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Toilet Seat Up Or Down? | Earth Science
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- Опубликовано: 19 авг 2024
- Chris Van Tulleken explains the science behind one of the greatest sources of conflict in the world today, toilet seat etiquette!
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Lets just compromise by leaving it halfway.
+dangerouslytalented How about leaving it in a quantum state of people both up and down?
+L Blair LMAO
L Blair Schrodingers toilet
+dangerouslytalented How about just leaving it down, if it was left like that, and then taking a wazz all over the seat. I'll bet it'll be left up next time.
+dangerouslytalented
Toilet Seat Down 2016!!!
Leave the set closed so if you drop anything it doesn't fall into the toilet.
I didn't and I fried my ipod :(
+Gregory Clark Fried an apple product. So that'd be a net positive
Why would you have anything in your hands (other than your body parts) near the toilet when you're not covering the hole by sitting on it?
Róbert Papp
I have a small vanity cabinet above my toilet.
+Gregory Clark Do you often hang out above your toilet with gadgets, while not using the toilet itself?
Why would there even be a lid on the the toilet if we weren't supposed to close it?
+Wiktor Ławniczak (vikilaw)
- For me to step on to change the light bulb
- For drug addicts to snort their drugs and not waste any
- Dining table, cause according to studies the seat is the cleanest place
- To over sell you on the toilet seat so that it is more than just a seat
- For when the flush is not working
- For when you want to put large objects and the floor is wet
+Wiktor Ławniczak (vikilaw) The world may never know. Shit in peace, my friends.
+Wiktor Ławniczak (vikilaw) I sit on it when I'm giving my dog a bath.
So dogs don't drink the water.
Good point.
I left the seat up when I was 10. one of my sisters fell in in the middle of the night. I got woke up to her screaming and swearing. I thought it was a laugh riot until my mom beat me senseless.
Lmao what
😂😂
As most of us southeast asian, it is important to leave the toilet seat up because we washed after using the toilet so the seat can dry faster.
I'll keep my lid closed, I'd rather not fling shit particles all over my bathroom every time I flush.
+Benjamin Price yeah, if your toilet is throwing up water and shit out of it when you flush, you really do have more pressing problems about your toilet than keeping the kid closed. Honestly, get a new toilet already.
***** When you flush your toilet with the lid up you're flinging microscopic shit particles around the room. Nice try being clever though.
+Benjamin Price
Mostly mildew and microbes, actually.
Either way I think we can all agree that's not something you want on your toothbrush and towels.
Benjamin Price
Keeps the immune system strong.
It really doesn't matter how I found it when I have to go... but when I'm done with it, I always leave the lid down. It just looks better that way.
I don't know why people make such a fuss about this. I'm a man and I don't give a shit (pun intended) if it's up or down when I enter. I have the capacity to look and see what state the toilet seat is in and adjust accordingly with minimal effort. And I personally always leave the toilet with the seat and lid down. What's the point of the lid if you don't use it?
+Kabuki Jo Or maybe they're on that time of the month.
juan gonzalez
Exactly my point. They are simply incapable of taking seconds to check the seat & lowering it on their own. It's very rare for a woman to have this basic toilet skill.
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The thing is that the toilet rim is not always clean and there are pee drops left on it often. So the problem is not having to put it down, but managing to avoid touching someone else's pee while doing it.
@@MsBimbobear So it's a problem for women to touch the toilet seat because it might be dirty. So that's why men should touch it instead? Men that don't even use the toilet seat so it is for sure not them that made it dirty 😆 As long as women still have this princes attitude they can all f off with this equality BS. It is women themselves that give the idea that women are weak and need help. You know, I know strong women. Women that work just as hard and are just as smart and tough as men. Some could even kick my a'' if they wanted to. And they would NEVER make any fuzz about something so stupid as a toilet seat. Believe me I know strong women and they are rare. 95% of women that claim to be strong only want to be strong but they really aren't. While they could be if they put the effort in to it.
Wait, are we talking about the seat or the lid? X.x
I thought it was the seat
See when I poo the toilet seat is down and when I pee it is up
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I don't get it, he talks about the seat, but he closes and opens the lid.
+Groaznic There are really two debates here, toilet seat up or down, or toilet LID up or down.
This video just confused both and confused everybody.
