this post was submitted on 15 Sep 2025
162 points (78.5% liked)

Lemmy Shitpost

34523 readers
4388 users here now

Welcome to Lemmy Shitpost. Here you can shitpost to your hearts content.

Anything and everything goes. Memes, Jokes, Vents and Banter. Though we still have to comply with lemmy.world instance rules. So behave!


Rules:

1. Be Respectful


Refrain from using harmful language pertaining to a protected characteristic: e.g. race, gender, sexuality, disability or religion.

Refrain from being argumentative when responding or commenting to posts/replies. Personal attacks are not welcome here.

...


2. No Illegal Content


Content that violates the law. Any post/comment found to be in breach of common law will be removed and given to the authorities if required.

That means:

-No promoting violence/threats against any individuals

-No CSA content or Revenge Porn

-No sharing private/personal information (Doxxing)

...


3. No Spam


Posting the same post, no matter the intent is against the rules.

-If you have posted content, please refrain from re-posting said content within this community.

-Do not spam posts with intent to harass, annoy, bully, advertise, scam or harm this community.

-No posting Scams/Advertisements/Phishing Links/IP Grabbers

-No Bots, Bots will be banned from the community.

...


4. No Porn/ExplicitContent


-Do not post explicit content. Lemmy.World is not the instance for NSFW content.

-Do not post Gore or Shock Content.

...


5. No Enciting Harassment,Brigading, Doxxing or Witch Hunts


-Do not Brigade other Communities

-No calls to action against other communities/users within Lemmy or outside of Lemmy.

-No Witch Hunts against users/communities.

-No content that harasses members within or outside of the community.

...


6. NSFW should be behind NSFW tags.


-Content that is NSFW should be behind NSFW tags.

-Content that might be distressing should be kept behind NSFW tags.

...

If you see content that is a breach of the rules, please flag and report the comment and a moderator will take action where they can.


Also check out:

Partnered Communities:

1.Memes

2.Lemmy Review

3.Mildly Infuriating

4.Lemmy Be Wholesome

5.No Stupid Questions

6.You Should Know

7.Comedy Heaven

8.Credible Defense

9.Ten Forward

10.LinuxMemes (Linux themed memes)


Reach out to

All communities included on the sidebar are to be made in compliance with the instance rules. Striker

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
 
top 50 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] Almacca@aussie.zone 96 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Put the seat and the lid down before flushing.

[–] WereCat@lemmy.world 27 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I just put the lid down but I still leave the seat up when flushing.

[–] Almacca@aussie.zone 8 points 21 hours ago

That's a weird loo. :)

[–] AnyOldName3@lemmy.world 7 points 21 hours ago (6 children)

There's a University of Cork study showing that putting the lid down aerosolises more material so spreads bacteria etc. over the whole room, whereas having the lid open produces a smaller number of larger droplets that nearly all just fall straight back into the toilet. The lid is not sealing the toilet and preventing the need to clean the bathroom.

[–] nightofmichelinstars@sopuli.xyz 5 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Can you link that study please?

[–] AnyOldName3@lemmy.world 11 points 20 hours ago

I can't get the full text, but https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journal/acmi/10.1099/acmi.fis2019.po0192 has the abstract. It looks like I misremembered its findings (or remembered an article that oversimplified them), though - having the lid down does something to the released particles to make more of them stay airborne for much longer, but it does reduce the number that escape, like you'd expect.

load more comments (5 replies)
[–] kelpie_returns@lemmy.world 41 points 23 hours ago (17 children)

People of the penile persuasion can sit while peeing. It is very easy to do.

[–] IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world 10 points 21 hours ago (20 children)
[–] trashgirlfriend@lemmy.world 22 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (2 children)

Why do you have morning wood at a public toilet

[–] IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world 23 points 18 hours ago (10 children)

I cannot believe my morning erections are being judged by trash girlfriend.

load more comments (10 replies)
[–] benderbeerman@lemmy.world 5 points 15 hours ago

If we could simply choose when we got erections, high school would have been much less awkward

load more comments (19 replies)
[–] spikespaz@programming.dev 6 points 17 hours ago (5 children)

It comes with the risk of contamination or infection if you're well endowed.

load more comments (5 replies)
load more comments (15 replies)
[–] Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 35 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] lol_idk@piefed.social 18 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Peeing while seated unites us

[–] trxxruraxvr@lemmy.world 20 points 1 day ago (2 children)

It seems like at least half of men can't aim anyway, so it's better to just sit down.

Even when aim is there, splashing occurs. It really shows that some men never had to clean their own bathrooms.

Also fuck you if you piss standing up in a stall when there's pissoirs outside.

You want privacy for your little weenie, sit your ass down and scroll on your phone like normal people do.

