Туалетный этикет для мужчин - поднять или опустить :)

[peacetraveler22]

When you haven't lived with a man for a long time, you forget about their annoying habits. Now I live with not one, but TWO men! I have two male roommates and we share a bathroom. This creates household wars and horrors! The women in the house argue that the men should always put the toilet seat down after they pee. The men say "why!?!, just push it down when you need to sit!" What is the proper etiquette? :) Men, do you put the toilet seat down after you pee? I beg you to please do it if you share a bathroom with a woman. I can hardly describe the feeling of being half asleep, crawling out of a warm bed in the middle of the night, entering a dark bathroom and sitting down only to discover the toilet seat is up. Suddenly you fall into the bowl and your ass is splashed with cold water! Instant alarm clock! :)) It looks something like this....



Yes, this is a First World problem for sure, but a serious one. :) And there is another mystery of the universe. Why do even grown men sometimes miss the bowl and pee on the floor when they're standing up? Is that thing in your pants so difficult to control? :))

Comments

[moskitow.livejournal.com]

It's hysterical!
I was blessed with men that always kept the sit down(all of them were cleaning their bathrooms themselves so they usually were very careful and clean with it :)) So I'm a spoiled brat he, he....

[peacetraveler22.livejournal.com]

Yes, you are a diva and spoiled! :)) Btw, how would I write the title of this post in Russian? Is it - Мужской туалет этикет - вверх или вниз?

[aborigen72.livejournal.com]

у меня женского полу только собака;)

[peacetraveler22.livejournal.com]

You haven't trained the dog to use the toilet yet? :)) I see some photos online of cats who are potty trained. :)

[ilay-original.livejournal.com]

The thing is reaaaally difficult to control in the mornings.
As it looks everyrthere above the horizon but never into the bowl for at least half an hour after one awakens.
On behalf of the male readers...
Sorry for the mess. We just can not really control it, ;)

[peacetraveler22.livejournal.com]

It's difficult to be a man! :)

[kate-theisen.livejournal.com]

My two men (husband and son) seat on the toilet no matter what the purpose, lol. It's more hygenic and nothing humiliating for man. And they are both cleaning toilets time to times, so they are also interested in less "drops and spills around", hehe...lucky me. Sure no seating in public places where no one would seat on a toilet:))

[peacetraveler22.livejournal.com]

Congrats! You have trained them well. :))

[beloborodoff.livejournal.com]

This is selffish. We also do not like to put the seat up. Also if you insist to put it down. It could be worst, men just pee with seat down. Now you have to deal with urine on the seat.

[peacetraveler22.livejournal.com]

This is better than falling in the toilet bowl! :)) I constantly wipe pee from the floor from my roommates. It's really disgusting.

[kichiro-sora.livejournal.com]

You know how to raise an important topics!

Men ask "why?" for a reason. As it's inconvenient for women to put the seat down - it's exactly same inconvenient for men to raise the seat up. But we do and don't make a big deal out of it. Only women can't stop complaining. Why?

> I can hardly describe the feeling of being half asleep, crawling out of a warm bed in the middle of the night, entering a dark bathroom and sitting down only to discover the toilet seat is up.

I can hardly describe the feeling entering a dark bathroom, ready to pee over yourself, only to discover the seat is down, and you have to feel for it and raise it! Or would you prefer your man just peeing like it is, splashing all over the seat? :)

[peacetraveler22.livejournal.com]

It is so difficult to aim into the bowl when the seat is up? Maybe I underestimate the difficulty of peeing standing up. :)) Never tried it.

[waldliebhaber.livejournal.com]

You just have to agree on one of the following state - fully open or fully close.
Permanently when not in use .
That's fair.

[peacetraveler22.livejournal.com]

Why would a woman want the toilet seat up? It serves no purpose for females. But if they are willing to abide by their husband's choice, then sure it's okay. They will know the seat is up, and not be surprised as I often am. :) Relationships are all about compromise. :)

[anna-sollanna.livejournal.com]

> Why do even grown men sometimes miss the bowl and pee on the floor when they're standing up?
From my experience of living with male roommates - this can happen when they are drunk.
As for keeping the toilet seat down I can't understand men either. What is the difference where to pee? If you are accurate enough you won't spoil both the toilet and the seat, if you are not - you'll have to clean in any case (or the toilet, or the seat).
So I think toilets should be once and for all made with unmovable seats ;)))

[a-nimaida.livejournal.com]

male pig)

[peacetraveler22.livejournal.com]

They exist unfortunately!

[pro100-petrov.livejournal.com]

I don't understand what is all this fuss about? Is it really difficult to put a toilet seat down? Is it too weighty?

