I've been meaning to rant on this for a minute and now the time has come. Ladies I'm talking to you today and I have only one question: what is it with you and the toilet seat? No - seriously....what is it?
I lived with a man for I don't know how many years and he never once put the toilet seat down when he was finished with it. Never. And do you know how many times I accidentally fell in the toilet? Never. Because I checked before sitting down. Don't you all do that?
And really - how did down become the default position for toilet seats anyway? Let's really examine this. As far as I can see, the toilet has 5 main purposes:
1. For a lady to pee in
2. For a man to pee in
3. For a lady or man to poop in
4. For vomiting
5. For cleaning
Hmm...so out of 5 possible uses, 3 require the seat to be up. And yet you're still complaining? I don't get it.
The way I see it, complaining about the toilet seat is a little like the boy who cried wolf. You know what I mean? It's like you waste so much time complaining about something so frivolous that when you have legitimate beef the man is already tired of hearing your mouth. You're destroying your own credibility because you don't want to take a half a second to look down at the seat before you sit in it. Does that make any sense?
Ladies - any of you out there agree with me or is this further evidence that I am really a man?
I lived with a man for I don't know how many years and he never once put the toilet seat down when he was finished with it. Never. And do you know how many times I accidentally fell in the toilet? Never. Because I checked before sitting down. Don't you all do that?
And really - how did down become the default position for toilet seats anyway? Let's really examine this. As far as I can see, the toilet has 5 main purposes:
1. For a lady to pee in
2. For a man to pee in
3. For a lady or man to poop in
4. For vomiting
5. For cleaning
Hmm...so out of 5 possible uses, 3 require the seat to be up. And yet you're still complaining? I don't get it.
The way I see it, complaining about the toilet seat is a little like the boy who cried wolf. You know what I mean? It's like you waste so much time complaining about something so frivolous that when you have legitimate beef the man is already tired of hearing your mouth. You're destroying your own credibility because you don't want to take a half a second to look down at the seat before you sit in it. Does that make any sense?
Ladies - any of you out there agree with me or is this further evidence that I am really a man?
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emti · 795 weeks ago
@skyemetafrog · 795 weeks ago
1. This is really about aesthetics
2. That men who spend time in my home have to lift the seat up each and every time they need to take a leak and ALWAYS do so without complaining
3. Checking and putting the seat down only takes a few seconds
I have learned to keep my mouth shut on this one.
YoBee! · 795 weeks ago
Sam Sharpe · 795 weeks ago
My brother and I have been ranting about this for years so it's good to see a woman stand up for the cause. Not surprisingly I have a few thoughts.
@emti
"The toilet seat was meant to be down..."
Where is that written? In some toilet seat playbook? Plus, by your logic, when you walk into the loo and see that your man has left it up, after you take a seat, you should get right up and put that seat back up. Also, do you always have the lid down too? Why is that there? To be used isn't it? Why don't you put that down too? Oh, is it because it gets in the way of your general toilet usage?
@skyemetafrog
Point #1is crap. It's a toilet, what aesthetics are you talking about? Are you doing your hair or something?. Points 2 and 3 show you haven't totally lost your marbles so I'm gonna go ahead and pretend I never saw point #1
@ YoBee
That's what I'm talking about. To hear woman moan like a drain, you'd think they are backing into the bathroom like one of those moving vans on a downtown side street. Get outta here with this toilet seat crap!
emti · 795 weeks ago
but as i said there is a little bit of OCD in my and the lid is down too
and it's MY TOILET leave it the way you found it
Sam Sharpe · 795 weeks ago
@__melissa · 795 weeks ago
but, i do believe that the seat should be down but i also believe that the lid should be down too for 2 reasons:
1) hygiene - do you know how much airborne bacteria is released when you flush? i don't know where i heard this from, but ever since i did, i've been faithful about putting the lid down before flushing.
2) superstition - yes, that's right. i was brought up thinking that it's bad luck to flush an opened toilet because you're flushing away your luck and prosperity. haha....so in order to keep luck and prosperity, you have to close the lid so that they don't go down the drain.
sirron · 795 weeks ago
emti · 795 weeks ago
emti · 795 weeks ago
if we live together let's have separate toilets.
problem solved.
maxfab 81p · 795 weeks ago
I'm siding with Sirron and Sam Sharpe on this issue. It's just not that big a deal.
Mafa · 794 weeks ago