Comment on The whole "toilet seat up, toilet seat down" gender debate could be solved by everybody putting the seat and lid down.

favoredponcho@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• bss03@infosec.pub ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Mythusters found fecal particles everywhere even when the lid was down. There’s no escape from gross, just finding an acceptable level.

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  • Warl0k3@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    If I’m remembering right Mythbusters found that there were fecal particles everywhere, but in wildly different amounts.

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    • bss03@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      I’d have to re-watch those segments. The part that remains stuck in my mind is that they found fecal particles on a toothbrush that was in a closed drawer.

      I don’t believe closing the lid helps that much, and I grew up with (and still have to deal with) a toilet that sometimes but not always needs a second (or third) press of the handle, so I keep the lid open so I can be sure the water really got flushed. (It drains the tank into the bowl, but sometimes it just slowly, but steadily, flows through roughly maintaining water level instead of crossing a pressure (?) threshold and flushing out the bowl and then refilling.)

      But, I’m all for closing the seat and the lid when you are done. It keeps pets and dropped items out of the bowl, if nothing else. If we have to leave the lid up, I still say seat down; that’s the “ready to use” configuration for all female and some male uses.

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  • BurgerBaron@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Those fucking air blower hand dryers especially.

    https://youtu.be/uFzgNSO6t6c?t=1135

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    • bss03@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Video is unavailable in my region, but thanks anyway.

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• Evil_Incarnate@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Then all the bacteria are flung onto the lid, and when I sit down I might touch the lid with my back.

  There’s plenty of bacteria in the air already, a million more aren’t going to hurt. Unless you have a norovirus, then you need to disinfect with bleach after you’re done.

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  • Feathercrown@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    You touch your back to the lid??

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  • SLVRDRGN@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    You don’t think there are plenty of bacteria on your back already? Not to mention it would likely be on the back of your shirt. What’s in the air goes straight into your lungs.

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• corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Yes. Close your biological waste disposal units, ya crude yokels!

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  • QuarterSwede@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Unless you’re immunocompromised it doesn’t make a difference. “Unhealthy” bacteria is literally everywhere. You have an immune system for a reason.

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