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The Toilet Seat: Could someone set my mind at ease?

  • 12-12-2008 9:45pm
    #1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,151 ✭✭✭


    For the life of me I can not work out why men are supposed to put the seat down after they go for a piss.

    Believe it or not, I've been thinking about this a lot today, and I just can't convince myself either way.

    Like all men, I assume, I've been told to place the seat back down on the rim from when I was very young. At this stage, it's more or less a habit, but today I asked myself why?

    If someone could put forward a logically sound, just and convincing argument as to why it is the right thing to do, I will award them Thanks, and my eternal gratitude for saving me lost sleep tonight.

    And before we begin, can I rule out responses such as:
    • ewww the toilet seat is ikky and i don't want to touch it after smelly boys piddle all over the place
    • just do it to keep the women happy
    • just because
    • yore ma
    I've considered them all, and they don't wash.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,213 ✭✭✭SoWatchaWant


    I always lift, any piss on the seat drains tight off.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,483 ✭✭✭Ostrom


    Be more specific- the seat or the entire cover?

    Both much different matters, but no less troubling

    Putting the whole seat down, as I (and many I assume) were taught in theory contains the smell of píss

    Putting down just the seat is kind to the lady folk- simple as.


    Or so I thought until now..... what more can there be?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,379 ✭✭✭Jimbo


    The real question is Why do you put it up in the first place?


  • Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 35,945 Mod ✭✭✭✭dr.bollocko


    I have faith that the good people of AH will provide a fantastic answer to this question.
    /Subscribing


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,151 ✭✭✭Thomas_S_Hunterson


    efla wrote: »
    Be more specific- the seat or the entire cover?

    Both much different matters, but no less troubling

    Putting the whole seat down, as I (and many I assume) were taught in theory contains the smell of píss

    Putting down just the seat is kind to the lady folk- simple as.


    Or so I thought until now..... what more can there be?
    I mean just the seat.

    Surely a man lifting the seat before he goes for a piss is no different to a woman putting the seat down before she goes for a piss.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,509 ✭✭✭✭randylonghorn


    Because when flushed the agitation of the water sends tiny droplets into the air ... and those droplets are unlikely to be pure H2O.


    But mostly just to keep the wimmen happy ... >.>


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,565 ✭✭✭jaffa20


    oh why oh why:confused::confused:

    You don't have to do anything you don't want to.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 831 ✭✭✭rotinaj


    [/quote]
    Putting down just the seat is kind to the lady folk- simple as.


    How is it kind to wimmin?
    and why cant ye put it down yourself?

    Bloodly lazy wimmin


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,761 ✭✭✭✭Princess Consuela Bananahammock


    Women NEED to bitch, end of. If it wasn't that, it's be something else. Like why we take the batteries out of the remote control when we go for a beer.

    Everything I don't like is either woke or fascist - possibly both - pick one.



  • Closed Accounts Posts: 377 ✭✭Irjudge1


    It's a health a safety risk.

    The seat could fall on someones head if they decided to lick the toilet bowl.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,565 ✭✭✭jaffa20


    lol


  • Moderators Posts: 51,922 ✭✭✭✭Delirium


    To stop peoples pet rabbits drowning themselves in the toilet. Actually know this happening to a friends pet.:eek:

    If you can read this, you're too close!



  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,151 ✭✭✭Thomas_S_Hunterson


    Because when flushed the agitation of the water sends tiny droplets into the air ... and those droplets are unlikely to be pure H2O.


    But mostly just to keep the wimmen happy ... >.>

    Oddly enough I can see the sense in putting the cover down, but when it's a trade-up between having the seat up or down, I'm at a loss.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,509 ✭✭✭✭randylonghorn


    Irjudge1 wrote: »
    It's a health a safety risk.

