[Closed] Toilet seat - quick survey...

I close the lid when I remember, which is about half the time. It's largely for practical reasons, I've a shelf above the throne and it's quite easy to knock stuff off. Fishing deodorant cans out of the u-bend isn't my idea of fun.

Down.

Up. Of course.

The bigger issue though is the hanging of the paper. My wife's family hang it underhand - so that the paper hangs near the wall. Thus:

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When surely in a civilised world we should be hanging in a more accessible manner?

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Down. Cat drinks out of it otherwise.

up.. underhand.. anything else is pretentious

Underhand. The other way jams more easily and is only for fools

worked in a house and the seat closed slowly by itself, after just a small nudge.

Why anyone thought that was a good idea to make or design god knows.

Underhand is so bloody annoying!

What yunki said and paper definitely overhand.

Depends what sort of a mess you've left behind surely. If it's nasty you've got to make sure the next user has the surprise...

Down, although this really only applies when I use other people's facilities as the lid on my own broke years ago. 😳

As for the paper, I'm 100% with [b]sc-xc[/b] on this.

I am pretty sure our toilet was designed by a woman as you are unable to flush without putting the seat down (the button is behind it)

down.
it has a lid for a reason.

worked in a house and the seat closed slowly by itself, after just a small nudge.

Why anyone thought that was a good idea to make or design god knows.

to stop them banging when you knock it down.

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Seat down ,lid up, bog roll ideally overhand.

If you put the lid down it is then inconvenient for the next user regardless of their gender, so everyone is a [s]winner[/s] loser.

Even though I live on my own, I have now developed the habit of putting the lid down and it has just become the routine!!

7 down
4 up so far
ish
Oh, and I'd completely forgotten about the toilet roll - I'll have to do another tally on that...

Down - Overhand

Overhand and 50:50, depends what state the kids have left it in. Thought it was only me who got knarked with the paper in the wrong orientation, maybe I'm not as retentive as I thought.

up or down in my house, i generally put the lid down but no-one else wud bother....both kids left the nest now so its just the two of us now.. men dont bother bout anything wen it comes to the toilet.
just stop ruddy splashing !!!! ggrrrrrrrr

No need for a tally oxy, overhand clearly wins.

I pity the underhanging fools. May their fingers scrabble around for the scraps whilst we overhangers feast on the goodness.

but how do you overhanders manage a clean one handed tear..?

No seat and a sitzpinkler sign on the wall.

All in the wrist young man.

3 in our house, 2up and 1 down. Roll is correctly overhand in all 3 due to not having any loo roll holders.

"In this house" (League of Gentlemen,anyone..), we have all down, all overhanging and nicely folded points on the paper, Wednesday afternoons after the housekeeper has been round...

I can't imagine why you'd need to close the lid. Stays open in our house.

Plus, I always regard a closed lid with suspicion. What's it hiding?

'soft'close lids in our house

stops the kids from banging the bloody thing at 4 in the morning

Their mum taught them to "lid down"

overhanders use more paper than underhanders = fact

gotta be seat down....can't say I'd given any thought to the over vs under hand loo roll tho.

worked with a chap once,we played a practical joke on him.

Start a day before chatting about crocodiles living in the sewers, say you saw it in the Daily Mail.

Next day continue the converation, and say you googled it and that there are dwarf ones living in the house sewers as large ones cant get round the bend in the bog.

Later that afternoon, put a plastic crocodile down the bog, with its mouth open, and tomatoe sause on its lips, now close the lid, and stick down with some Blu tack, get the victim to lift the lid, after saying the lid had stuck and the toilet was making funny noises.

Stand well back as the victim lifts the lid, as he will fly out screaming like a queen.

Or my victim did.

worked with a chap once,we played a practical joke on him.

😆

My particular favourite is putting cling film over the china chair, its a bit messy though so make sure you're not the one who has to clean it up afterwards!

Anyway, back to the matter........ Seat up, bog roll overhand.

Also turning out the lights and turning a can of WD40 into a small flamethrower under the door is a right hoot!!!
Make sure you have good friends with a similar warped sense of humour though....

Lid down of course - it's feng shui innit? Something to do with cash flowing out and down the pan, or some such similar rubbbish!

Lid down, when flushing you don't want any horrid things splashing over and out.
As for paper, over, but our loo has one of those holders that holds 3 rolls and stays on the floor.

Has to be over otherwise if your finger slips thru mid wipe, you leave a skid on the wall grabbing the nxt sheet

Lid down to contain the microbial treats when flushing. Our roll simply stands casually on a low shelf beside the throne. If on a holder, flap out. The transition from cylinder to vertical is far more pleasing to the eye.

You leave it up every time you use it, she leaves it down every time she uses it

Thats an equal share of the domestic workload you're doing there!

You should remind her about that, she should be praising you, not criticising you!

lid up, seat down, roll underhand (for no obvious reason, just that's what we're used to)

lid down will trap unwary middle-of-night users]

sc-xc I hope the "coffee" coloured tiles aren't yours 😯

Lid down, unless you like spraying aerosolised faeces around the house.

Everyone needs a hobby

Yunki, that pic looks like a modern day public toilet in China, and also, you need to develop your Naan bread eating skills, then you can tear toilet paper from any direction.

Down and underhand.