Arlo and Janis by Jimmy Johnson for February 04, 2023

They’re especially annoyed when they fall in! 8^ )

If you don’t look before sitting down it’s on you Janis. No different than Arlo having to look to see if you forgot to put the seat up.

What’s the big deal? If it’s up and you want it down, put it down. If it’s down and you want it up, put it up. Toilet seats are not difficult to move.

I put the lid as well as the seat down when my toilet is not in use. It looks better and is just as inconvenient for everyone. Besides, both men and women have hands.

Closing both lids prevents makes the most sense. No aerosolized toilet water spread around the room, pets drinking from it, nor accidentally dropping something in it.

How hard is it to look first? Men have to look, do women always back into the bathroom without ever looking where they’re going?

It’s amazing that they don’t look down on what they are about to sit on!

It is never noticed when you do it right, only when you do it wrong.

Why is this a problem? If the seat and Lid are down, You’re going have to check the toilet and raise the Lid before using. The thing is you have to check before using. So if the Lid and the seat are up, You still have to check before using. If you don’t check you you would be sitting on the Lid, or sitting on the rim. Then there’s the new fad of women who like to Hover over the toilet, is that (a) Lid up, seat down or (b) Lid up, seat up

The ultimate responsibility for the seat position rests with the one who is about to use it…

If it’s up, then you know it’s dry….

I’ve had women get mad at me when I’ve opened a door for them, but then they get mad about the position of a toilet seat.

It’s funny that women demand equality with men (which I believe that have by divine right), but apparently only when it suits them.

I’ve never seen a woman walk into the bathroom backwards, so surly you ladies are not “surprised” by the seat being up.

If the seat is up, rather than getting emotional maybe you could use a little bit of your awesome “girl power” and push it down. After all, if a man can do it then it can’t be that difficult…. am I right ladies?

Maybe you ladies should start leaving the seat up for the love of your life and quit expecting special treatment. Is marriage an equal 50/50 arrangement or not?

You know we could avoid this whole argument altogether if we just leave the seat down all the time. Am I right guys? Guys… GUYS……. bunch of wimps!

It’s particularly annoying to be rudely awakened at 3:24AM by a blood-curdling scream from the bathroom. (She fell in-or partially anyway) Followed by the realization that you won’t be allowed to go back to sleep before listening to a lecture followed by you apologizing 6 or 10 times.

Women can be a jerks because it’s a “gal thing” but men get put on “double secret probation” the slightest infraction?

Maybe the guy wanting a sex change is on to something? You still have the larger brain, but you get to start taking advantage of the “gal thing”. Talk about having your cake and eating it to… unless you’re trying to slim down to fit into the bikini.

Do it right 1000 times, you’ll hear nothing. Do it wrong 1 time and you never hear the end of it.

The gal thing should be: Lift the seat before leaving the bathroom. (Then maybe I’ll put it down when I leave)

My bride and I had four sons. Not to mention all their friends. My bride said she was happy when she saw the seat up because she knew she wouldn’t be sitting down on a seat covered with “whizz”.

It’s a gal thing to point out the faults of others.

Toxic masculinity.

I taught my family to always leave the seat cover down. Everybody has to raise and lower the lid to go.

Janis, it’s that whole EQUAL RIGHTS thing. Men are expected to ensure the toilet seat is in the proper position before use, women claiming to be EQUAL need to live your words.

A person ensuring that the toilet seat is constantly in the position you desire would imply that you, as a woman, aren’t mature enough, intelligent enough, responsible enough, to handle a simple situation like that.

You are supposed to put the toilet LID down, both of you.

In a household with equal parts male & female, there should be no need for changing the seat for someone else. If the household has more females it’s polite to put the seat down as chances are a female will be next to use it. Alternatively, everyone could put the seat and lid down.

Public co-ed toilets usually don’t have lids. I’m left with a choice of lifting a seat that has been used by numerous other people, or being a ‘sharpshooter’ and leaving the seat down. If I leave it up, then at least the next person knows I haven’t left a liquid souvenir behind for them to sit on.

As someone raised in a cat family, I always put the seat and lid down.

I don’t there has ever been a couple where it didn’t happen at least once. Or twice.

I have decided that, for all-gender bathrooms, the seat should be left up at all times. It’s not a big deal to lower the seat if needed and it will discourage lazy guys from whizzing and expecting to miss the seat and get “nothing but air.”

And to get a real argument going, the end of the toilet paper goes over the front of the roll

My wife and I have long ago solved this conundrum. There’s only ONE position for the toilet seat… Not up… Not down… but CLOSED. Never any guessing, and everyone suffers equally.

