“WHO IS IN HERE??”

  • GissaMittJobb@lemmy.ml
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    2 months ago

    Just close it entirely before you flush, people. The fact that there’s a debate between fully open and half-open when both are inferior is baffling.

    • Vlyn@lemmy.zip
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      2 months ago

      Counter point: I know plenty of people who close the lid and then flush, then leave. So when you open the toilet you’re greeted by a floater or shit streaks over the bowl.

      I flush with it open, check if it’s clean (otherwise use the brush and flush again) then leave.

      If you want to close the lid you’d have to close it, flush, open it and check, clean, close it again. Are you doing that?

      • null@slrpnk.net
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        2 months ago

        Counterpoint, if you leave the lid open, you’re flinging shit particles all over the bathroom, potentially onto toothbrushes.

        • GissaMittJobb@lemmy.ml
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          2 months ago

          Realistically they are going to get everywhere anyway, but I still close it in a harm reduction effort.

            • Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works
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              2 months ago

              So answer the question above, do you then lift the lid to check if it worked? Or do you believe your shit is magic, and makes all toilets work perfectly?

              • Confused_Emus@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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                2 months ago

                My friend, you either take some massive shits worthy of awe, or you’ve got a bad toilet if this is a regular issue for you.

              • RinseDrizzle@midwest.social
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                2 months ago

                I shit in the same toilets with enough consistency to know they do the trick without further investigation.

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                  2 months ago

                  Sounds like that horror story about the wife seeing the dude wipe once and be done with it saying that he’s never had to wipe more. She requested he do it again and he came back with another huge ass streak.

                  Homie, we all leave some gross shit now and then but dude above preaches when you have people in your house who dump floaters and streakers constantly. Nothing worse than opening the bathroom door to know you’ll be greeted with a gross ass half dissolved usually green tinted floater with half the bowl streaked and everyone acting like it wasn’t them. Meanwhile you end up having to try to piss blast it for a week but it’s so caked on by that point you actually have to take the extra 30 seconds to use the toilet brush…

                  • RinseDrizzle@midwest.social
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                    2 months ago

                    Lolol I also own a bidet, regularly clean, and apparently eat more fiber than some of y’all. 😂

                    No doubt I’ll have some worse than others, but I assure you I’m not coming back to no bio hazards after one flush.

        • Vlyn@lemmy.zip
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          2 months ago

          That was tested with Mythbusters. When your toothbrush is nearby there was hardly a difference if you flush open or closed, sorry :)

          • eltrain123@lemmy.world
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            2 months ago

            ‘Hardly a difference’ and ‘no difference at all’ matters when it comes to ingesting doo doo particles. I opt for the absolute least amount possible… preferably none.

            • Vlyn@lemmy.zip
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              2 months ago

              Ah, it had no lid, and unfortunately that part of the end-scene is cut off on YouTube. It was this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nb-_KRh8asM

              The control toothbrushes outside the bathroom had the same amount of fecal coliformes on them. That stuff is everywhere, it doesn’t matter if you flush lid open or closed.

              • eltrain123@lemmy.world
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                2 months ago

                Run this quick experiment for me.

                Hold your toothbrush/phone/anything on your bathroom counter above the toilet, with the lid open, then drop it. Repeat the experiment with the lid closed.

                Which one offered a more preferential result?

                • Vlyn@lemmy.zip
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                  2 months ago

                  I’ve never in my 33 years in life dropped something in an open toilet bowl. My toothbrush is above the sink, not the toilet. The only thing I store above the toilet is a spare roll of toilet paper.

                • hydrospanner@lemmy.world
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                  2 months ago

                  I avoid the non-preferential result by…well…not dropping things in the toilet.

                  I’m in my late 30s and have literally never dropped anything in the toilet that I wasn’t intending to.

                  Sounds like a personal issue; maybe try not to be so clumsy?

          • Linnce@lemmy.world
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            2 months ago

            I had to present this paper for a fluid mechanics class during COVID and yes, the particles do spread. The radius of contamination was almost 1,5m.

