Closing the toilet lid

[Ebeneezer Smith]

Most of my wife's female friends close the loo seat wheas in my experience men don't.
I learnt some years ago that when a toilet is flushed microscopic water droplets including from the pan go airborn, so if you are standing looking to see that the contents have all gone you get covered in an undesirable mist.
Do women know this and that's why they close the lid? Doubtful IMO.
Do they open the lid again after flushing to carry out a quality inspection? I think that they just close it after flushing because for some obscure reason they think it's "polite".
Discuss
(And don't get me started on German toilets)
https://www.german-way.com/german-toilets/#:~:text...

[Cold]

Close it you filthy Herbert.




Just in case you might drop your phone in there.

[cheesejunkie]

Toilets have lids?

Joking, yes I put the lid down before flushing. Have done ever since I read about water droplet diffusion. I’ll still read my phone on the bog though.

I don’t take a peek at what I’ve just crapped there. My medically trained wife does when she goes. It’s not interesting!

I feel more satisfied being unaware sometimes.

[TonyRPH]

Yes, close the lid so that all those droplets that form upon flushing can gather on the seat, ready for the next person to sit in.

You know it makes sense.

[motco]

Firstly closing the lid negates any arguments about men leaving the seat up and women vice versa. Secondly, the lid is there, you've paid for it so bloody well use it - it's ugly if it's left open! Then there's the reported aerosol of faecal matter...

[Colonel Cupcake]

That droplet thing is a myth.

Not one of the toilets at my hospital has a lid.

If it were true, infection control would be all over it.

[motco]

Colonel Cupcake said:

That droplet thing is a myth.

Not one of the toilets at my hospital has a lid.

If it were true, infection control would be all over it.

Oh yeah! Pigs might fly! I've watched nurses in a cancer chemo ward where the patients are immunocompromised doing so many dodgy things blissfully unaware of the infection risks incurred. For example the lever operated taps on the washbasin which are meant to be elbow operated, are never used that way. A nurse will dutifully bin her polythene apron and non-sterile blue gloves, go to the basin, use her hand to turn the tap on, wash her hands and immediately turn the (contaminated) tap off with her wet hands and dry them. The blue gloves are not sterile as they're in the boxes on a fitting open to the ward atmosphere, the computer keyboards are used by all and sundry with or without gloves, and the chairs are wheeled about like dodgems by ungloved or gloved hands. Absent lavatory seats are the not the only risks! Just one study of the airborne droplets

[ApOrbital]

I just piss and crap in the garden.

[SlimJim16v]

Colonel Cupcake said:

That droplet thing is a myth.

Not one of the toilets at my hospital has a lid.

If it were true, infection control would be all over it.

OK, next time you flush a toilet, kneel down in front of it first.

[anonymous-user]

The bog I have in my Algarve apartment is particularly vicious, attempting a flush with the seat up will give you wet legs!
With the lid up and seat down there is only mild splashing, so we always suggest to visitors that they close the lid before flushing. The other interesting point about this bog is the design of the pan itself, drop a normal, solid turd into it and it vanishes, drop a 'sticky' turd in and skid marks are left...

Bogs matter!

[motco]

SlimJim16v said:

Colonel Cupcake said:

That droplet thing is a myth.

Not one of the toilets at my hospital has a lid.

If it were true, infection control would be all over it.

OK, next time you flush a toilet, kneel down in front of it first.

There have been occasions in my youth when I had to flush the toilet because I had been on my knees in front of it! "Dear God please let me live and I swear I'll give up the booze!"
probably...

[ShortBeardy]

And on a related subject...

In films when people throw-up they stick their head far down into the bog as if trying to wash their hair. Seems weird.

[2 GKC]

ApOrbital said:

I just piss and crap in the garden.

Your own garden I hope?

[Colonel Cupcake]

SlimJim16v said:

Colonel Cupcake said:

That droplet thing is a myth.

Not one of the toilets at my hospital has a lid.

If it were true, infection control would be all over it.

OK, next time you flush a toilet, kneel down in front of it first.

I am not quite kneeling but I flush and then stand over the bowl, giving it what-for with the toilet brush to get rid of skid marks whilst the water is cascading. Multiply that by just over 30 for a days worth and multiply that by around 230 for a years worth.

[Radec]

Don't forget about all those droplets of st landing on your toothbrush if your sink is next to it.

[Kwackersaki]

I always close the seat and read recently, which is kind of obvious, the blow dryers in toilets are just forcing floating poo particles onto your skin! Nice.

[jimmytheone]

motco said:

There have been occasions in my youth when I had to flush the toilet because I had been on my knees in front of it! "Dear God please let me live and I swear I'll give up the booze!"
probably...

"Dear god, please take away this awful stench i've hurled up and maybe i'll feel better...", yeah, sounds familiar!

[motco]

jimmytheone said:

motco said:

There have been occasions in my youth when I had to flush the toilet because I had been on my knees in front of it! "Dear God please let me live and I swear I'll give up the booze!"
probably...

"Dear god, please take away this awful stench i've hurled up and maybe i'll feel better...", yeah, sounds familiar!

Mainly too much g&t taken during a bum's-rush commiseration event for a suddenly departing colleague. On one notable occasion, though, it was injudiciously large amounts of Suntory Red in a Japanese business colleague's house. Anyone who says Japanese people cannot hold their booze should meet that chap!
Now I stick to ale - hard to get to the room spinning stage with that!

[SlimJim16v]

Kwackersaki said:

I always close the seat and read recently, which is kind of obvious, the blow dryers in toilets are just forcing floating poo particles onto your skin! Nice.

You're supposed to wash your hands first.

[jimmytheone]

motco said:

Mainly too much g&t taken during a bum's-rush commiseration event for a suddenly departing colleague. On one notable occasion, though, it was injudiciously large amounts of Suntory Red in a Japanese business colleague's house. Anyone who says Japanese people cannot hold their booze should meet that chap!
Now I stick to ale - hard to get to the room spinning stage with that!

Nothing as glamorous for me, but its ALWAYS mixing my drinks that gets me in trouble (and should have learnt by now).

My grandfather had 2 drinking rules apparently:
Drink beer - only beer
Drink standing up, never sitting down.
I dont stick to either!