Nicholas Wright My thoughts too. I guess you could say... they're keeping a lid on it bwahaha,
Yeah, he's using the terms lid and seat interchangeably, but they are two different things. This video is about the lid NOT the seat.
We leave it closed because we have cats and cats think the toilet seat is a seat for them to sit on. Cats hate getting dunked, I hate when they put toys in the toilet. So... it stays closed.
In India Keeping the Toilet lid closed means Do not open it. It mostly indicates that some one did not flush it due to shortage of water :-)
Most indians who can afford western style toilets have almost negligible water shortage dumbass
What this is a false information dude!!!
It's not joke mate ! Please don't be a such attention seeker .. fake news
If I ever go to this man's house I'll try to avoid using the sink.
He was probably being sarcastic
+Sharif Sircar
Really? How suprising...
Living Lifeform I know right,It just blew my mind
you fools the lid isnt there to stop stuff getting out, its there to stop stuff falling in! you know....phones and whatnot.
+Viridis Lux Except in Australia, it's definitely there to stop stuff from getting out.
+Viridis Lux I think we had the toilet lid long before mobile phones.
Pray tell, what were the Victorians trying to prevent falling into the loo?
Funny how people just did their business in a hole in a bench up until the discovery of microorganisms. Coincidence? 🤔
I have a Schrödinger's lid : as long as i don't measure its state, my lid is up and down at the same time.
Wait what? That's not the debate... Who the hell is having this debate?! The argument is the ring seat bit not the lid! The problem is women have to keep putting it down to pee and me have to lift it to pee... Who is fighting over the lid bit being down and why would it be a gender fight?
+Bob Dent I fight over the lid being down because if I'm gonna have to lower the seat for the "lady", I'm going to be petty and make her put the lid up so both of us have to do some work (They wanted equality didn't they?! /s)
MultiplyByZ3r0 right with u on that.
+Bob Dent Unless you're a big (or chubby) man, you can comfortably pee with the ring down.
@@MultiplyByZ3r0 I know this is from two years ago but it's not about doing work. It's about not falling into the toilet when the seat is up.
Thank you Bob Dent. This is the most helpful piece of information here yet
LID DOWN!!!
1) THINGS FALL IN! Things left next to, on the sink, back of the toilet, etc, (My roommate leaves her toothbrush on the edge of the sink and then flips out when her sleeve knocks it into the bowl) If you make a habit of closing the bowl, they will simply bounce off, and no harm done.
2) SMALL CHILDREN AND PETS. They like to play in the water and do other things in the water that they shouldn't. Toddlers have in fact been known to fall in and drown. One of my daughters just had to put a locking mechanism on their toilet lid, because their 9 month old (cute as a bug!) can crawl really fast and it's hard to keep track of him, and he looooves the toilet. His daddy hates the lock, but puts up with it.
3) And to be honest, aesthetics! It simply looks nicer! And they wouldn't make the nice covers and novelty lids if you weren't meant to close them, would they? Geez...
1. Don't keep things near a toilet
2. Why are you letting children into the washroom without a supervision
3. Meh
I've always said if the bathroom has a sink then it has a urinal
And there is another basic reason on why one should keep the lid down, that when we enter the bathroom we don't want to see anyone's poo or pee floating in it. As it is unavoidable not to look into the pot when its open once u enter, not to ignore the smell that comes from any open lid 😖
most men do not care whether it's up or down when they get there... because its not exactly hard to remedy it to your specific needs.
when I here people complaining, im sorry to sound sexist but this is my own experience, its always women.
my responce is.. "your a big girl now, please raise or lower the seat as much as you like"
I guess I've been keeping that subscription waiting for more JM long enough...
My Dad declared that if he had to put down the seat for Mum, she had to do work too and put the lid down. So us kids all grew up doing that and got used to it. A co-worker at work gets upset when I put the lid down and it's a really hard habit to break :( I do notice there's less water on the seat when the lid is down (not equating water to dirt, it's just annoying).
You should do another one testing public bathroom seats. Should we use those "butt gaskets"? Should we carry about disinfectant wipes before sitting on a public toilet seat? Please help us.
before and after, i believe
I always put the seat & lid down when I'm finished.
This way everyone is disadvantaged equally.
Usually I pee in the back yard. It saves water.
Misleading title!!!
