The Seat of Power

[Theognome]

Do you leave the seat up or down, and why?

[Mistress_Ravenshadow]

everyone in my house leaves the seat down because I'm the boss and i say so lol..
mind you if we dont have the lid down aswell the silly cat ends up going for a swim because he thinks toilet water is better to drink then the fresh water in his bowl lol

[merlo]

:antennae: The possibilities of my reply to this thread are endless. The seat of power is a description I have yet to hear the THRONE called. My answer would be, are there females in the house? Then down. When I'm done. I'm civilized enough to know if I want any peace I will follow this simple procedure. In a public restroom, it depends. Now that I've shared my uh, Seat of Power habits, what will we learn here again? I'm not being rude, I'm all for knowledge on its infinite levels, free association principles and all, yet I'm coming up blank on where we could go with this. Is this some secret to the universe that I have yet to stumble across, please, don't leave me hanging, I MUST KNOW! I now will forever question the infiniteness of up or down.

Yes, I'm off the meds. :woah:

[Lewen]

We keep ours down as well, with it being five females and one male in the house as it is.
Our cat seems to prefer drinking out of the toilet too!

[Sowelu]

Do you leave the seat up or down, and why?
How about you Theognome?:smile:

[Ninjakitten]

I try to convince everyone to have both the seat and the lid left down. That way, it's kind of an equalizing type of a thing (he he, and I get my seat down). If everyone agrees to have both down, everyone has to lift lid and/or seat to do their business, and then everyone puts it down afterwards. That, and the seat blocks the nasty ring and junk that is right under the lip that's under the seat. The lid blocks all of it.

[bladeraven]

Mmm....down but not by choice

[Theognome]

How about you Theognome?:smile:

When I alit in the place of porcelain power, I leave that which is flappable in it's position of origin.


I leave the fool seat where it was when I got there.

[Theognome]

:antennae: The possibilities of my reply to this thread are endless. The seat of power is a description I have yet to hear the THRONE called. My answer would be, are there females in the house? Then down. When I'm done. I'm civilized enough to know if I want any peace I will follow this simple procedure. In a public restroom, it depends. Now that I've shared my uh, Seat of Power habits, what will we learn here again? I'm not being rude, I'm all for knowledge on its infinite levels, free association principles and all, yet I'm coming up blank on where we could go with this. Is this some secret to the universe that I have yet to stumble across, please, don't leave me hanging, I MUST KNOW! I now will forever question the infiniteness of up or down.

Yes, I'm off the meds. :woah:


Have you not heard the complete phrase as spoken by Descartes?

"I think, therefore I am on the john."

[bshore]

I leave it down and my mate leaves it up. I happened to just have a conversation about this a few weeks ago when he apologized for leaving it up, and I asked if I should apologize for leaving it down. The way I see it, if we leave it down, they have to raise it, when they leave it up, we have to lower it. Either way, it's just a friggin toilet seat, and I don't understand why so many women get so upset about it. I mean, we want equality, right? Why not start with the toilet?

[DarkDancer]

I leave the seat and the lid down, kind of a habbit from when I believed that myth about the misting toilet water.

[Faeawyn]

Down. Theres nothing worse than falling into that cold water in the middle of the night because someone left it up. I have trained all men in my household that the power is strongest in the down position. If you leave it up, all the power leaks out.

[RowanMegaera]

I try to enforce the seat and lid down rule, however, our great dane has decided she likes the fresh cool water from the toilet better than the minutes old water of the dish, and she can lift the seat and lid rather efficiently. I even tried leaving some toilet bowl cleaner in the bowl to discourage drinking, and she just likes the minty fresh breath it causes. (don't worry, I use the 7th Generation environmental/animal safe cleaners)

So, I never know if my husband left the seat up or if it was the dog in her quest for fresh drinking water.

[Arinya]

Down, because the lid has to be closed.
Otherwise the kitty drinks out of it and then tries to lick us with her toliet tongue :blech:

[Catiana]

Always down, to leave it up is to face my wrath.

[ravenmyst]

down, 2 females, only one male here, plus I have done the fall in toilet in middle of night, so it is strictly enforced, plus the kitty thing is an issue too

[Regulus]

I was raised by my mother. Trained early to leave it down.

[ravynbynorthwynd]

well, i'm a girl, soo....

but we have my dad pretty well trained to keep it down.

[ravynbynorthwynd]

I leave it down and my mate leaves it up. I happened to just have a conversation about this a few weeks ago when he apologized for leaving it up, and I asked if I should apologize for leaving it down. The way I see it, if we leave it down, they have to raise it, when they leave it up, we have to lower it. Either way, it's just a friggin toilet seat, and I don't understand why so many women get so upset about it. I mean, we want equality, right? Why not start with the toilet?
well, because most girls don't look when they go to sit on a familiar toliet, like the one at home. guys are sort of forced to look. plus they can't fall in, unless they leave it up on themselves.

[Teresa]

:fpeace: I am the Queen of this castle so the seat stays down! :yayah:

[Strega Del Vento]

Always down. Surprisingly, Hubby leaves it down as well.

Oooh.. While we're kind of on the topic... I also am very anal (er.. no pun really intended) about the toilet paper. It MUST be loaded with the paper over, not under. I will even go so far as to switch it if I'm using someone else's bathroom. Hahahaha.. It's just one of those things that bugs me.

[Darkdale]

Do you leave the seat up or down, and why?

I've been living with g/f's and even a wife for a short time for the last ten years... so I always put the seat down. It's a friggen instinct at this point.

[soilsigh aingeal]

it stays down. all the time. My daughter has a seat that sits on top, if the seat is up, it doesn't stay on right and she falls in, end of story.

[malice]

down

[Zoritsa_Nepenthe]

I'm the only female in the house....but everyone knows the seat goes down when they are done,otherwise :atantrum: that and the dog will drink out of it :sick:

[Greybird]

Up, up, up. Three males, one female in the house, and the convenience of the many outweighs the convenience of the few.

Every once in a while my mother-in-law comes over, and she generally proceeds to plop down into the cold water. She comes out yelling about how we keep the seat up.

It seems to me that if I have my pants down and my naughty bits exposed, I'm going to look before I plop them down on something. If you plop your naked self down blindly, what you sit in is your own fault! :deviltail

[johenn123]

i MAKE my dad put the seat down and wash hus hands, otherwise he doesnt get any hugz :P

[gwendar]

I leave both the seat and the lid down because when flushing because the water containing not-so-nice particles can splash several feet (even if you can't see it!!!), and I don't want waste-product water all over the bathroom, and I especially don't want it on my tooth-brush!

[Xentor]

I pick it back up when I'm done. If I sit down, I drop the seat. So can she.

The bathroom is the cleanest space in my house.