I now know why girls hate it when guys keep the toilet seat up!
 

And it sucks! Had to go to the bathroom early in the morning. Didnd't turn any lights on. I thought the seat was down but it wasn't, so I sat down and was totally grossed out. I didn't fall in though. Has this ever happened to anyone? I hope I didn't get any funky diseases or anything.. :(

hah! i remember doing exactly that once or twice. the first feeling was like when you lean back in a chair too far & think you're gonna fall over - that head rush/adrenaline thingy.

then the gross/creepy feeling sets in........

hahaha :D

Never had that before... I usually wake up enough before I go...
Had a good laugh at this one though :D

The chance of catching a disease this way are pretty slim... How often do you clean the toilet?

Yeah, it's happened. I think I was sick or otherwise out of it. Since I'm fairly big and our toilet isn't, I didn't actually "touch bottom," though.

I'm sure you'll be fine. Remember, that water gets changed a lot. Even if someone pissed in it without flushing, you lucked out: there are no bacteria in urine.

This isn't a battle I've chosen to fight, but I've always thought that girls would be better off insisting that the toilet seat stay up except for use. That way, it's "protected" and will stay clean. Also, if you always assume it's up, you'll never have the problem of falling through.

ha ha

Solution:

Have everyone train themselves to put the lid down.

That way, no one feels like they are doing more than their "fair share" and everyone knows they have to prep the toilet before going.

I think it is inconsiderate of women to leave the seat down. I have to reach down and pull it up just to pee. I refuse to give in to some arbitrary, illogical female foolishness. There are as many reasons to keep it up as down so I don't put up with any blow hards that get their panties in a wad about this. I'll just laugh at them if they are seriously trying to be so petty and change my behaviour. I laugh.....

Maybe I'm just an old guy with lower testosterone, but I've gotten used to peeing sitting down. I keep reading matter and an old Palm Pilot loaded with games next to the toilet. So I tend to meditate in there, if you know what I mean. I mean, we've got an extra bathroom, the wife can just deal.

when she starts holding out on the sex, you'll stop laughing...

and we keep the lid down too... otherwise the kitten tries to drink out of it... and she's fallen in more than once...

i don't think that you caught anything but it always made me laugh when I found some drunkard holding the bowl... that's the same airspace that ass, ass hairs, turds share.... and yer putting your face in that... jeez.. never drunk enough.

One of my good friends had the same problem. His g/f kept b!tiching that he didn't put the toilet seat down after he took a pee. So his solution?, he puts the seat AND the lid down now. Now the g/f has to lift the lid everytime she wants to take a leak. It's funny cuz she can't say anything to him cuz he is technically putting the seat down.

funny because out of habit I do the same thing at friend's houses.

I try to keep the seat down, but if the seat is up my g/f doesn't say anything. I think cooperation like this is very important in any relationship.

Time to wear those little water wings thing when going to the bathroom.

I just keep everything down, always... I'm a guy and I often sit to pee, 'cause I'm just too lazy to keep standing... and the fact that I have a urinal in my bathroom means I don't have to worry about pissin' on the toilet seat

marcopolo would be jealous

I just put everything completely down as well.

Also, the other day when i was in our electrical engineering building, i found out there is a girls toilet on the 2nd floor. Anywho, i thought a girls toilet in the electrical engineering building was little weird, cause i've never seen a girl in there before!

So i went in, they had excellent facilities btw, and when i finished i left the seat up just for a laugh.

That's hilarious...
I've noticed simmilar things about the ladies washroom here at work... we're a 24/7/52 tech support, but midnight shift is often just one person, so one late night I decided to take a gander... and I was like "Dude! They've even got hair gel and shiet in here!" Of course I was all alone.. so it was kinda boring having no one to share the experience with... so I figured here was my chance...

I've pissed on the seat more than once. Living alone, I always leave the seat up. Yet, on the odd occasion that I have a gf, they without fail leave the seat down. They don't seem to understand that me pissing on the seat is NOT funny. It's MY seat. I wonder how they'd feel if I pissed on their seat.

ok, like some of the rest of you, i put both the seat and the lid down. but honestly, i do it more out of habbit because to me it looks "nicer" i suppose. i never really did it for the opposite sex as a courtesy. it just turned out that way.