You're talking about the *LID* not the seat.
i.e. the lid down is supposed to be used to prevent germs being atomised into the air and settling on other items around the toilet.
The title suggests (and I was expecting to see) results of whether the age old question (Man vs Woman) of *SEAT* up or *SEAT* down.
I can't believe people even fight over things like this
Chris: That's why I pee in the *SINK*
Me: URGH!
tbf I pee in the sink aswell
Why would it have the seat then
2:20 cheeky Sharpie in the jeans pocket ;)
I pee in the litterbox because I like to pretend I'm a cat after mine died.
Asfandyar Khan creepy, but touching.
the toilet seat is there to avoid things falling inside, and dirty smells coming up from the toilet.
we have locks on boxes for a reason.
it's not hard for a guy to sit down to piss, or take the seat up. the seat is there to make it more comfortable when u sit there. when u're done, close the whole thing.
MarkFilipAnthony
Except that it does.
You have angular control when you stand.
You have no angular control when you sit.
manictiger lol, now u're just being silly.
There are simply no problems with you sitting down while pissing. Just get over it. Don't be such a child
manictiger jup, u're acting like a child
MarkFilipAnthony
So are you.
manictiger I am presenting u reasonable arguments against ur claim, not attacking you with personal insults
Love this guy's videos!
Get a soft close lid. You can give it a tap and it's goes down quietly with minimal effort and you appear to give a shit about the position of the lid when your friend or neighbor comes over. If you can't lift it to the correct configuration when you come back then you should be outside when you do your business.
got pets? lid down when you're done. everyone knows the lid is going to be down, no confusion.
Toddler in the house = toilet seat down AND locked.
+Michael Winter Let them go around and develop their immune system, that might save their life at some point...
+AstroBax Could also perish their lives by exposing them to various illnesses people have all at the same time
If you have that in your own home, you have other stuff to worry about...
+AstroBax with that criteria you should let the kids play with the cat litter at the side and why not go to the junk yard bare feet to boost their immune system. I wouldn't risk it, seat and lid down.
Totally, you're right, there definitively isn't any single difference between your own restroom that you (probably) clean regularly, and letting your kids go lick a month-old dead squirrel in a junk yard full of used needles. The way to go...
All I'm saying is that we're currently surfing on a general fear wave. Fear of the foreign, fear of disease, fear of almost completely safe things. Passing your whole home to Purrell weekly just because you have a toddler is making more bad than good. A kid has to go out there, eat some soil, get in touch with what's really in the world, because that's the only way (and only time) that its immune system can develop correctly.
Toilet seat up, the number of men in this house outnumber the number of women.
The seat stays down, the lid however is best left up for the person that really needs to GO. So don't torture that person as may end up being you.
It's not really a matter of the bacteria... It's the fact that if there's an equal proportion of woman to men in the house, the toilet seat is more likely used down than up: men have to use it down for #2, and women have to use it for both #1 and #2. Also, have you ever accidentally sat on a toilet with no seat, with the occasional pee drop, in the middle of the night when you had to go pee? Having to then go wash yourself off because you now have nasty toilet rim juice on your legs, and you're basically completely awake now from the shock.
Can't wait till we all just have microchips in our body/watch/phone that sends signals to things so that they automatically adjust settings as we approach.
Also, your experiment doesn't make any sense. You should have done one go with all the plates set and the toilet cover up, and another one with all the plates set and the toilet cover down. If you repeat the process separately (and there's obviously no more poop during your second go), obviously there won't be more germs in the second run.
Super scientific
WHOA WHOA WHOA WHOA YOU PEE IN THE SINK, KNOW WAY!!!1!!1!!1!!1!!!!!! HA HA HA 😁😆(2:53)
Always up
Leaving the seat where you find it is the most efficient method because you can't know what the next person will need.
assuming there's 50% chance the next person will need it up, and 50% down.
If you don't do anything, there's 50% chance the next person will have to take an action.
If you do something, you already took 1 action, and there's 50% chance the next person will have to take an action.
Only when the chance is 0% that the next person will have to take an action (which means you know who the next person is and what he's going to need, which is impracticable) you'll get equal amount of required work as not doing anything. Leaving it in a specific state is just doing the work for the next person, and it's a wasteful guesswork.
Conclusion: Leaving it as is is the most efficient way.
