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maybe i'm just an anal freak but who the fuck leaves the door to the toilet open? i mean, that's the place you dump your recycled food. why do people not close the door? am i the only one who has a problem with that?

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 20:08 (nineteen years ago)

also, put the seat down. when i'm in a hurry and don't notice you put it down, the marble or whatever it is feels rather cold.

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 20:09 (nineteen years ago)

you got to air it out, man

― IPSISSIMUS (Uri Frendimein), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 20:17 (nineteen years ago)

when i'm in a hurry and don't notice you put it down, I pee all over the seat.

It's always my cats that keep opening the bathroom door in my house.

― M. White (Miguelito), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 20:18 (nineteen years ago)

air it out so it stinks all over the hallway. fuck that.

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 20:19 (nineteen years ago)

it's people without locks on their bathroom doors that i worry about.

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 20:20 (nineteen years ago)

i cut out the middleman and usually take a grumpy in the hallway.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 20:20 (nineteen years ago)

Does that make you flaccid for some reason, steve?

xpost

― M. White (Miguelito), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 20:21 (nineteen years ago)

If people leave the seat the way they used it, the average number of seat moving operations would be much lower. However, we are wedded to chivalry still it seems.

― Really cool, wickedly cool, cooly cool bon apetit! (ex machina), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 20:21 (nineteen years ago)

I'd rather have the aerosol plum function be lower and I'm willing to take on increased seat-handling operations to make that happen.

― Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 20:23 (nineteen years ago)

PLUME. Not plum. Reaching over a full desk to type.

― Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 20:24 (nineteen years ago)

Jon, I seriously don't know what the fuck you're talking about! :-) or rather :-(

Yes! Toilet doors NEED locks. Definitely.

The other day I noticed on Sex & The City that one of those girls on that show left the bathroom door open so you could see her toilet. Eh.

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 20:26 (nineteen years ago)

If people leave the seat the way they used it, the average number of seat moving operations would be much lower.

I've made this argument to four different women (that I can think of) -- like down the point of making little charts and doing math -- and three of them went on insisting that I was wrong, and that Man Puts Seat Down is the only efficient way of organizing things. It's not that I mind putting seats down, I was just offended by their gesturing away Proper Science and insisting there was no more egalitarian method.

― nabisco (nabisco), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 20:28 (nineteen years ago)

I still don't understand. :-( I think I miss a certain je ne sais quoi (I mean brain, alcohol sort of kills it.)

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 20:29 (nineteen years ago)

I leave the door open so my cat can poop in the bathtub at will.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 20:29 (nineteen years ago)

Its a really trivial proof as long as the male/female ratio is 50/50 and people (namely, men) pee more than poo.

― Really cool, wickedly cool, cooly cool bon apetit! (ex machina), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 20:29 (nineteen years ago)

Hold on, I'm scratching away with my pencil trying to recreate the clearest graphical demonstration I could come up with.

― nabisco (nabisco), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 20:31 (nineteen years ago)

We don't need a lock on the toilet door cos strangers don't wander in and use our toilet.

― No Suntan, No Credibility (noodle vague), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 20:34 (nineteen years ago)

x-post

Man pees, lowers seat when done. Next user is a man, who then has to raise seat, pee, then lower seat = 1 wasted raising and 2 wasted lowerings of seat.

Most efficient is to leave it how it stands when you're done, let the next person adjust if necessary.

I sometimes lower the seat and lid to make everyone suffer.

― nickn (nickn), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 20:34 (nineteen years ago)

IM IN UR BATHROOM

POOPIN UR TUB

― Space Gourmand (Haberdager), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 20:35 (nineteen years ago)

I think that Bathroom Door Open is a universal signifier for Nope Nobody In Here Proceed To Urin-/Defecate, hence this leaving the door open business.

― a naked Kraken annoying Times Square tourists with an acoustic guitar (nickalici, Tuesday, 19 September 2006 20:35 (nineteen years ago)

I was just offended by their gesturing away Proper Science and insisting there was no more egalitarian method.

The reason I put the seat down has less to do with being nice to the next person (conceivably she should put it up for me to pee then) than the fact that my 17 year old cat, with beginning signs of renal failure, is always thirsty and uses it as a step to get up to the counter and lick water from the faucet.

― M. White (Miguelito), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 20:36 (nineteen years ago)

xxxpost oh hah. god i'm dumb.

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 20:36 (nineteen years ago)

the only excuse i can come with: all women at work safe for my husband.