    The seat could fall on someones head if they decided to lick the toilet bowl.
    It fell on me ma's pussy one time ... :(

    Should have heard the screech out of her!!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,957 ✭✭✭trout


    pee in the sink instead ... spurn the toilet seat nazi brigade with their pesky etiquette


  • Registered Users, Subscribers, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,631 ✭✭✭✭antodeco


    Its better to leave the seat down when going for your piss. Its a great place to rest your balls as you release your bladders contents. How else do you think all those pubes get on it?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 31,859 ✭✭✭✭Sharpshooter


    lf you sprinkle , when you tinkle.
    Please be sweet and wipe the seat.:)

    The lid should be closed when you flush as it
    prevents bacteria from escaping upwards as the toilet
    is flushing.
    But I can never understand why it annoys women , I mean you walk into the bathroom and in most cases you are facing the toilet .
    So as far as I can see if you are a woman you put it down and if you are a man you lift the bloody thing up.
    Two seconds.:rolleyes:
    jeeze.:P


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 20 Caballe


    The toilet seat is built technically to be in the seat down position most of the time. Misaiming and spraying the hinges would cause rust which would insure the premature failure of the toilet seat if kept in upright position over a long period of time.
    Hmm....cost saving and health and safety i'd say along with a show of manners to us ladies of course. Just my tuppence worth :rolleyes:


  • Moderators, Education Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 35,125 Mod ✭✭✭✭AlmightyCushion


    The lid should be closed when you flush as it
    prevents bacteria from escaping upwards as the toilet
    is flushing.

    I'm sick of this type of shít. Next you'll be telling us to wash our hands. :rolleyes:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 16,793 ✭✭✭✭Hagar


    Caballe wrote: »
    Misaiming and spraying the hinges would cause rust which would insure the premature failure of the toilet seat if kept in upright position over a long period of time.
    And youse wimmins are going to be the ones replacing it? No? I thought so.
    STFU and grow a mickey then yiz won't have to sit down. Problem solved.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 31,859 ✭✭✭✭Sharpshooter


    I'm sick of this type of shít. Next you'll be telling us to wash our hands. :rolleyes:

    Just shove them in the toilet as its flushing , then dry.
    Job done.:cool:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,957 ✭✭✭trout


    Think sink.

    That is all.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 32,865 ✭✭✭✭MagicMarker


    It took me years to lift the seat before I take a piss, asking me to put it down again is just way beyond my means.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,718 ✭✭✭Taco Corp




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,258 ✭✭✭✭Rabies


    Have you ever plugged the kettle out and come home to find your other half is dying for a cuppa and can't because the kettle is broke


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,474 ✭✭✭✭Ghost Train


    saw a documentry about this, its because men have the "pee on the seat" gene and women have the "toilet seat must be down" gene


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 31,859 ✭✭✭✭Sharpshooter


    Hagar wrote: »
    And youse wimmins are going to be the ones replacing it?

    Yep.
    Pfft , its a toilet seat , not a bloody flat pack from woodies.:rolleyes:
    / can't do the flat packs.:o


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,509 ✭✭✭✭randylonghorn


    Hagar wrote: »
    And youse wimmins ...

    STFU and grow a mickey ...
    NOOOOO!!!!!!!!!! :(

    Hagrid, what were you thinking?!!! :eek:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 20 Caballe


    Hagar wrote: »
    And youse wimmins are going to be the ones replacing it? No? I thought so.
    STFU and grow a mickey then yiz won't have to sit down. Problem solved.

    Do you alway speak for 'the wimmins'? Speaking for myself i would have no problem in replacing it if I had to. As i said just my tuppence worth :)


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,209 ✭✭✭✭JohnCleary


    I use one of my feet to put it up, and again to put it down - But I suck at soccer :pac:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,787 ✭✭✭dSTAR


    Wouldn't it just be easier to piss in the sink?

    Problem solved.

    /Edit apparently someone beat me to it. Great minds and all ...


  • Registered Users, Subscribers, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,631 ✭✭✭✭antodeco


    dSTAR wrote: »
    Wouldn't it just be easier to piss in the sink?

    Problem solved.

    Not if it has an automatic faucet thing. Burn the mickey off you it would!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 31,859 ✭✭✭✭Sharpshooter


    JohnCleary wrote: »
    I use one of my feet to put it up, and again to put it down. :pac:

    Well done , you.
    But how do you tuck it back in?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,739 ✭✭✭✭minidazzler


    Now then, the real reason to put the seat down.