[–] lol_idk@piefed.social 9 points 1 day ago

Especially the ones who don't have to clean the bathroom

[–] ignotum@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Pooping with the seat up unites us

[–] Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Ever tried pooping while standing? All I'm saying is don't knock it if you haven't tried it.

[–] ignotum@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago (2 children)
[–] WereCat@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago

Not from a janitor

load more comments (1 replies)
[–] WereCat@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

Pooping in the shower unites us

load more comments (2 replies)
[–] ms_lane@lemmy.world 31 points 15 hours ago (3 children)

I'm a woman and will leave the seat up at work (not at home)

We have unisex toilets and truck drivers use them - they regularly wee all over the toilet seats if left down :(

[–] mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca 6 points 12 hours ago

if there is a lid - always down

if there is no lid - always up

it is the safest, cleanest, fairest option

load more comments (2 replies)
[–] halvar@lemy.lol 30 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) (2 children)

But like, if men pee with the seat up, but both men and women poop with the seat down, then statistically the seat is already down more than half of the time. Now if we enforce a policy like this, that would mean more than half of the times someone walks in and needs the seat to be down is in luck, but the rest has to do double the "work". And if someone goes in after someone who would have otherwise left the seat up, they too do double the work, so the seat changes position 4 times instead of once. I think it's much more "just" to simply change the seat whenever you need it and sometimes you will even find it in the position you need it in.

[–] JohnnyMac@lemmy.world 19 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Why do you presume everyone poops with the seat down?

load more comments (1 replies)
load more comments (1 replies)
[–] psx_crab@lemmy.zip 28 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Leave the seat down so when you flush you won't inhale your poop and pee.

Cmon it's not hard.

Edit: and lid.

[–] AppleTea@lemmy.zip 15 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I think just being an organism with an anus leads to higher levels of poop exposure than whatever minuscule amount of particulate matter that manages to aerosolize from an unlided flush

[–] Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 8 points 22 hours ago

Yes, but I already have all the diseases that I have. I don't need to add all the diseases everyone else has too, or vice versa.

[–] trxxruraxvr@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

You mean the lid infested of the seat?

[–] y0kai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 24 points 17 hours ago (3 children)

If you raise it, put it back down when you're done. If you put it down, put it back up when you're done. That seems fair.

Alternatively, if there's a lid, close the lid when you're done. Then everyone is equally "inconvenienced".

[–] lost_faith@lemmy.ca 13 points 16 hours ago (3 children)

I always close the lid so things don't fall in

load more comments (3 replies)
load more comments (2 replies)
[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 19 points 23 hours ago
[–] Taleya@aussie.zone 19 points 17 hours ago (7 children)

Biased how. Do the math. Half of us sit down to pee, all of us sit down to shit.

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 13 points 17 hours ago (8 children)

Also, as someone with male plumbing, we can also sit down to pee. So everyone can sit to pee, and half of us can't.

load more comments (8 replies)
[–] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 9 points 14 hours ago

Biased meaning only men have to do any work, women never have to (if it's left down always)

True neutral would be last used position.

load more comments (5 replies)
[–] Caillte@sh.itjust.works 18 points 12 hours ago (6 children)

Sit to pee for all. Solves all problems.

[–] lemmyknow@lemmy.today 9 points 11 hours ago (3 children)

I've been to men's restroom before. I wouldn't sit on that unless extremely necessary. Even then, I'd wipe that ship clean and cover it in toilet paper first

I do wonder if they all sat whether that'd solve it, though. That is, if it'd be cleaner. Or maybe they don't need to sit to keep it clean. Idk

load more comments (3 replies)
load more comments (5 replies)
[–] Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 17 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

I put the lid down, don't want toilet water splashing all over the place when you flush.

[–] remon@ani.social 7 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

I put the lid down, too. But only so that the cat doesn't drink from it.

[–] aesthelete@lemmy.world 10 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

Soft close toilet seats should be standard equipment.

Then putting the lid down is a matter of a single light push.

[–] SuDmit@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (3 children)

I don't really understand what is the end goal here. It isn't minimising the amount of total work done, because for this optimal strategy would be just leaving the seat in whatever position it was used. Funnily enough, amount of times it needs to be put up is exactly the same it needs to be put down in absolute terms, but considering the "up" group is smaller than "down group", their perceived amount of times position should be changed is higher than the same for the opposite group. I. e. in group of one "up" and 9 "downs", "ups" need to change position of lid with 90% probability, and for every "down" it's only 10%. Huh. Of course overall it equalizes: 1×0.9=9×0.1.

Or is it some kind of "welcomeness"? Like, leaving the lid in the most probable expected position (which for equal gender usage would be "sitting" because people sometimes poop, usually not while standing; and because penis people sometimes pee while sitting (me often, but usually at home, not in public)).

Or is it something else?

load more comments (3 replies)
load more comments
view more: next ›