• Tiger666@lemmy.ca
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    6 months ago

    Can people do what they need to do without anybody policing them? Seat up or down who cares?

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      6 months ago

      There’s a University of Cork study showing that putting the lid down aerosolises more material so spreads bacteria etc. over the whole room, whereas having the lid open produces a smaller number of larger droplets that nearly all just fall straight back into the toilet. The lid is not sealing the toilet and preventing the need to clean the bathroom.

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          6 months ago

          My comment was explicitly pointing out that closing the lid can have the opposite of the intuitive effect and make things worse even though you’d expect it to make them better. It seems that I misrepresented the study’s findings, though, as while closing the lid does make particles remain airborne for much longer, so my overall point is sound, closing the lid does reduce the number of particles that initially become airborne.

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            6 months ago

            closing the lid does reduce the number of particles that initially become airborne.

            Significantly – 30-50%.

            So to be clear: close the lid

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              That’s not the conclusion the study’s authors drew. The particles being airborne for longer means they can float further and contaminate things further away from the toilet, and also are more likely to end up inhaled. That could be a bigger problem than the number of particles initially released, so the study didn’t make a recommendation of whether the lid should be up or down. More research is required before anyone should be issuing definitive commands in bold to strangers on the internet.

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    6 months ago

    If this was a male-only bathroom I’d still totally agree with the content of the sign.

    If you want to pee standing, use the urinal. I, as a man, don’t enjoy sitting in some other person’s pee either.

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    6 months ago

    If you have to sit and you have to go immediately you appreciate those that were considerate enough to engage in this simple act of decency.

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    6 months ago
    Number 1 Number 2
    up down
    down down

    3/4 of these are down, so it seems to me like the etiquette should be to leave it down.

    (Conflict of interest disclaimer: am a woman.)

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    6 months ago

    But like, if men pee with the seat up, but both men and women poop with the seat down, then statistically the seat is already down more than half of the time. Now if we enforce a policy like this, that would mean more than half of the times someone walks in and needs the seat to be down is in luck, but the rest has to do double the “work”. And if someone goes in after someone who would have otherwise left the seat up, they too do double the work, so the seat changes position 4 times instead of once. I think it’s much more “just” to simply change the seat whenever you need it and sometimes you will even find it in the position you need it in.

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    6 months ago

    Leave the seat down so when you flush you won’t inhale your poop and pee.

    Cmon it’s not hard.

    Edit: and lid.

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      I think just being an organism with an anus leads to higher levels of poop exposure than whatever minuscule amount of particulate matter that manages to aerosolize from an unlided flush

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    6 months ago

    I wonder if signs like these are effective. Unless you are monitoring and handing out fines as guests leave, they are just gonna do whatever is their habit.

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    6 months ago

    This issue always baffles me.

    The amazing thing about owning a penis is that I can still pee sitting down and there’s never any drama. Have to poop? Don’t even have to move! Have to fart? Go for it! Not farting in your underwear makes them smell fresher for longer, anyway.

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      Not farting in your underwear makes them smell fresher for longer, anyway.

      Bro wtf? I know that was a casual one liner… but it leaves sooo many unanswered questions!

      /s