If you leave the seat down how do you poop in the hole?
this post was submitted on 02 Jan 2026
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It could also be solved by everyone putting the seat and lid up, what's your point?
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In this house we do lid up and seat down.
Every family member is asked to sit down.
Both decisions are purely convenience driven:
lid up -> you can just sit down without having to touch or adjust anything. After you're done, you just get up without touching anything (except to flush).
seat down -> I'm unwilling to deal with the mess created by people (myself included) that inevitably happens when peeing standing up. So everybody sitting is the way to go.
Where this fails is guests that are unfamiliar with how we do it. It also doesn't take splashes from flushing into consideration. But in all my years of using the facilities, I have not noticed a significant amount of dirt around the toilet that I would consider problematic.
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I prefer up:
- I get to see if the water is actually leaving and stops flowing when it's supposed to, which often happens not to be the case
- It's easier to put it up than down for me
No. 2 might not make much sense, but I don't like touching the seat. It's far easier to put it up with the side of my sole than do the opposite.
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In my 20s, I worked in a place primarily staffed by women. As in it was just me and one other guy on the floor and we didn't work the same shift. I intentionally left the seat up, waiting for a day to get spoken to about it. Somehow in my young mind, I thought I might be able to sue for discrimination. Yeah, I was kinda dumb. Nobody ever spoke to me, so I never had the opportunity to test that.
Currently, I try to put the seat down when I'm done, even though it's one sitter and three standers in my home. My thought is that it doesn't inconvenience me to put it down, so I do it.
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It could also be solved in any other way.
Everybody puting the toilet upside down. Everybody going outside and not having a debate anymore. Everybody outing the seat up. Everybody getting a seatles toilet.
The "everybody agreeing one one solution" is the thing that ends the debate and not what the solution is.
This is what do in my home for a long time and my wife can’t complain.