I put the seat and lid down all the time, too. It just looks better, I suppose, and in some back-asswards logic of mine, I figure it keeps any lingering smells from wandering too far.

Some sad case has invented a seat that puts itself down.

It stays up for a while then a hydrollic actions lets it sink down again.

Personally i look at it this way...
If women want me to splash pee on the lowered seat thats fine by me, otherwise they need to get into the habbit of putting it up after themselves.

We only put the seat up out of deference to them not wanting to sit on a pee splashed seat.

Noted.

A couple of years ago I had an apartment with a couple of roommates and we always left the seat up. One night one of them had a girl over, and she put the seat down. I was drunk on tequila which doesn't get along with me. I ran into the bathroom to throw up, made it to the toilet and threw up all over the lid. That was a hell of a mess to clean.

My thoughts on the matter. If she does'nt want me to pee on the seat then she can put it back down. I lift it upto go pee, she can put it back down to go pee. That way we both take some of the blame and the work. Besides if I need to sit and shit I put it down. Don't see what the big deal is!

I agree Hard8s
I sat in the bowl once, then i embraced the always solid practice of looking at something before i sit down upon it.
I even look at the seat before i pee to make sure that the seat is up so i don't piss on the seat.
On a side note, has anyone else gone to urinate and found pee droplets on the seat and felt compelled to wipe them off so the next person to use the bathroom wouldn't assume that you peed on the seat?

I have a simple solution. There's a cat in the house, and for some reason, toilet water is always more appealing than the nice clean water in his dish, so if I don't put the sead and lid down, the cat has a nice water fountain (and a bath if he slips.) If I don't keep it down, the cat comes up and rubs against me (if I'm in bed, against my face) with a faceful of toilet water, and it's just not a pleasant thought.

Never happens.. I always put the seat down.. lid too usually, it just looks better. nd thenyou can sit there and talk to someone when they are getting ready. (So I have a good relationship with my sister... heh)

I find the seat and lid down a bit anal retentive. Sorry I just do.
Its as if the house owner is afraid of the loo or something.

Worse still if it has a fluffy cover. A toilet is a practical thing not a feature. Would you put fluffy covers on a power drill?

when your pets want to play with you and you know they've played in the toilet, I don't think that it's anal retentive...otherwise why don't you wash your hands there?

the whole seat up/seat down thing is so petty. i know some households that always keep the lid down afterwards and i don't mind either way what position the toilet is in. unfortunately, i have fallen in a couple times but that was long ago and i've learned now. :) so the up/down thing doesnt bother me at all. now the toilet paper on the other hand.... has to be put on the RIGHT way.. with the roll of paper dispensing at the front.

Oh don't get me wrong, that one was a valid reason to keep it down. Some people who don't have pets have a thing about it though.

p.s. You do know pets lick themselves though don't you? They still ain't exactly sterile. ;)

well, as I said, it DOUBLES as a chair. Not many people put a chair in their bathrooms, so by putting the lid down (I mean the lid has to exist for a reason, right? if not you wouldn't buy one) you can SIT there as you would any other chair. Good for staying out of the other person's way (as they are the one using everything that exists..... aka my sister ;))

my bathroom ettiquette is pretty good. toilet paper roll facing outward, chlorox tabs always in the tank, and even though I live alone (for the most part), I always put the seat down... That's how I was raised, it's the natural way of things for me.

Yeah I agree. The paper has to come over the top to the front!!!!

Wait until you get married, muahahaha.

If I'm a guest somewhere I leave it the way I found it. In my place, I just leave it in whatever orientation was necessitated by either digestive process.

well i share my bathroom at home with girls so they've engraved it into my skull to put the seat down, so i do. but i do often forget to put the seat up so i still try to remember.

Yes, it has happened before and it is completely gross. My ass actually hit the water though-eeeeewwwwww

Hang on... you sit to piss at a urinal?