Toilet lid up or down?

[Lio]

Because I move in circles of glamour, I recently learned that you should put the toilet lid down before flushing to stop bacteria swirling around in the air. But I have colleagues who don't like the lid down because they don't like to touch it.
Do you think about this/care?

Oh down always

down.

Never thought about this before, ours always stays up because I can't be arsed to lift it up every time I use the loo - lazy bugger that I am sometimes

up

Can't be arsed - boom boom

We used to be an up house then I read a feng shui book which said this is the equavalent to flushing money away so we changed to down ... a week later DH got a massive pay rise and I got a job!

up - too lazy... now if dh leaves the other bit up, i make him come and put it down before i pee!

lol @ naam
never considered it before either but with consider putting it down now before flushing

one of each. The upstairs loo is down to stop the dts fishing in it. They cant get to the downstairs one.

so thats why we are always skint !!!!!!!!!

You should always lift it once flush has finished to check that everything has flushed away properly. Leaving a half flushed 'ahem' for the next user is the ultimate in bad manners

Down, it looks nicer that way too.

Down - hate it being left up.

with 3 males in my house I count myself lucky if the seat is down yet alone the lid

Seats and lids should all go down because the toilet is a disgusting thing and nobody wants to look at it. DOWN DOWN DOWN

I've heard about the feng shui theory too. I don't really believe all that but like to keep it down just in case!

Hate it when men (ie dh and now ds too!) leave the lid and the seat up c/w drips

At home prefer them to be down (keeping little hands out of there!!!!), but at work am actually apprehensive if I walk into a cubicle and see the lid down - am never quite sure what to expect when I raise it (and I have received some very unpleasant shocks - I do wonder what some of these women live like at home!)
So, down at home and up at work!
Is it just me, or is there a 'toilet-theme' of some variety to most of today's active posts?

if it's down when i walk in then i have to touch it to put it up and see if it's clean, down to me normally = avoid.

ps - always down at home esp as lottie likes to throw her soft toys in there otherwise

Down definitely. Tho DD never remembers to put it down and doesn't seem to like flushing the loo at home. Interesting about putting the lid down before you flush. Also hate having to clean other peoples cling ons off - do men not know how to use a toilet brush ???

Ooh yes, cling ons yuck yuck yuck. Where I work people are very design conscious and almost had no toilet brushes in the toilets because they 'don't look nice' ? greater yuck potential if no loo brush provided though IIMO.

It should of course be seat and lid down when not in use. But who does it all the time? Really? I spend enough of my precious time cleaning the darn thing and wiping unmentionable toddler "doings" off it. I'm not going to lose sleep over its status in esoteric Chinese interior design. It's a toilet, not a bloody water feature. Feng Schgb*llocks.