To not understand the toilet seat up/found thing?

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Some women seem to get very upset at men who leave the toilet seat up.

He needs it up, I need it down. Why is worse that I have to put it down than he has to put it up? So long as he's using it up and I get a clean seat, why does it matter?

Maybe, subconsciously, it's why I never have my toothbrush face up on the shelf but put it on it's side

This is why I don't like it when people leave the lid down. It's annoying having to lift it up before you use the loo. Also, once when quite drunk, in my youth, Iplonked myself down on a closed lid to wee which didn't end well 😂

It's just a kindly gesture in a male dominated world to leave it down for the females in your life

That's a fair point also

It could have been worse if the seat and the lid were both up 😀!

I've never put the seat down before flushing and my toothbrush is not far from the loo. I'm very rarely ill with anything other than an occasional cold. Maybe chomping on faecal matter for decades has boosted my immune system 😁

Coulda' fell in !

At least then I would have done my wee in the loo rather than on myself and the top of the lid 😁

Surely the lid should be put down anyway to flush, so toilet seat down.

This! Lid down!

Just have the lid down after use then no issue and looks better

Is it just me with a soft close seat then. They take a long time to go down when you’re bursting! Seat down in our house.

Not a major issue in our household.

but the people worried about touching a (clean? Ish?) toilet seat in their own house then changing a tampon… I realise not everyone does but I do put actual penises in there myself and they’ve def got wee remnants so….

I've never understood it or cared either. I prefer the seat not to be wet though.

Because if it’s up and don’t notice I fall in and smash my coccyx off the porcelain. DH had a shock when he sat down in the night and experienced the same. He has been much better since.

Not putting the seat up will never cause injury. Leaving seat up could. Therefore the solution is obvious. Seats are down except for the small amount of time they are required to be up.

Well ! I don't do that ! Penises indeed !

Given the Mumsnet obsession with all things to do with toilets, I'm surprised this discussion hasn't come up more often. Outside MN, this war is even older than "should I let workmen shit in my toilet?"

As for the underside of a toilet seat not being aesthetically pleasing: I remember thinking as a child, that it looks like a monster with a wide-open mouth, and it was right on my eye level as well.

Because they are the ones who need to move the seat from its default position, I would rather not touch the toilet seat when I don’t need to!

Lid down, because who wants toilet spray, faeces and urine sprayed around their bathroom.

Better that than falling into the loo and getting flushed away for ever. I tell you, it would be like a log flume rife to hell. 😆🐀💩

Toilet seat and lid down at all times unless in use! I can not stand seeing the lid up. Close the lid before you flush, for hygiene purpose!

This! The estate agents photos with lids up make me want to scream 😂

DH was trained to put seat down and leave lid up as his sister was in a wheelchair.
This suits me just fine, as I have Crohns and the extra 2 seconds lifting the lid can mean the difference between making it and not making it when I need an urgent evacuation.

In the real world most people don't put the lid down to flush.
Also in the real world, people rarely get ill from it.

People who worry about these things probably have Dettol baths and change their bath towels every day.

It's a toilet. Why on earth does it matter.