (Sitzpinkler). An American ex-pat's take on it.
Edit: You could always recommend that a squat toilet be installed. No seats, no problem!
I always thought of German engineering as second to none !!!! What **** designed that loo?I can't believe I closed that tab before posting.
Cliffs Notes: German toilets are weird. There might be legislation to force men to pee sitting down (Sitzpinkler). An American ex-pat's take on it.
Edit: You could always recommend that a squat toilet be installed. No seats, no problem!
FJ
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That's stupid. Even in the women's toilets, where I presume only women do their business, their toilets and the area around it can also be a mess.
That's due to women who hover rather than sit or so I've been told.
Would this be a good point to introduce the PoopReport web site, Your #1 Source for Your #2 Business?
Normally toilet paper all over the place. I swear, they can waste entire forests of the stuff.
You may protest, but you know it's trueOy! We're not all the same. Just as you claim not all men piss the same.
The cheek!You may protest, but you know it's true
Are there some women who do as you claim? I'm sure there are.
Are there some men who poop all over (no, not just in) the toilet and don't flush? I'm sure there are.
Doesn't mean it's the majority.
Nor does it mean that you and I do those things.
You see, this is the weird thing. I normally do sit down to pee. Without going über-personal, one of the problems of having a foreskin is that when you shake you have no idea where the drips are going to go. Much better for it to go into the bowl than risk even a dribble ending up on your trousers.Nor does it mean that you and I do those things.
But what really gets to me is when establishments assume that men don't care about the hygiene side of things. No soap by the sink and/or no toilet brush are disgusting, but you'd be surprised just how many pubs, restaurants and even workplaces don't have them in the Gents.
when I was a kid my cousin put vaseline on my aunts toilet seat. In the middle of the night we heard a loud crash and a scream... "AARON!!!!!"
^^That may be true, but you don't see poop on the floor on men's bathrooms every day, and yet when you go out, you hear about women's bathrooms having long queues and nasty toilets
WHen the women's queue is long, some women even go into the men's bathrooms to use our toilets, and say how our toilets are actually in better condition than the ones in the women's bathrooms.
Maybe men shouldn't generalise toilet use on all women, but the number of dissatisfied women seem to be higher than dissatisfied men.
WHen the women's queue is long, some women even go into the men's bathrooms to use our toilets, and say how our toilets are actually in better condition than the ones in the women's bathrooms.
Maybe men shouldn't generalise toilet use on all women, but the number of dissatisfied women seem to be higher than dissatisfied men.
I think it's safe that although dynamicv sits more often than not, that more men stand than they do sit. And more women sit (or worse, hover) than er, um, stand.
Meaning? I think it's easier to get upset about a messy toilet.
Shrug. If a bathroom has those disposable toilet seat covers, I use 'em. If not? I lay out four squares of tp total: two on either side. That's hardly a "forrest" of paper, no?
I don't get why anyone (man or woman) makes a huge mess then just leaves it. Really, why make the mess in the first place?! Is it really all that difficult to get it right?