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 20:37 (nineteen years ago)

Also, I generally try to put the seat & lid down because it's a fucking toilet, shit and piss goes in there. Bacteria etc. Also I don't want the cat to drink out of it.

― a naked Kraken annoying Times Square tourists with an acoustic guitar (nickalici, Tuesday, 19 September 2006 20:37 (nineteen years ago)

I remember the S&TC episode where Miranda's bf peed with the door open, which disturbed her a little, then later pooed with it open which was the last straw. I live alone so I leave it open all the time when no one else is around, but close it if anyone is. I also have no lock, so the rule if it's closed, someone is in there, when you're done leave the door open.

― nickn (nickn), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 20:38 (nineteen years ago)

We don't have a lock either so nick's rule applies in our house. We don't close the door on each other much if we're peeing but defecation is another matter.

― M. White (Miguelito), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 20:41 (nineteen years ago)

If we assume one man and one woman cohabitating, the leave-it-as-it-stands rule would still mean that the seat would wind up mostly down (maybe 2/3 of the time), so the woman would still get a slightly better deal on seat-moving effort. (The small task of actually looking to see which position the seat is in before you, like, do anything with it would be split equally between both parties, obviously.)

My graphing this for people wasn't even meant to suggest that people should adopt the leave-it-as-it-stands rule -- I just wanted these women to admit that the issue wasn't efficiency. It was that women who don't live with men just don't have the "register position of toilet seat" habit; they live in a world where that situation just doesn't typically arise, and so it seems like some kind of big exercise to adjust to it. Whereas men are used to manipulating the seat up and down just for themselves, and so the woman logic runs something like, you know, "I don't know the intracicies of whatever the hell they're doing with moving toilet seats around, but it has nothing to do with me."

― nabisco (nabisco), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 20:45 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, I'm not even thinking about the part you SIT on, just the lid. I want the whole thing closed, all the time. That way the bacterial mist stays IN and the things I drop in the general vicinity of the toilet stay OUT. Clearly I need to live alone.

― Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 20:53 (nineteen years ago)

Well that's why I just padlock the thing before I get out of my plastic bubble.

― nabisco (nabisco), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 20:56 (nineteen years ago)

I try and leave the lid down too, but children are vile, grubby little creatures.

― No Suntan, No Credibility (noodle vague), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 20:58 (nineteen years ago)

That way the bacterial mist stays IN

yea, esp if you have EXPOSED TOOTHBRUSH HEAD

― Really cool, wickedly cool, cooly cool bon apetit! (ex machina), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 21:01 (nineteen years ago)

Bacterial mist = like a refreshing gym workout for your immune system.

― nabisco (nabisco), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 21:03 (nineteen years ago)

nabisco, your glass is always half-full and ready for a top-up. for that i salute you.

― Space Gourmand (Haberdager), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 21:05 (nineteen years ago)

Grossest OTM ever.

― a naked Kraken annoying Times Square tourists with an acoustic guitar (nickalici, Tuesday, 19 September 2006 21:06 (nineteen years ago)

I am hardly hermetically sealed at the BEST of times, but left-open toilets are a particular dislike. I keep my toothbrush in a cabinet.

― Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 21:07 (nineteen years ago)

And while I'm on the subject of my roommates, does anyone else think that perhaps the cats' litter box doesn't belong in the KITCHEN?

― Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 21:08 (nineteen years ago)

I'd agree, Laurel, but there's nowhere else to put it.

― M. White (Miguelito), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 21:09 (nineteen years ago)

Oh no, yours too??

― Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 21:10 (nineteen years ago)

I can't even comprehend that.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 21:10 (nineteen years ago)

I mean, cooking food = the best smells in the house. Why ruin it with BOXES OF SHIT?

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 21:11 (nineteen years ago)

Well, it's either there or in the lounge or bedroom. Boxes of shit in rooms you're spending lots of time in vs room you're in for an hour a day max?

― Colonel Poo (Colonel Poo), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 21:14 (nineteen years ago)

The cat box is covered. It's kind of wedged behind the hinge side of the refrigerator door and it's cleaned regularly. There isn't an odor problem but even with the little rug thing to catch the litter in their paws, I have to sweep the stone floor at least 4 times a week.

― M. White (Miguelito), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 21:15 (nineteen years ago)

Btw, the kitchen is the room I'm in second most in the house.

― M. White (Miguelito), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 21:15 (nineteen years ago)

Ours lives in the kitchen too. Cover + odour control litter + regular cleaning = no smell.