    The seat is to be placed in the downward position, so that when a woman is to use the toilet, they don't accidentally sit on the ceramic part and hurt there bottom.

    That is it.


  • Moderators, Education Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 35,125 Mod ✭✭✭✭AlmightyCushion


    Now then, the real reason to put the seat down.

    The seat is to be placed in the downward position, so that when a woman is to use the toilet, they don't accidentally sit on the ceramic part and hurt there bottom.

    That is it.

    Just look at the toilet when you're sitting down. It's not a hard concept to grasp. We somehow manage to do it when we take a dump. How do you not even see it's up on your way to the toilet. Do you walk backwards, squatting over with your ass hanging out or something?


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,151 ✭✭✭Thomas_S_Hunterson


    Now then, the real reason to put the seat down.

    The seat is to be placed in the downward position, so that when a woman is to use the toilet, they don't accidentally sit on the ceramic part and hurt there bottom.

    That is it.
    tbh a woman so retarded as to not notice that the seat was up shouldn't be going to the toilet unattended.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,276 ✭✭✭Alessandra


    Everybody should put the toilet seat and lid down and then flush. This is the most hygenic method and fair to both genders.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,919 ✭✭✭✭Xavi6


    Toilet seat up + unflushed floaters + next person in = hilarious consequences.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 31,859 ✭✭✭✭Sharpshooter


    I <3 GuanYin wrote: »
    Toilet seat up + unflushed floaters + next person in = hilarious consequences.

    :(:(:(:(:(
    Damn you , javaboy.....damn you...



    :(


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,676 ✭✭✭genericgoon


    Alessandra wrote: »
    Everybody should put the toilet seat and lid down and then flush. This is the most hygenic method and fair to both genders.

    Bacteria have rights too! Bloody suffocate them will ya, you big chauvinistic multicellular bully !?!


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  • Moderators, Education Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 35,125 Mod ✭✭✭✭AlmightyCushion


    :(:(:(:(:(
    Damn you , javaboy.....damn you...



    :(
    That's not javaboy.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 31,859 ✭✭✭✭Sharpshooter


    I <3 GuanYin wrote: »
    Toilet seat up + unflushed floaters + next person in = hilarious consequences.
    :(:(:(:(:(
    Damn you , javaboy.....damn you...



    :(
    That's not javaboy.

    I know that.:D
    Thanks to javaboy's challange to me for SSF I cannot pun until monday night.
    I really was tempted there.:P


  • Moderators, Education Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 35,125 Mod ✭✭✭✭AlmightyCushion


    I know that.:D
    Thanks to javaboy's challange to me for SSF I cannot pun until monday night.
    I really was tempted there.:P

    Ah, I see.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,094 ✭✭✭✭javaboy


    I know that.:D
    Thanks to javaboy's challange to me for SSF I cannot pun until monday night.
    I really was tempted there.:P

    If it's really funny you can post it..... You'll just have to hope that the children find it just as funny when you're explaining to them why there'll be no Christmas this year. :pac:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 31,859 ✭✭✭✭Sharpshooter


    javaboy wrote: »
    If it's really funny you can post it..... You'll just have to hope that the children find it just as funny when you're explaining to them why there'll be no Christmas this year. :pac:

    You would have laughed your A..

    / No.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,094 ✭✭✭✭javaboy


    You would have laughed your A..

    / No.

    Careful now. Any more of that and I'll tear up the cheque.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 33 McSeamus ORiley


    Pіss in the sink, shіt in the bath and squish it down through the plughole.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,383 ✭✭✭emeraldstar


    Ew.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10,898 ✭✭✭✭seanybiker


    im a man. Ya never think that by me name lol. I always put the seat down and it wrecks me bulb when others dont. I only crap at home. If im in pub i will either go home and crap then go back to pub or hold it in. It only takes a second to put lid down.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 21 inpornitrust


    i always thought it was an optional extra that no one uses like the flush lever my record is five days without flushing :owhats yours.................


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