Women's obsessive need to decorate to the point of unnecessary
As a 44-year-old bachelor, I miss having women (mom, late fiancee`, roommates) around to make the place look better with little touches. A friend visiting me said he could tell I lived with a woman once because there's a basket of rolled hand towels -- not meant to be used -- on the back of the toilet tank. But those are nine years old now. And my buddy used one to make a point.

My younger brother once said, if a woman were to go into a coma and snap out of it 10 years later, she'd still recognize her own house when she returned as the man will have made NO changes to the decor, the wall art, the carpeting, furniture, and so on.

But as nice as these touches can be, they're always taken to extremes. My neighbor is being hounded by creditors, but she puts out a new flag for each holiday (there's a Christmas one now, and I expect to see a snowman one soon). She also had cutesy scarecrows, fake rocks with cute pictures on them, glass objects on brass sticks in her garden...

But the most useless -- and dangerous -- thing women do is put fuzzy covers on toilet seat lids ( tinyurl.com/ycr6354 ). There's no practical purpose for these. They don't warm the part you're gonna sit on.

But worse, they only allow the first part of the lid to go up. For men who want to pee standing up, these thick covers will force the part you sit on down --- usually in the middle of urination.

My brother got on my mom about this when we were adults. The folks babysat my grade-school aged nephew at the time, and the bathroom the nephew used had a fuzzy toilet lid cover. I don't recall exactly what was said, but the phrase "castration anxiety" and references to our childhood (all three boys recall getting hit in the privates while urinating, thanks to this "decoration") came out.

The next day, mom had removed the fuzzy castration device. However, it returned a few months later.

The odd part about this? The seat and lid were chocolate brown to match the bathroom decor anyway, so the fuzzy lid hid that.

I don't understand this at all.
(ChiTown Guy Dating when 35+: sane, single, attractive - pick 2, Sat 2 Jan 2010, 23:42, 2 replies)

I *think*
It's because women sit on the top of the bog-lid while arsing about in the bathroom; painting their toe-nails and the like, so it is warmer for those occasions, which invariably take women longer than having a shit.

I've recently had a cast on my leg due to a fucked ankle, and needed to sit down to take my trousers off and put this bag-thing over my leg to sop my cast getting wet, and can confirm sitting on the top bog seat when you've just got out the shower is fucking horrible, I used to chuck my towel over it.
( Slippery Mick ‏, Sun 3 Jan 2010, 16:23, closed)

The second thing I do when replacing a toilet seat (the first being to necessarily drill out the piss rotted fortunately soft brass mounts) is to trim the rubber stoppers as normally these are set just right to prevent the lid from assuming the 'at attention' position, much better - fire away!
(Benzyl, Mon 4 Jan 2010, 0:09, closed)