            Shared bathrooms in hospitals, rehabilitation centers, or assisted living facilities are used by patients who might be infected, thus making them a likely source of indoor cross-contamination. The pathogen-spreading potential of toilet flushes was investigated in toilets seeded with microorganisms that were later recovered from surfaces and in the air after flushing. The organisms in the bowl could not be fully cleared even after repeated flushing, and the droplets produced by flushing harbored the organisms that were used for seeding, which remained airborne and viable.

            Recently, Johnson et al. (2013a) investigated different toilet designs and found that up to 145,000 sampled particles can be produced per flush.

            Analysis of more recent data revealed that a large number of droplet emissions are not visible to the naked eye (d < 100 µm) (Figure 6b). These emissions account for more than 6 mL and can remain suspended in the air for a long time compared to the larger visible drops (with diameters up to 6 mm) that end up on surfaces.

            The larger visible drops settle on surfaces within milliseconds, whereas the smaller, invisible drops are advected by local airflow (on the order of a few centimeters per second). Droplets settling on surfaces can be tackled in accordance with surface decontamination procedures of local infection control protocols. However, no system or protocol currently addresses air contamination. Furthermore, usual cleaning solutions not effective in neutralizing the most resistant pathogens, such as the spores of C. difficile, may even contribute to their dissemination by effectively lowering the surface tension, for example, down to 30 mN/m, compared to water at 72 mN/m, increasing the local Weber number and thus promoting fragmentation into either more or smaller droplets, depending on the fragmentation mechanism.

            https://www.annualreviews.org/content/journals/10.1146/annurev-fluid-060220-113712

          • null@slrpnk.net
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            2 months ago

            Source?

            I’m pretty sure you’re misremembering that episode. It didn’t involve lid closed vs open.

            • Vlyn@lemmy.zip
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              Ah, it had no lid, and unfortunately that part of the end-scene is cut off on YouTube. It was this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nb-_KRh8asM

              The control toothbrushes outside the bathroom had the same amount of fecal coliformes on them. That stuff is everywhere, it doesn’t matter if you flush lid open or closed.

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                2 months ago

                Again, source?

                We’ve established that you misremembered the lid test already, so I don’t see why we should trust your memory on this.

                I’m particularly skeptical of this assertion:

                the same amount

                I’m well aware there are some fecal particles all over the place. But common sense says that aersolaized, shit-filled toilet water (which the video confirms it does spray out droplets into the immediate area) would accumulate more on toothbrushes sitting closer to the toilet than in another room.

                Edit: also, were they testing by flushing just normal toilet water? Or flushing after a shit?

                Because if it was just toilet water, then the test isn’t even relevant to the discussion.

                • Vlyn@lemmy.zip
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                  2 months ago

                  https://mythresults.com/hidden-nasties

                  Many objects that people touch every day are dirtier than a toilet seat.

                  I’d surely hope those tests were done with actually in-use toilets, lol. The toilet seat would be sprayed with the lid down, so it’s a good indicator?

                  And here is the toothbrush one https://mythresults.com/episode12 (on the bottom). Maybe you can find the full TV episode, right now I can’t.

                  Either way, as long as you don’t have a vacuum toilet that sucks everything down you won’t escape. I just rinse my toothbrush with water every time before I use it, which seems to be good enough so far.

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                    2 months ago

                    Again, they weren’t flushing fresh bowls of shit, just standard toilet water.

                    You’re absolutely spraying shit all over your toothbrush for no good reason, and that’s disgusting. Sorry :)

        • SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world
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          2 months ago

          If you smell a fart you are breathing in shit particles. It doesn’t matter unless someone in your household is severely ill.

          • zarkanian@sh.itjust.works
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            2 months ago

            If you smell a fart you are breathing in shit particles.

            This is incorrect. A fart smells bad because of gasses like methane, not poop particles.

            (Also, relevant username.)

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            2 months ago

            Neat, thanks for sharing that you don’t care how much shit you ingest. I’ll reduce my intake where I can, thanks.

      • tyler
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        2 months ago

        Get a bidet that sprays the bowl before you shit. You’ll hardly get any streaks ever.

      • tfw_no_toiletpaper@lemmy.world
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        2 months ago

        You should never flush with it open as the other commenter wrote. Flush closed, then check after ~30sec again if there is a floater or stains. I have a friend I needed to explain that if he flushed open with his toothbrush in the vicinity, he could just go and put the toothbrush in the toilet bowl, not much of a difference.