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[-] Grass@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 day ago

There is only one correct way. Lid closed when not in use and before flush. The sole exception was at my old house the spare bathroom was configured to allow the birds to perch above the toilet to poop but at the current one they are training to use garbage bins with a fig branch above to have more poop spots since only the pigeon would fly through the whole house to get to the toilet and the rest only if they were already nearby.

[-] Phunter@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 day ago

I know this is off topic a bit but... Tell me more about your birds! A pet pigeon you say? I hear they're fun to train and not too messy by pet bird standards.

[-] Grass@sh.itjust.works 4 points 23 hours ago

Birds lore drop time I guess:

Pigeons are way smarter than people typically give them credit for but they are kinda dumb in weird ways. If you don't train them they will shit everywhere and they shed a lot of feathers and certain ones stick to everything and none of the parrot feathers seem to have that property. The runny poop is caused by some sort of microbe or something that she got treated for and then she drops nugs instead.

They don't seem to pay as much attention to their feet as parrots do. I had a box fan with the furnace filters on it in a cube shape blowing upward and she would just stand on it with the blades buzzing against her toenails so I switched to triangle layout blowing to the side.

Air filters are needed for any birds beyond maybe one budgie or finch but bigger or dustier birds justify one on their own. Pigeon is almost par with the notorious african grey in dustiness.

Pigeons are also super clingy and needy and always want to be with their favourite person at any expense. She will fly up and stomp by the door if I have to close the birds in their room. When she's out its constantly trying to preen my face and eyeballs unlike cockatiels and most other parrots that preen my hair. The eye poke isnt malicious but it's still awful.

Pigeons can also fully memorize the layout of a house and will establish a schedule. Mine would wake up and eat, fly around a bunch until I wake up, stick to me for as long as possible before and after work, fly all the way to the top floor toilet to poop, when my mom gets home she flies downstairs to get fed the same food but it tastes better from mom and all the birds agree, then flies back after eating and watching whatever garbage shows my parents like, then demands scritches for the remainer of the day.

I use a shop vac for the feathers and the poop during retraining for the new poop stations. I'm going to be trying out robo vac with mop if the other birds don't figure it out fairly soon. Hopefully they do because its been a lot of extra cleaning since I moved.

I've had as many as 9 birds at one time. Apart from my elderly cockatiel that came from an egg his parents secretly laid in my bookshelf decades ago, they are all shelter and rescue birds usually middle age or older. My daily schedule includes administering each of their medications which usually means blunt tipped syringe and like 0.3 to 0.8ml of up to 3 meds per bird, and recently even eyedrops for my cockatiel. A pigeon will be interfering the whole time guaranteed.

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[-] fireweed@lemmy.world 85 points 1 day ago

You should do this anyway to minimize particle spray upon flushing

[-] wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world 3 points 20 hours ago

Just turn your graphics settings down, problem solved

[-] TBi@lemmy.world 1 points 18 hours ago

50 series doesn’t support physx anyway so you’ll improve frame rate a lot!

[-] purplemonkeymad@programming.dev 28 points 1 day ago

Once saw an experiment using reactive dye and a toilet, they flushed it with the lid up and down. When down it sprayed out the sides, when up it literally covered the whole room.

[-] OpenStars@discuss.online 11 points 1 day ago
[-] EisFrei@lemmy.world 15 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)
[-] OpenStars@discuss.online 12 points 1 day ago

I mean... impossible to avoid entirely, but still potentially good to close the lid to be on the side of cleanliness, especially when it is so trivially easy to simply close the lid to significantly reduce exposure.

[-] devfuuu@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

So that's what gives them the taste.

[-] luxadazy@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 day ago

i do it cuz my weirdo cat wants to play in the gd toilet

[-] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago

I feel like flushing with my big ass covering the seat minimizes particle spray about as well. The sides of the seat are vented and probably allow more airflow than my ass. Also, what's the proposed work flow here? Get up, put seat down flush, wait for agitation to stop and then lift seat up again to confirm everything went down? I can't imagine many people do this.

[-] Kanda@reddthat.com 0 points 18 hours ago
  1. Do your business
  2. Put lid down
  3. Flush.
  4. Assume everything went right because 21st century plumbing
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[-] Zephyr@sh.itjust.works 17 points 1 day ago

It's literally cleaner / more hygienic to close the toilet completely before flushing

[-] thejoker954@lemmy.world 1 points 17 hours ago

I'm pretty sure you're wrong. Lid down creates a stronger "shock wave" that travels further.

Either way poo particles get everywhere.

Source - half remembered mythbusters segment.

[-] villainy@lemmy.world 3 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

I was curious

Recently, Best et al13 flushed a toilet seeded with fecal suspensions of Clostridium difficile. Settle plates were placed near the toilet and air was sampled at seat height, flush handle height, and midway in-between, with the toilet lid both up and down. Settle plates showed widespread dissemination of large droplets with the lid up but not with the lid down. C difficile was recovered from air sampled at heights up to 25 cm above the toilet seat and up to 90 minutes after flushing, at concentrations 12-fold greater with the lid up than with the lid down. They concluded that lidless conventional toilets increase the risk of C difficile environmental contamination and thus discouraged their use.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4692156/

[-] Madzielle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 19 points 1 day ago

everyone should put the seat fully down and flush, everytime, everyone.

[-] LemmyFeed@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 day ago

I put the seat down before I shit.

[-] Entertainmeonly 28 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Both seats should always be shut before flushing. The lid is there for a reason. Guys that keep the seats up have piss and shit all over their bathrooms, including their toothbrushes. I hope this horifies many of you. It really should.

