AIBU to find it weird he sits on an open loo?

[Thegoldenoriole]

What it says really.
We both perch on the loo when we are giving the children a bath. I always put the lid down (like a normal person). I discovered yesterday than he is just merrily sitting on the open seat - with his trousers on, I should add - with nothing between his suspended bum and the cold depths of the U-Bend from which Anything might Emerge.
I’ve been thinking about it all day.
You think you know someone and then…

YABU: DH should carry on as he is, unafraid of bog snakes!
YANBU: 🤯 DH should put the lid down before sitting, the weirdo. Consider LTB.

Isn’t that the point of the lid? To sit on it.
otherwise why do toilets have lids at all?

i agree, our new loo is quite cheap and flimsy and i wouldnt be happy to sit on the lid

The lid is to stop stuff from flying around the room when you flush; it isn't intended to be a seat.

the lid is to hide what is underneath

The lid stops particles flying out when you flush.

I always sit with the lid open personally. It’s clean so…

Don’t watch The Boys, OP!

I lift both seats and perch on the bare porcelain

He will get piles.

What is all the nonsense about not sitting on the lid? Myself, dh, our parents and grandparents before them, our siblings all sit or have sat on the lid. While someone is in the bath. No one fell through it and no toilet lids were harmed.

Exactly. I’m by no means a MN massive salad waif and regularly sit on the lid when I’m moisturising my body or waiting for my hair removal cream to do its thing. I stand on the lid to clean the widow and blind or paint the ceiling.

I was wondering this too!

I'm not the lightest person around ! I've sat in many loo seat lids in my life & never broken one or felt it was a risk.

such weird comments to read.

It’s not really weird, some loo seats are much flimsier than others.

My current one is soft close, it's over 12 years old now, I'm not light & never had a problem sitting on the closed lid. I was just wondering if it's because it's soft close it doesn't seem 'flimsy' then read your comment.

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I cannot believe how many people sit fully clothed on an open loo seat!!! It's blown my mind!!

I knew someone would say that!!! That’s a load of baloney.

Literally who cares

To stop teeny poo particles flying up and landing on your toothbrush.

I found a video on YouTube which showed a science experiment of how far a cloud of “faecal matter” can travel when you flush and it’s fascinatingly gross. I showed it to DH years ago to convince him to close the lid before flushing. It worked.

Really not.

Bleugh! Germs on his trousers - only fools and Neanderthals would NOT close the lid!

Oh come on! “Poo particles” 😀. What is a poo particle exactly?

It would never occur to me to sit on an open loo (unless uskng it!). This is utterly perplexing to me. A bit like the revelation that some people stand up to wipe. 😱🤯

No it isn’t. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toilet_plume

I sit on the lid, I'm not small, and I've never broken one.

This thread has triggered a memory of the loo lid when I was a child though, it was plastic, and when you sat on it it went boink and dipped downwards after a minute, and when you got up, if you weren't quick, it would pop up a millisecond after you took your weight off and hit you on the bum! 😂

It's a particle of poo, it's literally there in the name.

Surely if the lid keeps “poo particles” in it means the seat is covered in them since they are confined under the lid. So sitting on the seat while clothed is covering your clothes in said poo particles.

Thanks all, I’ll take 2:1 in my favour 🥳😅

Hadn’t even considered the cleanliness aspect of clothes on loo seat, then sofa - bleugh! Will point this out to DH.

A good chunk of those disagreeing say they don’t sit on a loo seat at all - fair enough (although mine has never broken!) but that’s very different to sitting on the open seat, which was my objection. Perhaps I need a new poll for clarity.