Exclusive poll for the men of DU

[greatauntoftriplets]

How do you leave the toilet seat?

[JVS]

1. I don't touch it at all

unless it is up and I need to drop a deuce, in which case it is left down after i finish.

[JVS]

4. But it drives me nuts when people close the lid

I'm all ready to unleash my liquid wrath and suddenly I see that the toilet is closed, I hate that!

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[GOPisEvil]

2. I leave it in the same way it was when I last used it.

So, if it was up the last time I used it, it will be up. If it was down last time I used it, it will be down. Since I live alone, there's no one to complain about it. :D

[matcom]

3. i pee off the back porch

:P

[Padraig18]

5. I'm not afraid to admit that I leave it up.

If you don't have sense enough to look before you sit, you deserve a wet arse. :P

[tekriter]

6. toilet "seat ???"

[Another Bill C.]

7. There are only males

in our house. The toilet seat belongs up.

[BiggJawn]

8. Down, and I close the lid, too. Bad Feng Shui to leave it up....

Water is a solvent, and if you leave the lid up, you will have your wealth drawn into the bowl and taken away each time you flush.

I used to yell at my daughter about leaving the lid up. How's THAT for a turnabout?

But that also means I don't get to admire the pretty blue Ti-Dee-Bowl water....

[Terran]

18. Same here

You should also keep the bathroom door closed when you're not in there, for the same reason, otherwise your chi tends to flow straight toward that watery hole into oblivion.

[DBoon]

9. My dog taught me to put the seat down

There is nothing like lying in bed late at night and hearing a loud "slurp slurp" from the bathroom to emphasize the importance of keeping the seat down at all times.

Especially when you realize the tongue lapping up the toilet water is the same tongue that is going to want to lick your face the next morning.

[populistmom]

10. I live with 4 males, can I answer?

My seat is always up. I've just learned to live with it. Hubby was never a problem, but with three boys, I have no choice at this point!

[onebigbadwulf]

11. Dont know

I guess it depends on the situation.

[underpants]

12. I just make sure the shower curtain is closed

:bounce::evilgrin:

[catmandu57]

13. Down when my wife is home

up when she's gone. I just have to remember to close it before she gets home.

[phaseolus]

14. When I'm at home....

...I always sit down.

There was a pet peeve thread yesterday -- here's one that's not so petty: Idiots who use regular public toilets when the urinals are occupied, leave the seat down, and spray urine everywhere. While I stand up whenever I can, sometimes the situation warrants otherwise and I'd prefer not to sit in someone else's urine... I'd love to track those guys down, break into their house some day, and piss on their couch.

[Bozola]

15. The sink has no seat.

[Mikimouse]

16. Down, for the cats...

Since my wife and I are living in two different states for the next two years, I have the 'luxury' of reliving some old bachelor habits, but am forced to put the seat down, because one of our cats, Pooky, is entranced by the water swirling in the bowl. Sometimes, I flush just to give him a thrill. He hangs on the edge of the seat with this completely perpexed look on his face, like 'wow Dad, did you see that?, like, how cool! I wanna play with it! What is it?" If I left the seat up, he'd probably fall in.

[Kenneth ken]

17. I always leave

both the seat and the lid DOWN. I dropped my toothbrush in the toilet once long ago. I found I have a psychological against using anything which has been in the toilet, and a strong aversion to fishing anything out of the toilet.

Keeping the lid down helps prevent other things from accidentally falling in.

:bounce:

[stopbush]

19. Put it down BEFORE you flush!

Our local TV here in Vegas ran a report about a month ago. Did you know that, depending on the ferocity of the flushing mechanism, the water in the toilet becomes partially atomized when you flush? This report said that an "energetic" toilet can spew atomized water up to 20 feet into the surrounding area in just a few seconds. That's water loaded with whatever you just, er, deposited into it. Yucky, huh?

Yeah...I now put the lid down before I flush.

[HuckleB]

20. Depends on the environment.

At home, if I'm standing, I leave it up. If I'm sitting, I leave it down. If I'm in a public restroom during a crowded event when it's clear that most are going to be standing, I leave it up. If it's not crowded, I'll put it back down if I use it standing. At work, I put it back down, as I am one of two guys in an eight person office, so it just seems like the thing to do.

[Bossy Monkey]

21. Lid down, or kitty thinks it's her water fountain n/t

[Feanorcurufinwe]

22. Make fun of me if you want but

since I have to clean the bathroom myself, I sit down to pee at home. A lot less messy.

And yes, you should always close the lid before you flush.

[PurityOfEssence]

23. Folks who don't look before they sit deserve what they get

This has always been a ridiculous argument. If it's based on consideration, then why don't women in a household that's at least a 50/50 split by gender leave the seat up AS A COURTESY. Okay, you say, sometimes men have to crap too, so the default setting should be "down", but people whiz more often than they crap, so if the split's something like 3 male/2 female, the default setting should be "up".

People who don't look where they sit should sit in kharmic shit on a regular basis. People who rage that the world doesn't automatically accomodate them are tiresome enough, but the ones who do that without even a whiff of responsibility to do the same for the rest of the world are just hypocrites, and they should fall into up-seated toilets that haven't be flushed just to drive the point home.

Silly silly silly.

Howcome the entire world doesn't go out of its way to accomodate me all of the time? It's SO unfair.

[UrbScotty]

24. I put both the 'seat' and the lid down

Seriously.

;-)

[Sting]

25. I always leave it up...

:D If it's such a problem, stop bitching and do it yourself. :D :) :evilgrin:

[Bucky]

26. Up. Always up. I'm ashamed at my manfulness. But it's always up.

My daughter hates this, but now it's a point of personal perogative. It's not right, but dammit, it's still a free country.

[Character Assassin]

27. Any way I damn well please. Now go get me a drink.

;-)