You've been waiting all night on the edge of your beds for this, so here are the results of yesterday's toilet poll:
This is my closest poll ever! Given the margin of error, it's a dead heat. Perhaps this now demands a bit of actual research to come up with an answer.
Edge of our beds? Surely we’d be waiting before the throne for the proclamation from the king?
"Perhaps this now demands a bit of actual research to come up with an answer."
Nah. Just report the horse race. It's easier. "'No' voters struggle to convince the public of their position." Nothing to it.
Will men put down the seat so they can flush? More likely, they'll tilt the seat just enough to reach the flush lever, then "return it to its full upright position." Unless they decide that there's probably NO manual flush mechanism and just leave their "contents" undisturbed, in the belief that somebody else will clean up after them.
This is good news for John McCain!
And bad news for Biden! DEMZ IN DISARRAY!!!
(sorry)
If the handle were so blocked the toilet would be left unflushed.
I just replaced a sixty year old toilet with a new one with a tank much narrower, as the new uses much less water. The new one's seat does practically block the flush lever but I think this is an inadvertent design as the new toilet also has a slow close seat.
Many new toilets also have taller seats now, providing another explanation why seats block the flush lever.
What is the reasoning behind always keeping the seat down? If it is a danger for females to sit down into the toilet if the seat is up, why isn't it a danger for males to pee on the seat if it is down? Why should males have to move the seat twice and females never? Kevin probably needs to have more polls to resolve this. It might also be an exercise in how to phrase polls not to bias the result.
Hmm. Maybe it's because women sit not facing the seat, so can't see whether it's up or down before sitting if they're in a hurry. Men, OTOH, pee standing up and facing the seat, so they see right away whether it's up or down.
I taught my wife to lower the seat. Her family did not. So I always roll my eyes at a "men leave it up" since my life is an outlier.
Around my place, the seat and lid are always kept down when not in use. We don't want our cats to partake...
Our house too, ever since one of our cats fell in while jumping for the countertop.
If the toilet is flushed promptly after use, the water in the bowl is clean and probably fresher than the water in the cats' water dish. There is no reason why cats and dogs shouldn't drink out of the toilet.
Most of the men's rooms I've been in show that guys don't life the seat in the first place