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[–] GissaMittJobb@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Just close it entirely before you flush, people. The fact that there's a debate between fully open and half-open when both are inferior is baffling.

[–] Vlyn@lemmy.zip 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Counter point: I know plenty of people who close the lid and then flush, then leave. So when you open the toilet you're greeted by a floater or shit streaks over the bowl.

I flush with it open, check if it's clean (otherwise use the brush and flush again) then leave.

If you want to close the lid you'd have to close it, flush, open it and check, clean, close it again. Are you doing that?

[–] null@slrpnk.net 0 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Counterpoint, if you leave the lid open, you're flinging shit particles all over the bathroom, potentially onto toothbrushes.

[–] GissaMittJobb@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Realistically they are going to get everywhere anyway, but I still close it in a harm reduction effort.

[–] CallMeButtLove@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I'm going to continue to pretend it works lol.

[–] Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

So answer the question above, do you then lift the lid to check if it worked? Or do you believe your shit is magic, and makes all toilets work perfectly?

[–] RinseDrizzle@midwest.social 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I shit in the same toilets with enough consistency to know they do the trick without further investigation.

[–] blanketswithsmallpox@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Sounds like that horror story about the wife seeing the dude wipe once and be done with it saying that he's never had to wipe more. She requested he do it again and he came back with another huge ass streak.

Homie, we all leave some gross shit now and then but dude above preaches when you have people in your house who dump floaters and streakers constantly. Nothing worse than opening the bathroom door to know you'll be greeted with a gross ass half dissolved usually green tinted floater with half the bowl streaked and everyone acting like it wasn't them. Meanwhile you end up having to try to piss blast it for a week but it's so caked on by that point you actually have to take the extra 30 seconds to use the toilet brush...

[–] RinseDrizzle@midwest.social -1 points 2 years ago

Lolol I also own a bidet, regularly clean, and apparently eat more fiber than some of y'all. 😂

No doubt I'll have some worse than others, but I assure you I'm not coming back to no bio hazards after one flush.

[–] SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

If you smell a fart you are breathing in shit particles. It doesn’t matter unless someone in your household is severely ill.

[–] null@slrpnk.net -1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Neat, thanks for sharing that you don't care how much shit you ingest. I'll reduce my intake where I can, thanks.

[–] SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] null@slrpnk.net -1 points 2 years ago

They said, with a literal shit-eating grin.

[–] Vlyn@lemmy.zip 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

That was tested with Mythbusters. When your toothbrush is nearby there was hardly a difference if you flush open or closed, sorry :)

[–] null@slrpnk.net 0 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Source?

I'm pretty sure you're misremembering that episode. It didn't involve lid closed vs open.

[–] Confused_Emus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I could have sworn they tested both. I remember them concluding that lid position didn’t matter.

[–] null@slrpnk.net -1 points 2 years ago

The toilet in the episode doesn't even have a lid.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=nb-_KRh8asM

[–] Vlyn@lemmy.zip 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Ah, it had no lid, and unfortunately that part of the end-scene is cut off on YouTube. It was this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nb-_KRh8asM

The control toothbrushes outside the bathroom had the same amount of fecal coliformes on them. That stuff is everywhere, it doesn't matter if you flush lid open or closed.

[–] null@slrpnk.net -1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Again, source?

We've established that you misremembered the lid test already, so I don't see why we should trust your memory on this.

I'm particularly skeptical of this assertion:

the same amount

I'm well aware there are some fecal particles all over the place. But common sense says that aersolaized, shit-filled toilet water (which the video confirms it does spray out droplets into the immediate area) would accumulate more on toothbrushes sitting closer to the toilet than in another room.

Edit: also, were they testing by flushing just normal toilet water? Or flushing after a shit?

Because if it was just toilet water, then the test isn't even relevant to the discussion.

[–] Vlyn@lemmy.zip 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

https://mythresults.com/hidden-nasties

Many objects that people touch every day are dirtier than a toilet seat.

I'd surely hope those tests were done with actually in-use toilets, lol. The toilet seat would be sprayed with the lid down, so it's a good indicator?

And here is the toothbrush one https://mythresults.com/episode12 (on the bottom). Maybe you can find the full TV episode, right now I can't.

Either way, as long as you don't have a vacuum toilet that sucks everything down you won't escape. I just rinse my toothbrush with water every time before I use it, which seems to be good enough so far.

[–] null@slrpnk.net -1 points 2 years ago

Again, they weren't flushing fresh bowls of shit, just standard toilet water.

You're absolutely spraying shit all over your toothbrush for no good reason, and that's disgusting. Sorry :)

[–] teft@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Did his knees collapse? If my butt touched cold porcelain I would just stand up and put the seat down. How did he get sucked into the damn thing? Was this a vacuum toilet on the space station?

[–] Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

If you fall in, your butt doesn't hit cold porcelain any more than your foot would hit a missing stair. It just falls through the unexpected space, and if you can't catch with your hands quick enough it lands in the water. Sitting is already falling backwards, far as your balance is concerned. Especially in a familiar seat, you're not poised to stand right up again mid-sit. Your center of weight moves behind your heels, and it's difficult to stop. Your knees alone won't save you, you have to pull your upper body forward, and on the toilet there's often nothing in front of you to grab. Add in being half-asleep, in the dark, and it's quite a rude awakening.

[–] teft@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

How wide are your toilets? Even if i lift the seat up and sit directly on the porcelain i wouldn’t enter the bowl, i’d sit on the rim and I’m not a particularly wide individual. Also if your knees can’t stop you mid sit then you should work on leg strength.

[–] surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

We get it. You're thicc. You got the badonk. Stop humble bragging.