mp04610@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
In this house we do lid up and seat down.
Every family member is asked to sit down.
Both decisions are purely convenience driven:
lid up -> you can just sit down without having to touch or adjust anything. After you’re done, you just get up without touching anything (except to flush).
seat down -> I’m unwilling to deal with the mess created by people (myself included) that inevitably happens when peeing standing up. So everybody sitting is the way to go.
Where this fails is guests that are unfamiliar with how we do it. It also doesn’t take splashes from flushing into consideration. But in all my years of using the facilities, I have not noticed a significant amount of dirt around the toilet that I would consider problematic.
squaresinger@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
The point of lid down is that while flushing you don’t spray shit aerosol through the whole room.
Next time you flush with the lid open, just take a second to visualize the shit you are breathing right then.
ExtremeUnicorn@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
Yeah, or maybe just don’t do that, because that’s not how physics work.
Do you think you are contaminated by something when you walk the subway in smell urine?
It’s just a harmless combination of gasses that we have learned to identify as such. It’s literally impossible for any “particles” to travel that far, else you would constantly get smear infections just standing near a public bathroom.
What people write here sometimes borders psychologic compulsion disorder.
squaresinger@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Urine smells, but it doesn’t contain all the bacteria that aerosolzied shit does. But I guess you are the kind of person who thinks that illnesses just form spontaneously, colds are caught because you got cold and hygiene is for the weak, so there is no need to wash your hands.
ExtremeUnicorn@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
Quite the opposite is true, actually. I personally consider myself on the cleanlier side from what I’ve heard and seen.
I just don’t belive that inventing terms like “shit aerosols” is a reasonable way to discuss this topic, nor is it in any way scientifically accurate.
I would rather trust personal protection guidelines from people who are in danger of getting sick by working with feces daily than hysterical people discussing toilet seats. I think hospital staff would laugh at some of these claims.