| The Toilet seat thing!!!
Posted: 1/3/2009 2:14:23 AM | | This is one area where divorced men have an advantage over the never married men. | |
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| The Toilet seat thing!!!
Posted: 1/3/2009 2:39:28 AM | | So do never married guys that are either A:classy, or B: grew up with sisters and just know better.*L* | |
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| The Toilet seat thing!!!
Posted: 2/2/2009 4:51:23 PM | Something a man should of learned from his parents ( I suggest the father).
A man should always put the seat down.
Always.
Simple as that. | |
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| The Toilet seat thing!!!
Posted: 2/2/2009 9:41:40 PM | This topic is going on for 4 years
so, finally, how it's supposed to be - up or down?
ppl have too much time on their hands (c) | |
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| The Toilet seat thing!!!
Posted: 2/2/2009 9:57:41 PM | Down. When you flush it sends spray into the air. How disgusting. No one is allowed to use my bathroom a second time if they do not put it down before flushing.
And I am a guy. | |
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| The Toilet seat thing!!!
Posted: 2/2/2009 9:58:35 PM | -seat goes up
-seat goes down
-your a big girl -its not rocket science | |
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| The Toilet seat thing!!!
Posted: 2/2/2009 10:26:08 PM | In deference to ladies, I leave the seat up. This must be hard wired into them not to look before they sit down.
There is a solution for men. Leave the seat down and have a good aim.
A similar problem is that in CA people jaywalk, step in front of cars without looking and just expect the drivers to watch out for them. | |
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| The Toilet seat thing!!!
Posted: 2/3/2009 5:12:46 AM | | whenever theres a girl in my apartment and she puts the toilet seat down i freak out at her. my house, my rules. toilet seat stays up b*tch! | |
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| The Toilet seat thing!!!
Posted: 2/3/2009 5:22:54 AM | My seat stays where it is,, depending on how I last used it,,
I;m in the process of building a new house,, I'm installing a urinal in the master bath,, that should solve this issue.........if not,, she can go out side and use the out house,, and deal with bugs,, her choice,,, | |
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| The Toilet seat thing!!!
Posted: 2/3/2009 12:58:49 PM |
ppl have too much time on their hands (c)
4 years and still no answer 
Hey, if the toilet seat "issue" is the biggest thing in your relationship, I think you're doing pretty well.  | |
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| The Toilet seat thing!!!
Posted: 2/3/2009 1:19:43 PM |
Hey, if the toilet seat "issue" is the biggest thing in your relationship, I think you're doing pretty well Exactly
I tried to remember did I ever had this particular problem in my life with anyone.
I spent first 40 years of my life at another country, so I guess it is a specific american problem?? because it would never cross my mind to pay attention where the damn thing is - up or down | |
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| The Toilet seat thing!!!
Posted: 2/3/2009 10:09:54 PM | | I leave the seat up for him. and he leaves it down for me, neither of us are arguing that way | |
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| The Toilet seat thing!!!
Posted: 2/3/2009 10:55:13 PM | | Please leave the seat up! I have had enough experience w/ seats down men that I VALUE a seat left up. If I fall in it my own fault. Just like if a man whizzes all over the seat its his fault. Clean up your own mess and all will be fine! Of all the things to worry about in a relationship, a freaking toilet is the least of mine. | |
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| The Toilet seat thing!!!
Posted: 2/3/2009 11:05:51 PM | I don't complain about the seat being left up. I just close it when it is left up.
They say to pick ur battles and this is one battle that isn't worth it.
If it wasn't flushed, that would be another story. I would certainly say something. It isn't worth an argument though, just a simple statement of: "Ewwww!!!Honey, you forgot to flush." However, that usually only happens when he is dead tired or in too much of a rush.
I really don't like arguing unless it is something important. | |
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| The Toilet seat thing!!!
Posted: 2/3/2009 11:27:24 PM | | I look first, then plop it down. No big deal. But, there are no men in the house, so it's always down. | |
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| The Toilet seat thing!!!
Posted: 2/4/2009 12:19:56 AM |
Clean up your own mess and all will be fine!
Yes I agree......and ladies shouldn't be afraid of using the toilet brush after they take a dump......toilet ettiquete works both ways | |
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| The Toilet seat thing!!!
Posted: 2/4/2009 4:58:45 AM |
Consider this...The seat AND the lid should be left down by BOTH sexes each time. Why??? It is esthetically correct and unbiased in reference to gender.
Hmmm...interesting point...also one that the feng shui fans would vote for...
My 8yr old little girl just complained about me leaving the seat up the other day for the first time...I suggested that whoever used it last should leave the seat in the position 'ready' of the opposite gender. Hence I should place the seat down for her when I'm finished, and she should put the seat up for me when she finished...
Now I'm thinking this might be the right time to establish an unbiased proceedure...
Always completely closed? Hmmmm... | |
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| The Toilet seat thing!!!
Posted: 2/4/2009 7:41:26 AM |
Down. When you flush it sends spray into the air. How disgusting. No one is allowed to use my bathroom a second time if they do not put it down before flushing.
I have teen boys at home. What has saved me is that this is being taught in school. Since they learned about the germs dissipating in the air, they always put the seat and the lid down - before they flush. We may just be looking at a whole new generation of young men that learned this and fighting over the toilet seat being up will be a thing of the past.
Now if only they can figure out how to solve the beard hairs in the sink!
HR  | |
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| The Toilet seat thing!!!
Posted: 2/4/2009 7:48:33 AM | | I don't like it when men leave the toilet seat up! It looks untidy :P | |
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| The Toilet seat thing!!!
