Guys? Toilet seat question.

Okay, maybe this confuses me because I don't have a penis, but, why does the toilet seat have to be up? Why isn't the original hole big enough?

Sometimes, you don't shoot straight.

On a related note, why do women never leave the seat up for men?

Plus, sometimes the aim can be a bit off, wouldn't want to sit on a pissy seat now would you? As far as leaving it up, thats just pure laziness.

Because all of our dicks are huge.

On a related note, this is why I always put both the seat and the lid down. Turnaround is fair play.

Ah ha! The conundrum is solved.

This leads me to my main question about the whole "you must leave the seat down at all times~!!!!" issue. Now, before I get into this, I should point out that I've had 3 older sisters and lived with like all the girls in the world, so I always leave the seat down (and I can produce sworn affidavits on this point), but still the question remains:

WHY do we need to leave the seat down when there exists (on almost all toilets) a lid IN ADDITION to the seat?

Like, if there weren't a lid, I could understand the need to leave the seat down. Out of habit, a woman might forget that the seat might be up and "fall in". HOWEVER, on 99% of non-public toilets, THERE'S A GODDAMNED LID. Wouldn't you want to look down to ensure that the lid isn't down as well!?!?! Do you ever turn around and sit down on top of the lid?

Seriously, this question drives me up the wall. I accept that it's a perpetual issue between the sexes and have adjusted my behavior accordingly, I've just never understood why.

See, that's exactly why I leave both the seat and lid down. I've actually been yelled at for leaving the lid down. "I sat down on it!" Well, fucking duh!

You and I are on the same tip here, I think. Which is why I originally wrote turnaround is fair play. I've never, ever walked up to a toilet and expected the seat, let alone the fucking LID to be left up. Not sure why 50% of the population should feel differently.

Precisely! When I have to sit down, I assume nothing! Look before you sit!

This seems like common sense here, people.

Based on this interplay of ideas I will continue to follow my life path and encourage others to do the same.

i'm a lady. my roommate is a lady. it's our house, and gents, we'd really appreciate it if you'd put the seat down (lid too, if you could -- but i'll get to that later). it hides all the nasty toilet paper dust that perpetually accumulates underneath the seat (and dryer lint, too, because our washer/dryer are in our bathroom). and i always check (for seat down/lid up) before i sit down, because i'm not an idiot. in fact, our lid's always closed, to discourage the cat from drinking toilet water (and because there's an electrical outlet right above our toilet, and we kind of don't want anything falling in if it's still plugged in).

however, if i'm dropping by a gentleman's place of residence and using his facilities, i will leave the seat up. dead serious. i'm just trying to be courteous.

Try peeing standing up it will explain itself.

This double standard WILL NOT STAND.

Some guy at work tells me that the sign of true love is the "Blump". It's a blow job while you take a dump.

Yeah, thanks in advance for not volunteering this entirely tangential and totally disgusting input next time.

He didn't even get it right.

BTW, I'm pretty sure the lid is down for that.

A toilet is like a giant excrement and urine eating monster, and when you don't close both the seat and lid before flushing, you let the giant excrement and urine eating monster spray yourself and everything in the bathroom with bits of excrement, urine or a mixture of both.

Both seat and lid should be down, always, for both genders.

Putting the lid down is good Feng Shui.

How weird is it that I brought up Feng Shui in sex talk?

Screen name entirely appropriate.

Daddy always said that true love involved degradation.

Bingo on this one- I put the seat up at all dudes' places I visit, just for courtesy's sake.

At home I'm a firm believer in a lid-down household- that way 1.everyone has to lift and close the toilet seat equally, regardless of gender 2.microscopic poo-water aerosol (which may or may not actually outside of my own paranoid little brain) doesn't coat your toothbrush every time you flush, and 3. the risk of opening the medicine cabinet and having your hairbrush/wedding ring/mouthwash/birth control pills fall off the ridiculously narrow shelf, skitter off the bathroom counter, and plop into the toilet is virtually nil.

I have done this...

and this.

im just dumb though.
i really don't care about the seat, lid, whatever being up or down. I usually (see above) just flip things around if needed and do ma business.
Aesthetically i think it does look better with at least the seat down, because the toilet part can get a little grimy sometimes and it's nice to not have to see it.

here's how I tried to explain it the first time I moved in with a lady-friend:

If I gave you a fire hose, but didn't tell you how much water pressure I was going to put through it, AND fucked around with the nozzel before giving it to ya EVERY SINGLE TIME (but you couldn't change it), and then expected you to get all the spray "through the hole", then you may appreciate where I'm coming from. Throw in morning wood/semi-erections; now try hitting the hole from a 90 degree angle with a fire hose that doesn't bend or want to point down.

There's been PLENTY of times where I've whipped it out, and suddenly three streams of wizz are shooting three different angles, and I'm just lucky enough not to hit my feet. (maybe the type of underwear- briefs, bannana hammocks, boxers- makes a difference?)

My grandma used to have a sign in her bathroom, "If you sprinkle when you tinkle, be a sweetie and wipe the seaty."

Now, do you ladies really want to sit on a seat that I've reapeatedly had to wipe my piss off of with tissue? We're not talking deep-cleaning, break out the 409 and bleach; just wiping with a tissue.

So, yeah, I put the toilet seat up so the ladies don't have to touch a seat that's been pissed on and wiped upteen times. It doesn't really have anything to do with the size of the origninal hole. If I forget to put the seat down, at least the next person isn't sitting on, or touching, my wiped up wizz.

Hope that helps clear that up a tad.

i put the lid down because i change most of my piercings in the bathroom. I am kind of clumsy when it comes to putting the captive beads in, or threading other piercings, fishing the ball from a tongue stud out of the toilet doesn't seem sanitary to me, i'd rather have it bounce off the lid and have to pick it up off the floor, which isn't much better, but i don't crap on the floor, anymore.

Anymore, ladies!