[kichiro-sora.livejournal.com]

For some women - It's more of a control thing... There is no logical reason, but you have to do it so she knows you behave.

[english-911.livejournal.com]

I never go nuts for this, better have it up than peed. If I need, I put it down. If they need, they put it up. Where does this rule come from really? :)

[peacetraveler22.livejournal.com]

There are no "rules" in life. This is just a pet peeve of mine. You must certainly have something that annoys you? If not, you are more evolved than me. :))

[mb-b.livejournal.com]

Here's a prank my cousin told me they had done as kids in a sleepaway camp:

1. Lift the toilet seat;
2. Stretch clear Saran wrap over the bowl;
3. Put the seat back down;
4. Wait for the results.

This was in the US, of course. Russian camps usually didn't even have toilets, much less Saran wrap.

[peacetraveler22.livejournal.com]

"Russian camps usually didn't even have toilets..." Yes! I have been in the Russian wilderness. Only for the hardcore! :))

[onegreyface.livejournal.com]

I always make seat down after pee, because i love my girls.

[peacetraveler22.livejournal.com]

Good boy! :)

[yshikalenko.livejournal.com]

I am living with two women, my girlfriend and her daughter, and now I put it down always. But my darling asked me about this in past, because I used to never did it before. It is a kind of courtesy, I think. It's true, women often visit rest room in half asleep state.
But when I was in the United States, my colleague said, laughing, an ad in the toilet for women: "If you want to do it standing, like a horse, please raise the seat to give others a chance" (I'm not sure that the correct spelling of course). So it's not problem of shared toilet with men only, is it?

[peacetraveler22.livejournal.com]

If the woman does not say anything, then it isn't an issue. But I have asked them to put it down, and they refuse. It is like a battle of the sexes in the house. :)) They do it mostly because they know it annoys me, and they find it humorous. It's like in elementary school or high school, where boys always pick on girls they secretly like. :))

[popados.livejournal.com]

Yes, it's a First World problem, for sure, but I never think about it! Need to ask my woman))

[peacetraveler22.livejournal.com]

It is just a stupid and funny topic to discuss. The best kind for LJ. :))

[rider3099.livejournal.com]

My husband always put the seat down )

[peacetraveler22.livejournal.com]

This doesn't surprise me. He seems like an awesome and kind man.

[volhafranco.livejournal.com]

I don't think they have to do it. Do women put the seat up after use? So... why should women have more preference there?

[peacetraveler22.livejournal.com]

Because there is a greater risk of harm or injury. :)

[jon-quille.livejournal.com]

Hah. That's the one of the benefits of being gay: you never come along this issue.

[peacetraveler22.livejournal.com]

There are many benefits to being a gay male.

[Космонавт Жора (from livejournal.com)]

In practice all is much easier, but it's a secret "mysterious Russian soul". Keyword washbasin.

[peacetraveler22.livejournal.com]

Tell me more about his mysterious "Russian soul" and how toilets play a role in it. :))

[12xc33.livejournal.com]

I don't touch the seat at all when peeing.
I pee into a sink. Sometimes just out of window.

[peacetraveler22.livejournal.com]

Ha! Well, I like some of these caveman qualities in men. :)))

[belcantante.livejournal.com]

I strongly believe men should sit down when they pee, and I always do. But then I don't know how to enforce rhis rule on others (all the more so as toilets are just not designed for men and when you sit down to do your numbers, your thing touches the inside of the lavatory pan, so you can get an inflammation very easily). However, peeing in the manly fashion is not an option either, as it splashes pee all around, even if you are super precise.

[peacetraveler22.livejournal.com]

I don't know any men that pee sitting down. This is a new revelation to me! :)

[sergechel.livejournal.com]

I'm putting it down )

Конечно!

[andrey-kaminsky.livejournal.com]

Before or after the beginning of urination?

Today's issues

[pin-gwin.livejournal.com]

Is God there?
Is he a man?
Does he use a toilet bowl and how?

You have a range for Friday!!!

Re: Today's issues

[peacetraveler22.livejournal.com]

LOL! Well I'm bored at work today, and it's more fun to sit and chat with readers than do my legal work. :))

[albanpatriot.livejournal.com]

I do pee-pee on the floor after vodka, because I am a man !!

[peacetraveler22.livejournal.com]

And you also eat only meat and scratch your balls? :))

[bellofarniente.livejournal.com]

Actually the toilet must be covered with a lid. Always, when not in use.

[peacetraveler22.livejournal.com]

Yes, I agree. But the men I live with are lazy, and they never close the lid.