The constant battle that has been raging on for centuries
her: "is it so difficult for you to put it DOWN when you finish?"

me: "is it so difficult for you to put it UP when you have finished?"

her: "but its disgusting i don't want to touch that"

me: "if its so disgusting then why to you expect me to touch it?"

I am all for men and women being treated as equals which is why such double standards annoy me so much
( Reme Philips laid an epic dump on, Mon 8 Aug 2011, 22:12, 16 replies)

The answer is
always put the lid down. Whoever gets there has to lift something, be it it the lid and the seat or just the lid.

next - the Middle East.
( Holly Would long wheel based tranny, Mon 8 Aug 2011, 22:20, closed)

Just put it down ffs and argue about something important
( enoughblueskyforsailorstrousers, Mon 8 Aug 2011, 22:38, closed)

Just clean the bog ffs.
Dirty bugger ;)
( blaireau69 , the Cumbrian Travis Bickle., Mon 8 Aug 2011, 22:55, closed)

We are talking about toilet seats aren't we?
I figured it's that or cocks.
( number5 has been fighting tramps and losing., Mon 8 Aug 2011, 23:35, closed)

My son told me, his mother, off yesterday for not putting the toilet seat down.
(Freakmandu, Tue 9 Aug 2011, 1:34, closed)

It has a lid ...
for a fucking reason.
(Que?, Tue 9 Aug 2011, 3:09, closed)

What's that, then?
Bogs are generally only used to put stuff down, so the lid always has to be lifted. And without a catch, they're no good for preventing Foul Creatures From The Pits Of Hell from crawling through the sewers, round the u-bend and into the house to rip your still beating heart from your body.
(ubergeekian, Tue 9 Aug 2011, 10:21, closed)

To stop all the microbes of shit shooting straight up into the air
when you flush, for starters.
( scarpe We Stole Bikes, Tue 9 Aug 2011, 10:31, closed)

exactly this.

( janet aylia y'all motherfuckers need jesus, Tue 9 Aug 2011, 13:44, closed)

So you mean you put the lid down before you flush
Hence leaving you unable to see if what you've done has flushed away. Presumably whoever goes in after you has to open the lid to find your steaming pile of turd which hasn't gone down. Nice.
(Chiliconcarne's Waiting What place is this, Histor?, Tue 9 Aug 2011, 21:13, closed)

Or, you know, you check...
It's that or shit landing on your toothbrush, your call...
( scarpe We Stole Bikes, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 12:07, closed)

I read a good reasoning for the reason it miffs girls...
It's like saying, yes we live together and between us we're more likely to need it down, but you don't factor into my equation. Just me.

That put a sad spin on the toilet-seat issue for me. Hence, after just spending a week in a house where I was the only girl, I didn't complain about the toilet seat being up once. Just put it down.
( vix0r was not Matthew on, Tue 9 Aug 2011, 11:33, closed)

Ah, of course.
I knew it would be something Important that has no obvious relevance to the state of the relationship. Presumably hogging the remote, farting and leaving toast crumbs in the butter are also not just minor irritations, but Deeply Significant Indicators of the State of The Relationship. (DSISTERs for short?)
( shinyshinyscalp less a man, more a way of life, Tue 9 Aug 2011, 13:15, closed)

Maybe I'm just wierd/skilled/gifted
I just aim though the seat. The diameter isn't that significantly reduced.
(sittingduck Attention seeking, bullshitting fuck-knuckle, Tue 9 Aug 2011, 11:42, closed)

This whole debate is why I only crap out the window these days.

(Falstaff's Spiritual Successor, Tue 9 Aug 2011, 12:10, closed)

You could sit down piss,
thus the seat could remain down all the time, and neither of you would need to put your hands on it.
( monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Tue 9 Aug 2011, 15:10, closed)