We have no lock on the bathroom door either.

― Zora (Zora), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 21:38 (nineteen years ago)

Ours is on floor of small closet full of various and sundry crap. Does no one else keep cat box in closet?

― quincie (quincie), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 22:35 (nineteen years ago)

This is small closet in small hall leading to bed/bath.

Also, I am beginning to think I am horrible for rarely closing toilet lid. Do I get special dispensation for being microbiologist by training?

― quincie (quincie), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 22:36 (nineteen years ago)

serves you right for living with antisocial psychos cat people

― Really cool, wickedly cool, cooly cool bon apetit! (ex machina), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 22:41 (nineteen years ago)

I stopped reading this thread after the first six words. Is it as awesome as those make it out to be?

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Tuesday, 19 September 2006 22:44 (nineteen years ago)

My catbox is in the kitchen too - but like everyone else, cleaned, covered and hidden (behind the wastebin in my case).

As for toilets, is it uncommon to have the WC in its own room in other countries? Most ppl here have a toilet room and a bathroom, unless you're in a tiny flat or have 2 loos or something. "spray" problem avoided. Well, that and we dont have loos 4/5 full of water like you strange americans ;) ;)

― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 22:53 (nineteen years ago)

Skipping 104 messages at this point... Click here if you want to load them all.
pampering your immune system too much -- and I'm not so sure of the science on that one

Speculation that asthma is caused by a pampered immune system

― • Galaga 88' • (ex machina), Thursday, 21 September 2006 18:39 (nineteen years ago)

OTM. Early antigen exposure is a GOOD thing!

So go forth and expose thyself to antigens early and often, people.

― quincie (quincie), Thursday, 21 September 2006 18:54 (nineteen years ago)

i.e. leave the toilet seat up.

― Fluffy Bear, among 100% of the population (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Thursday, 21 September 2006 18:56 (nineteen years ago)

Yes. That is the moral to this story.

Proven. By. Science.

― quincie (quincie), Thursday, 21 September 2006 18:56 (nineteen years ago)

I know the time for this comment has passed but if your toilet is dispensing pee, YOU HAVE A PROBLEM WITH YOUR TOILET.

― Young Fresh Danny D (Dan Perry), Thursday, 21 September 2006 19:02 (nineteen years ago)

Yay! Screw the germophobes! Defeated by science!

― Mr. Que (Mr.Que), Thursday, 21 September 2006 19:08 (nineteen years ago)

Or maybe your toilet is dispensing Pez and can't spell very well; that would be acceptable.

― Young Fresh Danny D (Dan Perry), Thursday, 21 September 2006 19:09 (nineteen years ago)

OTM. Early antigen exposure is a GOOD thing!

Dangle your baby over the toilet as you flush, ensuring total aerosol-plume coverage!

― nabisco (nabisco), Thursday, 21 September 2006 19:11 (nineteen years ago)

Care for a urine flavored Pez, Dan?

― M. White (Miguelito), Thursday, 21 September 2006 19:11 (nineteen years ago)

Is that a euphemism, nabisco?

― M. White (Miguelito), Thursday, 21 September 2006 19:12 (nineteen years ago)

I didn't say I was going to EAT the Pez, just that it would be kind of cool! Everything should dispense Pez.

― Young Fresh Danny D (Dan Perry), Thursday, 21 September 2006 19:12 (nineteen years ago)

Aerosolized?

― M. White (Miguelito), Thursday, 21 September 2006 19:13 (nineteen years ago)

If needs be.

― Young Fresh Danny D (Dan Perry), Thursday, 21 September 2006 19:18 (nineteen years ago)

Atomized is much more elegant than aerosolized. Accept it, Dan. Atomized.

ROFFLES at foamy shit. Please don't GIS.

― Fluffy Bear, among 100% of the population (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Thursday, 21 September 2006 20:20 (nineteen years ago)

I know the time for this comment has passed but if your toilet is dispensing pee, YOU HAVE A PROBLEM WITH YOUR TOILET.

proven by this thread: my english is really crap. i mean, fuck, being tired makes it even worse,but this thread proves yet again how linguistically challenged i am. :-(

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Thursday, 21 September 2006 20:27 (nineteen years ago)

But in more positive news: I love that my thread has spawned so many SHITTY answers. ;-)

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Thursday, 21 September 2006 20:27 (nineteen years ago)

Nath, your English is remarkable. You make me ashamed to be a stupid, uniligual American.

