• whome@discuss.tchncs.de
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    1 year ago

    I think women should start pissing standing so my fellow fragile penis owner, who think standing while pissing is the only option, learn how filthy a toilet gets if you don’t put your parts in the bowl.

  • Captain Aggravated@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    Close the lid so the cat doesn’t drink/fall in?

    If it’s a problem from there, it’s not a battle of “who needs the seat in what configuration,” it’s a battle of “who deserves to touch the icky parts and who deserves the icky parts touched for them” at which point we’re through.

  • KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    1 year ago

    i’ve never understood this tbh.

    Just check it before you use it, and adjust it if needed, unless you’re hyper conscious of the particulates that tend to result from flushing, in which case fuck it, close it everytime.

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      1 year ago

      close it everytime.

      I belive that is what your supposed to do, and the main reason why there is a lid.

      Only other potential reason I can think of is oder, but if your toilet smells that bad you ain’t flushing and cleaning it enough.

  • HipsterTenZero@dormi.zone
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    1 year ago

    Everyone needs to put the toilet seat down. Flushing with the lid up is committing biological warfare on yourself and everything else in the bathroom.

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        1 year ago

        Thanks for the link!

        It did say that it reduces particle spread by 30-60% though, yet with qualifiers too.

        My natural intuitive thought is that the lid down surely limits the spreading, i.e. the left side of this picture, especially as compared with the right side:

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        Also, I want to (half jokingly) complain that they treat the MS2 bacteriophage like one of the bad guys there, as if killing the E. coili wouldn’t make it one of our allies in that fight:-). (I say jokingly bc most people reading such an article would know that, but also what they really used it for was a detection vector, probably bc the protein wrapping eases sample collection by reducing degradation.)

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          1 year ago

          Besides, not all seats are the same. The lid on my toilet wraps around the top of the bowl, which seems like it would reduce spread.

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            1 year ago

            It would be neat if someone developed a product where like you could spray a mist into the air, or I guess pour a liquid into the bowl, turn off the lights, flush the toilet and then watch as it glows where all the “stuff” spreads:-). But for now, at least these studies are better than nothing.:-D

            • TheIllustrativeMan@lemmy.world
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              I mean you could kinda do that yourself with UV ink and an appropriate flashlight. Put some in the bowl and some in the tank, maybe even different colors to see which portion contributes more.

    • Jo Miran@lemmy.ml
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      1 year ago

      But watching with great satisfaction as your turd circles down the toilet is one of life’s great joys.

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    1 year ago

    i sit down because I’m an adult and clean my own toilet. Standing is gross.

  • Fuctangle@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    For anyone that thinks about shit plumes: Iirc last time I heard it mentioned and looked at the study, it was based on public restrooms with high pressure flushing mechanisms, not the slow flush tank dump I think most people have at home. If it sounds loud and splashy, maybe a shit plume, if it’s a sploosh swirl blub blub, prolly not a shit plume. Pouring water on shit doesn’t really aerosolize it, power washing it does.

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    1 year ago

    Me, an alpha male sitting down to pee and closing the lid afterwards: what are you talking about you degenerates

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      1 year ago

      it’s the middle of the night and the house is silent. You finish your business and in your sleepiness know that you have to put the seat and lid down because you don’t want all that bacteria on your toothbrush, your towel, your clothes. So you turn around grab the lid and

      #SLAM

      you whisper “fuck”

      your baby is crying and your wife is awake. You’re not going back to sleep