+yoni0505 It depends however on the gender makeup of the household. Males use the toilet seat up more often than down, but females always use the toilet seat down. Another factor is the ratio (of the males only, of course) of urination to defecation. Your assumption that the chance of the next person using the seat up or down is equal, is too simple.
Neale Adams That doesn't matter because taking an action only breaks even at 0% failure rate. You can't mathematically go below 0%, so you gain nothing, and you can't practically reach 0% so you're always wasting work.
If you use peanut butte you put the lid back on after. If you open a cupboard you close it. If you use the fridge you close it
It has a LID for a reason
Where did you get that giant duck I want one.
I don't even touch the toilet seat when I pee. If I get pee on it I just get a tissue.
They even had the same debate about this in South Park.
I would pee in the sink but the splash factor is too big of a danger to the toothbrushes
Hence always flush after closing the lid 😀
Really depends on the situation
I've seen toilets that - due to the nature of the bowl, and extreme water pressure - will pretty much project whatever you deposited straight out the front. Especially when of a, let's say, more viscous nature. Betcha we'd find bacteria in those petri dishes then!
You intended to talk about toilet seat then you went on to talk about toilet lid.
But, the toilet was clean, with only water in, at the start. Surely, we're concerned about bacteria spreading when a "used" toilet is flushed?
Doctor Chris I'm doing jo wicks tomorrow and I'm whoopy coshen
Are there any studies about bacteria spread caused by pissing while standing? (Actually, I've no idea how "unhygienic" urine is...)
+8bit revolution urine is sterile.
isnt the "debate" about if the seat stays up or down, not the lid? i'v never heard men and women argue about the lid, its always been about the seat...
I leave it up
I always put the lid down after use.
I do it because there are ladies in the house as well
I have a roommate who keeps it up when flushing. I constantly have to scrub off eraser sized pieces of shit that end up on the walls when he leaves the place after crapping. When he is in, I constantly have to tell him to clean his shit up that blasted out from the flush. The longest distance I've found it is about 3 feet away from the toilet. It rarely ever lands on the ground but most definitely on the top of the toilet tank and walls around it. I think he should have placed the various dishes higher at bowl brim level and up. The results might vary with the height of the dishes, as I have to do this shit removing every other day. I'm definitely moving out soon if he doesn't first.
That toilet is obviously broken. 🙄
is there any man in the history of humanity who complained about the toilet seat position? I'm pretty sure only women do this. And now i feel like a sexist bastard.
+Marius Malus I always complain when the seat is not up. But, then, it wouldn't occur to me to complain about that if women didn't complain about it not being down.
There is no sense in leaving the seat the way you found it. If anyone would follow the rule seat would be always up or down, and this can't be most efficient strategy. Most efficient strategy is leave the seat unchanged after your use.
Seat or lid?
i like it
When people ask if I go in the shower I say "Isn't that why they put the grate over the drain? To break up the solids when you stomp it through?" :D
haha I peed in the sink as well because my wife wouldn't stop yapping about urine splashes and so the sink made more sense to prevent that
Why are you mixing the lid and the seat into one question? Women whant the seat down and the lid up, man want both up. No one wants them both down.
"No one wants them both down" I always want them both down when not in use so nothing falls in by accident, I don't care what anyone tells me.
So what’s the big deal with leaving the toilet seat up? Guys are expected to put the seat up then down after we’re finished. That’s TWO actions! If we’re both moving the seat to accommodate us, that’s one action for each of us. That’s fair!
I think the seat should be left as you found it unless your the only one in the place and then you can do what you want.
I’ve never seen a public toilet with a lid
Should the cat litter tray be covered or left open?
So I can pee on the sink too? This will save me from spending time to go to the balcony to pee on the cars down below.
İts not about the germs spreading or anything its about urine or faecal aerosols which over time makes the whole toilet dirtier and smell worse . I've tried both of them, lid down keeps toilet clean for more time .
Peeing in the Shower/Tub is way better than peeing in the Sink.
On the 4th Day of #ChristmasWeLove
#Singing to my True #love
On the 4th day of #Christmas
My True Love Said to Me ..