Posted: 2/5/2009 10:05:34 AM | A long time ago, I read a short online piece about how women could get their men to put the toilet seat down. Inherent in it was the idea that this was an example of men's lack of consideration and that the task at hand was one of disciplining these bad boys. I don't know, my attitude is that if women can leave a toilet seat down, men can leave it up.
Of course, this is just a silly, pebble-in-the-shoe issue, but I see it as a metaphor for a modern phenomenon: The casting of women's characteristic behaviors as the norm and men's as dysfunctional deviations.
This is strikingly obvious with the topic of communication. Man has long known that women were the more loquacious sex, and you've probably heard of studies to this effect. A recent book states that women have about 20,000 "communication events" (I love these terms the psycho-babblers conjure up) a day, versus about 7,000 for men. But this is nothing new; who didn't know a bevy of garrulous girls in school?
What is new is the assumption that this imputes superiority to women. "Communication" has become one of the buzzwords of modern psychology. And, whenever relationships are at issue--be it in a book, article, talk or interview--almost invariably an "expert" will inform us of two things. One is that women communicate more than men. The other is that an onus belongs on men as this "handicap" of theirs is an impediment to good relations. Why, men need to learn to communicate more and share their feelings, we're told.
Did anyone ever think that maybe women communicate too darn much?
Don't get me wrong, rhetorical license aside, I understand the importance of communication. What bothers me, though, is the knee-jerk assumption here that more is better, a conclusion that most of the same researchers take great pains to forestall when the issue is, oh, let's say, the greater size of the male brain. But this is a principle of sex differences research: When men have more, more is less. When women have less, less is more.
And that's it, more or less.
What seems to escape most is that this modern exaltation of the lip lies in stark contrast to what wisdom has taught since time immemorial. And the truth she imparts is obvious, which is why sayings encapsulating it abound: "Still waters run deep," "Empty kettles make the most noise," "Shallow brooks are noisy," and "There are two kinds of people who don't say much, those who are quiet and those who talk a lot."
It's why movies have always portrayed the strong, silent type who exhibits quiet fortitude as the most heroic of men. It's why good writers value verbosity no more than good surgeons do bloodletting. Delicate operations warrant use of a fine scalpel, something small and sharp that punctures precisely--and cuts when necessary--not an implement bigger and blunter. And this is true whether you wish to get at the heart of a man or the heart of a matter: a precise surgical approach is usually preferable. Big, blunt things are better suited to bludgeoning.
To be quite blunt myself, yes, I subscribe to the traditional idea that women are chatterboxes and it's not their best trait. Don't get me wrong, we men have our faults as well. For instance, I absolutely cannot stand my brothers' habit of channel-surfing, which I guess could be characterized as Chatting Finger Syndrome. But here's the difference. Whether it's this masculine foible or another, no one does intellectual contortions to cast it as a positive attribute. At best it's seen as cute quirkiness, at worst as a defect of manliness.
Now, just imagine how it might be if incessant channel-surfing were a characteristic female behavior. It would only be a matter of time before some sickologists conducted a study and portrayed it as yet another example of feminine superiority. It would go something like this:
Channel-surfing is akin to speed-reading, not a function of a fault but indicative of a unique ability. Because women have more neural connections between the two hemispheres of the brain, they can process information faster, allowing them to absorb the substance and assess the value of a given program in mere seconds. Thus, while a man may perceive just a brief snapshot of seemingly unintelligible imagery and sound, his wife has already assimilated the program's relevant information or ascertained it to be devoid of such. "She is anxious to read the next page while he is still on the first paragraph of the last," said Dr. Delilah Emasculata of the Sex Differences Research and Proof That Women Are Better in Every Way So Just Shut-up and Take It Institute.
The truth is that both men and women should understand their sex's characteristic frailties and, just as with any negative proclivity, seek to tame them. Hey, I always ask directions and I'm great at matching colors.
As for communication, I have some of the best advice you gals will ever hear. If you have something important to say, don't embed it in an interminable stream-of-consciousness monologue between words 1129 and 1145 and expect the man in your life to absorb it. It's not that he doesn't care. He has his sanity to think about, you know.
My mother used to teach us that "Speech is silver, silence is golden." I wouldn't expect anyone to learn much while channel-surfing in fully automatic mode. Tongue-surfing isn't much better.
Loquacity doesn't denote sagacity.
Oh, and the toilet seat? I just don't want to talk about it.
Extolling the Female Tongue
Written by Selwyn Duke
Wednesday, December 20, 2006 | |
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| The Toilet seat thing!!!
Posted: 2/5/2009 10:34:45 AM | | Nothing to sober you up the next morning like sleepily stumbling into your bathroom and flopping down into a pool of cold toilet water. Guys can do whatever they want at their own house, but please put the lid down at mine... | |
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| The Toilet seat thing!!!
Posted: 2/6/2009 8:32:57 AM | This is such a load of crap.
You women are capable of getting an education, having careers and making tons of money. Yet you still whine about having to lift a toilet seat. Boo-freakin'-hoo. Leave it to a perfectly content woman to find something to whine about and spread the word. | |
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| The Toilet seat thing!!!
Posted: 2/6/2009 8:39:14 AM | Because it grosses me out to have to touch the seat. Then I am obligated to wash my hands before I can go. Weird I know. Also, and yes I have done this, if I am going to use it in the middle of the night, I do not turn on the light. I have sat down on it with it up. Yeah, I was pissed. Azz in cold water in the middle of the night is no fun. Also, it's my house, you better put the toilet seat back down. If I ever live with anyone again. I WANT MY OWN BATHROOM THIS TIME!
I am just saying. | |
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