Why is the default "down?"

[Urban Ranger]

Originally posted by Whoha
particulate matter tends to get everywhere, you are just compressing the exit vectors so it will get flung further.

Not so.

Flushing the toilet is not the same kind of situation like a gardern hose, where if you put your thumb over the nozzle you can spray further.

[SlowwHand]

Wait until they come out with computerized toilets.
Forget your password? Uh oh. Gives new meaning to wiping your hard drive. You've got mail? No kidding.

[snoopy369]

lid down

Anyway, think of it this way. How much of a concession are you making here? For her, a huge one. For you, it can't matter that much, right? So what do you get in exchange, is the question (well, don't put it directly that way, but ultimately you'll get to 'win' something else that's much more important to you ... perhaps in the bedroom )

[Dis]

I never got laid by putting the seat down.

[Japher]

I never bother putting it up

if I piss on the seat then so be it

[Arrian]

Lid down

We have a dog. For reasons only he and his canine bretherin know, a dog will always prefer toilet water to nice, clean tap water.

-Arrian

[Arrian]

Originally posted by Japher
I never bother putting it up

if I piss on the seat then so be it

Ah-hah! You work in my office, you bastard. I've got a bone to pick with you!

-Arrian

[Garth Vader]

Lid down

It's been tough getting the little woman to go along with this, but I have made an increased push since I accidently knocked some stuff into the toilet.

[Japher]

I've got a bone to pick with you!

pick your own bone

[Ecthy]

[Flubber]

Originally posted by mrmitchell
I always put both the seat and the lid down.

For why Diss and Che said - to minimize crap being thrown all over the room.

Plus, no one likes walking in a bathroom and BAM seeing a toilet bowl.

Doesn't anyone else have a little room for the can off the main part of the bathroom. Any particulate matter is NOT getting on my toothbrush since to do so it would have to exit the bowl , squeexe under or around a closed wood frame door before making a 180 degree turn to enter the medicine cabinet where I keep it.

[Flubber]

Oh and I keep the seat and lid down in our bathroom

In the other bathrooms the seat is down with a smaller kiddie seat attached . It helps flubber junior if things are ready for him when he has to go

[germanos]

just pee in the sink. Problem solved.

Less splattering around as well.

[snoopy369]

Originally posted by Flubber


Doesn't anyone else have a little room for the can off the main part of the bathroom. Any particulate matter is NOT getting on my toothbrush since to do so it would have to exit the bowl , squeexe under or around a closed wood frame door before making a 180 degree turn to enter the medicine cabinet where I keep it.

We don't all have a fancy house like you sir

[axi]

third, I'd read some articles that suggest particles of crap I guess, are spread all throughout the bathroom when you flush the toilet. I feel more comfortable with the toilet seat down when I flush the toilet. (I also keep my toothbrush in the cabinet).

If that sort of thing really concerns you, then I suppose that for the same reason, you never, under any circumstance, fart.