Women need the seat down 100% of time. Men at least once daily need the seat down too, unless they have mastered pooping standing up. And unless the vision of seat up is aesthetically appealing, then seat should be down. However the dog votes to leave seat up, thereby making drinking easier.

not only that, but often they will say “you always….” The difference between exceptions and bad habits seem beyond some. Remember ladies: the perfect is the enemy of the good.

A family of 4 men, 2 women, and you better believe rule 1 of the bathroom: PUT THE TOILET SEAT DOWN!!

My wife doesn’t have this problem. If it is up, she is smart enough to put it down. If it is down, I am smart enough to put it up.

two bathroom house would also sole the problem.

Tomorrow, let’s do one about not replacing the toilet paper – or, at least not in the proper direction.

After that, we can do one about leaving the lights on

It’s all about power and establishing dominance in the relationship.

Why is it that men have to put the seat down, but women do not have to put the seat up? Seriously.

Sounds like a very moving story, depending on what gets moved.

EVERYONE, just put the freaking LID down and the seat will also go down. No one wants to see into the dayum BOWL when they enter the room. [drops mic]

Is it that difficult for a gal to lift the toilet seat?

Gotta train yer woman to leave the seat up!

One of sooooooo many……

There’s a 50% chance that the next person to use the bathroom is a man. That means that I would have to touch the toilet seat and so would the next guy. So the original premise is 100% wrong. And secondly, if you want women to have equal rights, you better get used to touching a toilet seat.

when they start putting it up for us, I’ll start putting it down for them

I put in slow close seats. Don’t have to bend over just get it started and it doesn’t slam. Much easier on my 76 year old back.

My wife and I keep the lid closed.

so guys have to check EVERY time, while girls don’t think they should?. I’ve always thought this was selfish/stupid

Well Honey, you try putting the seat up every time after you use it and see how many times you forget…

Women get upset about a little pee on the seat, yet they are absolutely the filthiest creatures when using public toilets. I have worked in markets, grocery stores and restaurants during my life and I have never cleaned a men’s room that was anywhere near as nasty as the ladies. Not only do they stand or squat when urinating they do as well while defecating which means it goes all over the seat and in the floor as well. And oftentimes they will leave their sanitary items in the toilet or floor instead of the provided container. I very much disliked having to clean up after such nasty pigs, as would any of you.

I live alone, was married for many years and still lift the seat.

I would think they would keep the lid down so Ludwig does not mistake it for his water dish.

I was raised with a brother and two sisters. My sisters complained when my brother and I would leave the seat up so I told them I would leave the seat down for them if they would leave it up for us when they were through.

Do most older men stand up while they pee? My husband always sits down when he goes. Seems much easier, especially for older men.

Just sit down when you pee.

“Good. You put the seat back down on the toilet.”

“It’s easy when you don’t raise it in the first place.”

“YUCK!!”

When the wife returns my seat to its proper position in the truck, I will worry about remembering to put the seat down on the toilet.

I have the solution…. Glow in the dark toilet seats!

I think it’s a silly thing to get upset about. And before anyone accuses me of being a sexist or rude, I’m known as a very considerate person and I do try to remember to put the seat down.

I always keep mine down anyway. More sanitary.

With all this talk of spouses being polite to other spuse with bathroom stuff, how about this- why can’t spouses be polite enough to put a fresh roll of toilet paper on the roller when they almost finish the other one? My ex husband was in agreement with me that both the seat and lid go down at all times but he had a problem with putting new toilet paper on roller, I had lost count of the almost 23 years we were married, he walked out on me 3 weeks before our 23rd, that I went in the bathroom after him and there were only 2 or 3 squares left on the roller, it was a good thing I keep extra rolls in the sink bottom cabinet next to toilets in both bathrooms. Ig I almost finished the roll I would put a new roll on and put the old one on top of new one to finish it.

50 years ago when I was in college, there was an advice column in the campus newspaper on Womens Liberation, which was a big subject of the day. Someone asked about toilet seats. The response was that it was an insult to women to think that they were incapable of adjusting a toilet seat to suit their needs.

We have neve discussed it, but I believe that my dear wife often raises the toilet seat after using it.

I try to be extra nice and put the lid down (well what else is it for?) so the FEMALE cat we have won’t be drinking out of it and dripping it on the seat but that doesn’t satisfy my wife at all. So I told her, if there is a wet seat it is NOT me, it’s your little friend who drinks out of the toilet.

You’re disgusting if you don’t close the lid when you flush

Yeah ladies, learn to look, we have to!