https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31827805
There's no harm in doing it, but also there's no harm in not doing it. Even the cleanest bathrooms are petri dishes, and toilets have gaps in between the lid and bowl where plenty of aerosolized nastiness is going to escape even when it's closed. The best thing you can do is wash your hands properly.
But yeah, arguing that it takes too much time is peak galaxy brain, like literally every other second of your day is perfectly productive.
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/11/211103115427.htm
I would say closing the lid is always good.
"Although there is a potential risk of aerosols spreading from toilet flushing and hand drying, we found no evidence of airborne transmission of intestinal or respiratory pathogens in public bathrooms in the literature we reviewed," Prof Donner says.
I'm not saying to stop doing it, but the presence of pathogens does not equal the spread of disease.
Turning my shit into an aerosoled cloud that floats in the air for a half-hour to own the sjw females
and toilets have gaps in between the lid and bowl where plenty of aerosolized nastiness is going to escape even when it’s closed.
laterally. and 95% of that nastiness is just going to hit the lid.
As far as COVID goes, it can stay in the body for years after it's been cleared from the nose/throat, so now closing the lid is even more important
The best thing you can do is wash your hands properly.
And don't keep your toothbrush within 6 feet of it.
It reads exactly like any argument against masks
ThEY oNLY reDuCE COVID LoAD By a faCToR OF 2!!
reading the phrase "the average toilet plume" did make me think of :reddit-logo: a lot.
Poop inhaler spent more time defending his right to leave the toilet lid up in that thread than it would have taken him to close it for over a year
This guy thought a more productive use of his time was to argue about closing lids online. A true poster.
100% that guy pees in bottles because he feels it's more efficient than walking to the toilet.
I simply don’t drink water in order to save 20.56 seconds of pissing to stare at Bitcoin charts
urine is roughly sterile and very good plant fertilizer
so is feces, except it's far from sterile and needs to be composted for at least a year (maybe more)
pissing a whole load onto one potted plant will kill a lot of things, pissing on an entire flower bed or in some kind of bucked and diluting the piss with more water and then watering with the dilute piss is good.
I didn’t know this was the norm :side-eye-1: ive always flushed it open even at other people’s houses
Seems like a marketing gimmick that lid manufacturers made up so we don't realize that they're job is bullshit
sure bro, flush with the lid open right next to the sink and toothbrushes. please brush with shit to own whoever you think needs owning.
This is something I love about my apartment, the bathroom in my bedroom is weird and the sink is out in the open of the room with a door leading to the toilet and shower, so my toothbrush has a door between it and the toilet
For me, I picked up the habit when I lived in college dorms to keep my toothbrush in my bedroom and just bring it to the bathroom with me when it's time to brush, and I haven't gotten rid of it after leaving college because eh, whatever.
toothbrushes in general seem pretty unclean to me. like i brush my teeth and wash it off and hope its clean enough next time i use it? i swap heads out on it regularly but like theres no way just cleaning it in toothpaste is actually getting rid of all the germs in it right
You gotta swirl it around in the dregs left in the cup of antibacterial mouthwash you use before brushing your teeth then blast it with the hottest tap water you can get from the faucet. It works trust me, it's science and has never steered me wrong
:party-parrot-science:
i keep the lid up so i can see it go down, who has this much trust in their toilet?
I lift up after to confirm my shitty plumbing handled my shitty shit
:think-mark: what if its gonna overflow tho gotta be vigilant with these awful toilets
Same but I close it after. I dunno, it seems more hygienic for it to be down. I guess as a kid I had cats and dogs that would drink out of it but I don't anymore and that's just residual feelings.
This is how most logic dude bros sound to everyone else with their bullshit
I thought this was Reddit but it’s hacker news lmao. I mean :same-picture: but when I realized I was no longer surprised that these dorks think whatever they’re doing is so important to humanity
rolling my eyes at both sides of this argument and continuing to not close the lid when flushing the toilet despite being immunocompromised because i am not a baby
Managed to survive 30+ years not closing the toilet, gonna keep rolling those dice
i choose to believe in fostering a strong internal microbiome. i also can't stand most of the textures of cleaning things because of the 'tism, so it's also not my choice, which is neat.
i am an antigermphobe, germs fear me. :huh: still somehow haven't caught the fucking plague, so i must be doing something right in the long run i guess
Bro you can cultivate a strong internal microbiome without also having poop flake spray lol, just eat yogurt - unless you're vegan but if you are vegan, chances are your microbiome is better from all the fiber. It's fair that you have sensory issues with cleaning products but you still gotta maintain a level of cleanliness... whatever, sounds like your system is working for you, so who am I to judge.
my brother in christ, i'm not intentionally inhaling the poo mist or anything. i just think it's like...do people not realize that people are animals? we have mechanisms to not die from being in the vicinity of poop smell, y'know.
I got one of those slow-close lids and I now close it every time. I didn't use to.
I think the act of slowly letting down the lid annoyed me and I absolutely cannot stand the loud noise of accidentally letting the lid slam down.
now that i'm thinking about it, i've realize that i close my lid after the flush, but my toilet is prone to clogging so I have to keep an eye on it while it flushes.
Omg I was almost surprised when I saw this came from HN. Also check out the 'Is sex going out of fashion' post for big boy brainworms today.
what do you want to bet he pisses on the seat because he doesn't care to lift it up first?
Probably pisses on his shoes and pants and just shrugs. This guy ain't got time for philistine concepts like "hygeine" he's gotta invent a new app that steals your information.
:think-about-it: don't have to lift the seat if you sit down to pee. sitting is always preferable to standing.
yea but women's restrooms need a "clean the seat if you piss on it" sign as much as the men's tbh. upper class bitches can't let their asses share a seat with the plebs, apparently.
