h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

put the toilet seat down!?
Come on guys, what is the problem?
It's very simply, you lift it up, you put it back down!
I've just had a male friend staying with me over xmas. He was incapable of doing something so simple.
It comes under - Being thoughtful & considerate (I'm expecting that from a male ) or leaving things as you find them.

Foxy

On the other hand, some men could quite justifably ask why women can't remember to lift the seat up when they've finished

If U have 2 lids like the US; one with a hole ,one as a cover lid. The proper way is for ALL sexes to put ALL the lids down each time. Everyone finds it the same way and leaves it the same way. Women have been wrongly blaming men. Both should have an obligation to close all lids. I have been fighting against this faulty *female reasoning for decades, it is NOT logical.

KerrAvon, lmao, that's exactly what he suggested, that I should leave the seat up. It's MY house! He's lucky I didn't use my whip on him.

Abbi Normal, Yes we have seats with 2 lids (though I'm sure they're not as big as those in the US ) Putting both lids down would be much worse. I'd probably sit down without noticing the darn thing was down use your imagination as to what that would cause.
Oh and for the record - females have no faults. Unlike men, who have just 2 faults-everything they say & everything they do! lmao.

Foxy

Get men to sit down while p**ing, that's what I say. My boyfriend does it, my ex did it, most of the men I know do it - even my 80 year old father got used to it... and it causes much less cleaning the bathroom.

Yeah, but standing up requires less effort and is generally easier.

I always put the seat down as I was afraid of the noise when I was a kid

I'd never experienced this phenomenon prior to moving in with my current roommate. Since he's been around, I've dunked my cheeks (which I swear can lead to hypothermia) on more than one occasion. I've tried to no avail to convince him to put the ring back down when he's through, so if I need to park, I guess I'd best look over my shoulder before backing in...

...Although I will agree that while I'll tolerate the ring being left up from time to time, I'd appreciate it if he'd aim a bit better. I've heard it asked before- why is that some men can make a free throw or kick a ball between two goal posts, yet they can't hit the ing toilet bowl at close range?

Less effort and easier??? Since my father started to have problems with his prostata in the age of 75 he prefers to p** sitting and told me it feels much better... Seems, men have to reach a certain age to sit...

I think it is better to leave the seat up. It lets the seat drain dry lol. Why can't the ladies leave it up?

And why can't the blokes clean the toilet...? *sighs*

i repeat the earlier point: why cant women put the seat up?

in this modern age of post feminism and equality, what place has this sexist 'consideration'? you cant have your cake and eat it ladies

It's just about cleaning the f*****g toilet, which is no fun, not for women, not for men!

hi Abbi


i know someone living in a mixed flat who solved this problem using feng shui. apparently its good practice to keep the top lid down on the toilet, so that energy isn't lost down the drain. seriously.

so she was able to convince her male flatmate with this reasoning, to keep both lids down.

the reason why (some) men don't (not can't) piss in the bowl is because they (in general) don't have to clean it up.

kea
(having cleaned public toilets)

eating and enjoying it.

I can believe that Kea! They certainly DO have good aim any other time their tool is useful

That's why they in some places have small pictures of fly's in the urinals. Try taking a passport photo of the mother-in-law and putting it in there

As for putting the toilet seat up, since it was your house he should have done it. But when two people live together, they should leave it as they want it. He leaves it up, she leaves it down. Why should he bend to her, when she doesn't put it up for him? What are you doing backing into the toilet with closed eyes anyway? Look over your shoulder at least.

'good aim any other time'

well, some of them



as for the pissing outside the bowl, its actually really disrespectful. women leave mess in public toilets too, mainly soggy bits of tissue in handbasins, but its not quite the same.

maybe its some kind of regressive throwback thing about marking territory.

its still gross though, and leaving all the gender war, whose worse than the other stuff aside, there's no excuse for it.

I know that women are as well able to leave toilets in a mess, wet toilet seats and all, but men seem to have more talent for that... Anyway: I always try to leave toilets - no matter if it's my own, anybody elses or a public one - in the state I wish to enter it and I *grrrrrr* expect other people just to do the same!

Women definately need to get over this unnatural and somewhat odd aversion to touching a toilet seat.

And there are no problems here at GoshoTowers - I sit down to pee