"SHUT THE TOILET LID BEFORE YOU FLUSH"
Bloody hell, just buy that advanced toilet when the lid slowly close by just nudging to it. Problem is that this way i am used to close the lid at home, elsewhere where is no piston in lid... it produce quite a bang closing it "automatically"
Lid down and this one should be no argument when pulling the chain
I just close things when I'm don using them. The car door, my laptop, a book, the toilet, your mouth, etc.
what do you mean by "your mouth" (insert lennyface)
Well yeah me too but nothing related to mouth
In Jamaica no one cares, they don't complain either way. I just close the lid to prevent stuff from falling in the toilet for whatever reason
I avoid this problem by pissing in the bath.
I've just made it a personal rule to close the frig'n lid.
Or you can just close it before you flush and leave it up after the toilet's done flushing
I'm gonna start peeing in the sink... of the kitchen
Down is good for cancelling noise, especially if the the lid is soft and you apply the knee to it.
+Dr_Kachu san "Down is good for cancelling noise, especially if the the lid is soft and you apply the knee to it."
-> Not needed, once the toddler is underwater it doesn't make that much noise.
Never underestimate the power of the lungs of a toddler.
Toilet seat or lid? 😂
I think you've totally missed the point... It's the seat that's in contention, not the lid.
This video should be called.... toilet lid, up or down?!!!..... ofcourse it should be down always!!!
I don't care if the lid is up I just want the seat down so that when I go in there in the middle of the night I don't fall in the toilet
It's toilet seat down. I don't want my pets drinking out of a germ-infested toilet or falling in by accident. You gotta watch out for your kids.
The problem is about the seat not the cover.
" because I pee in the sink"... Huh =|
***** Umm... nice -___-
+ahmeo2 I shit in the sink
+abdullah alshudukhi Better peeing in the sink than sinking in the pee. Just sayin'.
Patrice Jaeck HAHAHAHA LOLOLOLO 😂😂😂😂😂
+ahmeo2 yeah well you probably only use a little water to clean a little but thats it
this better end with toilet seat up
It's not really the science of hygena that causes the debate, it's the way our Western society overreacts against any physical contact, however small, with excrements. Leaving the toilet seat down, you are not protecting yourself from harmful bacteria, you are protecting yourself from coming into contact with tiny stool particles dispered via aerosols. Asking Indians who defecate on their back garden, asking medical students whose everday's job is collecting stool samples, then chances are that they would be much less sensitive on that matter.
it just looks better down. period.
I always leave it down. I don't like piss flinging up and hitting my leg.
Oh, that... The *LID*. Yeah, screw those. That's always up.
I just poop in the shower. Just mash it down the plughole. (it's called a waffle-masher I believe)
ok pretty simply. if you arent using it just put it down especially if you place anything around it so you prevent the possibility of them falling in...
1 of my guy friends always leaves his toilet seat up.......& he doent have no bathroom windows in the bathroom so it leaves the whole entire bathroom smelly when he leaves his toilet seat up
I put both the seat and the lid down every time.. because why wouldn't I? It also probably reduces the smell if the toilet is not very clean.
Reinis Ramans why would you not have a clean toilet? If you flush them they shouldn't smell, if so you probably need a new one
"..probably.." and "..if.."
Look those two words up
Well, it is nice to not share ur pie around floor to others
Ummmm the Up or Down argument is not about "which is it more healthy", but it is about a woman half asleep going to sit down and falling in cause the seat is up, not the cover... I mean perhaps there is an argument about the cover up or down and which is more sanitary, but the vastly more common is if the seat is up or down and the issues a woman can have in some situations. I honestly have never even heard this argument about the lid being more healthy before, but perhaps it is in other circles or other parts of the world more then in the US or my neck of the woods.
I dont use to poop standing up so not only women sit down... and I never ever fell down or sitted while was up. If I can do it why anybody wont?
+xX Xx Exactly. it's common sense to look! We do it without even thinking about it. Just use your damn eyes, people!
xX Xx I'm not making an argument either way. I am just stating I have never heard the argument about the seat this way. It is usually about the seat being up or down and not the lid.
***** ummm no, and I guess reading is not your strong point either, but I am just saying I haven't heard this lid issue and when it comes to the toilet argument it is about the seat and not the lid. I never said I had an opinion on if it should be left down or that people should look first to make sure.
Well a half asleep man would pee all over the toilet if the seat was down.
Laundry basket - close enough...hic