“WHO IS IN HERE??”
Just close it entirely before you flush, people. The fact that there's a debate between fully open and half-open when both are inferior is baffling.
this post was submitted on 25 Aug 2024
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Counter point: I know plenty of people who close the lid and then flush, then leave. So when you open the toilet you're greeted by a floater or shit streaks over the bowl.
I flush with it open, check if it's clean (otherwise use the brush and flush again) then leave.
If you want to close the lid you'd have to close it, flush, open it and check, clean, close it again. Are you doing that?
Counterpoint, if you leave the lid open, you're flinging shit particles all over the bathroom, potentially onto toothbrushes.
That was tested with Mythbusters. When your toothbrush is nearby there was hardly a difference if you flush open or closed, sorry :)
I had to present this paper for a fluid mechanics class during COVID and yes, the particles do spread. The radius of contamination was almost 1,5m.
Shared bathrooms in hospitals, rehabilitation centers, or assisted living facilities are used by patients who might be infected, thus making them a likely source of indoor cross-contamination. The pathogen-spreading potential of toilet flushes was investigated in toilets seeded with microorganisms that were later recovered from surfaces and in the air after flushing. The organisms in the bowl could not be fully cleared even after repeated flushing, and the droplets produced by flushing harbored the organisms that were used for seeding, which remained airborne and viable.
Recently, Johnson et al. (2013a) investigated different toilet designs and found that up to 145,000 sampled particles can be produced per flush.
Analysis of more recent data revealed that a large number of droplet emissions are not visible to the naked eye (d < 100 µm) (Figure 6b). These emissions account for more than 6 mL and can remain suspended in the air for a long time compared to the larger visible drops (with diameters up to 6 mm) that end up on surfaces.
The larger visible drops settle on surfaces within milliseconds, whereas the smaller, invisible drops are advected by local airflow (on the order of a few centimeters per second). Droplets settling on surfaces can be tackled in accordance with surface decontamination procedures of local infection control protocols. However, no system or protocol currently addresses air contamination. Furthermore, usual cleaning solutions not effective in neutralizing the most resistant pathogens, such as the spores of C. difficile, may even contribute to their dissemination by effectively lowering the surface tension, for example, down to 30 mN/m, compared to water at 72 mN/m, increasing the local Weber number and thus promoting fragmentation into either more or smaller droplets, depending on the fragmentation mechanism.
https://www.annualreviews.org/content/journals/10.1146/annurev-fluid-060220-113712
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Realistically they are going to get everywhere anyway, but I still close it in a harm reduction effort.
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I am doing that, yes.
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Counter point: close the lid to prevent things from accidentally falling in.
Close the lid bc flushing causes little particles to go into the air and I dont want to breathe that
Sorry to inform you but that doesn't help. Myth busters busted that in 2013.
There's a recent study that also confirms this:
https://www.ajicjournal.org/article/S0196-6553(23)00820-9/fulltext
Counter counterpoint: Look before you sit.
For real, I'm not sitting down until there is a quick inspection.
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#ScariestMomentOf2016
Oh sweet summer child
What the hell happened?
They sat on a toilet with the lid up and just put their ass in the toilet instead of not doing that.
... And then they relearned the habit of looking down.
When a female friend of mine used to come over she would often leave the bathroom door open and the toilet seat down with the lid up. I didn't like that because my cat used to drink toilet water. Also, when you flush, particles of what you're flushing go everywhere. The lid minimises this. They proved it on Mythbusters https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uFzgNSO6t6c
So I understand the feeling of someone not leaving the toilet how they found it when they use it in your home after being asked to stop it.
But mine was for reasons I've just explained.
You're facing the toilet when you walk up to it. Surely you can see what state the seat is and change it accordingly? Can someone please explain to me why the toilet seat being up or the lid being down is stereotypically such a problem for women?
The post mentions it is at 2 am so our toilet tumbler may have entered the bathroom without any lights and just went through the motions.
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this is what it feels like reading a post from a mastodon.social user except they have a character limit of like 2 so instead of separating the #hashtags they will #PutThemInline #LikeThis so you get an #aneurysm reading a post
I don’t know for sure, but it looks like Facebook.
Put the lid down. Which is why it exists.
Once you have dogs, the lid becomes something you use.
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I typically try to distract my poop as I'm going. "Time to go jump on a trampoline!" or "I get to greet the Pope next" that way it doesn't get scared and run back up when it sees the toilet water.
I paid for the seat I'm gonna use the seat
I am the proud owner of a 90's era cock.
To keep it running efficiently I pee sitting down.
Why would I stand up when I could chill out for a moment?
Like, manufactured in the 90's or being put to use in the 90's?
He peed out his ass for the first couple of decades of life
Why do people want to look inside a nasty toilet in the first place? Why even INVITE the possibility of your deodorant, lotion, phone, or cat falling in to a perpetually open toilet? I'm a very lazy man, but this is too far. Close your fucking toilet.
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