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Maeve Morgan
ZOMG Resmod!
Join date: 2 Apr 2004
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02-22-2006 10:51
I've done lid down forever, because my now 6 year old liked to flush things as a toddler.
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Desmond Shang
Guvnah of Caledon
Join date: 14 Mar 2005
Posts: 5,250
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02-22-2006 11:03
From: Felix Uritsky Umm, have you ever actually tried to aim while standing up? It's kinda like trying to aim a rifle from the waist, it just doesn't always work right. If "it" had an eyeball or something, then you could make that statement. Well, apparently then I'm quite a marksman. The greatest evil I see in men's rooms seems to be just in *front* of the receptacle. How anyone can get all the way to the bathroom but not make it that final, critical distance is beyond me. I don't have much of a problem with squat toilets unless they are the 'trough' kind. Like say at the Guangzhou zoo - just a little trough in the ground with water running through it, even in the mid 1990's. Probably the same way even now. Those I hate.
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Crystalrose Lightworker
Registered User
Join date: 12 Nov 2005
Posts: 14
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4 good reasons to keep the lid down
02-22-2006 11:44
Lid down BEFORE flushing.
1. Anything else sprays germs all over the room, including your toothbrush. This has been documented and measured, per a report on CNN.
2. Households with toddlers and small pets are asking for trouble. Want to pay a plumber $60 an hour to remove a pound of raw hamburger from your toilet pipes? (it happened). Small pets not only try to drink, they can fall in and it is too slippery to get out. Drownings have occurred from this.
3. It just looks neater. Leaving the seat and/or lid up looks like the previous user left before their business was finished.
4. Even in "good" neighborhoods there are sewer rats, and they can and do come up the pipes and into the toilet bowl. This also really happened and my mother had a hard time convincing the police to send someone out in the middle of the night to help dispose of it. This was in a nice middleclass neighborhood and a spotlessly clean house. When they came, the younger of the two officers, who obviously thought we had a little mouse in the toilet and a houseful of wimpy women, lifted the lid, yelled Holy Cow and slammed it back down. When he said, "how did THAT get in there?" the older officer asked him, "look around you, what do you think, it ran down the hall and jumped in?" It took two police officers to club the rat to death and the body filled up a two-quart fruitjuice can. THE POLICE TOLD MY MOTHER IF WE HAD NOT HAD THE LID DOWN THE RAT WOULD HAVE CLIMBED OUT AND RUN FREE IN OUR HOUSE. What better reason do you need to keep the lid down?
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Surreal Farber
Cat Herder
Join date: 5 Feb 2004
Posts: 2,059
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02-22-2006 12:04
I'm a lid down girl myself having dropped a hairbrush into the bowl once.
But when peeing out, I leave it like I found it.
We had a squirrel come up through the pipes once, although we think he fell in through the stack on the roof. Bit my uncle right on the ass. I felt sorry for the squirrel... what a horrifying sight.
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Edward Mathys
Shapeshifter
Join date: 5 Dec 2005
Posts: 157
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02-22-2006 12:19
From: Surreal Farber I'm a lid down girl myself having dropped a hairbrush into the bowl once.
But when peeing out, I leave it like I found it.
We had a squirrel come up through the pipes once, although we think he fell in through the stack on the roof. Bit my uncle right on the ass. I felt sorry for the squirrel... what a horrifying sight. that's why you should always flush first.... |