― Sam: Screwed and Chopped (Molly Jones), Thursday, 21 September 2006 20:29 (nineteen years ago)

Toilets should dispense bleach Pez! Then it'll clean yer loo for you!

I'm with the pro-germ camp. We need our germs. Are we constantly at deaths door because we use toilets? NO! But sanitising everything in sight with bleach and triclosan and antibiotics is what is making people more prone to allergies and illnesses. Look at what happens when you go eat somewher like India or SE Asia. A lot of people get a dicky tum, but the locals never do (illness from extreme poverty aside obv). Western guts arent as strong as they should be is why.

― Trayce (trayce), Friday, 22 September 2006 00:59 (nineteen years ago)

omg the Millie Jackson cover

― Thomas Tallis (Tommy), Friday, 22 September 2006 01:09 (nineteen years ago)

it's like everything I ever wanted out of life, plus an album to go with it

― Thomas Tallis (Tommy), Friday, 22 September 2006 01:12 (nineteen years ago)

Soap doesn't actually kill anything, I don't think...it just breaks dirt's bond with your skin so things wash off....

IIRC it's the rubbing motion of your hands when washing them that actually kills the bacteria.

I live in an old house with only one bathroom and a WC with a swing door that automatically closes and has a lock; there is also a high "vented" window to the outside. So no problems with smell or matter spreading about to infect toothbrushes etc. Problem solved. Except for the fact you might BREATHE in the matter after flushing, but you do need some exposure. (Right?)

― salexandra (salexander), Friday, 22 September 2006 02:04 (nineteen years ago)

i've always thought it a bit odd that we do our business indoors, often not far from where we prepare food. call me a prig. really, call me a prig, no one ever has, i think i'd like it.

― Squirrel_Police (Squirrel_Police), Friday, 22 September 2006 02:23 (nineteen years ago)

go shit outside then

― electric sound of jim [and why not] (electricsound), Friday, 22 September 2006 03:30 (nineteen years ago)

For fuck's sake people we used to shit, live, and eat outside with no soap to speak of, and we survived. I think I'll risk the airborne poo particles.

― Andrew (enneff), Friday, 22 September 2006 06:41 (nineteen years ago)

who the fuck leaves the door to the toilet open?
my flatmate.

― not-goodwin (not-goodwin), Friday, 22 September 2006 07:01 (nineteen years ago)

A lot of people get a dicky tum

I know this is English but for some reason I think it means something different from what I'm assuming it means.

― Young Fresh Danny D (Dan Perry), Friday, 22 September 2006 13:20 (nineteen years ago)

I don't sterilize things or use antibiotic cleaners or even DUST in my apt, I just have a phobia about leaving toilets open. Oh well.

― Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 22 September 2006 13:24 (nineteen years ago)

No Dan, it does not mean inserting your penis into your ladyfriends bellybytton.

― Trayce (trayce), Saturday, 23 September 2006 02:01 (nineteen years ago)

Who are these people who inadvertently get shit on their toothbrushes?

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Saturday, 23 September 2006 17:18 (nineteen years ago)

Multidirectional Powerspray, the WMD of the future!

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Saturday, 23 September 2006 17:20 (nineteen years ago)

http://img225.exs.cx/img225/1151/1530113518997jq.jpg

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Saturday, 23 September 2006 17:24 (nineteen years ago)

four years pass...

Holiday ethics question: what do you do when a loved one stinks the entire hallway up with poo? Will they take it personally if you spray the place with powdery crap? It's like admitting that you smelled their nasty poo!

― Hexum Enduction Hour (u s steel), Monday, 20 December 2010 16:16 (fourteen years ago)

I do not love people who poo.

― The New Dirty Vicar, Monday, 20 December 2010 16:18 (fourteen years ago)

maybe i'm just an anal freak

― o tannenbaum, o judge (crüt), Monday, 20 December 2010 16:19 (fourteen years ago)

Leave an air freshener out in the bathroom. If they're considerate they'll spray it on their own.

― ENBB, Monday, 20 December 2010 16:23 (fourteen years ago)

An aerosol bottle of dilute hydroxypropyl beta-cyclodextrin actually works pretty well to chelate malodiferous compounds. Febreze on the tank is as important as paper on the roll in my WC.

― Sanpaku, Monday, 20 December 2010 16:31 (fourteen years ago)

Maybe you're right, I'm a clean freak. Me and my family keep those blue things in the toilet. Also air wick doesn't work in the bathroom.