Can't believe people are arguing this with me. Hope i never find myself anywhere near yalls nasty ass bathrooms.

[-] wattanao@fedia.io 20 points 1 day ago

iirc, Mythbusters confirmed that this doesn't matter, at least in regards to shit particulates being over everything.

However, as an individual who has a bedroom right next to the bathroom, I can personally say the smell is a night and day difference between the lid being up or down before flushing.

[-] GraniteM@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

Between the toothbrushes and the attempt to create a sterile salsa to find out if double dipping matters, Mythbusters taught me that it's a filthy bacteria's world, and we're just living in it.

[-] rants_unnecessarily@piefed.social 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 23 hours ago)

They confirmed that it does matter, it was like a 6 meters radius of piss and shit particles with the cover open.

[-] wattanao@fedia.io 3 points 1 day ago

The immediate effects are more apparent, but the result of the study was that fecal particles will cover every inch of your house from the bathroom, lid or no lid.

[-] zarkanian@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 day ago

Maybe it doesn't matter to Mythbusters, but it matters to me.

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[-] josephc@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 day ago

And even if that weren't the case, having the lid down prevents stuff from falling in. Lids down when not in use.

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[-] Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

I need to kept my immune system well practiced.

[-] iamthetot@piefed.ca 9 points 1 day ago

Malicious compliance? No, this is just basic decency

[-] OhStopYellingAtMe@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago

Always close the toilet lid when you aren’t using it, and before you flush it. Leaving the seat open is disgusting.

[-] eggpl4nt@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

I support, it makes it fair for everyone! Everyone puts down seats, everyone puts up seats. Yay.

[-] ilovededyoupiggy@sh.itjust.works 14 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Wait, closing both is malicious compliance?

I generally believe if your anatomy requires the toilet seat in a certain position, it should be incumbent upon you to ensure it's in the right spot before you use it. 50% (ish) of people usually need it up, and 50% usually need it down, why should girls get to dictate this and complain if I don't preemptively put it down for them? Suck it up, buttercup. Put on (or I guess take off, in this case) your big girl panties and make it work.

That being said, I've just always closed the whole thing before I flush anyway, so now both of us are going to need to raise at least one layer of it before we can use it again. Closed lid reduces splashing the poop particles all over the place, looks nicer and cleaner, hides any racing stripes you haven't managed to pee off yet, etc. Just seems like the right way to go. Nothing malicious about it.

Edit: Jesus fuck, how many stupid gotcha replies are y'all gonna post here?! Yes, I am very clear on the fact that there isn't exactly a 50.000000:50.000000 split of males to females in the world. Yes, I am very clear that it is in fact possible, and sometimes preferred, for men to sit to pee, and that, having done it more than a few times myself, they also occasionally need to sit down to poop. Should I have said "want" instead of "need"? Eh, probably. None of that was anywhere near my point.

My point is that if you want or need the toilet seat in a particular position, that's on you, bucko. It's not my job to stage the toilet to your preference, regardless of what is or isn't going on in your undercarriage. I leave it 100% closed, seat and lid, every time, before I flush. Others may leave it in different positions. I don't know, I'm not them. Either way, if you want/need it a certain way, it's on you to put it that way, ideally before the pee starts coming out.

[-] W98BSoD@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 12 hours ago

Gotch reply!

[-] fireweed@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago

Unless men have started to shit standing up, it's not 50/50

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[-] Catoblepas 7 points 1 day ago

~50% of people are capable of using it while standing, that doesn't mean all want to. I've heard a fair number of men rag on men who won't sit on their own toilet and splash piss everywhere, since it just makes a mess you have to clean up. So the math is actually tipped more in favor of sitters, who make up a non-zero proportion of people who are able to pee while standing, plus everyone who's obligated to pee while sitting.

I think it's weird to care about lifting the lid, but leaving it up shows you left it open while it flushed and that's kinda gross to a lot of people.

People who pee standing are banned from my house. I don't even care if they're willing to sit, I'm not taking the risk, specially if there will be alcohol involved and they could forget it and make a mess on my bathroom.

[-] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 day ago

How do you go about regulating this?

I just don't invite people to my home until I'm reasonably convinced they sit to pee. Usually if it comes up in a conversation and they say it, I'm not sneaking behind bathroom doors to hear them peeing if that's what you thought. And if my bathroom is a mess after someone came to my house for the first time, they're not getting invited again. Never happened though.

[-] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago

Bro you sound like a real life Seinfeld character. I feel like you need a crocheted sign in your loo that says "stand to piss, you get the dis" or "sit to pee, you're alright with me"

[-] nomy@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 day ago

They 100% sneak around to listen to their guests pee.

[-] daychilde@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

50% (ish) of people usually need it up,

......you stand to shit?

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[-] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 12 points 1 day ago

Embrace peeing sitting. It'll change your life.

[-] DudleyMason@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 day ago

Given that every supposed dude I've ever known who did that later came out as a trans woman, I think the changing of your life is already in the cards when you make that call.

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[-] Funkt4st1c@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

I have become a sitdown pee-r. The slashback you cant see is kinda insane

Side effect is that i have to actually use my toilet brush now because the brown water ring doesnt get washed away 9x a day anymore

[-] Broadfern@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago

I would be ecstatic if my SO did this. Our cats are prone to playing with the water.

[-] Kenny2999@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

This works much better if you write a secret message under the lid, like something about their cute butt maybe.

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