― Hexum Enduction Hour (u s steel), Monday, 20 December 2010 16:46 (fourteen years ago)

so the house im sharing, its just me and the owner (yeah bad idea i shoulda known better). and i always leave the bathroom door closed although he wants it open cos it lets light in on the stairs. trust me you dont want my morning post-first-coffee-and-cigarette poo emanating throughout the house. so as i was leaving to go away for the weekend i came back today to find the door off its fucking hinges and hes pissed cos i closed the door again. i need to move dont i?

― Michael B, 25 January 2010 23:29 (10 months ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
lol i was telling a girl i work with abt what an arsehole i was when i lived in the situ described above. lol i did way worse stuff than i said i did.

― plaxico (I know, right?), 25 January 2010 23:36 (10 months ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
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noooo, you need to let that stank emanate through the house.

actually yeah, he is a jerk. quite aggressive for a passive aggressive person

― CaptainLorax, 25 January 2010 23:37 (10 months ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
you could try leaving the door open

i symapthise with the dude though for slightly different reasons. if people close the bathroom door the cats can't get to their litterbox, with inevitable unpleasant results :(

― mintox plus oral (electricsound), 25 January 2010 23:41 (10 months ago) Bookmark

― the Chinese firewall of the heart (Michael B), Monday, 20 December 2010 16:51 (fourteen years ago)

i walked into a one seater bathroom a few months ago in this dive bar, and dude just left the door unlocked, and was sitting spread-eagle on the toilet with a shit-eating grin like he intended for it to happen all along. slammed the door on him and hit the ground running.

― Bitch, it cold outside!!! BURR (San Te), Monday, 20 December 2010 22:31 (fourteen years ago)

on the flipside, don't you find it annoying when you're the one on the pot in a public place, and have clearly locked the door, and despite this obvious state of things, the person attempts to open the door not once, twice, but three times, as if they think the door is welded shut and not that someone is dropping actual mud monkeys on the other end?

when this happens I always have a paranoid fear, that the idiot in question will go to the owner/manager saying the door is stuck, and the owner will unlock the door for them, and both will walk in on me with my pants around my ankles.

― Bitch, it cold outside!!! BURR (San Te), Monday, 20 December 2010 22:36 (fourteen years ago)

Feller locked me in a cubicle once Followed me in, latched the door, introduced himself.

I've mentioned this in another thread but people who number-one with the door open are begging to be knocked over. Seriously. You can't see these people until you're on top of them. Shut the bloody door.

― Defecate on Myspace (Schlafsack), Monday, 20 December 2010 22:43 (fourteen years ago)

I was just thinking about this thread two minutes ago. Co-worker went into the only stall to pee, closing and locking the door behind him.

Like, how long are you gonna be in there? and you really care if someone sees your back?

― Pleasant Plains, Monday, 20 December 2010 22:45 (fourteen years ago)

No, see, that's exactly the travesty of humanity that makes me ia enough to post to this thread. If you've got 20 seconds to have a slash, you've got another two to lock the door. And it's not about your back being seen, it's about someone actually walking into the back of you.

― Defecate on Myspace (Schlafsack), Monday, 20 December 2010 22:47 (fourteen years ago)

With, you know, piss going everywhere.

― Defecate on Myspace (Schlafsack), Monday, 20 December 2010 22:47 (fourteen years ago)

anybody sit on the commode backwards? they call that the krisskross

― Bitch, it cold outside!!! BURR (San Te), Tuesday, 21 December 2010 00:38 (fourteen years ago)

As long as they don't jump jump.

― Les centimètres énigmatiques (snoball), Tuesday, 21 December 2010 00:41 (fourteen years ago)

dump dump

― Bitch, it cold outside!!! BURR (San Te), Tuesday, 21 December 2010 01:41 (fourteen years ago)

^ username explains why u dont leave the toilet door open

― all i gotta do is akh nachivly (darraghmac), Tuesday, 21 December 2010 01:43 (fourteen years ago)

I don't know where else to put this so I'm putting it here

http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5088/5279822360_42a002c220.jpg

― I mean Emma Watson Premier League fit (Autumn Almanac), Tuesday, 21 December 2010 07:54 (fourteen years ago)

six years pass...

Also, if your toilet is generating a noticeable mist, YOU HAVE A PROBLEM WITH YOUR TOILET.
― Young Fresh Danny D (Dan Perry), Thursday, September 21, 2006 12:43 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

― Charles "Butt" Stanton (Neanderthal), Saturday, 6 May 2017 20:49 (eight years ago)


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